Deadline: 10-Dec-22
SK Arts invites applications from partnerships that include an elementary or secondary classroom, school or a school division; a professional artist or group of artists.
Artists in Schools – Development provides small amounts of funding to schools or professional artists to build relationships with potential partners, develop projects or residencies, and/or research school or community needs.
Artists in Schools offers schools a chance to enhance arts-related activities that are linked to educational outcomes through partnerships with professional artists. The aim of the program is to expand access to meaningful artistic activities, increase student engagement in learning, cultivate cross-disciplinary learning skills and attitudes, and foster a lifelong interest in the arts.
Funding Information
- Development: $1,000.
Eligible Activities
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The Development stream supports schools and artists/arts professionals to:
- Build relationships with potential artists, schools or community partners,
- Present experimental or introductory projects,
- Assess school or community needs,
- Conduct research, and/or
- Develop plans for longer-term projects or residencies.
Eligibility Criteria
- The school must be based in the province of Saskatchewan.
- The school is a provincial school, school division, Band school, Tribal Council, private school or Adult Basic Education Program that works with the Saskatchewan arts education curriculum.
- Professional artists and arts professionals are eligible to apply to this program if they meet SK Arts’ definition of a professional artist/arts professional and are Saskatchewan residents.
- Applicants must be in good standing with SK Arts, i.e., have no overdue reporting on any prior grants on the submission deadline and when any grant payments are issued.
- Due to the four-week response time on these grants, SK Arts is only able to accept Development stream submissions in English. Applicants who find this challenging can request support from SK Arts’ Accessibility Fund but are encouraged to contact their Program Consultant and do this work well in advance of the submission deadline.
Ineligible
- Applicants who submit more than one application per deadline.
- Organizations that receive annual or multi-year funding from SK Arts, SaskCulture Inc., Sask Lotteries, Creative Saskatchewan and/or creative industry associations supported by Creative Saskatchewan, unless the proposed projects explore significantly new approaches for presenting and/or methods of expanding access within existing programs and the organization has no other open grants to the Artists in Schools program.
- Applicants who have outstanding reports for any previous grant received from SK Arts.
- Applicants whose submission to this program is incomplete.
For more information, visit Artists in Schools Development.
For more information, visit https://sk-arts.ca/menu/grants/grants-by-type/artists/artists-in-schools.html