| issue # 92 | march 13 | 2012 | |
we are a non-profit association founded in 1981,
dedicated to
promoting excellence in arts education
supporting and recognizing students, leaders, educators, schools, institutions, and organizations
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| membership survey closes april 1 | | |
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We invite any recipient of ASN's e-news, both members and non-members alike, to take a brief moment to complete a simple four-question survey. As we launch our annual membership drive, this information will prove to be invaluable. You will find the survey instrument here.
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Dallas, TX
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asn calendar of events and gatherings
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March thru June 2013
MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL CAMPAIGN
FY13 membership expires June 30, 21013
March 15, 2015
AWARDS and EXEMPLARY SCHOOLS
Nominations deadline for uploading support materials
March thru Summer 2013
WEBINAR SERIES
Animating the Core, 3 episodes
Sponsor Toon Boom
Teacher Evaluation and Arts Education, 4 episodes
Partner, Arts Education Policy Review Journal, Special Issue
May 2-3, 2013
ARTS EDUCATION SUMMIT &
BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
Host, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York City, NY
October 22 - 25, 2013
CONFERENCE
New York City, NY
Hosts, Juilliard, LaGuardia, New School, NYU Tisch
October/November 2014
CONFERENCE
Denver, CO
Denver School of the Arts, Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy
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Super Star Sponsors!
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Our sponsors empower our schools to create tomorrow's artists and patrons! Click here to review our sponsor benefits, visibility options, and opportunities with ASN.
$110,000 and higher
Columbia College Chicago, IL
$65,000
Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Santa Fe, NM
$15,000
Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, Jacksonville, FL
$10,000
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Lincoln Center Institute
New School, NYC
NYU Tisch School of the Arts, NYC
$6,000
Toon Boom Animation, Inc., Montreal, Quebec, Canada
$5,000
Webster University Leigh Gerdine College of Fine Arts, St. Louis, MO
Wenger Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
$2,500
Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design, Providence, RI
Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Houston High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Friends, Houston, TX
$2,000
CalArts, Valencia, CA
$1,500
Booker T. Washington School for the Visual & Performing Arts, Dallas, TX
Oakland School for the Arts, CA
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Denise Davis Cotton, Ed.D., Sarasota, FL
Interlochen Center for the Arts, MI
NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY
Orange County School of the Arts, Santa Ana, CA
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Sally Gaskill, Strategic National Arts Alumni Project, Bloomington, IN
Audrey Tanner, CalArts, Valencia, CA
$100
David Flatley, Chicago, IL
Tim & Vicki Wade, Interlochen, MI
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| washington post magazine education issue | |  after years of crouching, arts ed is raising its hand again
by anne midgette
february 21, 2013
The Washington Post (weekend) Magazine published an Education Issue last weekend, and has an arts education story as its cover story. It includes quotes from Rachel Goslins (PCAH Turnaround Arts), Yo Yo Ma, Michael Butera (NAfME), Darrell Ayers (KC) and our newest Arts Education Council Member Carol Bogash (Baltimore Symphony Orchestra)!
Learn more.
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TEDxCalArts
performance, body & presence | | 
The CalArts Center for New Performance presents the first TEDxCalArts conference. Created and curated with TED's "Ideas Worth Spreading" mission in mind, TEDxCalArts is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience centered on investigations in contemporary performance. This all-day event gathers thinkers, doers and innovators from across the performance landscape to discuss big ideas in the live arts that are having an impact on the world. Through a series of short talks and performances that present a diverse array of perspectives and disciplines, the conference explores new understandings of performance and liveness, and examines how these are radically changing the experience of art, technology, design, culture, politics and beyond. Speakers and performers include: Franco "Bifo" Berardi Nora Chipaumire Teddy Cruz Peggy Deamer Ricardo Dominguez Chris Kallmyer Sardono W. Kusumo Brian Massumi and Erin Manning Atau Tanaka The YES Men Killsonic Ajay Kapur Douglas Kearney Mirjana Jokovic Jeepneys Guillermo Gomez-Peņa Learn more. |
| bridging the gap between education and business | | 
Genesys Works changes the life trajectory of underprivileged high school students by enabling them to work in meaningful internships, at major corporations, during their senior year in high school. After an 8 week intensive training program, students work at one of our client companies where they discover that they can indeed succeed as professionals in the corporate world. Learn more. |
thank you early bird renewing members to date!
