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Advocating
for the Arts
The arts contribute
to the cultural and economic vitality of a community
through generating jobs, supporting the tourism industry,
fostering cultural understanding and promoting community
dialogue. Research also shows that quality arts education
programming improves student academic performance and
reaches youth at-risk for academic failure and other
negative social behaviors. More information on arts advocacy
can be found on the following sites:
NASAA
Arts Advocacy Checklist
Arts organizations and arts advocates engage in a variety of strategies and techniques
to build political support for the arts. The Arts Advocacy Checklist, developed
by the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA), is designed to help
you evaluate the level of your advocacy involvement against a broad range of
activities aimed at enhancing the political environment for the arts in public
policy. The checklist includes many approaches to advocacy that have contributed
to successful outcomes for the arts in policy and legislation. Use this checklist
to measure the extent of your arts advocacy activity. Once you've completed the
checklist and identified areas for improvement, NASAA has a variety of tools
to help you achieve your advocacy objectives.
CAAE Action Center
CAAE has developed an Action Center for Arts Advocay Work designed for public use in advocacy efforts. Included are the "Arts Learning in Action Tookit," a Policy Agenda, Legislative updates and Policy Papers.
Other
Useful Links
Arts Education for All: Lessons from the First Half of the Ford Foundation’s National Arts Education Initiative
The OMG Center releases Arts Education for All: Lessons from the First Half of the Ford Foundation’s National Arts Education Initiative, a seven year effort to address issues of equity and access in arts education. Of interest to anyone engaged in taking arts education programming to scale in communities, the monograph includes discussions of the philosophical and strategic underpinnings of the initiative; various successes and challenges faced by initiative participants as they work to strengthen and mobilize constituencies; and illuminating stories and profiles that bring to life efforts of practitioners to reform education within their local communities.
To access this report, please click:
http://www.omgcenter.org/PDF/OMG_Ford_ArtsEd_6rev.pdf
Designing the Arts Learning Community: a Handbook for K-12 Professional Development Planners
The Los Angeles County Arts Commission, San Francisco Arts Commission and Santa Clara County Office of Education have launched “Designing the Arts Learning Community: a Handbook for K-12 Professional Development Planners.” The handbook represents a move away from the one-day workshop or summer course to a systemic, ongoing collaborative approach that yields powerful results for students’ learning in the arts. It demonstrates how to establish, grow and sustain a learning community that comes together to improve arts instruction.
The handbook has a national perspective, drawing on the experiences of arts education professional development programs from across the United States, and features a searchable database of 50 model programs from across the country. It is designed to be used online but offers options to print out sections or the entire handbook.
Please take a look at the handbook: http://handbook.laartsed.org. You can send your comments and feedback to Megan Kirkpatrick at the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
InsideOut Website
San Francisco InsideOut used to be exclusively a publication of the Arts Education Funders Collaborative. This year they converted the publication,Inside/Out: A Guide to Arts and Arts Education Resources for Children and Teens in San Francisco, into a great online resource. The Inside/Out book, considered the most comprehensive resource directory in San Francisco for building strong arts education programs in schools and community settings, has now become a searchable database of arts providers in the San Francisco Bay Area. http://www.sfinsideout.net/
Journal of Aesthetic Education
An article entitled "Somatic Knowledge and Qualitative Reasoning: From Theory to Practice" appeared in the Journal of Aesthetic Education's Winter 2004 edition. In the article Richard Seigesmund, Assistant Professor of Art Education at the University of Georgia, and Performing Arts Workshop's subject matter expert, details the Workshop's methodology and use of assessment tools in evaluating student learning.
Teaching Artist Journal
The Teaching Artist Journal (TAJ) provides an authoritative, timely, ongoing professional development resource to clarify, enrich, and advance Teaching Artist research and practice. Teaching Artists--professionals with skills in both teaching and the arts--have uniquely powerful perspectives, practices, and skills. They make significant contributions and are a crucial resource to arts-in-education programs, to arts education and general education, and to the future of the arts as a whole. The mission of the Teaching Artist Journal is to support and intensify the professional development of Teaching Artistry by advancing the practice of Teaching Artists; by increasing Teaching Artists' understanding of the background, contexts, and potentials of their work; and by expanding the recognition, appreciation and support of their contributions.
International Journal of Education through Art
This is a new English language journal that promotes relationships between the two disciplines. The journal comprises refereed texts in the form of critical essays, articles, exhibition reviews and image text features. The journal provides a platform for those who wish to question and evaluate the ways in which art is produced, disseminated and interpreted across a diverse range of educational contexts through debates on areas such as art, craft and design education, formal and informal education contexts, and pedagogy. Policy and practice, research, comparative education, and transcultural issues are all considered within the journal's mission to raise debates in these areas.
SFUSD Arts Education Master Plan
The San Francisco Unified School District is currently
developing an Arts Education Master Plan.
The Arts Education Master Plan will be used as a guide
to provide quality arts education for every student in
every school every day. SFUSD, the City of San
Francisco, principals, teachers, students, artists,
families, funders, and community members are working
together to make this vision a reality. The Plan will
revitalize and strengthen existing arts education in
the schools while developing new and innovative arts
programs and curricula to serve current and future
generations of students.
Americans
for the Arts YouthARTS
The YouthARTS site
is designed to give arts agencies, juvenile justice agencies,
social service organizations, and other community-based
organizations detailed information about how to plan,
run, provide training, and evaluate arts programs for
at-risk youth.
National
Endowment for the Arts Shakespeare in American Communities
Initiative
Shakespeare in American
Communities is a major initiative of the
National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with The
Sallie Mae Fund of The Community Foundation for the National
Capital Region and with Arts Midwest. The tour will bring
professional theater productions of Shakespeare and related
educational activities to Americans throughout the country.
In addition, the tours will include artistic and technical
workshops, symposia about the productions and educational
programs in local schools. Educational outreach is an
integral component of the tour, and the Arts Endowment
developed a teachers' toolkit that includes fact sheets
on the life of Shakespeare and Elizabethan theater, classroom
activities, famous quotations and expressions from Shakespeare's
works, a timeline poster of Shakespeare's plays and an
educational video.
Teaching & Learning
Resources through the U.S. Department of Education
The U.S. Department of Education offers information
on resources for teachers, parents, and students
on a variety of topics, including the arts. More
than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in
1997 to make hundreds of federally supported teaching
and learning resources easier to find. The result
of that work is the FREE web site.
Music
Education Copyright Center
The National Association for Music Education and Music
Teachers National Association (MTNA) announce a partnership
with the Music Publishers' Association of the United
States, the National Association of Schools of Music
and the National Music Publishers' Association to provide
an online resource for copyright questions. The website, "The
Music Education Copyright Center," offers information
about the reproduction, recording, distribution and performance
of music and the guidelines that govern these actions.
In addition, forms to
arrange music and to obtain rights to reprint of music are available to
download. Contacts for further questions also are provided.
Arts and Education Research: Towards an International Compendium
Arts and Education Research: Towards an International Compendium is an interim report from the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agenices about its joint project with UNESCO, the Australia Council, and Dr. Anne Bamford of University of Technology Sydney. The finished project "will provide a global overview of the qualities of effective arts and education partnerships, including (1) identifiable details of the impact of arts and education partnerships; and (2) models of data collection and research methodology for investigating the impact of arts and education partnerships. The findings documented in the compendium will be a focus of the UNESCO Summit on the Arts in Education to be held in Lisbon in May 2006." This interim report includes Dr. Bamford's preliminary observations.
 Download: NEA
Arts Learning Guide
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