Arts Presenters is now accepting applications for the 2010 Arts Presenters/MetLife Arts Access Awards, honoring organizations that have either been exemplary in its dedication and approach to engaging individuals with disabilities to experience and value the performing arts or engaging underserved individuals and communities that lack access to the performing arts and cultural life in the community. These awards aim to identify those performing arts venues that have demonstrated a depth and breadth of inclusion in the arts that permeates every fiber of the organization - from planning and evaluation to mission, leadership, budgeting, outreach and programming.
Through this program, our goal is to increase knowledge and encourage participation by providing connections to the works of exemplary awardees and highlight leaders in the field of presenting who consistently demonstrate dynamic accessibility initiatives.
Arts Presenters/MetLife Arts Access Award: Engaging Individuals with Disabilities
How to Apply
- Review the project guidelines and application. Click here to read the guidelines.
- Complete the electronic application. Click here to access the application.
- Submit the online application by 5:00 pm (Eastern Standard Time) on Tuesday, September 15, 2009.
Arts Presenters/MetLife Arts Access Award: Engaging Underserved Communities
How to Apply
- Review the project guidelines and application. Click here to read the guidelines.
- Complete the electronic application. Click here to access the application
- Submit the online application by 5:00 pm (Eastern Standard Time) on Tuesday, September 15, 2009.
Need assistance with these grant applications? Contact Alison McNeil, toll free at 1-888.820.ARTS or amcneil@artspresenters.org.
Expanding Access to the Arts
Since 2005, Arts Presenters has recognized eleven performing arts organizations that have demonstrated innovation, leadership and a commitment to accessibility in the arts. Both current and past recipients reflect programs or practices that have created an on-going dialogue to engage community members in planning for and providing access to the arts, and have used new technologies and responded to the shifting demographic changes in their communities to expand accessibility to the arts. It is our hope that the Expanding Access to the Arts project will encourage all presenters to:
- highlight the importance of an organization-wide commitment to accessibility;
- describe effective practices in community engagement, implementation and evaluation; and
- share advice from their own experts.
Arts Presenters invites everyone in the presenting field to explore and learn from the resources below and encourages every presenter to get involved in the movement to make the arts accessible to all.
