Small Grant Support for Schools Criteria
- Involves students in actual hands-on activities
- Relates arts experience to specific learning goals, including Priority Academic Student Skills and standards of Oklahoma’s state curriculum
- Encourages students to use critical thinking
- Project demonstrates artistic quality by cultivating creativity, appreciation and knowledge of art forms
- Project involves largest numbers of students possible
- Project demonstrates educational merit by offering in-depth arts instruction
- Student learning must be measured through appropriate form of evaluation
Recognized arts disciplines include:
- Literary arts (writing)
- Visual art and design (drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media, fine crafts and graphic design)
- Performing arts (dance, music, storytelling, musical theatre and theatre)
- Media arts ( film, broadcasting, video and technology)
- Traditional arts (from a common ethnicity, occupation or geographic
region, handed down from generation to generation)
Acknowledgment
The Oklahoma Arts Council receives funds from the State of Oklahoma and the National
Endowment for the Arts. Failure to credit the Oklahoma Arts Council and National
Endowment for the Arts jeopardizes future funding.
- Organizations are required to credit the Oklahoma Arts Council and the NEA by using their logos on all printed programs, advertising, news releases, promotion and publicity related to funded projects.
- Grant recipients are required to contact their legislators and express appreciation for legislative support of the Oklahoma Arts Council.
Final Report
The Final report is a summary describing the arts component of the program/project(s). Support materials are requirements of the final report and must include the following:
- Copy of the evaluation tool(s) and compilation of results
- Project documentation (brochures, anthologies, etc.)
- Copies of press releases or news articles – Limit 3
- Copies of correspondence to Legislators
- Photos of Project/Event with Signed Release Permitting OAC to Make Use of Photos
- Program expenditure report from your business office
Reimbursement
Upon receipt of the final report, the Oklahoma Arts Council will reimburse funds for expenditures not exceeding the amount granted and spent. The narrative
summary should reference the program goals as indicated in the original
application (learning objectives, student application, retention, production and evaluation). Funds may not be carried over to the next fiscal year.
To receive reimbursement, a completed final report must be submitted electronically to the Oklahoma Arts Council within 30 days of completion of the project. The payment process cannot begin until the Council receives and approves the final report. Payment will typically follow within six weeks from approval of the final report. All funds must be expended and final reports completed by June 30.