Americans for the Arts

This report examines the state of Maryland’s policies and regulations on arts curriculum and instruction; determines the current status of arts education in Maryland schools; and, makes recommendations to the Governor’s P-20 Leadership Council regarding fine arts education in Maryland.

Following the first ever National Summit for Creative Youth Development, which ran from the 27th to the 29th of March 2014, Americans for the Arts hosted a Blog Salon centered on the emerging field of Creative Youth Development. The content of this Green Paper is from the September 2014 Creative Youth Development Blog Salon.

The West Virginia State of the Arts Survey is the first statewide collection of data on arts education in West Virginia.

The State Status Report provides a review of arts education access by comparing and condensing the data from the 24 existing state studies.

In 2014, the Turnaround Arts initiative completed an evaluation report covering two years of program implementation. The final report provides a description and analysis of program impacts in the pilot cohort of 8 Turnaround Arts schools by the end of their second year.

The overall image presented of arts education in public schools is that arts are losing ground against more urgent educational priorities. News stories portray arts education as easily traded off in an era of cash-strapped school districts and an increasing focus on standardized testing.

This report examines a number of national Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) household surveys plus the 1991 Census of Population and Housing and compares the cultural activities undertaken by youth, either as part of their work or part of their leisure, with those pursued by older Australians. Some results from the Domestic Tourism Monitor, a survey conducted by the Bureau of Tourism Research, have also been included.

This publication is essentially a program model outlining a step-by-step approach to creating, planning, implementing and evaluating a youth apprenticeship program in the arts. This model can be adapted to all arts disciplines, missions, goals and methodologies. The steps include program inception, with descriptions of program vision, mission, goals and objectives; planning - budget, fundraising and partnerships, program structure and daily schedule, curriculum and methodology, staff and apprentice recruitment and hiring, training: implementation, with sections on roles, responsibilities and

This handbook guides those who design, conduct or host programs that provide artists in residence in various community settings - schools, parks and recreation centers, religious organizations, correctional facilities, public housing communities, hospitals and hospices. This handbook offers simple advice for anyone designing, conducting or hosting an arts program in a community setting. It is written with the assumption that every program will develop differently, adapting itself to a different set of concerns, different resources, and different people. No two projects will be alike. However,

In this edition of Monographs logic models and how they are used for program development and evaluation are described.

The author discusses Theatre for Young Audiences companies and programs.

Over the past few years, the has seen a dramatic growth of interest and involvement in the arts. No longer a luxury for the privileged few, the arts are a day-today part of the lives of millions of Americans. Participation in the arts through performances, exhibitions, and classes is now considered a key ingredient in making life more liveable, especially in our urban centers. In addition, arts activities are now acknowledged as an effective and innovative means of helping our your people become job ready.

Monograph highlights longitudnal study of arts program offerings in community-based youth organizations and their participants.

Survey conducted by the Gallup Organization for Independent Sector; analyzed by Virginia Ann Hodgkinson and Murray S. Weitzman with Stephen M. Noga and Heather A. Gorski. In 1992, Independent Sector commissioned The Gallup Organization to conduct a national survey on the volunteering and giving behavior of American teenagers from 12 to 17 years of age as a companion to the larger national survey of American adults, 18 years of age or older. This survey of 1,000 teenagers is follow up of a smaller experimental survey conducted in 1990 of 300 teenagers from 14 to 17 years of age.

In 1997, the Oregon Legislature allocated $450,000 to the Oregon Arts Commission to be used to develop successful arts programs that serve at-risk youth. The product of that funding was the Arts Reaching Youth Initiative, a collaboration between the Arts Commission, the Oregon Department of Education, the Oregon Youth Authority, and the Oregon Commission on Children and Families.

The New York State Division for Youth does not use the arts or art therapy extensively within its own institutions, though it does provide considerable resources to county and municipal youth bureaus for community arts programs. In my time as Director of the Division, I plan to review the criteria used in allocating local assistance funds and to find ways that our own rehabilitation facilities can share in these community arts resources.