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Alabama School of Fine Arts
Alphonsus Academy & Center for the Arts
Arts and Academics.com
Cab Calloway School of the Arts
Cornish College of the Arts
Council of Arts Accrediting Associations
Design Architecture Senior High
Edwin S. Richards Elementary School
Fine Arts Center
Germantown High School
Idaho Arts Charter School
Kalamazoo RESA Education for the Arts
Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy
Mary Palmer & Associates, LLC, Consultants in Education and the Arts
Metropolitan Arts Institute
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Orange County School of the Arts
Oxbow School
Perpich Center for Arts Education
Pittsburgh CAPA 6-12
Recording, Radio and Film Connection (RRF)
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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| knowledge center resource | |
national association of independent schools has a FREE online resource center
Topics include.....
- admission and financial aid
- alumni/ae relations
- curriculum and instruction
- diversity and inclusion
- faculty and staff management
- governance and leadership
- legal and legislative resources
- operations and administration
- parent-school relations
- research and statistics
- students
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book recommendations from 3million stories
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title, group genius: the creative power of collaboration
by dr. r. keith sawyer, a professor of psychology, education, and business, washington university in St. Louis
In this authoritative and fascinating book, Keith Sawyer, a psychologist at Washington University, tears down some of the most popular myths about creativity and erects new principles in their place. The empowering message is that all of us have the potential to be more creative; we just need to learn the secrets of group genius.
title, the warhol economy: how fashion, art, and music drive new york city
by elizabeth currid-halkett, associate professor, sol price school of public policy, university of southern california
Which is more important to New York City's economy, the gleaming corporate office--or the grungy rock club that launches the best new bands? If you said "office," think again. In The Warhol Economy, Elizabeth Currid argues that creative industries like fashion, art, and music drive the economy of New York as much as--if not more than--finance, real estate, and law. And these creative industries are fueled by the social life that whirls around the clubs, galleries, music venues, and fashion shows where creative people meet, network, exchange ideas, pass judgments, and set the trends that shape popular culture.
The implications of Currid's argument are far-reaching, and not just for New York. Urban policymakers, she suggests, have not only seriously underestimated the importance of the cultural economy, but they have failed to recognize that it depends on a vibrant creative social scene. They haven't understood, in other words, the social, cultural, and economic mix that Currid calls the Warhol economy.
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executive director's message
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Dear members and friends,
Last week, I participated in a national conference hosted by Vanderbilt University titled, Three Million Stories: Understanding the Lives and Careers of America's Arts Graduates.
The plenary sessions focused on areas of broad concern such as "The Ups and Downs of the Creative Economy," "Inequality and Artistic Careers," and "The Arts Degree for Non Arts." In addition, "deep dive" breakout sessions for educators and policy-makers examined topics such as curriculum innovations, critical issues facing arts schools, and how to productively use research and data. Findings from the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) survey was discussed, as well as their implications for training institutions, artists, and the broader creative ecology.
This was the largest U.S. meeting to date focusing on the relationships between formal education in the arts, creative careers and work, and the larger creative economy.
We departed with a collective understanding of the three million arts graduates and where their career trajectories will take them as well as the kind of preparation they will need to survive and thrive in the 21st Century, grow the creative economy, and enrich the communities in which they live.
This issue of e-news includes snapshots of information and resources from Three Million Stories for you to connect, digest, and manifest your future actions.
Arts Schools Network is entering our season of awards and exemplary school adjudications, webinar content and delivery planning, the refinement and release of On Your Way 2013 student talent recognition program, planning ahead for our annual conference in NYC October 22-25, 2013, and have launched our membership campaign. We are always seeking members to serve on our working committees which drives above programming.
We invite any recipient of ASN's e-news, both members and non-members alike, to take a brief moment to complete a simple four-question survey. As we launch our annual membership drive, this information will prove to be invaluable.
After you take your membership survey, we will enter your email address into a lottery for the chance of winning one free conference registration to NYC. Congratulations to our February winner, The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland!
As you enter March madness and subsequent regenerative spring breaks, I wish you good luck and Godspeed.
Sincerely,
Kristy Callaway
Executive Director
Arts Schools Network
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| nyc conference hotel warning - rates reservations! | |
Dates of our annual conference are October 22-25, 2013 in NYC. Our hotel room block rates cut off early. Check out your options at our website!
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| NEW MEMBER SPOTLIGHT | |  inspire school of arts and sciences
chico, ca
eric nilsson, principal
Inspire is a college preparatory charter high school located in beautiful Chico, California. In the fall of 2010 Inspire opened its doors to more than 270 students, grades 9-11. Currently, Inspire serves approximately over 430 students, grades 9-12, offering a rigorous academic program, a comprehensive, diverse, and professionally-driven performing and visual arts program, and a science/technology/engineering program that emphasizes our relationship with our local and global environment by Project Lead the Way.
