The Marrazzo/Bartol Teaching Artist Micro-Grant awards $1,000 to help Philadelphia-area teaching artists complete community-based arts education projects that are underway; to support their own professional development as teaching artists; or to buy equipment/materials essential to their teaching artist practice. The engagement of community members as active art(s)-makers is essential to any application.
Applications for Spring 2025 projects will open January 8, 2025.
Applications close February 11, 11:59pm EST
Who Should Apply
Grants will be made to teaching artists who live in the Philadelphia area and projects must take place in the City of Philadelphia.
If you are working with community members, your project must engage community members (of any age) as active, creative, art-making participants (in any discipline), not just as an audience.
If you are asking for support for your own professional development or equipment/materials, you must demonstrate how this will position you to strengthen your teaching practice as well the audience you hope will benefit from your future programs.
Teaching artists are not required identify a community host site or partner, although you have the option to share a letter of support from a community partner if you have one. You cannot currently be a paid teaching artist (employee or contractor) for the organization which is your host site. This is not intended to be a grant to an organization to pay their teaching artists.
The project, either in the community or for a teaching artists’ own teaching practice, must be urgent and timely. Funds must be expended within three months of receiving the grant.
Note that these grants are not for your own creative practice. They are only for your work as a teaching artist.
You can preview the full application questions here.
Important Dates
Micro-Grant Information Session – Monday, January 20, 6pm-7pm:
In this 1 hour session, Bartol Foundation Executive Director, Sam Tower, will walk attendees through the Marrazzo/ Bartol Micro-Grant application, sharing what makes a great application, and answering any questions about the guidelines and selection process.
