Arts Education

April 30, 2009 by giarts-ts-admin

I have always revered the work of David McCullough and recently I read remarks he made last spring that focused his audience on arts education:

One of our greatest blessings, the greatest among all that we have inherited, is the English language and its power to express things. Keep in mind, too, please, that information, as much as we love to brag about it, isn't learning. If information were learning, you could become educated by memorizing the world almanac. If you memorized the world almanac, you wouldn't be educated, you'd be weird.

April 30, 2009 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 programsand it's a big bag.

April 30, 2009 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.

April 30, 2009 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.

April 30, 2009 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

Big Ideas

April 30, 2009 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

April 30, 2009 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

Into the Breach

April 30, 2009 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

A New Day for Youth

April 30, 2009 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 31 pages. The Wallace Foundation, 5 Penn Plaza, 7th floor, New York, NY, 10001, 212-251-9700, www.wallacefoundation.org

http://www.wallacefoundation.org/wallace/
whitepaper_noam.pdf

The Art of Collaboration

September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 16 pages. Arts Education Partnership, One Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 700, Washington, D.C., 20001, (202) 408-8081, www.aep-arts.org

www.aep-arts.org/publications/