All Tier I and Tier II ZAP recipients must come from one of the following eligible disciplines;
Architecture: Historical Preservation, Service & Education;
Arts Education: Performances for Children/Students, Classroom or After-School Instruction, Teacher and Artist Training, Service/Information and Referrals;
Botanical: Botany is defined as the study and research, and fostering the appreciation, of plant life including gardens, flowers, ornamental shrubs, trees, and horticulture. The ZAP statute specifically requires that botanical organizations do all three of the following activities: Horticultural display, Botanical research and Community education;
Dance: Ballet, Dance Service Organization, Dance Training, Historical/Traditional, Interdisciplinary, Jazz, World (ethnic), Modern, and Tap;
Folk Arts: Folk arts are defined as the homegrown traditional artistic activities of groups that share the same ethnic heritage, language, occupation, religion or geographic area. They are also community and/or family-based arts that have endured through several generations that carry with them a sense of community aesthetic, and that demonstrate the highest degree of artistic excellence. Folk Arts include: Crafts, Stories/Oral History, and Traditional Performing Arts;
Humanities: Humanities are defined as promoting, and public education of, the branches of learning or study embraced by philosophy, literature, languages, and art criticism, but excluding theology, natural and social sciences. Humanities includes: Lecture Series and Symposium/Conference;
Interdisciplinary/Performance Art: An artistic hybrid, combining two or more disciplines within a single artwork or performance piece;
Literature: Press, prose, poetry or nonfiction, Literary Service Organization - Magazines and newspapers are ineligible;
Local Arts Agency: a municipal designated agency or non-profit corporation responsible for supporting local arts and culture activities including presenting, grant making, exhibitions, and other programs associated with artists and arts organizations in a community;
Media Arts: Animation, Digital Media, Graphic Design, Independent Film, Multidisciplinary (within media arts). Video, Radio and TV broadcast and cable are ineligible;
Multi-Disciplinary: Organizations whose activities encompass two or more distinct disciplines, e.g. music and visual arts;
Music: Blues, Classical, Contemporary/New Music, Historical/Traditional, Jazz, Opera
World Music, Other (please note if your organization is a choral, orchestra or other form of music);
Natural History: Natural history is defined as the study and research, and fostering the appreciation, of the material universe, including various types of plant and animal life, dinosaurs and other fossil life, rare gems, minerals and meteorites, human evolution, human cultures, and the origin of life. This also includes exhibitions related to human beings, the earth and its environment, but excludes aeronautics, space exploration, and science and technology. Natural history organizations should be primarily focused on public programs, as opposed to academic research;
Presenting Organizations: Organizations that curate programs and arrange public performances to help expand public appreciation of diverse art forms and reflect the community’s interests. Presenting organizations typically assume all or part of the financial risk of the performances, and handle some or all of the production, marketing box office venue house management tasks associated with the performances. Presenters also sometimes commission new work, supporting artists to develop and perform this work;
Theatre: Classical/Revival, Contemporary/New Work, Musical Theater; or
Visual Arts: Ceramics, Digital, Gallery/Exhibition Space, Mixed Media, Museum, Painting/Drawing, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture/Three-Dimensional.
For Tier II Only (History disciplines are not eligible for Tier I funding)
History: History is broadly defined as the study of the past, designed to record or explain past events. This includes the following kinds of organizations and activities: Heritage Preservation, Historical Museums, Historical Research, Historical Site and Living History Programs.