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 edwin s. richards elementary
mission, british columbia, canada
janis minty, principal
We are a vibrant school where high expectations are set for both academic excellence and citizenship. The school has a strong focus on literacy as well as promoting a caring and accepting culture that fosters inclusion and embraces differences. In September of 2011, our school embarked on a pilot project in arts based curriculum for the Mission School District. Participating teachers are exploring innovation in teaching through and with the arts. A wealth of leadership and extracurricular opportunities in fine arts and athletics are available to our students. The school also prides itself on offering unique activities such as the "Friends of Africa Club". As part of our reaching out to the broader community we are pleased that we have students continuously involved in efforts to support both local and global issues.
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entire faculty of alphonsus academy & center for the arts
chicago, il
Alphonsus Academy & Center for the Arts' iPad Pilot Program has students more excited than ever before to learn.
Parents and supporters of Alphonsus Academy & Center for the Arts raised more than $25,000 during the 2011-12 school year to fund the initial investment into the new program. With the money raised, the school was able to purchase 20 iPads. Classes at all grade levels have access to the technology.
As a result of the program, faculty members are reporting an increase in student engagement in a variety of learning activities and across multiple subjects.
"The use of the technology appeals to many different learning styles - visual, auditory, and hands-on learning - and students showcase more excitement in material when we're using iPads," shares Bridgette Carroll, Alphonsus Academy Third Grade Teacher.
Students are even able to educate one another with the use of iPads. Third graders created tutorial videos to document and explain math strategies using the app, Edu-creations. These short videos can be reviewed by classmates who need to practice a particular strategy.
The iPad Pilot Program has also had a positive impact on fostering collaboration between parents and teachers at Alphonsus Academy.
"My students are eager to try out iPad apps used in the classroom, at home. Students are also excited to bring apps they have used with their parents to my attention at school. Recently, a student shared a star app that helps navigate stars in the solar system to accompany our space unit," says Carroll. She continues, "I would love to invest in the purchase of more iPads so that students could store more information on the devices."
Learn more.
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Getting it... together
Special Offer: $100 discount for first timer school.
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| college board award for excellence and innovation in the arts call for applications | |  deadline april 5
The College Board is now accepting applications for the 2013 College Board Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts. This annual award recognizes and celebrates the achievements of six member institutions that have implemented an arts program that promotes student learning and creativity in exemplary and innovative ways.
Take a look at the 2012 Arts Award brochure for profiles and photos of last year's winning programs.
One school from each of the College Board's six regions will be awarded $3,500 to support the continuation and growth of their arts programs. Of the six finalists, one school will be named the national winner and will be awarded an additional $1,500. Regional winners will be honored at their respective College Board Regional Forums; the national winner will also be honored at the College Board National Forum.
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| grammy's music educator award | |
 nominate your favorite music teacher today!
The Deadline to Nominate is April 15, 2013.
For every performer who makes it to the GRAMMY stage, there was a teacher who played a critical role in getting them there. And really, that's true for all of us who are making music today. Maybe they introduced you to your first instrument. Or they showed you how to get over your stage fright. Or maybe they just inspired you to have the confidence to go for it when you were ready to give up.
It's time to say thank you to ALL of those teachers who put in ALL of those hours to make sure that ALL of us love and play music today! And who better to do that than the people who bring you the GRAMMY Awards?
10 finalists will be selected along with one winner to be recognized for their remarkable impact. The winner will be flown to Los Angeles to accept the Award and attend the GRAMMYs, plus pick up a $10,000 honorarium. All finalists will receive a $1,000 honorarium as well.
Make your thanks real by nominating your teacher today!
WHO IS ELIGIBLE?
Current educators in the U.S., who teach music in public or private schools, Kindergarten through College. Teachers in after-school, private studios, or other educational settings are not eligible.
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| scientific discovery and innovation can depend on engaging more students in the arts | |  the art and craft of science
educational leadership magazine
february 2013
by robert root-bernstein and michele root-bernstein
Suppose you have a talented child with a profound interest in science. This child has a choice of going to an academically elite high school or to a high school where the curriculum focuses on training mechanics, carpenters, and designers. Where do you send her? It's a no-brainer, right? To the academically elite high school.
Except that Walter Alvarez, a doctor and physiologist of some renown, decided to send his scientifically talented son, Luis, to an arts and crafts school where Luis took industrial drawing and woodworking instead of calculus. Big mistake? Not exactly. Luis Alvarez won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1968. He attributed his success to an uncanny ability to visualize and build almost any kind of experimental apparatus he could imagine (Alvarez, 1987).
