Art in the News - 2019
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Six STEM students recently spoke during the AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, DC about how arts education, and the soft skills it helped them to develop, are key to their success in the field they're pursuing in college.
Tony and Emmy Award winner Kristin Chenoweth took moments out of rehearsal for her annual Broadway Bootcamp, held in her hometown of Broken Arrow, to speak with mayors from around Oklahoma about the importance of the arts.
The organization has created a series of education grants to support arts enrichment programs for high school and college-aged youth in the United States. $250,000 will be going to BRIC, the leading presenter of free cultural programming in Brooklyn, while $100,000 is being awarded to ProjectArt to expand its innovative arts training program in the New York area.
A series of alternative treatment options could soon be available in Florida to U.S. military veterans with traumatic brain injuries and/or post-traumatic stress disorder, under a law signed on June 28 by Gov. Ron DeSantis. The measure (HB 501) drew unanimous support from both the Florida House and Senate during the legislative session.
An extensive new study from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada shows that students who took music lessons in high school performed better in subjects such as English, science, and math.
Tina Knowles-Lawson, the mother of international superstar Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, recently hosted her third annual Wearable Arts Gala which raised over $2 million for arts education and The WACO Theater Center in Los Angeles, CA.
Arts in Corrections is a program at Pelican Bay State Prison, a Supermax State Prison in California, in which professional artists are brought into prisons to teach an art form to incarcerated individuals in support of their rehabilitation. The latest exhibit of the Arts in Corrections program was on display at the Del Norte County Courthouse in June 2019.
Facebook is one of many large businesses that sees the value of investing in the global community’s arts ecosystem and is increasing its commitment to visual art and public art installations worldwide. To date, Facebook has commissioned 500 art installations, with 200 more planned this year, and has hired a new head of the company's artist-in-residency program.
The University of Chicago Consortium on School Research released a report describing how arts experiences can help students further develop core competencies of SEL including self-management and self-discipline, interpersonal and relationship skills, and self-expression.
Theater teacher Madeline Michel at Monticello High School won the 2019 Excellence in Theatre Education Award from the Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University, an honor that recognizes K-12 drama teachers for championing arts programs in their schools.
