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asn calendar of events and gatherings | | |
may 15
deadline for awards nominations and exemplary school submissions
may 15 2012
call for proposal acceptance status notifications
july 2012 date tbd
leadership retreat, "marketing message", and in-depth school study @ booker t. washington school of the arts, dallas, tx
october 15-19 2012
conference chicago, chicago academy of arts, chiarts, columbia college, chicago, il
january 2013 date tbd
board of directors' meeting @ high school for the performing and visual arts, houston, tx
october 2013
conference new york city, nyu tisch, nyu steinhardt, laguardia
october 2014
conference denver, co, denver school of the arts
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santa fe university of art and design offers arts schools network members scholarship opportunity | | |
Dear Arts Schools Network Member,
Santa Fe University of Art and Design is pleased that we can extend a generous scholarship offer to your students. As the title sponsor of Arts Schools Network's Life in the Arts series, we're committed to making an arts education accessible for talented students. That's why we're offering principals, teachers, and counselors at ASN member schools the opportunity to nominate up to three students to receive a 60% off tuition scholarship at Santa Fe University.
This scholarship, worth $17,300, is renewable for four years (provided the student remains in good standing, with a minimum 2.75 GPA). Prospective students must enroll for fall 2012. They must meet all of our scholarship and admissions requirements, including the portfolio or audition requirements of the program of their choice.
So think of which students you feel have the greatest talent and potential as artists, and which would make the most of this rare and exciting offer. The nomination process is easy: just click here for the nomination form, to be filled out by a counselor or teacher and signed by the school's principal. With the form, include a statement describing how the student's attributes and commitments align with Santa Fe University's mission.
I hope you-and your most innovative students-will take advantage of this opportunity. We're excited to meet the creative minds you send our way!
Sincerely,
Larry Hinz
President
Santa Fe University of Art and Design
Santa Fe University of Art and Design (formerly the College of Santa Fe) is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and a member of the North Central Association, www.ncahlc.org.
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| los angeles county arts commission seeking director of arts education | | |
The Los Angeles County Arts Commission is launching a national search for a Director of Arts Education to head the Arts for All collaboration in L.A. County. As many of you learned at AEP, Ayanna Hudson, who has led this initiative since its inception in 2001, is leaving to become Director of Arts Education for the National Endowment for the Arts. The Arts Commission is now seeking a senior level arts education administrator with outstanding executive experience to step into the director's position. Currently 49 of 80 school districts representing 550,000 students have joined the collaboration; the Director of Arts Education is the point person for bringing Arts for All to scale with all L.A. County school districts participating. |
| e-news correction | | |
Correction from past newsletter, we posted a translated version of the below text that contained a few errors.
CENTRO Mexico+Miami
CENTRO is an independent university for design, film, media & communication and a dynamic platform for research, conferences, workshops and collaborative projects centered on design, media and creativity. CENTRO opened in Mexico City in 2004 and is now considered the premier place to study design in Mexico.
For more information on CENTRO Mexico:
www.centro.edu.mx
CENTRO Miami will open in September 2015 as a new and completely unique design university. CENTRO Miami will be the first US institution started in the 21st Century specializing exclusively in design and media and will offer Bachelor of Design degree programs in Interior Architecture, Film & Television, Visual Communication, Industrial Design, Fashion & Textile Design, Media Design, and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing and Advertising.
Some unique characteristics of CENTRO Miami:
- integrated sister campus in Mexico City
- extensive internship and job opportunities in the US and Latin America
- innovative and professionally focused 21st Century curriculum
- unique design-centric first year experience
- entrepreneurial curriculum and institutional structure
Recruitment for CENTRO Miami will start in 2013, but we have started contacting high schools with strong art and design programs to build relationships and disseminate information. For more information contact Hans Evers: hevers@centro.edu.mx |
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executive director's message | | |
Greetings members and friends!
This is an action packed issue of our bi-weekly e-news. As a member benefit, we insert news, opportunities and job postings FREE for our members. It's hard to fit all the good things happening in our schools into one issue.
Last week our Board of Directors met in Chicago thanks the generous hospitality of our title conference sponsor, Columbia College. Our board meeting followed the typical flow of recapping our last board meeting minutes, checking in on our financial health, hearing from our committee chairs and leading into the future. There are exciting plans unfolding for our membership, born out of your networking requests.
Important reminder, our May 15 deadline for our annualAwards nominations and Exemplary School Designation consideration is fast approaching. Over the next week, our annual conference schedule will be posted with registration opening shortly after. Our October 16-19 conference theme and title is Urban Arts Education Landscapes.
This is the thrilling final stretch, the last lap, the crescendo of our collective school year. Pull your shoulders down, pull your head up, and breathe the invigorating scent of success, succession and regeneration. Exhale failures, lessons learned and re-learned. I wish you soft eyes, smiling lips, and an open, loving heart.
