Arts Education

Learning and the Arts: Crossing Boundaries

November 12, 2009 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.

Foundation Funding for Arts Education

November 11, 2009 by Steve

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Jerome Kagan on Why the Arts Matter

July 13, 2009 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.

An Unfinished Canvas

April 30, 2009 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 51 pages. SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, 650-859-2000, www.sri.com

http://policyweb.sri.com/cep/publications/AnUnfinishedCanvasDistrictCapacityAndNewFunds.pdf

An Unfinished Canvas

April 30, 2009 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 51 pages. SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, 650-859-2000, www.sri.com

http://policyweb.sri.com/cep/publications/AnUnfinishedCanvasLargeScaleAssessment.pdf

April 30, 2009 by giarts-ts-admin

Teaching Artist Journal; Taylor & Francis Group, LLC; Nick Jaffe, editor.

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.