research

Americans for the Arts Resources (2) more

• Resource Guide for Arts Education
  This guide covers arts education funding sources in various federal agencies.
• Community Schoools of the Arts: An Arts Education Resource for your Community
  This Monograph provides an overview of community schools of the arts and their potential benefits to your community, as well as ways local arts agencies and other community organizations can tap these vibrant resources.

News Articles (11) more

• Learning to be Creative
  Creativity is the buzzword in many a modern boardroom, yet some in business still complain that too many newly-minted MBAs are competent but uninspired, well-versed in the technical theory but lacking in imagination.
• Center For Arts Education Awards 150 New Parents As Arts Partners Grants
  Parents and teachers from all 150 grantee schools will gather at New York University's Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for University Life on Thursday, February 1, 2007, for a day-long series of workshops highlighting best practices in parent recruitment strategies, building parent advocacy for the arts, and other essential topics as a program kick off.
• Critical condition?
  The death of classical music isn’t imminent and its obituaries are premature. That’s among the conclusions of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Arts Journalism Institute in Classical Music and Opera, Oct. 16-25 at Columbia University. That’s not to say that there aren’t threats.

Project Profile (14) more

• Creative Aging Initiative
  Montclair Arts Council in Montclair, NJ, started the Creative Aging Initiative this year, an innovative two-part program for Montclair's seniors, senior-care providers, and interested members of the public.
• Big Read program: “One book — one community.”
  Multiple copies of “The Grapes of Wrath” are now available at the Havre-Hill County Library for everyone to share in the local project. Everyone is encouraged to pick up a copy of the book from the library to give them plenty of time to read it.
• Parkland College partnership with 40 North
  Parkland College and 40 North work together to offer a workshop series that teach local artists the business skills they need to earn a living in their community.

Research Abstract (32) more

• Resource Guide for Arts Education
  This guide covers arts education funding sources in various federal agencies.
• Making Exact Change
  The focus is exemplary arts-based programs that have had a significant and sustained positive impact on their communities. For the purposes of this inquiry “significant and sustained positive impact” is defined as change leading to the long-term advancement of human dignity, health and/or productivity. “Long-term” in this context is defined as a minimum of ten years.
• UNESCO World Report: Towards Knowledge Societies
  Towards Knowledge Societies “focuses in particular on the foundations on which knowledge societies that will optimize sustainable human development are constructed.”

Sample Documents (3) more

• The Arts and Civic Engagement: Involved in Arts, Involved in Life
  The Arts and Civic Engagement demonstrates—with statistically reliable data—that arts participation overwhelmingly correlates with positive individual and civic behaviors. Put simply, Americans who read books, visit museums, attend theater, and engage in other arts are more active in community life than those who do not.
• Kennedy Center Arts Education Leadership Kit
  The Kennedy Center Arts Education Leadership Kit provides a framework for supporting the arts education leadership development needs of cultural organizations, school district leaders, teaching artists, arts management students, and other individuals interested in their own continued professional development.
• Arts Education Project Designer's Toolbook
  The Arts Education Project Designer's Toolbook has been developed to help plan and evaluate programs. For artists and community members working in an educational setting, it will provide an introduction to educational planning and related terms. For teachers, it will provide a helpful review. Using the Toolbook will help you develop superior programs and competitive grant applications for local, national, or private funding.