Applications now open for the 2016 Place-Based Community Arts Training (CAT) Institute! Deadline: Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Created in 1997, the CAT Institute is an innovative five-month curriculum for artists and social service professionals/community organizers who learn to collaborate across sectors of all disciplines and develop programs that can affect positive social change through collaboration. These programs take place in homeless shelters, prisons, at-risk schools, hospices, community centers, daycare facilities, social service agencies, as well as within neighborhoods. The 2016 Place-Based CAT Institute will focus on four communities in St. Louis City and County:

• The Ville and Greater Ville neighborhoods
• The Dutchtown neighborhood
• The West End and Visitation Park neighborhoods
• Berkeley, Dellwood, and Ferguson cities in North St. Louis County

A panel of community arts professionals will select eight artists from any discipline and eight social service providers/community organizers/social activists – to attend the CAT Institute on a scholarship from August through October 2016.

Applications will be accepted through Tuesday, July 5. Selected applicants will be invited for interviews. The trainings will begin in August 2016. For more information or to submit an application, go to http://racstl.org/art-community/community-arts-training-cat-institute/. Or contact Liz Pund, Community Arts Manager, Department of Artist and Community Initiatives/Co-Director of the CAT Institute, at (314) 863-5811 x 1014 or liz@racstl.org .