The Arts Elevate Embedded Artist Toolkit is a free, practical guide for any youth-serving organization or artist considering or running an embedded artist program. Drawn from our Fall 2025 pilot with four nonprofit partners and four professional artists across the Greater Lowell region, it includes templates, budget frameworks, evaluation tools, safeguarding guidance, and the full framework.
Tell us a little about yourself, and the toolkit is yours.
Arts Elevate exists thanks to the support of the Barr Foundation through its Creative Commonwealth Initiative. Since 2023, Greater Lowell Community Foundation has been one of only eight community foundations selected by Barr to help advance more diverse, equitable arts and creative expression across Massachusetts. Through this initiative, the Barr Foundation invests in community foundations as place-based philanthropies with unique potential to serve as civic leaders and catalysts for positive change, helping to strengthen resources for local arts ecosystems and support more vibrant, connected communities.
