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.