Saratoga Arts offers the Saratoga
Program for Arts Funding, the
Arts-in-Education Grants,
and the Fulton-Montgomery Arts
Grants with funding from the New York
State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).
Arts-in-Education Grants
Saratoga Arts is committed to encouraging greater use of artist residencies within the school districts of Saratoga & Washington Counties. To achieve this goal, the we established the Arts-In-Education Initiative Grant in 1991. With a small amount of seed money, over a 10-year period the program distributed more than $38,000 to schools in Saratoga County to support exciting artist residencies.
Beginning with the 2001-02 school year, Saratoga Arts was appointed by NYSCA to administer their AIE/LCB regrant program, which sponsors innovative artist residencies in elementary, middle and high schools throughout Saratoga and Washington Counties, furthering both the arts and non-arts curriculum and utilizing a co-teaching model. Schools may apply annually for artist residency grants. Since 2001 we have regranted nearly $163,000 for Arts in Education projects!
___________________________________________________________________________2012 AIE Grant Recipients
Saratoga Arts awarded $12,880 for Artist Residencies in Saratoga County for the 2011-2012 school year. Six schools were funded for programs in the following subjects: English Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Character Education, Music, Songwriting, Dance, Visual Arts, Poetry, Literature, and Theater.
Ballston Spa High School - $2,152Connecting Improvisation, Education and 21st Century Learning Skills: High school students currently enrolled in Business Marketing and Management and the Career Exploration and Internship Program will strengthen their communication, team-building, and leadership skills through improvisational theatre.
Caroline Street Elementary - $2,482
Learning Math Through Music: Fourth grade students will work with River Jacks Z and their classroom teachers to create songs about different concepts in Mathematics, including Two and Three Dimensional Geometry.
Charlton Heights Elementary - $2,630
Anti–bullying: Fifth grade students will learn anti-bullying strategies through an interdisciplinary partnership with Chris Holder and teaching staff.
Saratoga Independent School - $2,356
Arts of Ceramics: Students and faculty will learn about the multidisciplinary aspects of ceramic arts. Highlights include throwing on the wheel and overseeing Raku firing. The five-week program culminates with an art show at SIS.
Shatekon Elementary - $1,600
Reader's Theater: Reader's Theatre with Jacqueline Sweeney is a content-related curriculum and poetry-writing project. The educational and artistic intent is to provide an exposure to and appreciation of the art of poetry as well as to develop fluency in reading.
St. Clement's Regional Catholic School - $1,660
What Shape Am I?: Fifth grade students will delve into a poetry project inspired by geometry. Poet Jacqueline Sweeney will work with students to write mathematical self-portraits using geometric vocabulary and concepts. The final poems will be collected in a book and performed at a poetry slam.
Saratoga Arts often receives grant notifications from other organizations. We list these opportunities on the Opportunities page.
See list of Other Granting Organizations and Opportunities
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