 Sincerely,
Kristy Callaway
Executive Director
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welcome mclaughlin middle school, lake wales, fl | |
McLaughlin Middle School began serving students in the Lake Wales area in 1964 as a Junior High, and it has progressed into McLaughlin Middle & Fine Arts Academy. McLaughlin Middle is a community school with a long, rich history of community support.
In 2011, the Fine Arts department earned the prestigious "Arts Achieve!" Model School honor resulting from exemplary arts programs, outstanding talent, and strong community connections for the years of 2011-2014.
The school is located in the beautiful town of Lake Wales, established on the highest point on Central Florida's geographical ridge known for its culture. McLaughlin serves a rural community in eastern Polk County in an area commonly known as "The Ridge". The enrollment is less than 775 students with the class size / teacher ratio 22:1.
Students are required to take Language Arts, Reading, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. In addition, the students are afforded the opportunity to participate in 3 elective courses each year. McLaughlin Middle has elective offerings of Band, Orchestra, Chorus, Guitar, Visual Arts: 2-D, 3-D and Graphic Arts, Theater, Dance, Physical Education, Agriculture, Leadership and ITV / Video Production.
Visit McLaughlin Middle Fine Arts Academy!
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| school for creative and performing arts to benefit from nea grant to the mayerson foundation | |
SCPA to Benefit from NEA Grant to the Mayerson Foundation
Pianist Emanuel Ax; violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg; drummer Philip Paul; tenor Rodrick Dixon have all visited the School for Creative & Performing Arts(Cincinnati, Ohio) to provide students with world-class instruction. That's the purpose of the Artistic Excellence Fund which is supported and operated by The Mayerson Foundation. Now the Foundation whose contribution to the SCPA capital campaign helped to complete the $72 million effort to build the new SCPA has been awarded one of the most highly prized grants in the country. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has awarded The Mayerson Foundation a $45,000 grant for the 2012-13 Artistic Excellence Fund. The Foundation will match the NEA's support with $45,000 of its own. The funding will be used for the Master Artists Series and for the Artists-in-Residence Program. The Residence Program brings world-class musicians from the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra to SCPA on a weekly basis to provide one-on-one instruction and ensemble coaching through the Mayerson Brass and Percussion Ensemble-in-Residence Programs. Cincinnati Ballet and the Contemporary Arts Center are also part of the collaboration that leverages the resources of Cincinnati's key arts organizations on behalf of the talented students at SCPA
"Our work is just beginning here at SCPA," said Dr. Neal H. Mayerson, President of the Mayerson Foundation. "This grant from the NEA is huge validation of the work we're doing and of the quality of the faculty, administration and wonderful facilities here at SCPA," added Dr. Mayerson.
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durham school of the arts, durham, nc |
Durham School of the Arts We are quite a unique school, as we offer both a stellar arts curriculum and rigorous academics. We believe that the arts represent a symbolic, universal form of communication and are therefore, fundamental to a quality education.
In the art courses at DSA we strive to instill a lifelong appreciation for the Visual and Performing Arts and an appreciation for the differences of others through the exploration of art history and cultures. We also emphasize an understanding that each student can make positive change in the future, through the continued search for knowledge and exploration of all cultures.
The arts play an integral role in our school culture here at the Durham School of the Arts. Students have many venues for expressing themselves, with two full-time art galleries, a 1600-seat auditorium, two dance studios and a black-box theater. |
| arts bridge nyc summer 2012 | |
The elite ArtsBridge Summer NYC 2012 gives dancers and actors specialized guidance on what it takes to be a theatre artist with a close look at college admission in the performing arts field. High school and college transfer students seriously considering a college major or minor in musical theater will learn how to make the right college choice, the importance of collaboration, and will gain valuable assistance on the college applications process.
ArtsBridge works with students and families seeking specialized guidance on admission to performing arts programs. ArtsBridge helps students identify and apply to their best fit performing arts programs, and also offers the opportunity for students to receive audition feedback from seasoned professionals. ArtsBridge was founded by Halley Shefler, who previously served as Dean of Admissions for The Boston Conservatory, Director of Admissions for Boston University's College of Fine Arts - School of Music, and Director of Academic Affairs for the Longy School of Music. Halley attended a pre-college program at Juilliard before earning her undergraduate degree at Sarah Lawrence College and a Masters degree at Boston University. She is an accomplished flutist who has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, the Opera Company of Boston, and the Harvard Chamber Orchestra. |
| arts education partnership launches online arts ed research clearinghouse | |
ArtsEdSearch is a project of the Arts Education Partnership (AEP)
A growing body of knowledge documents that in addition to academic outcomes, an education in the arts contributes directly to the development of:
- cognitive outcomes such as critical and creative thinking,
- personal outcomes such as persistence and self-confidence, and
- social and civic outcomes such as cross cultural understanding and collaboration.
