Cultural Collaborations Excursion Grants

Excursion Grants, bringing Kids to Arts, are awards of up to $600 ($1,000 for eligible Title I schools,) to support transportation and admission costs incurred in attending arts and cultural events. Only public or nonprofit schools in Alaska may apply. A school may only receive one Excursion grant but may apply for several activities in one grant. The activity should provide a connection to current curriculum. If a trip is to a multi-discipline museum (arts, history, and/or science) the grant can only be used for admission to the arts and/or history portion of the museum.

Deadline: at least one month prior to the planned activity.

Examples:

• Shaw Elementary takes its 3rd graders to the Anchorage Museum for a visit to the Smithsonian Collection and the Science center. The grant will only fund the Smithsonian portion of the activity.
• All Talkeetna and Trapper Creek Elementary school students visit the Alaska Native Heritage Center with pre visit discussions about the various Native cultures in their area;
• Copper River School District applies for all 6th graders to attend a performance of the Nutcracker Ballet in Anchorage;
• Creekside Elementary takes its 3rd graders to the Native Heritage Center; its 5th graders to the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra Young People’s concert and its 6th graders to an Alaska Junior Theatre performance.
• Haines high school students attend a Perseverance Theatre production in Juneau.