PHILOSOPHY: ARTS EDUCATION

     Georgia Council for the Arts embraces the arts as critical to a complete education and integral to the learning process itself.  GCA also acknowledges the role of the arts in the lives of students and families beyond the boundaries of school walls.  Arts Education Grants and Funded Programs are based on considerable research, which demonstrates that learning in the arts has significant positive effects on student behavior, test scores, and learning in other academic subjects.  Arts Education has also been shown to improve school climate; elevate verbal, reading, and mathematics skills; motivate achievement; lower drop-out rates; raise attendance rates and enhance the learning of life skills such as critical thinking, leadership, and creative problem solving.

Arts Education Program Manager:  Debora Ott    (404) 685-2795

     Individuals and arts organizations who wish to apply for inclusion in the Teaching Artist Bank (TAB), the Teacher Professional Learning Bank (TPL-Bank) and the Arts Education Consultant Bank (AECB) can find information about these programs by visiting the Artist Rosters page.
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             Funding is available in the following categories:

Arts Curriculum Enhancement (ACE) Grant

    Formerly named the Arts Education Curriculum Development Grant, the Arts Curriculum Enhancement ( ACE) Grant is available to K-12 schools, school systems, nonprofit arts organizations, and other nonprofits offering arts programming that wish to develop, enhance, or expand their arts education or arts-in-education curriculum. ACE may also be used to engender partnerships between nonprofits that support the arts and local schools. The maximum grant award is $5,000.  ACE requires the contracting of a GCA-certified Arts Education Consultant who assists the applicant in curriculum development. Schools, school systems and nonprofit organization may continue their ACE projects for two additional years (for a total of three years).  

• ACE Year-1 Grant Application Instructions and Forms

• ACE Continuation Grant Application Instructions and Forms

Artist-In-Residence Grant (AIR)

     GCA-certified Teaching Artists assist in the design and instruction of in-school, after school, or summer arts-in- education, curriculum-based experiences. Teaching Artists are paid 50% of the fee at the beginning of the residency, and the remaining 50% of the fee at the project’s completion. Two residency choices are offered to schools and nonprofit organizations for students in grades K-12:

• AIR Grant Application Instructions and Forms

Teacher Professional Learning (TPL) Grant

     TPL helps fund curriculum-based arts integration professional development activities for Georgia K-12 teachers and professional staff training, which is training in the use of the arts as a teaching tool in the instruction of core curriculum subjects. Applicants may be individual teachers or schools on behalf of their teaching staff. The maximum award is $200/per participating teacher or staff. GCA-certified single-discipline, nonprofit arts organizations provide this training, for which Professional Learning Credits are available.

• TPL Grant Application Instructions and Forms