Grantmaking at Bartol

Investing in Arts Education


We fund artists and organizations at the grassroots. We support community-led, healing-centered practices that advance racial, gender, disability justice in our city. Our grantees are visionary artists, educators, culture bearers, and community organizers who reflect the richness of Philadelphia’s neighborhoods and the creative power of its people. In collaboration with our grantmaking partners, including the Marrazzo Family Foundation, we offer multiple funding opportunities each year to support innovative, inclusive, and equitable access to arts education.

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Bartol Arts Education Grant

Teaching Artist Awards

At the Bartol Foundation, we believe that when artists thrive, communities thrive. Our grantmaking supports teaching artists, arts organizations, and cultural leaders who use arts education to build connection, promote healing, and ignite social change in Philadelphia.
We Are The Seeds (2025 Arts Education Grantee)
We Are The Seeds (2025 Arts Education Grantee)

Bartol Arts Education Grant

Bartol Foundation funds small Philadelphia arts organizations that are actively advancing racial, gender and disability justice through community-led arts education. We support programs that provide equitable access to inclusive, culturally connected art-making and creative skill building led by teaching artists in deep relationship with the communities they serve.
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Bartol Arts Education Grant

We support ongoing, in-depth, hands-on creative learning opportunities in any art discipline in Philadelphia that meets the following priorities;

  • Create healing-centered, supportive spaces that advance equitable access to education for participants of any age
  • Build intentional, long-term relationships with the communities you serve
  • Engage board members, staff, and teaching artists whose lived experiences aligns with your community
  • Reflect and respect the cultures and identities of participants in your approach to learning
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Bartol Arts Education Grant

In order to be considered for a Bartol Foundation grant, you must meet our eligibility requirements and request a site visit. A site visit must be completed before you submit your application.

Teaching Artist Awards

Bartol provides grants to Philadelphia-based teaching artists providing consistent, accessible arts education benefiting communities they are in deep relationship with. This award provides direct financial investment in freelance or independent teaching artists as they design and implement meaningful programs benefiting youth and adults in Philadelphia, and sustain themselves as vital culture bearers and changemakers in their communities.
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2026 Teaching Artist Awards

With lead funding from Marrazzo Family Foundation, this award program is designed to provide teaching artists the opportunity to develop their skills, strengthen their connections with their community, and focus on developing visionary new approaches to arts education in Philadelphia. The Marrazzo Family Foundation has a strategic focus of supporting the integration of creativity and the arts in educating Philadelphia youth, in ways that are novel, interdisciplinary, and visionary.

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Teaching Artist Awards

When artists have the resources they need to grow and thrive, their communities thrive too. Investment in individual artists builds power in our communities and provides artists agency over their personal growth.

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