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american for the arts releases e-book
facts and figures on arts education | |
 Through a partnership with Vans Custom Culture, Americans for the Arts has designed the Arts Education Navigator, a series of e-books designed to help educators, students, and advocates alike navigate the complex field of arts education. Each e-book in the Navigator series below will cover a specific topic, ensuring arts education supporters like you are equipped with the knowledge, statistics, and case-making techniques needed to effectively communicate with decision-makers.
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college affordability and transparency center
u.s. department of education website | |
 College Scorecards make it easier for you to search for a college that is a good fit for you. You can use the College Scorecard to find out more about a college's affordability and value so you can make more informed decisions about which college to attend. Net Price Calculator Center offers links to colleges' net price calculators. Net price calculators help you estimate how much colleges cost after scholarships and grants. College Navigator allows you to search for and compare colleges on all sorts of criteria including costs, majors offered, size of school, campus safety, and graduation rates. The site highlights institutions with high and low tuition and fees as well as high and low net prices (the price of attendance minus grant and scholarship aid). It also shows institutions where tuition and fees and net prices are increasing at the highest rates. Learn more. |
| how much do musicians make? the future of music coalition finds out! | | 
the importance of understanding musicians' revenue stream
Meteoric transformations in the creation and distribution of music over the past ten years have drastically changed the landscape for musicians. New technologies like digital music stores, streaming services and webcasting stations have greatly reduced the cost barriers to the distribution and sale of music, and a vast array of new platforms and technologies - from blogs to Bandcamp to Twitter feeds - now help musicians connect with fans.
Many observers are quick to categorize these structural changes as positive improvements for musicians, particularly when compared with the music industry of the past. It's true that musicians' access to the marketplace has greatly improved, but how have these changes impacted musicians' ability to generate revenue based on their creative work? Almost all analyses of the effects of these changes rest purely on assumptions that they have improved musicians' bottom lines, or on top-level assessments of the music industry writ large, based on traditional metrics: number of albums sold, number of spins on radio, even stock price valuations.
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| centro college for design, media, and film offers a new and unique summer pre-college program | |  cadi - centro advanced design institute
Sunday June 30 -Sunday July 21
Mexico City and Oaxaca
CADI is
- A rigorous and focused 3-week intensive summer design experience.
- For students interested in Product Design or Design for Digital Media.
- Taught in English by CENTRO department directors and senior faculty.
- Open only to rising seniors with strong art/design/media skills.
- For ambitious high school students who want to be challenged.
- Highly selective admission.
- $3,650 total cost. Full tuition scholarships available.
For more information and to request a brochure: www.centro.edu/mx/CADI
Apply at: www.centro.slideroom.com
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| how art works: national endowment for the arts' five-year research agenda, with a system map and measurement model | |
How do you measure how art works--on people, on communities, or on society? It's a broad question, and the National Endowment for the Arts offers an ambitious plan to "map" the arts to better understand and measure this complex, dynamic system. How Art Works describes the agency's five-year research agenda, framed and informed by a groundbreaking "system map" and measurement model. The map is grounded in the theory that arts engagement contributes to quality of life in a virtuous cycle from the individual level to the societal level, and back. The map helps illustrate the dynamic, complex interactions that make up this particular system, from "inputs" such as education and arts infrastructure, to "outcomes" such as benefits of the arts to individuals and communities. The NEA developed the map through a series of dialogues with researchers, policymakers, and practitioners in the arts, economics, education, health, and other fields.
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| who are guerilla girls? | | |
We're feminist masked avengers in the tradition of anonymous do-gooders like Robin Hood, Wonder Woman and Batman. How do we expose sexism, racism and corruption in politics, art, film and pop culture? With facts, humor and outrageous visuals. We reveal the understory, the subtext, the overlooked, and the downright unfair. Our work has been passed around the world by our tireless supporters. In the last few years, we've appeared at over 90 universities and museums, as well as in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Bitch, and Artforum; on NPR, the BBC and CBC; and in many art and feminist texts.
We are authors of stickers, billboards, many, many posters and street projects, and several books including The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art and Bitches, Bimbos and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls' Guide to Female Stereotypes. We're part of Amnesty International's Stop Violence Against Women Campaign in the UK; and we're brainstorming with Greenpeace.
In the last few years, we've unveiled anti-film industry billboards in Hollywood just in time for the Oscars, and created large scale projects for the Venice Biennale, Istanbul and Mexico City. We dissed the Museum of Modern Art at its own Feminist Futures Symposium, examined the museums of Washington DC on a full page in the Washington Post, and exhibited large-scale posters and banners in Athens, Bilbao, Montreal, Rotterdam, Sarajevo and Shanghai.
WHAT'S NEXT? More creative complaining! More facts, humor and fake fur! More appearances, actions and artworks. We could be anyone; we are everywhere.
Learn more.
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