USF Sarasota-Manatee lands $8.5 million arts grant, largest award in campus history
October 19, 2021 - Denise Davis-Cotton, Director of the University of South Florida’s Center for Partnerships in Arts Integrate Teaching (PAInT) program, has been named principal investigator of an $8.5 million grant. The grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Education to strengthen educational arts programming across the country. Titled Race, Equity, Arts and Cultural History (REACH), the project seeks to establish a national model to strengthen arts education that other schools can replicate. The project will be funded over five years, and the grant is the largest ever awarded to the Sarasota-Manatee Campus.