The Lincoln Center Institute’s National Educator Workshops

The Lincoln Center Institute’s National Educator Workshops are a series of five-day workshops for teachers and administrators from any school that is not currently a Lincoln Center Institute Partnership or Focus School.

The workshops are designed to train educators in exploring arts with students through an experiential approach. In the upcoming summer sessions, the institute will partner with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the New York Philharmonic.

Week-long workshops in New York State this summer are as follows:
*Buffalo: June 26-30 at the Arts in Education Institute of Western New York.
*Brookville: July 10-14 at the Tilles Center School Partnership Program/CW Post Institute for Arts and Culture.
*New York City: July 10-14 and July 17-21 at the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education.

The deadline for registration is June 2. For complete registration information, visit http://lcinstitute.org/ep_nec_new.asp.

Partners for Arts Education’s School Arts Partnerships

Partners for Arts Education’s (PAE) School Arts Partnerships are re-grants made to New York State public and private schools to allow artists and/or cultural organizations to partner with schools (serving pre-K through grade 12 students) so as to support or present arts-in-education projects. The 2006 deadline is May 8.

PAE provides matching funds (of up to $10,000) for each entity to work in collaboration with one another to create New York State Learning Standards-based curricula that implements interdisciplinary and/or integrated means of studying arts as well as non-arts subjects. Funding decisions are made by an independent panel and schools must provide matching funds for these projects.

For complete information on registration and on how to apply, visit www.arts4ed.org.

Arts in Education Regional Roundtables

Arts in Education Regional Roundtables are groups of artists, teachers, cultural organization representatives, and community members who gather in sites throughout New York State to learn about each other, discuss arts-in-education, and establish standards for arts-in-education issues.

For more information on the regional roundtables in New York State, visit www.nysca.org/public/resources/spec_education.htm.

Target’s Arts in Education Grants

Target offers grants for projects that establish opportunities for students to explore, experience, and create visual art, music, and drama. Each Target store may make Arts in Education Grants within its community. Grant guidelines and applications are available at local Target stores; ask for the Target Team Leader. The 2006 grant application will be available beginning March 1, 2006, and will be accepted between March 1 and May 31, 2006. For more information, visit http://target.com/target_group/community_giving/index.jhtml.

NEA Online Grant Applications

The NEA’s guidelines for their online grant applications are now available at www.arts.gov/grants/apply.

There are several grant deadlines for applicants from the arts-in-education community. The deadline for the Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth program is June 12, the deadline for the Access to Artistic Excellence program is August 14, and the deadline for the Challenge America: Reaching Every Community program is June 1.

For complete information about all of the NEA’s grants, visit www.arts.gov/grants/apply.