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AIF Arts Education Grants

• IMA Honors Choir

   

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• Students perform at Brown Bag Luncheon

   

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• Tales and Scales Performs

   

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  Monte Skelton with Tales and Scales

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Grants from the Arts Institute Fund

The Arts Council’s Arts Institute Fund is a resource for providing assistance to organizations seeking to enhance the arts education experience of K-12 students in Vanderburgh County. New in 2011-12, the fund provides assistance to non-profit 501 (c) (3) organizations as well as teachers and students to strengthen their current arts education efforts through grants tailored for that purpose.

The following arts categories are open to support: Visual Arts and Crafts, Performing Arts, Media Arts, Literary Arts, Art Appreciation, and Applied Arts and Design

Grants

At the moment, the Arts Institute Fund supports the following grants categories:

• Organizational Assistance Grants for Non-Profit Organizations. These grants are designed to support non-profit (principally arts) organizations in order to strengthen their overall health and ability to provide arts education experiences to Vanderburgh County youth. Deadline for applications to this grants program occurs on September 1 of each year. Applications are reviewed and grants distributed in September or October.

Click here for the Organizational Assistance Grant Application Form

• Opportunity Grants for Teachers and Students. These grants are for teachers and administrators to assist students in supplementing their education in arts and arts-related activities. Applications for these grants are  reviewed and funds awarded on a continuing basis without an annual deadline until funds are exhausted.

Click here for the Opportunity Grants Instructions and Application Form

• Creative Collaboration Grants are for new projects in arts education that involve creative collaborations between more than one organization working in concert with others with the goal ofstrengthening arts learning and participation among Vanderburgh County youth. The deadline for applications this year is March 15.

Click here for the Creative Collaboration Grants Instructions and Application Form

A County-Wide Conversation

In addition, the Arts Institute Fund Committee is intent on developing a conversation in Evansville and Vanderburgh County focused on arts education, its benefits for students, and how it can provide growth in higher learning skills for all young people. Our goal is to enlist artists, non-profit arts organizations, donors, teachers, educators, and civic-minded individuals in this conversation so that we can work together to better the quality of life for our whole community.

Check this space frequently for updates. The Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana welcomes your thoughts regarding these initiatives. Please direct emails to Nola.Wright@artswin.org call (812) 422-2111.

Download Indiana Arts Commission 2013 Regional Initiative Grant Guidelines

Download 2012 Indiana Regional Arts Partnership Map

PowerPoint from Frank Baiocchi’s presentation at the Creative Collaborations in Arts Education symposium on February 4, 2012

Resource Guide to Frank Baiocchi’s symposium presentation