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 Michigan Student Film & Video Festival
K-12 students are invited to submit media work in multiple categories, including animation, comedy and music videos, for the 43rd festival sponsored by DAFT. Every entry is reviewed by educational and media professionals and their feedback gets sent to students. Six high school Best of Show Winners get scholarships to the Michigan Youth Arts Festival in May! The application deadline is March 4.
DIGITAL ARTS, FILM & TELEVISION (DAFT) is a non-profit media-arts educational organization whose primary mission is to promote media literacy through the creative use of film and video. DAFT does this by conducting workshops and conferences for teachers, and media professionals. DAFT has been providing services to its members and the state of Michigan since 1969. Watch a video (fancy that!) about DAFT here.
 September Buys to receive national arts education award
September Buys, of Grand Rapids, was selected by the National Art Education Association to receive the 2011 Western Region Middle Level Art Educator of the Year Award. This award recognizes a continuous and outstanding service to art education by an individual during their professional career. The award will be presented at the NAEA National Convention in Seattle, March 17-20, 2011.
NAEA President, R. Barry Shauck states, "This award is being given to recognize excellence in professional accomplishment and service by a dedicated art educator. This recipient exemplifies the highly qualified individuals active in the field of art education today: leaders, teachers, students, scholars, and advocates who give their best to the profession."
September was a 2009 Michigan Art Education Association Art Educator of the Year and a 2010 Michigan Youth Arts Educator of the Year. Congratulations, September on your regional and national recognition!
20 ideas for schoolwide arts projects
Check out the ideas from these elementary and middle school grantees for innovative arts-education projects at their schools. Community puppetry, high-school mentors, muraling, wikis, wooden salmon, transforming classrooms into studios - and more!
Funding Available
National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award
These awards recognize exceptional arts and humanities after-school and out-of-school programs across the country. In all, 12 programs will receive $10,000 and an invitation to accept their award from the President's Committee's Honorary Chairman, First Lady Michelle Obama, at a ceremony at the White House. The application deadline is Jan. 31, 2011. Apply here.
Chamber Music America Residency Grants
These grants support residency projects in which jazz, classical/contemporary, or world ensemble music performances are presented outside traditional venues and in community settings, with the goal of increasing audience appreciation and awareness of small ensemble music. Short-term projects (three to nine activities taking place over at least three consecutive or separate days within a month) are eligible for grants of $2,500 to $6,000. Extended projects (ten or more activities taking place over more than one month and up to a year) are eligible for grants of $5,000 to $12,000. For details, click here.
Do you know of arts education opportunities for students, teachers or communities in Michigan? Send them to stacey@michiganyoutharts.org. Thanks!
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December 15, 2010
Happening
in Michigan
Transforming Minds using Artful Thinking
Workshop with Susan Loughrin for arts educators in Waterford. Come find out how you (and your students) can develop thinking strategies that support thoughtful learning - in the arts and across school subjects - through hands-on activities guaranteed to stimulate and transform your teaching! Saturday, January 8, 9-3. Register online through Oakland Schools.
Engage with the Stage
Teachers attend one of two in-service education days at Wayne State's Hilberry Theatre in Detroit, where they learn useful methods for teaching students about theatre and play analysis. Company actors will visit your classroom to interact and engage with your students, prior to their attendance at a matinee performance at the Hilberry. Learn more.
2010 Holiday Gift Guide
Arts and culture make the perfect gift - and often unexpected!
Share high quality, affordable experiences and gifts with your loved ones - the Gift of Art and Culture with this southeast Michigan shopping guide!
The Importance of the Arts in Creating Healthy, Happy and Employed Human Beings
Michael Dinwiddie, Ph.D., NYU professor, playwright & author, speaks on the importance of arts education to help us think creatively, critically and collaboratively as well as allowing us to pursue our passions and develop our souls. Thursday, December 16, 7pm at Roeper School in Birmingham (on Adams, two blocks north of Maple). Free.
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