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Art Teachers or Security Guards?

Art Teachers or Security Guards?

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Celebrate National Arts and Humanities Month!

Celebrate National Arts and Humanities Month!

President Barack Obama declared October 2014 as National Arts and Humanities Month! "Cultivating the talents of our young people and ensuring they have access to the arts are critical to…

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Reach to teach: Arts organizations make education a priority

Reach to teach: Arts organizations make education a priority

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Re-Defining the Teaching Artist: the Marriage of Pedagogy and Artistry

Re-Defining the Teaching Artist: the Marriage of Pedagogy and Artistry

By Sobha Kavanakudiyil   What does it mean to be a practicing artist?   I started as a teaching artist in the spring of 2001.  I didn’t even know what a…

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Re-Defining the Teaching Artist: the Marriage of Pedagogy and Artistry

Re-Defining the Teaching Artist: the Marriage of Pedagogy and Artistry

By Sobha Kavanakudiyil   What does it mean to be a practicing artist?   I started as a teaching artist in the spring of 2001.  I didn’t even know what a…

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Can Children Deprived of Arts Education Still Grow Up to Be Innovators?

Can Children Deprived of Arts Education Still Grow Up to Be Innovators?

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Can Children Deprived of Arts Education Still Grow Up to Be Innovators?

Can Children Deprived of Arts Education Still Grow Up to Be Innovators?

September 8, 2014, 9:00 AM by

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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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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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