The Bartol Foundation supports teaching artists as change makers in their communities through professional development workshops, trauma-informed training, and grant opportunities based in Philadelphia, PA.

Our next series of free workshops for teaching artists will run from October 2025 through May 2026. We are seeking proposals for workshops that offer teaching artists practical, tangible teaching tools (including lesson plans, activities, frameworks, and resources) to bring into the creative classroom. We will select up to 10 - 12 workshops from this Open Call.

Compensation is $550 for 90-120 minute workshops taught either in-person in Philadelphia or virtually over Zoom. While we especially encourage local teaching artists to apply, teaching artists need not be Philadelphia-based in order to submit a proposal for a virtual workshop. If applying with a co-facilitator, we can discuss appropriate compensation upon acceptance. 

The due date for applications is September 1, 2025 at 11:59pm. Accepted applicants can expect to hear back from us about scheduling by mid-September. Please note that if we receive more proposals than we can accept, we will keep some declined applications on file for future opportunities.

We encourage interested teaching artists to reach out with questions or concerns.