Until now, if you wanted to gather the research comprising that body of knowledge, you would have to look far and wide to find it. And once you found it, you then might find yourself trying to make sense of it. AEP designed ArtsEdSearch.org as a digital clearinghouse-a kind of online one-stop shop for research and policy information about the educational outcomes of arts learning, both in and out of school. At ArtsEdSearch.org, high quality research is available in one place, readily accessible, and easily understandable. To date, ArtsEdSearch.org contains 200 summaries of research studies that include all arts forms and all levels of education, and this content will increase each year. AEP invites you to visit and explore ArtsEdSearch.org; there's nothing else like it in the field! |
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theme: urban arts education landscapes
Tuesday, Oct 16 All Day Intensives (back by popular demand!)
- Arts Integration (elementary & middle schools)
- Fund Development
- Using your SNAAP Data (high schools)
Wednesday, Oct 17 School Visits, opening general session
Thursday, Oct 18 Core-Conference member sessions, by members for members, awards ceremony, general session
Friday, Oct 19 Core-Conference member sessions, by members for members, general session
Registration opening soon! |
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campaign aims to raise $5 million for theatre education | | |
 by erik robelen
may 2 2012 A new fundraising initiative is looking to bring in $5 million to support theater education in 19 U.S. cities. It comes as a recent federal report suggests that access to drama and theater instruction in elementary schools has sharply declined over the past decade, and at the secondary level, it's harder to come by in high-poverty schools than those serving more-affluent populations. The new campaign, dubbed Impact Creativity, was launched this week with a $200,000 gift from accounting firm Ernst & Young LLP and its partners and principals. It's being orchestrated by the National Corporate Theatre Fund, based in New York City. The new campaign aims to "motivate corporations, foundations, and individuals to help shape a more intelligent, diverse, confident, and creative 21st-century workforce by investing in arts and theater education as essential learning," said Bruce Whitacre, the executive director of the National Corporate Theatre Fund, in a press release. The organization's 19 member-theaters serve an estimated 500,000 children, most from economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, through their theater education programs, the press release says. view blog post |
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2012 u.s. presidential scholars in the arts announed by u.s. secretary of education arne duncan | | |
20 YoungArts winners named top high-school artists in the nation for their superior academic and artistic achievement, leadership and character
MIAMI, FL (May 2, 2012) - Today, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncanannounced the names of the 20 U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts. These Scholars were nominated by YoungArts, a program of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA). For an artistically talented graduating high school senior, inclusion in the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program is the highest honor that can be bestowed upon them. The award is presented on behalf of the President of the United States, and selection is based upon academic, civic and artistic achievement. Each year, 141 U.S. Presidential Scholars are recognized, including up to 20 U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts.
View full announcement.
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| AWARD NOMINATIONS DUE MAY 15 | |  know someone who should be recognized?
Consider nominating a colleague (or yourself!) for an Arts Schools Network award! Deadline for nominations is coming up quick on May 15!
- Arts Innovation Award
- Arts Integration School Award
- Community Partnership Award
- Denise Davis-Cotton Emerging Leader Award
- Outstanding Arts School Award
- New and Emerging School Award
- Outstanding Arts School Alum Achievement Award
- Research Initiative: Individual Award
- Research Initiative: Institution/Organization/Corporation Award
- Teacher of the Year Award
- The Jeffrey Lawrence Award
Start Award Nomination Process Here
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tony award nominees announced may 1 | | The American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards® are presented by Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing. The two organizations have jointly administered the Tonys since 1967, the year of the first Tony telecast. Responsibility for the governance and administration of the awards is vested in two committees:
 The Tony Awards Management Committee is made up of representatives of the League and the Wing. It oversees the Tony Awards, with emphasis on the television broadcast.
The Tony Awards Administration Committee is comprised of 24 members, of whom 10 are designated by the Wing, 10 by the League, and one each by the Dramatists Guild, Actors' Equity Association, United Scenic Artists, and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. This committee determines eligibility for nominations in all awards categories, reviews the rules governing the awards, and appoints the Nominating Committee. It may, at its discretion, bestow non-competitive Tony Awards including Special Tony Awards, the Regional Theatre Tony Award, and the Isabelle Stevenson Award; as well as Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre.
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| kennedy center announces very special arts visual arts juried exhibition | |
A National Juried Exhibition for Emerging Artists with Disabilities, ages 16-25
Deadline: July 8, 2012
Sustaining / Creating asks emerging artists to showcase work that illuminates innovative viewpoints on sustainability and contemporary creativity. Beyond its scientific definition, sustainability references notions of responsibility and stewardship of our natural world in all facets of human interaction-from the environmental to the cultural. Sustainability indicates the capacity to endure. Fifteen artists will be selected for an exhibition at the Smithsonian and will share $60,000 in cash awards. Entry deadline is July 8.
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