GRANTS AND MODEL PROGRAMS

Community Arts Programs 2010-2011: 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. Two community organizations have been selected for a second year of programming based on the results of their pilot projects last year. Teaching artists will be selected from SMAC’s Pre-Qualified Teaching Artist Pool or Arts Education Resource Directory to  provide residencies in visual art, literary arts and performing arts for the 2010-2011 school year.

• Mutual Assistance Network of Del Paso Heights
• Sacramento Area Emergency Housing 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) 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.

If you are interested in participating as a teaching artist and are not already in SMAC’s Pre-Qualified Teaching Artist Pool, you have a chance to apply.  The deadline is September 1, 2010.  Please click here for the Request for Qualification (application process). Acceptance into the Pool does not guarantee a teaching position with one of the CAP organizations or SMAC. For questions please contact Chelsea Greninger.

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 three school district model arts programs one in the former Rio Linda Union School District, the Robla School District, and the Sac City Unified School District. 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 pool. The deadline for applications for this cycle of selections for the teaching artist list is September 1st. Please click here for the Request for Qualifications (application). For questions please contact Chelsea Greninger.

Kemble Elementary School Program
The Arts Commission is partnering for a second year with Kemble Elementary School in the Sacramento School District 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 25 model classrooms in grades K-3, providing 8 classes in each of the visual and performing arts 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 Greninger, or call the Arts Education staff at 916.808.3979.