Please contact Julie Metzler for more information. The average length of a residency is three weeks, but may be as short as one week and as long as one year. The residency, for which the artist provides services in twenty hours per week, is designed to allow artists to work with students, teachers and community members through a variety of activities - workshops, classroom activities, rehearsals, etc. The program is intended to provide direct, hands-on arts experiences for residency participants through personal interaction with working artists. While providing opportunities for the professional artist to work in a community context, the AIR Program also encourages students and community members to understand the role of the artist in contemporary society, to engage in the creative process and to think critically about the arts in education.
Artists can contribute to the learning process for people of all ages.
One artist can be the creative spark that inspires an administrator, a teacher, a student or a whole community. MAC will support college and university arts education activities if they clearly exceed the regular curriculum and are accessible to the general public. This does not apply to public schools. If the organization is not separately incorporated, it may use the nonprofit status of another organization designated as the Fiscal Agent. This Fiscal Agent is jointly responsible with the applicant to administer MAC grant funds and must sign the AEP application, compliance statement and final evaluation report.