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ARTS EDUCATION GRANTS AND MODEL PROGRAMS

Community Arts Programs 2009-2010: Pilot Project for Community Organizations Partnering with Regional Artists
This program supports community organizations that partner with regional artists in the visual, performing, media or literary arts to develop projects that promote their organizational missions and enrich their important work in the community. Five community organizations have been selected for this pilot project. Teaching artists are providing residencies in visual arts, dance, theatre, and literary arts for these five organizations in 2009-2010.

  • Asian Community Center of Sacramento Valley, Inc.
  • Mutual Assistance Network of Del Paso Heights
  • People Reaching Out, Inc.
  • Sacramento Area Emergency Housing Center
  • WIND Youth Center

The Arts Commission facilitates collaboration between the organizations and the artists, and provides professional development as needed.

The goals of Community Arts Programs (CAP) Pilot Project are to:

  • Develop arts programming for constituents that furthers the goals of the organization
  • Increase capacity for artists & organizations to collaborate on future arts education programs
  • Offer programming with substantial impact over time
  • Support hands-on learning in the arts disciplines
  • Encourage self-discovery, creativity and expression through the arts
  • Support personal growth, healing and communication through the arts
  • Celebrate culturally specific, contemporary and traditional artistic expressions
  • Build connections and community
  • Learn more about what contributes to successful collaborations between non-arts organizations and artists.

The deadline for applying to be one of the teaching artists for this program has passed.

Model Arts School District Programs
Since 2005 the Arts Commission has been working in a systematic way with school districts to develop model arts programs that offer arts standards-based instruction in visual arts and performing arts, taught by trained teaching artists, to enhance language and literacy skills. There is abundant evidence that arts, both in their own right and when integrated into a content area in which other subjects are taught, significantly enhance learning.

The Arts Commission has recently supported two school district model arts programs one in the Robla School District, and the other in the former Rio Linda Union School District, both in north Sacramento. For these projects the Arts Commission hired teaching artist consultants through a Request for Proposal process to work in collaboration with Arts Commission staff to develop the curriculum and teach the arts programs.

Teachers for Model Arts Programs
Artists interested in teaching for future Model Arts programs must be part of the pre-qualified teaching artist list. The deadline for applications for this cycle of selections for the teaching artist list has passed. Please check back.

Kemble Elementary School Program
The Arts Commission is partnering with Kemble Elementary School in the Sacramento School District in 2009-2010 to implement a model arts program using the performing arts to support their Culturally Relevant Pedagogy initiative.  Partially funded through a grant from the California Arts Council, teaching artists will work with 12 model classrooms in grades K-3, providing 24 dance and theatre classes for students.

Robla School District Program
The fourth year of the program (2008-2009) in the Robla School District, involved all five elementary schools and every student in the district, and was administered by the Arts Commission and funded by the School District . All students received 16 sequential lessons in both visual arts and theatre integrated into their language arts curriculum. Due to funding restrictions, the School District is continuing with a reduced program in the 2009-2010 school year.

Rio Linda Union School District Program
The Arts Commission developed and administered a program in the spring of 2008 with the Rio Linda Unified School District (now Twin Rivers School District), made possible in part by a grant from the California Arts Council. Sixteen Kindergarten classes in four schools received 36 in depth lessons in visual arts and either dance or theatre, taught by experienced teaching artists.

Other Model Programs
The Arts Commission is committed to developing model programs in many more school districts in the County. We welcome inquiries from school districts interested in replicating any of our current programs or developing new projects.

To learn more please email Chelsea Hunt , or call the Arts Education staff at 916.808.3979.