EdTA Advocacy Update
June 19, 2018
The Advocacy Update is where you can find current national and state news concerning arts advocacy and arts education.
NATIONAL NEWS
Apply for Our Town Grants
Our Town is the National Endowment for the Arts’ creative placemaking grants program. These grants support projects that integrate arts, culture, and design activities into efforts that strengthen communities by advancing local economic, physical, and/or social outcomes. (National Endowment for the Arts)
Apply for ARTWORKS Grants
Art Works is the National Endowment for the Arts’ principal grants program. Through project-based funding, we support public engagement with, and access to, various forms of excellent art across the nation, the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, learning in the arts at all stages of life, and the integration of the arts into the fabric of community life. (National Endowment for the Arts)
EdTA NEWS
EdTA educator special opportunity from the Dramatist Guild
Since attending the EdTA conference in Nashville in 2017, the Dramatists Guild has renewed its commitment to helping theater educators gain access to the writers behind the best new American musicals and plays. They are offering EdTA members an exclusive one-day rate for their upcoming national conference in New York City July 26-29. For just $49, EdTA registrants can join Don Zolidis, Charlayne Woodard, Gary Garrison and more in a special series of July 29th workshops. To register go to https://app.certain.com/profile/2734918
STATE NEWS
Got state theatre and other arts education news you want to share? Send it to Shea: shaney@schooltheatre.org
Alabama: BEYONDance Brings Education through Dance (Troy Messenger)
California: Paso Robles Youth Arts Foundation Awarded $15,300 Grant (Paso Robles Daily News)
Diablo Ballet Gets $25K Grant for Incarcerated Teen Girls Program (SF Gate)
Parents’ Guide to the Visual and Performing Arts in California Public Schools (California State PTA)
Colorado: How the Acting Aspirations of a Student with Down Syndrome Changed this Theatre Teacher’s Approach (Chalkbeat)
Florida: CELEBRATE SERVICE: Global Arts Society Makes Arts Accessible to All (Panama City News-Herald)
United Arts Awards Mini-Grants, Arts Learning Mini-Grants & Diversity Grants (West Orlando News)
Georgia: Arts, PE Revamped by Georgia Education Board (The Gainesville Times)
Illinois: Coolidge is Lone Metro East School Selected for Three Year Theatre Grant (Advantage News)
Massachusetts: Berkshire Theatre Group’s Education Department (WMAC)
Michigan: Miss Michigan Spends Year Advocating for Arts Education (Manistee News Advocate)
Mishawaka Schools Plan Fine Arts Improvements (South Bend Tribune)
Minnesota: Backus Community Center to Offer Puppet Workshops June 25-29 (International Falls Journal)
New Mexico: GOP Candidate Would Replace Teacher Evaluations (Associated Press)
New York: Chinese American Artists to Hold Forum on Dance Education in New York (Women of China)
RIOULT Dance NY Launces Queens Borough Community Dance Project with Fables (Broadway World)
Kids Take the Stage During Queens Theatre’s Summer Program (Times Ledger)
Ohio: Two Ohio Companies Receive Grants to Produce Shakespeare Plays (Ohio Arts Council)
Pennsylvania: Yo Yo Ma Spends the Day in Braddock, Exploring its Arts and Culture and Sharing his Music (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
ArtsAltoona Suspends Programs (Altoona Mirror)
South Carolina: Carolina Impact: Nation Ford High School Production (Carolina Impact)
Vermont: Vermont Teachers and Artists to Join Teacher Institute Workshop (VT Digger)
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Australia: Live Theatre Improves Learning and Tolerance (Teacher Magazine)
Indonesia: Local Dance Foundation Shines Spotlight on People with Special Needs (Rappler)
Ireland: Putting the Arts Center Stage in Class (Independent.ie)
WORTH READING
Arts Education Can Empower Our Youth
What might our education system look like if our curriculum included studying and performing stories about people whose lives and circumstances are different than our own, dancing and embodying the movements from cultures around the world, and freely singing songs that express our joy and pain? (VC Star)
Arts Better the Lives of Everyone
I was recently on an extended vacation in Cuba, and I was struck by the ways that the arts permeate every aspect of daily life there. It seems every person you meet is involved in artistic creation on some level. (Americans for the Arts)
Five Questions with NEA Chair Jane Chu
As Jane Chu concludes her term as Chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts, we asked her to reflect on what it's like to work at the agency and what she's learned about the arts landscape of the U.S. while making more than 400 site visits in communities throughout the country. Here's what she had to say. (National Endowment for the Arts)
Lloyd Webber: ‘Cuts to Music Education in Schools are Ludicrous’
The composer, a staunch advocate of the importance of music in education, used his acceptance speech at this week’s Classic Brit Awards to once again raise the issue and put pressure on the government to do more. (The Stage)