Deadline: 18-Jan-22
The Tennessee Arts Commission has recently launched the Arts Education Community Learning (AE-CL) grant program to support for projects that demonstrate creative and innovative arts learning programming in community settings.
The Arts Education Community Learning (AE-CL) grant program provides funding for single projects that use the arts in creative and innovative ways to offer education in communities or non-traditional school environments. There are no age restrictions.
Projects should include hands-on learning experiences focused on performing, visual, traditional folk, and/or literary arts for the participants.
Funding Information
- This category provides two tiers of funds:
- Tier One: $1,000-$12,000 for innovative arts education programming in community settings or non-traditional school environments for populations of all ages
- Tier Two: $1,000-$14,000 for projects serving elementary, middle and/or secondary students through hands-on, experiential arts education programs. A minimum of 500 students must be reached through the proposed project with each student receiving at least three contact sessions with professional teaching artists involved in the design and implementation of the project.
- A project may not begin until July 1, 2022, and must conclude by June 15, 2023.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be one of the following:
- nonprofit organizations or government agencies with a primary mission of education
- libraries
- nonprofit arts organizations
- private PK-12 schools with nonprofit 501(c)3 status
- Applications MUST have a single project focus. Organizations with expansive education programs should narrow their focus to one component of their overall educational programming.
- Applicants may not apply for funds for the same project in another Commission grant category in the same fiscal year.
- Debarment and Suspension. Grantees are required to sign contracts certifying to the best of its knowledge and belief, that it, its current and future principals, its current and future subcontractors and their principals are not presently debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, declared ineligible, or voluntarily excluded from covered transactions by any federal or state department or agency.
For more information, visit https://tnartscommission.org/grants/arts-education-community-learning/