Arts Advocacy

The arts boost student learning,

The arts boost student learning,

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Arts Integration Works: Right Brain Initiative

Arts Integration Works: Right Brain Initiative

John M. Eger Become a fanDirector of the Creative Economy Initiative at San Diego State University (SDSU) is also the Van Deerlin Endowed Chair of Communications and Public Policy

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Josh Groban on Why Art Matters

Josh Groban on Why Art Matters

Josh Groban.Photo by Olaf Heine "Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected, and it's important now more than…

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The First 100 Stories Campaign

The First 100 Stories Campaign

The Arts continue to be cut from school curriculums across the nation. Despite arts advocacy groups’ efforts to prevent the decline of arts inclusion, the budgetary solution remains to be…

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National Arts in Education Week

National Arts in Education Week

  In July of 2010, the U.S. House of Representatives passed

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The Survivor Tree Poem: Arts Advocating Healing

The Survivor Tree Poem: Arts Advocating Healing

"There is nothing so bad that we cannot survive it." The Survivor Tree is a children's poem on behalf of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. It's the story…

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Commemorating the 13th Anniversary of 9-11

Commemorating the 13th Anniversary of 9-11

[youtube= Today, we honor the thousands of innocent men, women, and children who were taken from us too soon thirteen years ago. At the 9/11 Memorial in New York City,…

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At STEAM Schools, Arts Are Woven Into The Curriculum

At STEAM Schools, Arts Are Woven Into The Curriculum

The idea behind STEAM - science, technology, engineering, arts and math - is to find ways to integrate the “A” into all class subjects, believing the fusion of arts and…

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Real farm life, at the intersection of arts and agriculture

Real farm life, at the intersection of arts and agriculture

by Amy Mayer, Harvest Public Media “Art is to stop and make you think,” she said. “That’s the goal of what we do, right? Is to put something out there…

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Artists Discuss Actions After Week of Protests in Ferguson

Artists Discuss Actions After Week of Protests in Ferguson

Artists Gather at RAC to Discuss Possible Actions.Credit Willis Arnold/St. Louis Public Radio  By

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Mayor De Blasio Gives $23 Million Boost to Arts Education in NYC

Mayor De Blasio Gives $23 Million Boost to Arts Education in NYC

Mayor Bill de Blasio at arts education press announcement at the Bronx Museum of the Arts (July 1, 2014). Photo: Ed Reed, courtesy the Office of Mayor Bill de Blasio.New…

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Mayor De Blasio Gives $23 Million Boost to Arts Education in NYC

Mayor De Blasio Gives $23 Million Boost to Arts Education in NYC

Mayor Bill de Blasio at arts education press announcement at the Bronx Museum of the Arts (July 1, 2014). Photo: Ed Reed, courtesy the Office of Mayor Bill de Blasio.New…

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P.S. Art 2014: Student Artworks at The Met

P.S. Art 2014: Student Artworks at The Met

 As a teacher I have witnessed firsthand the transformative powers of The Arts.  Students learn to express themselves in ways that could never be accomplished through an algorithm or literary…

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P.S. Art 2014: Student Artworks at The Met

P.S. Art 2014: Student Artworks at The Met

 As a teacher I have witnessed firsthand the transformative powers of The Arts.  Students learn to express themselves in ways that could never be accomplished through an algorithm or literary…

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DEAR MOM is coming to NYC!

DEAR MOM is coming to NYC!

 written by Jay Falzone & Nancy Holson Based on actual letters written by real daughters to their mothers

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Testimonial #38: LindaAnn Loschiavo, Journalist, Dramatist, and a long time magazine columnist

Testimonial #38: LindaAnn Loschiavo, Journalist, Dramatist, and a long time magazine columnist

How has your life been indelibly touched by a teacher who utilized the arts for whatever reason and acknowledge how they were instrumental in breaking the mold to allow you…

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Diamond Lil, Queen of the Bowery

Diamond Lil, Queen of the Bowery

[youtube= by LindaAnn Loschiavo, Dramatist My entire childhood was influenced by The Arts. Even before I entered first grade, I worried that I could never oil paint as well as…

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Today, Children, We’re Not Going To Do A Show

Today, Children, We’re Not Going To Do A Show

"This isn’t about a single group of kindergartners, but about our core values for all students – that the arts are not disposable, that they are not frivolous, and that…

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