Creative Curricula

Grants for arts-in-education

Hester Street Collaborative and P.S. 134 Community Garden

Creative Curricula is a local arts-in-education funding program administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC). Creative Curricula provides grant support for collaborations between Manhattan schools and cultural organizations or individual teaching artists that focus on the creation and implementation of arts integrated units of study.

The program is part of the Local Capacity Building Initiative at the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), as a statewide effort to promote widespread participation in arts in education. LMCC was invited by NYSCA to participate in this effort and to administer this program.

How Creative Curricula Works

This year, Creative Curricula will award matching grants ranging from $750 to $3,000 to partnerships between Manhattan schools and teaching artists or cultural organizations. Funding is provided for in-classroom projects that focus on the integrated study of arts and non-arts subjects developed by collaborating classroom teachers and teaching artists, taking place in the Spring 2012 semester or Fall 2012 semester. Funding decisions are based on the proposal’s ability to meet the program criteria and local funding priorities as they are outlined in these application guidelines.

For more information about Creative Curricula application guidelines, deadlines, and info sessions, please check out the apply page.

Funding for Creative Curricula is provided by New York State Council on the Arts.

See what our grantees are doing…

The Apollo Theater

LMCC’s Creative Curricula grantee, the Apollo Theater, in partnership with the Harriet Tubman Learning Center creatively engages fourth and fifth graders through the Apollo Theater Oral History Project.

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The Apollo Theater

The Apollo Theater

LMCC’s Creative Curricula grantee, the Apollo Theater, in partnership with the Harriet Tubman Learning Center creatively engages fourth and fifth graders through the Apollo Theater Oral History Project.

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February 2012
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