The Issue
Research confirms that understanding, learning, and appreciating the arts are vital components of every young person’s education and development. Without meaningful opportunities for progressive skill-building in and through the arts across age and grade levels, Marin’s students will not be fully prepared for healthy and productive participation in their adult lives and in their communities. With reduced public funding for arts education, arts education programs have been fragmented and limited in reaching low-income students and students of color in Marin.
Our Approach
Together with the Marin County Office of Education and community-based arts organizations, who have been working successfully within schools, we will support integration of the arts within the school curriculum and instruction in discrete arts disciplines.
Grantmaking
This initiative uses an invitation-only application process. The most recent proposals were invited in March 2022, with a deadline of April 24, 2022. A decision was announced in May 2022, and those grantees are listed below.
Current Grantees
- California Poets in the Schools
- Enriching Lives Through Music
- Gallery Route One
- Marin County Office of Education
- Marin MOCA
- Marin Shakespeare Company
- Marin Symphony
- Marin Theatre Company
- Performing Arts Workshop
- Surviving the Odds Project
- Young Imaginations
- Youth in Arts, Inc.
Resources
Create California | California's Statewide Arts Education Coalition
