Arts Education Funding Opportunities

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The UA&M Arts Education Program offers several funding opportunities aimed specifically at fostering arts learning opportunities in Utah.

Arts Education Professional Development sponsorships

These sponsorship awards are offered to support activities and events that provide training and professional development for Utah K-16 educators. Sponsored events should connect teachers and/or administrators with teaching artists. These events may be open to student or community participation as well. Review the AE Sponsorship Guidelines for more information about the types of events that qualify. Access the Sponsorship Application here.

Collaborative Arts Education Projects (CAEP)

CAEP is a funding model that establishes partnerships and collaboration in a community. Funded projects will create arts learning activities while making connections that make can continue long after the project ends. CAEP projects will bring teaching artists, educators and arts/cultural organizations together with other community assets, such as social service agencies, parks and recreation, hospitals, senior centers, correctional facilities, community centers, libraries. etc. To discuss your project idea and how it can qualify to become a CAEP project, please print this blueprint proposal form and use it to outline your project idea. Then contact [email protected] to schedule a conversation.

Teacher Initiated Project (TIP) Grant

TIP grants allow individual teachers to pursue their personal artistic growth through one-on-one study with a professional teaching artist of their choice in any discipline. The educator does not need to have any experience in the chosen art form. TIPs do not apply for teachers to improve their instruction in the classroom. Grant payment is made directly to an artist for providing 16 hours of personal instruction to an educator. TIP Guidelines can be found here. After reviewing them, teachers may apply here.

Utah PTA Arts Education Grant

The UA&M arts education program partners with the Utah PTA to award these annual grants for art-making programs in Utah schools. Local PTAs may apply for up to $500 which must be matched dollar for dollar (1:1). Grants may fund existing PTA art programs. They may also be used for artists fees, musical scores, theater rights, theatrical props, scenery, instruments, project specific supplies, etc. They may not be used for field trips, student transportation, and admission tickets, etc. Applications are made directly to the Utah PTA. Learn more about the grant requirements and how to apply.

Special opportunities

Special project and funding opportunities that may be available for a limited time.

Free Folk Arts Workshops

The Utah Division of Arts & Museums folk arts team is excited to announce the second year of its workshop series, Living Folk Arts for Kids and Adults. This FREE program allows interested learners in schools, arts and community organizations, and museums to actively learn and engage in a variety of folk arts found throughout Utah.

Participants can choose to schedule a wide range of traditional arts workshops at the Chase Home Museum in Salt Lake City, or request a workshop at the location of their choice. We are thrilled to offer these workshops and look forward to learning about and celebrating folk art with you!

    If your group is interested in requesting one of these free workshops, please check out the guidelines on our Chase Home Museum page. There you will find a link to the application form.

    Poet Laureate's Student Broadside Project

    The Broadside Project has reached the end of it's first year and we are currently reviewing next steps. 

    Lisa Bickmore, the poet laureate for the State of Utah (appointed 2022-2027) has asked us to share an exciting project with the arts learning community. Thanks to an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, Lisa's micro-press is implementing civic project focused on engaging young people. This student project from Moon in the Rye introduces students to the art of creating broadisides, which combine writing with printmaking.

    Lisa will work directly with Utah students, K-12, to create work centered on the environment—specifically the Great Salt Lake, but any water-related subject. She will visit classrooms and carry out writing and visual projects with prompts, instruction, and tools. She can work with teams of teachers in visual arts, language arts, and science as well, to bring this project to Utah students. She will work within local communities to stage events that allow students to exhibit and share the work they create.

    This flexible project and can be adapted to fit many different needs and situations. MORE INFORMATION SOON

    Jean Tokuda Irwin
    Arts Education Program Manager
    801.979.0398

    Justin Ivie
    Arts Education Coordinator 
    801.236.7542