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Greetings!
 Professional Development and Technical Assistance programs are such an important part of what makes our arts community strong. I wanted to share with you the results of a recent workshop we held and let you know about an upcoming one!
The Arts Commission, in collaboration with the Any Given Child Initiative team, produced almost 30 hours of professional development workshops for artists and classroom teachers. Led by presenters from The Kennedy Center on Nov. 28-30th, 27 artists and 27 teachers and administrators participated in dynamic seminars exploring ways to integrate arts learning into other curricular areas for K-8th grade students.
The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, housed in our nation's capital, is one of the premier performing arts presenting organizations in the country, with an extensive education department committed to increasing equity of access to excellent arts education programming for all children. Their presenters are nationally-known and respected for the depth of their arts expertise and capacity to train artists to be excellent teachers.
A participant artist said about the three-day experience: "What I've been trying to figure out how to do for the last five years, I was able to synthesize in three days." And another artist said: "Great tools to aid in getting my work as a teaching artist more specific, better articulated and refined, and to help me make explicit what I know implicitly."
I would like to bring to your attention TAWS, the upcoming Arts Commission's professional development workshops for teaching artists that will build on the information presented in November.
 Also, the Nonprofit Resource Center, with encouragement from the Arts Commission, has been working on ways to serve the specific needs of the arts community. If you are interested in developing mobile giving for the arts group you work with, I hope to see you at the free workshop Spotlight on Social Media for the Arts: Mobile Giving and the Future of Fundraising this Wed., Dec. 14!
Warm regards,
Rhyena Halpern, Executive Director
Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission
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Next tour: Sat., Dec. 31, 1pm. Cost: $8.50. 
