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IAC Grants for Educators
Opens: April 15, 2025
Deadline: May 13, 2025
Scholarship Amount: up to $1,500
Grant Period: June 2, 2025 to August 31, 2025
IAC is offering scholarship funds of up to $1,500 to cover expenses related to attending the 2025 Leadership Exchange in Arts & Disability (LEAD) Conference, to include registration, travel, and hotel costs. The 2025 LEAD Conference will be held in Cleveland, OH, August 18- August 22, 2025.
Opens: April 2025
Deadline: May 29, 2025
Creative Learning Grants for Schools supports arts learning opportunities in Illinois schools. The goal of this grant is to enable schools to acquire supplies, materials, equipment, or services from Illinois artists or arts organizations that are needed to address student needs for arts learning opportunities.
Opens: February 26, 2025
Deadline: Closed
The Illinois Arts Council’s (IAC) Creative Accelerator Fund (CAF) provides crucial support to artists with a goal of strengthening the creative workforce that composes a significant portion of Illinois’ economic activity.
Opens: February 5, 2025
Deadline: Closed
The Illinois Poet Laureate is an appointment made possible by the Office of the Governor. The Poet Laureate advances awareness of and appreciation for the literary arts and humanities within the state.
IAC Initiatives for Educators
Opens: September 16, 2024
Deadline: Closed
Illinois Statewide POL Contest: March 17, 2025
A partnership of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, and the state arts agencies, Poetry Out Loud is a national arts education program that encourages the study of great poetry by offering free educational materials and a dynamic recitation competition for high school students across the country.
Additional State Funding & Other Opportunities
Deadline: May 1, 2025
Every young poet from kindergarten through 12th grade in Illinois is invited to participate and become a part of Brooks' enduring legacy. As she beautifully expressed in 1977, “All the children who entered the contest are winners… They worked hard. They created. And that is what is important.”
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