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Access to the arts is achieved when all people have equal opportunity to attend, participate in, and learn through arts experiences. VSA arts and MetLife Foundation have designed the Arts Connect All funding opportunity to encourage arts organizations to create or enhance multi-session, inclusive education programs by strengthening partnerships with local public schools.
The goals of Arts Connect All are to:
- Enable more students with disabilities to experience social, cognitive, and cultural development through arts learning alongside their peers without disabilities;
- Create educational access and inclusion in the arts for students with disabilities; and
- Document the contributions that arts organizations make to inclusive education in public schools.
Inclusive Arts Education Programs
Inclusive programs are those which have students with and without disabilities interacting in activities together to create awareness, understanding, and respect. To create inclusive learning environments, accessible education programs engage students with and without disabilities by incorporating multi-modal approaches and accommodating a range of abilities, learning styles, and skills.
VSA arts and MetLife Foundation invite proposals from arts organizations creating or enhancing inclusive educational programs that undertake all of the following:
- Incorporate inclusive teaching practices;
- Provide access to students with all types of disabilities;
- Develop social, cognitive, and artistic skills;
- Involve people with disabilities in planning and implementation;
- Build staff, teacher, and/or artist knowledge and skill of inclusive practices; and
- Collaborate with public schools, actively engaging students, parents, and school administrators.
Eligibility
Nonprofit 501(c)(3) performing and/or exhibiting arts organizations—including museums, theaters, and multidisciplinary arts presenters—that are creating or have an established educational program are eligible to apply. Organizations must have as their primary mission the goal of advancing the arts and/or a specific art form.
Only arts organizations located in and partnering with public schools in the following metropolitan areas are eligible:
Phoenix, Arizona
Los Angeles, California
San Diego, California
San Francisco, California
Denver, Colorado
Hartford, Connecticut
Tampa, Florida
Atlanta, Georgia
Baltimore, Maryland
Boston, Massachusetts
Detroit, Michigan
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Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
Kansas City, Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri
Charlotte, North Carolina
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Portland, Oregon
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Providence, Rhode Island
Nashville, Tennessee
Houston, Texas
Seattle, Washington
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Award Amount
A maximum of 10 awards of up to $15,000 will be given to selected organizations. Funds must be used for program activities between April 1, 2010, and June 30, 2011. Examples of appropriate use of funds may include, but are not limited to: expanding existing accessibility programs into educational efforts, program development support, knowledge and skill building of inclusive practices, and promotional/outreach efforts to expand audience.
Deadline: December 11, 1009. For more information and details please visit their web site.
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