Partnerships are essential in providing quality arts programming to our surrounding communities. Arts Horizons seeks out and participates in partnerships ranging from full collaborations with organizations, to receiving financial support in the common goal of providing creative programming to the youth of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

Artist/Teacher Institute (aTi)

Co-sponsored by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and Arts Horizons, The Artist/Teacher Institute (aTi) provides classroom teachers, administrators, students and artists with in-depth, hands-on experiences in a variety of art forms that encourage professional growth and discovery.  By expanding their creativity, participants learn new skills to integrate arts into their curriculum and professional practice while connecting with a community of peers.  Led by professional arts instructors, who are master teaching artists, aTi workshops include book arts, creative movement, music, printmaking, storytelling, theater, painting, mixed media, poetry and memoir.

Artists-in-Education Consortium

For more than 30 years, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts (NJSCA) has recognized the value of partnerships. The foundation of the AIE Program is the partnership between professional artists and educators in order to bring students quality long-term arts education. The AIE Consortium is a partnership of the NJSCA and two of the state’s most well-recognized arts education providers: Arts Horizons and Young Audiences New Jersey. This collaboration between the public and private sectors provides greater resources to bring the AIE program to more schools statewide. The AIE Consortium is registered as a provider of professional development by the New Jersey Department of Education.

AIE Mission

The mission of the Artists-in-Education Program is to make the arts a basic part of a sound, quality education for all students pre-K through 12, and to provide quality professional development for teachers through long-term residencies with professional teaching artists. AIE residencies focus on direct learning about the arts and the processes of creating art, including the skills, techniques and concepts of the art form.

AIE Program Goals

• ·      To make the arts a basic part of a sound, quality education for all students pre-K through 12.
• ·      To assist educators in the development and implementation of innovative arts curriculum.
• ·      To help schools fulfill their own goals and objectives for curriculum, professional development and community connections in and through the arts.
• ·      To aid in the implementation of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in the Visual and Performing Arts and Language Arts Literacy.
• ·      To aid in the implementation of effective assessment practices in the arts.

 AIE Grants

The AIE Program offers several types of grants, each requiring a 1:1 dollar match on the part of the school or district. Any New Jersey pre-K through 12 public, private or parochial school, or school district, is eligible to apply. First-time AIE applicants may submit applications for either of the following two grants:

One-Year Residency Grant

Planning & Implementation Residency Grant

Two-Year Residency Grant

Contact Jenifer Simon at 201.567.1766 x102 to learn more about AIE and the grant application process or click to the Artists-in-Education Guidelines & Application.