Opportunities

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) will host a webinar on evaluation as a tool to support creative placemaking, the first in a series of webinars on evaluating arts programs. The webinar includes speakers from the NEA and also from GO Collaborative, a design and planning firm focused on creative placemaking, community engagement, and master planning and Metris Arts Consulting, a planning, research, and evaluation firm focused on revealing arts impacts and helping communities equitably improve cultural vitality.

NEA funds projects in every state, investing in large and small communities, urban and rural, coastal and land-locked. To extend our impact, 40 percent of all NEA grantmaking funds go directly to state arts agencies (SAAs) and regional arts organizations (RAOs). States must match the NEA funding they receive, significantly increasing the available amount they have to distribute to exceptional nonprofit arts organizations and programs throughout their state.

IES is accepting applications for its 2018 special topics grant in Arts in Education. Grants awarded in Arts in Education support research assessing K-12 programs and policies to help improve education outcomes for students and potentially increase their success in other academic areas through the arts. The deadline to submit proposals is Aug. 17, 2017.

CAA Announces the opening of its Professional-Development Fellowship for 2017. The program supports promising artists, designers, craftspeople, historians, curators, and critics who are enrolled in MFA, PhD, and other terminal-degree programs nationwide. Fellows are honored with $10,000 grants to support their work, whether it be for job-search expenses or purchasing materials for the studio.

If you know a district leader whose strategies or innovations would inspire colleagues nationwide, we want to hear from you. Leaders To Learn From spotlights forward-thinking district leaders who seize on good ideas and execute them well in their school systems. The deadline for nominations is August 1, 2017.

The Teaching Residency program at Fallingwater is for K-12 Teachers and Museum Education Professionals. The week-long program offers teachers an opportunity to develop programs that integrate STEAM learning with architectural and design methods. We have a few spots open for the July 8-15 session. The price is $1,000 and includes meals, housing, and all materials. Scholarships are available.

USSEA AWARDS 2018

This is a two-year fellowship with the possibility of renewal for a third year. The fellowship provides curatorial training and supports scholarly research related to the collection of the National Gallery of Art. The fellow is fully integrated into a specific curatorial department with duties, privileges, and status equivalent to those of an assistant curator. Time is divided between specific projects and general curatorial work within the department, including research on the collection and new acquisitions, work on the presentation of the collection, participation in aspects of special exhibition projects, and opportunities to give public lectures. The fellow will plan and complete a project in consultation with the supervising curator.

With just over two months to go until the August 1, 2017 deadline, now is the time to focus on your Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program application! Fulbright Scholars are selected for their academic merit and leadership potential to teach, research, and exchange ideas. There are nearly 500 awards available in more than 125 countries; complete details are located in the Catalog of Awards.