Arts Education Projects
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ARTS EDUCATION PROJECTS
Arts education projects support:
- Curriculum and instructional material development.
Methods of instruction.
- Professional development for teachers and artist educators.
- Long-term arts education implementation activities.
- After-school and weekend programs for youth and/or parents.
- Pre-service and/or in-service programs (workshops, summer institutes, conferences, seminars).
- Development of evaluation and testing of student achievement and of arts curriculum materials.
- Collaborative projects between arts and educational institutions, organizations, or agencies, including higher education.
- Educational activities in arts festivals, hospitals, prison, museums, camps, social service agencies, libraries, and other appropriate sites.
- Museum arts education programs for grades K-12.
- Community arts programs. For example, a dance group may want to sponsor a workshop in dance; a theater group may want to do a residency in play writing.
Projects are intended to promote excellence in the arts and must have a significant educational component.
Arts education projects are not limited to the preceding examples; the parameters are broad and are limited only by the imagination. The only concrete requirements are that art education projects must be sponsored by non-profit organizations, they must promote artistic excellence, and they must be educational.
Arts education projects are required to use either AE artists of AE artistic company partners unless there is an exceptional reason for using someone outside the roster. For example of such an exception, a project might need to hire Native American master artists to teach traditional arts within their own community.
An example of how an artist has been used in a long-term arts education project is the Holt Elementary after-school theater program, which was conducted for the entire calendar year, including the summer session. One of the theater artists from New York flew in for two-week workshops three times over the course of the project period. While at the school he set up theater projects and exercises for teachers and students to do until his next visit. During each visit he worked with teachers to plan activities to increase the students' skills and the complexity of their activities, and planned opportunities for the community to see the progressive growth of the theater program.
As in residencies, the artist's fee for Arts Education Projects is set by AE, but in the case of Arts Education Projects all sums, including per diem and travel expenses, are paid directly to the artist by the sponsor from its grant. The sponsor is required to pay the artist a minimum of $30 per hour. The per diem is negotiable between the artist and the sponsor up to a maximum of $50 per day, with suitable adjustments made if the sponsor provides lodging and/or a car, or if lodging costs exceed $50.
In Arts Education Projects there is far more latitude in scheduling and in specific arrangements than there is in residencies. For example, the sponsor and artist may negotiate the number of times an artist is to visit the site, and the sponsor may use part of its grant money to pay for extra trips.
We will be happy to assist in the negotiation process and to give advice on budgets.
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