Definitions

Application for Artists
An electronic form for use by artists to apply to the Artist in Residence Program. The application may be accessed via the OLGA (On-Line Grants Application) system at http://www.culturegrants-oh.org.

Artist Directory
The directory of all artists in the Artist in Residence Program, with pictures and background information, is updated annually and available to schools and organizations at http://www.oac.state.oh.us/search/AIE/ArtistsDirectory.

Artist-Staff Workshop
An opportunity for staff members, teachers and administrators to gain hands-on experience working with artists to better understand the creative process, an art discipline, and the residency artists’ work. This is an essential and required component of all residencies.

Artist in Residence Committee
A group of six to eight individuals, including the site’s principal or administrator, on-site coordinator, arts specialists, teachers, staff, students, parents and other interested community representatives, responsible for planning the residency, writing the application and implementing a residency. You can find a full description of responsibilities at http://www.oac.state.oh.us/search/AIE/ArtistsHandbook/default.asp?strStaticPage=SponsorsGetStarted#Roles.

Artist Studio Space
A space provided by the residency sponsor for the artist’s studio time. This environment is appropriate to each artist’s discipline and made reasonably accessible to residency artists during their stay.

Artist Studio Time
Daily time for an artist in residence to create his/her own art. This time may be open so participants can observe the development of the artist’s work.

Arts Learning Fall Conference
A two-day conference usually held in September that allows time for residency sponsors and artists to meet, discuss artistic work, explore possible residency ideas and choose residency artists.

Contact Session
A meeting between the artist and a group or class lasting approximately one hour. A residency artist conducts no more than four contact sessions per day. A contact session may be also used for an artist-staff workshop, family art-making experience or a public sharing of residency work.

Core Group
A group of eight to 25 participants that meets with the artist daily to gain an in-depth artistic experience.

Creative Writing
Participants work with poets, fiction and nonfiction writers, and playwrights to experiment with language, find their voices, tell their stories, and become careful listeners and observers. Words, their rhythms and sounds, are tools to capture feelings and ideas. Participants learn that real writing is re-writing.

Credit Logo
The Ohio Arts Council logotype (logo). An OAC logo is to be used in its entirety and without alteration. All grantees are required by contract to acknowledge OAC support in all electronic and print versions of promotion, publicity, publications, films, videotapes and programs. The OAC logo may be found at http://www.oac.ohio.gov/grantsprogs/oacsupport/tiff.asp.

Dance
Dance involves participants as observers, choreographers and performers. Movement develops their kinesthetic intelligence and provides a powerful tool for communication and expression. Dance, whether modern, classical or traditional, uses the body and movement to transform experience and reflect the mind and spirit. Dance, taught person-to-person and generation-to-generation, can serve to enhance our lives and illuminate the world around us.

Design Arts
Architecture, landscape architecture and graphic design provide opportunities to explore and understand natural and man-made environments. Artists in these disciplines use history, science, mathematics, art and sociology. Collaboration is important as design artists translate creative ideas into practical solutions that reflect personal and community aesthetics and values.

Draft Application
A proposed application submitted electronically via the OLGA (On-Line Grant Application) system between November 1 and January 1 to Arts Learning staff for review, suggested revisions, additions or corrections. The draft proposal includes financial information, but not support materials. The OLGA system may be found at http://www.culturegrants-oh.org.

Final Report Form for Artist
A form submitted electronically via the OLGA (On-Line Grant Application) system to the Office of Arts Learning within 30 days of the conclusion of the residency. Final Report Forms will be available via OLGA, once the Grant Agreement from the Sponsor has been received by the OAC.

Final Report Form for Sponsors
A form submitted electronically via the OLGA (On-Line Grant Application) system to the OAC by the residency sponsor within 30 days of the end of the residency. Final Report Forms will be available via OLGA, once the Grant Agreement has been received by the OAC.

Final Sharing
At the close of the residency, participants informally present their residency work to peers, parents and community members.

Fine Arts Academic Content Standards
The Fine Arts Academic Content Standards serve as a basis for what all students should know and be able to do in dance, drama/theatre, music, and visual art by the time they graduate from high school. The standards with accompanying benchmarks, and grade-level indicators provide a set of common expectations from which to develop a high-quality, comprehensive, and sequential arts education curriculum. Access the Fine Arts Academic Content Standards at http://www.ode.state.oh.us/academic_content_standards/acsarts.asp.

