UCAE Fund Grants
The UCAE Fund is sponsored by the University Council for Art Education. It provides grants of $500 to $1,500 for projects that show promise in advancing exemplary art education. They might include, but not be limited to innovative programs, experimental curriculum design, professional development, post doctoral research and studio projects.
Applications are blind reviewed. Grant recipients are required to acknowledge UCAE Grant funding on all materials related to their grant and agree to allow UCAE to use grant materials to publicize the UCAE Fund. Completed application and supporting materials are due, postmarked by October 1st. Grants are awarded December 1st. Summary reports of completed projects from previous year grants are due by October 1st.
Grant Recipient
The UCAE Fund is pleased to announce its first grant to Sylvia Corwin, for her project “Transferring Success: Reading Improvement through Art.” Designed to enable colleagues to replicate an earlier USDE Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III funded study of 22 replications in New York, which showed pre and post reading score improvement beyond expectation, it did not include a control group. Therefore, prior to applying for national validation of the RITA methodology, projects incorporating a control group, serving at least 500 10th grade readers in 14 or more high schools will be undertaken. This will involve research into visual thinking and learning to read via the Language Experience Approach, published between 1979 and the present. The information will serve as the preface to Corwin’s updated replicator’s instruction and curriculum guide.