Arts Education Additional Links

 

Alliance for Young Artists And Writers
The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 2007 The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards offer early recognition of creative teenagers and scholarship opportunities for graduating high-school seniors. The Awards are national in scope and administered by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers.  Young artists and writers currently enrolled in grades 7 – 12 and who attend a public, private, parochial or home-school in the United States, U.S. Territories or U.S.-sponsored schools abroad.  For more information, go to the Scholastic website.

Arts Edge from Kennedy Center
As one of the first educational web sites with almost ten years of history online, ArtsEdge provides invaluable resources and information relating to the arts and education. This site has had a recent face-lift, so don't be dismayed to find yourself in new terrain - the site is easy to access, complete with a site map and a "where did it go?" section for viewers familiar with the previous site structure. ArtsEdge's colorful, dynamically-designed site draws you to three main categories of information: NewsBreak, highlighting current events relating to arts education and linking to several educational indices; Teaching Materials, providing standards-based curricula for all disciplines and subject matter for K-12 classes, and inviting artists and teachers to submit examples of effective arts integration lessons; and Professional Resources, featuring best practices, arts education overviews and reviews, and advocacy resources. ArtsEdge also boasts six listservs, offers information about job opportunities, grants, funding, fellowships, and upcoming events and professional development opportunities, and links viewers to an array of other online arts education sites. Artists, educators, and practitioners alike can learn from this site while also contribute to it through its wealth of online forums, resources, and curriculum information and exchange. Definitely check out ArtsEdge - you'll never want to leave!

Arts Education Partnership
The Arts Education Partnership (NAEP), a national coalition of arts, education, business, philanthropic, and government organizations, demonstrates and promotes the role of arts education in America's schools. The Arts Education Partnership identifies and disseminates models and best practices of effective arts education partnerships, high-quality research on the effects of the arts in education, and data on the status and condition of the arts in education in U.S. schools. This site provides one of the very best - and most easily accessed - online arts education databases, complete with print-friendly versions of some of the hottest new reports on arts education, including Champions of Change, The Learning Partnership, Gaining the Arts Advantage, and the NAEPArts Report Card. A key component of the Arts Education Partnership site is a "tool kit" to utilize when applying for Goals 2000 and other federal funds. This "tool kit" offers strategies, funding information, and examples of success for arts education funding, not to mention the hundreds of links the site provides to other online resources on arts education policy, standards, and activities at the national and state level. If you're interested in specific disciplines of dance, music, theater, or visual arts education, check out the linked websites in each of these subjects, along with the materials and publications related to teacher education and professional development in each discipline. For anyone interested in or already working in schools with the arts, this site is an essential resource - check it out and return often, there's always more to learn!

Artscan
As part of Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee's Chairman’s Initiative, "The Arts – A Lifetime of Learning," the Education Commission of the States (ECS) has developed an interactive database for policies related to arts in education for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The database, known as Artscan, is designed to serve as a resource for policymakers and advocates as they work to give every child an opportunity to learn about, participate in and benefit from the arts. Artscan will help identify policy options that states may want to adopt or incorporate into their existing initiatives, and will track policy changes over time.

Coming Up Taller
This site recognizes high quality arts programs and opportunities for young people taking place during the non-school hours. As a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, the Coming Up Taller Initiative showcases artistic excellence and enhances the availability of after-school, weekend, and summer arts and humanities programs for youth. Coming Up Taller offers yearly cash awards to quality non-school arts organizations; take a look at the 1998 and 1999 winners, or check out the Coming Up Taller Awards nomination form. You can also download the landmark 1996 Coming Up Taller report or read it online as a text file. One of this site's greatest features is its Program Profiles, featuring Coming Up Taller Awards recipients as well as other recognized non-school arts programs across the country. Search them by state, by name, or by artistic discipline, and get in touch to learn more about the creative opportunities they're providing youth in the out-of-school hours. Don't miss the wealth of resource links available at this site, as well as current news and information about arts education funding opportunities.

The Getty Center
Learn more about Discipline Based Arts Education at ArtsEdNet, with a wealth of information here relevant to educators, administrators, policy makers, artists, and others interested in arts education. The lesson plans, curriculum ideas, interdisciplinary activities, and teaching and learning materials are not to be missed, especially because you can sort them by grade level, alphabetic listing of subject, or - better yet - by the Getty recommended scope and sequence for Discipline Based Arts Education. Connections to national standards and sample assignments and assessments are provided too. Supplement these with hundreds of art images, publications, and the essential Discipline Based Arts Education bibliography, and you're ready to go. ArtsEdNet also offers an on-line forum for discussing arts education as well as a wealth of arts advocacy information and links to programs, resources, and arts educators across the U.S. This is a definite stopping point along the online arts education tour!

National Endowment for the Arts

National Art Education Association
A professional organization for arts educators, the National Art Education Association (NAEA) promotes arts education through professional development, service opportunities, information dissemination, and leadership for increasing quality arts education in the schools. With over 17,000 arts educator members across the world, NAEA's website serves as a hub of invaluable information. The site includes recent news on arts education and a section dedicated to publications, with hundreds of materials ranging from assessment to child development, lifelong learning to standards for art education. Publications can be ordered online, and some can be downloaded directly from the site. If you get tired of reading these endless resources, take a break by browsing through the site's Electronic Gallery Exhibit, a juried exhibition featuring artworks by members of NAEA. The gallery isn't up and running yet, but will be soon. Be sure to check out all of the links, sortable by state, special issue groups, commercial exhibitors, and arts education sites. NAEA also offers arts education awards opportunities - what more could you ask for?

New Mexico Music Educators Association and National Music Educators Association

President's Committee on the Art and Humanities
Don't miss the wealth of resource links available at this site, as well as current news and information about arts education funding opportunities.

Shirley Brice Heath
This brand-new website features the research of Dr. Shirley Brice Heath, professor of English and Linguistics at Stanford University. Dr. Heath's decades of research on young people's development highlights how youth learn and build creative skills through their involvement in community-based arts programs. This site includes on-line articles, research findings and summaries, as well as information about how young people across the U.S. are putting their artistic talents to work to support and sustain community arts organizations. Download a 30 second or 3 minute clip of the award-winning documentary video, ArtShow, or learn more about how young artists are shaping the fields of Social Enterprise and Organizational Learning. This site is young - and still has far to grow from its basic skeletory structure, but even so, there's a ton to learn about youth arts development.

Young Audiences
Young Audiences presents performing and visual artists to youth in schools, during the summers, and also in the non-school hours. This site offers information on an array of Young Audiences community collaborations; it also provides success stories, examples of curriculum and lesson plans, and a map of the U.S. with a Young Audiences network directory and contact information. You will find online discussions at this site, information on conferences, community arts development initiatives, and national partnerships. Don't miss the Resource Center, with helpful arts education videos and reports. The very best - and newest - Young Audiences development is the Arts For Learning initiative, complete with its own website at www.arts4learning.org. Already up and running in Oregon and now spreading to other Young Audiences sites across the U.S., Arts For Learning provides indices of regional community arts resources connecting with schools to help students address academic content standards. So what does this mean? You can search arts resources based on the activities artists use to engage students, the actual artists who work with youth in your regional area, or by the various learning styles you want to address in your class. You can search by grade level, subject area, and artistic discipline too. Take a look at what's happening in Oregon, and keep logging on to see what other areas across the U.S. will be next to adopt Arts For Learning - this is a model not to be overlooked.

 

Thank you to Adelma Aurora Roach, Arts Learning Coordinator, Santa Fe, New Mexico, for her assistance in compiling these and other resources on this site.

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