Arts Education

Learning and the Arts: Crossing Boundaries
by Steve

"Learning and the Arts: Crossing Boundaries" was a meeting of 120 funding professionals in the arts, education, or children, youth and family programs of fifty foundations, that was organized by the Getty Trust, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. Together with a group of outstanding researchers, practitioners, and policymakers, they explored the value philanthropy can add to education and child development by integrating the arts into schools and non-school programs for children and youth.

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Foundation Funding for Arts Education
by Steve

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Jerome Kagan on Why the Arts Matter
by giarts-ts-admin

Jerome Kagan, Ph.D., of Harvard University, spoke about the importance of arts education in elementary schools during the Learning, Arts, and the Brain conference at Baltimore’s American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore on May 6, 2009.

These are his prepared remarks.

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2009: The Role of the Arts in a Nation that Has Called for CHANGE
by giarts-ts-admin
Claudine Brown wants us to shore ourselves up with knowledge and examples of how much arts and culture are linked to everything we do. With this in mind, she offers us her own kit bag of reasons for sustaining arts and culture programs—and it's a big bag.
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The Place of the Arts in Multi-focus Foundations
by giarts-ts-admin
When presidents and CEOs of foundations try to balance a range of equally justifiable social agendas, where are the arts? Sponsored by GIA, six foundation leaders spent a day and a half together discussing just this topic in the summer of 2008. The relevance of their conversation and the preliminary conclusions they drew are perhaps even more urgent today than they were then, as foundations face increasingly serious questions of priority.
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Arguments for Cultural Democracy and Community Cultural Development
by giarts-ts-admin
The following piece is excerpted from the second of a two-part article written for the Community Arts Network, “The New New Deal.” Part one, published in December 2008, was titled, “the New New Deal: Public Service Jobs for Artists.” It described some of the things artists could do with public-service jobs. This excerpt is from part two, published February 24, 2009, “A New WPA for Artists: How and Why.” In this excerpt, Goldbard takes up the question of “why,” what are all the good reasons to support a new WPA for artists.
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2008 Study of Arts Education in Colorado Public Schools
by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 49 pages. Colorado Council on the Arts, 1625 Broadway, Suite 2700, Denver, CO, 80202, 303-892-3802, www.coloarts.org

http://www.coloarts.org/programs/education/study/Colorado Arts Ed Study Statistical Report Final.pdf

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Big Ideas
by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 32 pages. Center for Ecoliteracy, 2528 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 94702, 510-845-4595, www.ecoliteracy.org

http://ecoliteracy.org/publications/big_ideas.html

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Culture and Community Development in Higher Education
by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 77 pages. Imagining America, 203 Tolley Building, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 13244, 315-443-8590, www.curriculumproject.net

http://www.curriculumproject.net/pdfs/08.CP.report.pdf

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Into the Breach
by giarts-ts-admin

2009, 16 pages. The New Media Consortium, 6101 W. Courtyard, Bldg. One, Suite 100, Austin, TX, 78730, 512-445-4200, www.nmc.org

http://www.nmc.org/pdf/Into-the-Breach.pdf

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