Did you know that the United States House of Representatives has declared the week of September 12-18, 2010 as National Arts in Education Week?
With this declaration, the House is recognizing  that arts education, including the disciplines of dance, music, theater, media arts, literature, design and visual arts, is a core academic subject and an essential element of [...]

For years the Torrance Creativity tasks have been used as the standard for creativity assessment. In May Kyung Hee Kim, from William & Mary, found that creativity scores continually rose as did IQ scores until 1990. In the following years there has been a continuous decline in creativity scores. What is disturbing is the decrease is significant in the younger [...]

Beginning  next week, the White House will be will be hosting events celebrating the arts, innovation and creativity. In conjunction with this they will be promoting the importance of arts for students and the community.
On Monday, July 19th, the President and First Lady will begin the weeklong celebration with a music series honoring the arts and demonstrating the importance [...]

Ines Lozano, principal of the International Christian School, knows the healing power of art. That’s why he helped put together “Through the Eyes of a Haitian Child,” a project that has him and three other educators visiting Haiti to teach art and photography to homeless and orphaned children.
“Art could be a great therapy to relieve [...]

Last June, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson wanted to raise the profile of arts in the city. So, he helped create the For Art’s Sake initiative and raised $100,000 within the first week.
Talk about putting money where his mouth is.
“We are going to promote the arts in a real way,” Johnson said.
Since its inception, For Art’s [...]

When Brandeis University’s artist-in-residence Michael Dowling built it, people came. His installation “Source/ReSource” featuring a recurring stream of water being pumped into a large triangular pool outside the university’s Rose Art Museum was unveiled this May.
“I wanted to animate the space in front of the Rose and lead people to one of the sources of [...]

The New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts is made up of local businesses that are committed to supporting the arts and striving to increase arts support within the business community. The non-profit organization believes a flourishing arts community improves the region’s quality of life and is good for businesses.
Howard Altschiller of the Seacoast Media [...]

PANadelphia invites everyone to the party–the ArtParty, that is.
Kaley Iacovetta from The Weekly Press writes about PANadelphia and its grassroots art movement that seeks to shatter stereotypes of artists being eccentric, unapproachable and elitist. The group invites everyone to channel their inner artist at ArtParty, a monthly event that supports the community creating together.
ArtParty consists of an open [...]

Side Street Projects is on the move. With its mobile, self-sustaining headquarters—travel trailers, two woodworking buses, and a converted FEMA trailer being used as a vertical garden, the artist-run nonprofit seeks to “give artists of all ages the ability and the means to support their creative endeavors.”
Corey Bridwell from Southern California Public Radio put together [...]

Can art bring about social change? Jane Ellen Ibur and Ann Haubrich are showing that it can. Partners and collaborators on a number of projects in the St. Louis area they are known for developing the Regional Arts Commission’s Community Arts Training (CAT) Institute.
The CAT Institute is a program “centered on the belief that art has the [...]