Grant Notification
An electronic mailing that informs applicants that they have received funding. The e-mail communication includes the review panel’s comments outlining the applications strengths or weaknesses. The e-mail is sent after the Ohio Arts Council Board meets in early July to approve grant funding recommendations.

Grant Reviews and Technical Assistance
Advice or information from the OAC given to applicants to help them through the grant application writing and residency planning process.

In-Kind Services
Services that are donated to, and not paid for by, the applying organization. These services may consist of volunteer time by a professional, office space, facilities or equipment rental.

Media Arts
Media arts include the use of animation, documentation, fiction and experimental means to tell stories. This discipline incorporates sound, picture, color, movement, performance, music, writing and design. Creating through media empowers people, giving them tools to view and think critically. Turning a life or a community into a film, video or audio project can celebrate and preserve a story.

Multi-Disciplinary Art
Multi-disciplinary art explores and integrates more than one art form. Artists from different disciplines collaborate to develop an experience that dissolves the boundaries that separate them. The integrated work opens new avenues for communication and expression.

Multi-Disciplinary Residency
A residency that equally integrates two or more artistic areas and involves two or more artists collaborating to create new work with residency participants.

Music
Musicians communicate and express themselves through classical, jazz, popular and folk styles. Instrumentalists, vocalists and composers create solo and ensemble performances that bring personal, cultural or historical perspectives to their music. Creativity is encouraged and may be expressed in many musical forms.

On-Site Coordinator
The Chair of the residency committee who is responsible for the duties outlined in the Arts Learning Residency Handbook at http://www.oac.state.oh.us/search/AIE/ArtistsHandbook/default.asp?strStaticPage=SponsorsGetStarted#Roles.

Panel Comments
A list of the review panel’s summary outlining the strengths and weaknesses of each grant application.

Peripheral Group
A group of eight to 25 participants who meet with the artist one or more times during a residency. Groups may be made up of teachers, staff, students, parents and/or other community members.

Peripheral Sites
Locations other than the primary site where aspects of the residency will take place. These are only appropriate in long-term residencies.

Planning Session
A meeting with the artist, sponsor and AIR program representative to plan the residency lasting approximately three hours and scheduled four to six weeks before the residency begins.

Primary Site
The location where the artist will be based throughout the residency.

Professional Artists
People who devote a major part of their time creating, producing, presenting and performing any of the arts.

Residency
A set period of time, ranging from two weeks to nine months, during which an artist lives and works in a community. The artist facilitates learning in an art discipline and creative art-making. A residency usually includes performances, readings or exhibits as well as workshops, lectures, and demonstrations.

Residency Schedule
A schedule of the artist’s activities during a residency. This includes core group and peripheral group contacts, presentations or sharings, teacher workshops, community presentations and artist studio time. View samples at http://www.oac.state.oh.us/search/AIE/ArtistsHandbook/StaticPages/PDFfiles/SampleSchedules.pdf.

Residency Site
The location where residencies occur.

Sponsor Grant Agreement Form
The grant contract between the residency sponsor and the Ohio Arts Council. After accessing the grant through the OLGA (On-Line Grant Application) system, it should be printed, signed and returned to the OAC.

Sponsor
A nonprofit school or community organization hosting a residency.

Support Materials – Artist
Resume, letters of recommendation, slides, videotapes or manuscripts that artists submit with their applications.

Support Materials – Sponsor
Support letters that are submitted as part of the sponsor grant application.

Theatre
Personal expression that is developed and enhanced through movement, design, public speaking and cooperative interaction. Actors, directors, mimes and puppeteers are but a few of the types of artists who interpret and create through theatre games, role-playing activities, playwriting and performances.

Traditional Arts
The traditional arts are characterized by historic, stylistic, ethnic, community or family-based connections. Artists are accomplished practitioners of their crafts and noted interpreters of their traditions. It is important that these artists be recognized for: first, the unique contributions they bring to their art; and second, the traditions they represent. Traditional arts continue to evolve, firmly rooted in the past, but shaped by a consciousness of their times.

Visual Arts
The visual arts explore painting, printmaking, bookmaking, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, photography and installation projects. Artists bring their personal vision and technical knowledge to residencies. Contemporary artists expand the definitions of their disciplines, pushing their work beyond traditional expectations.

W-9 Form
An Internal Revenue Service form, required by the state of Ohio, which must be completed and on file with the state accounting system before the Ohio Arts Council can make any payment to an organization or individu