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Turnaround Arts Call for Applications

By Ann Brown, Director of Arts Education –

17e46c28-d793-41b5-8032-c8adf3a9f966The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts invite communities to apply to join Turnaround Arts, a program to assist school reform through high-quality and integrated arts education.

Applicants may be school districts, foundations, or nonprofits. Selected organizations will partner with Turnaround Arts: National to build locally-based technical assistance programs, bringing in national and regional resources to use the arts as an intervention strategy in clusters of low-performing schools, and their work will begin in March 2017.

The deadline for applications is November 1, 2016. Click here to apply.

Additional information can be found in the application. Feel free to direct any questions to Turnaround Arts staff at turnaroundarts@pcah.gov.