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United Arts Council

Artists in Schools

Artists in Schools Workshop
Artists in Schools Workshop
Performance by Carlota Santana Spanish Dance Company
Performance by Carlota Santana Spanish Dance Company
Storytelling with Antonio Rocho
Storytelling with Antonio Rocho
Residency with Black Box Dance Theatre
Residency with Black Box Dance Theatre
Writer Residency with Kelly Starling Lyons
Writer Residency with Kelly Starling Lyons
Information for Schools
and Cultural Arts Representatives
Information for Participating
and Prospective Artists

At forty-one years strong, United Arts provides noncompetitive grants to schools to help provide Artists in Schools programs for their staff and students.

Funds support programs in three categories:
Performance  •  Workshop Residency  •  Weeklong Writer Residency

Professional teaching artists develop and implement
curriculum-based arts programs through six categories:

Dance  •  Literary  •  Music  •   Storytelling  •  Theatre  •  Visual Arts

Check out the Video Highlights of the 2022-2023 Artists in Schools below:

Thanks to the Artists in Schools program, more than 130,000 Wake County school children experience arts programming in a school setting each year.

For the 2022-23 year, United Arts worked with 107 artists/companies/ensembles/groups and served 138 schools. Through these schools, United Arts was able to help contract:

  • 239 performances
  • 100 workshop residencies
  • 39 weeks of writer residencies

To learn more about the Artists in Schools program, contact Julia Mastropaolo at [email protected] or (919) 839-1498, ext. 210.

PO Box 26388
Raleigh, NC 27611

Phone: (919) 839-1498
[email protected]