Arts Inclusion Program

Kentucky Teachers!

Looking for a way your students can have successful, enriching educational experiences and prepare them for testing in the arts and humanities?

Up to fifty $1,000.00 awards will be given out to schools across Kentucky for arts projects that include students of all abilities. This program was designed by VSA arts of Kentucky to provide opportunities and experiences in the arts for children of all abilities (with and without disabilities) in mainstream (inclusionary) settings. This is an opportunity for classroom teachers (academic, special education, art teachers/specialists) and artists to work together to plan a fully inclusionary arts project for a group as small as 25 children to a larger group. Any project idea that provides hands-on, enriching experiences in an art form(s) for students of all abilities is worthy of our consideration.

This award is also a way that you can bring arts specialists (teaching artists) into your school to work with students. Included on this website is our VSA arts of Kentucky Artists Roster. If you are interested in proposing an artist for your project, we encourage you to use this roster, because these artists have already been approved by us for the quality of their artistic work and for their ability to work with special needs students in inclusionary settings. To insure a meaningful, quality experience, we recommend that your project involve a core group of students who will have repeated or prolonged exposure with the visiting artist(s). We have found that only (1) one-hour class is usually not enough exposure to provide a lasting experience for the students. If you wish to propose an artist who is not on our roster, an approval procedure must be followed (See section D, Item 3 for more information). *Please download the latest FREE version of Adobe Acrobat Reader by clicking the button (Includes Adobe Reader) below for a fast and easy way to view and fill out your VSA arts of Kentucky applications.

Applications must be postmarked no later than Oct. 15, 2008.

Application Form / Guidelines PDF:2.30MB

Artist Roster (Pop-up window)

Final Report Forms PDF:209kb

Teacher Survey PDF: 136kb

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