Found on the National Art Education Association’s web site are E. Eisner’s 10 Lessons the Arts Teach Children. Now that we are back in school I thought it would be a good idea to revisit them. What do you think?
“1. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships.
Unlike much of the curriculum [...]

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 [...]

DoSomething.org knows you care about arts education and wants you to participate in their new initiative Make Art Save Art.

The program wants to use artists and students to spread the message  that arts are important to American schools. Read more on the contest that corporate sponsors HP and AMD are participating in.
Make Art Save Art
Visit  MakeArtSaveArt.org to get  [...]

The Neighborhood Big Draw takes place Saturday October 9th. This fun event is a wonderful activity to get neighbors together-drawing (a great way to get children interested in art),  promote community and learn more about where you live. Go to the below link to get the details and get started in organizing your “big draw”.

http://Neighborhood Big Draw
Also, [...]

The largest Arts program in the southeast, Young Audiences, Woodruff Art Center (YAWAC) is part of a national 31 – chapter Young Artists program in Atlanta.  Started in 1983 with nine artists it now has grown to 64 artists. YAWAC is involved in the lives and learning of children and teens in multiple ways. The artists [...]

The Central Wisconsin Children’s Museum believes  art plays an important part in a child’s develpment. In a June 2005 Harris Poll, “93 percent of Americans think that the arts are vital to providing a well-rounded education.”  Additional research supports that getting an early start in the arts can make a real difference in the lives of children.  Art [...]

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 [...]

Technology is constantly reshaping the way we interact with each other and the way we learn. The Never-Ending Drawing Machine is proof in point.
Developed by MIT’s Media Lab, this collaborative art tool allows for real-time content sharing between users and enables digital artworks to be co-created. Although still in its prototype phase, these types of [...]

What are you doing this summer? In Anne Arundel County, Maryland teachers will be learning art, songwriting, mime and dance  in efforts to better teach students in math, science and other subjects in the fall.
These teachers will be attending a summer development program that allows county elementary and middle school teachers to take art lessons and create [...]

This summer military families can visit over 600 museums free from Memorial Day through Labor Day. The National Endowment for the Arts has partnered with noted art museums such as The Art Institute of Chicago and New York’s Museum of Modern Art, as well as science centers, children’s museums and other sites in all 50 [...]