TFAC’s Be Inspired Grants for K-12 Teachers

Receive up to $500! Use the funding to integrate the arts with your classroom curriculum.

Deepen your students’ learning by appealing to their creativity!

Tryon Fine Arts Center – Arts in Education offers teachers grants up to $500 in support of projects which seek to increase student achievement and growth through superlative arts instruction. These funds are for projects not supported through normal school operating budgets. Proposals are evaluated by an independent committee and grants are awarded based on available funds. 

With a BIG Grant You Could…

• Bring an artist into your classroom to teach and inspire
• Take your class on a trip to an art museum, concert, play, or other arts-related experience
• Purchase materials for an art project that will tap into your students’ creativity while giving them a deeper understanding of the subject they’re studying

Examples of Previous BIG Projects

• Middle School Social Studies Project: Dying cloth using indigo as it might have been done in the U.S. south, 250 years ago
• Designing quilt patterns using geometry skills while drawing on historical patterns from the Appalachians
• Visiting Ballet Spartanburg studios to learn choreography for a sword fight as part of
  a Shakespearean play
• Conveying geometry concepts using origami materials and techniques
• Students creating their own art, based on the works of Claude Monet, Eric Carle, and Vincent van Gogh

 What Creative Projects Will You Bring to Your Classroom to Inspire and Awaken Your Students’ Creativity and Knowledge? Dream BIG. Apply for a Be Inspired Grant today.

Due Date & How to Submit 

Applications will be due August 15. You may submit them in person, online via the Google Form (See below), or via U.S. mail to: Tryon Fine Arts Center | Attn: Executive Director | 34 Melrose Avenue, Tryon, NC, 28782.

Alternately you may request an application via email by submitting the form to the left.

Grant winners will be notified by mid-September, 2026.