Lasting Impact 2nd Edition, just released, details the sustainable transformational impact on teaching and learning, curriculum and professional development for 65 teachers, four years after their participation in the Juneau Basic Arts Institute. They now teach and integrate the arts on a daily basis noticeably more than they did before the Institute. Teachers perceive increases [...]

The National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation present Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest, in partnership with the Alaska State Council on the Arts and Juneau Arts & Humanities Council. Poetry Out Loud encourages high school students to learn great poetry through memorization, performance, and competition. Starting in December schools and students [...]

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

English or visual art teachers (who intend to teach in 2011-12) are invited to apply for a 4-week summer 2011 fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center in the Learning in the Art and Culture Program. Download the information flyer Fellowship Information Vermont Art Center (17)

Selection Criteria:

• The applicant’s commitment to developing his or [...]

Governor Deval Patrick has signed an economic development bill that has made Massachusetts the first state to call for a creativity index aimed at rating public schools statewide based on their ability to teach, encourage and foster creativity in students. Earlier this summer Newsweek magazine has called the current state of schools a “creativity crisis”. [...]

Alaska State Council on the Arts

Statewide Arts Education Grant Programs

Artists in Schools: (AIS) is the residency activity of the Arts in Education Program. K-12 [...]

The 21st Century Skills Map for the Arts was released last week and demonstrates how the three Rs and four Cs (critical thinking and problem solving, communication, collaboration and creativity and innovation) can be fused within arts curriculum. The map provides educator-created examples of how art subjects (dance, music, theatre, and visual and media arts) [...]

Alaska Arts Education Association (AAEA) will hold their annual State Conference

“Art in Motion”  Fall Conference October 1 – 3, 2010 in Anchorage at the UAA Arts Building

Keynote Speakers/Presenters: David Mollett, Painter, UAF Professor of Art, and Gina Holloman, Paper Clay Artist

Information at their website: http://alaska-aaea.org/?page_id=5

Schedule of Events and Accommodations included in the Conference Preview [...]

Wednesday: July 14, 2010:

Unfortunately, an insufficient number of participants signed up for this course, and we find it is necessary to cancel. Those who registered early are being directed to alternative courses and can sign up on Sunday evening at the UAF campus. (We apologize for the late announcement. We continued advertising and hoped that [...]

Doris Duke Leaders in the Arts Fund

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has approved a 2-year grant in the amount of $50,000 to the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation. The purpose of the Grant is to support the creation of the Doris Duke Leaders in the Arts Fund, which will subsidize the participation of leaders in [...]