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 [...]

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 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 [...]

At Byng Arts, classes go on long after the last school bell rings.
The school within a school, Byng Arts boasts an enrollment of 450 students out of a Lord Byng student body of 1,300. Most of the students apply for a spot in middle school and audition for acceptance into the visual art, band, strings [...]

For the projects made in the art therapy class at St. Joseph’s School for the Blind, there is more to the artwork than meets the eye.
In honor of National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day, adult students from the New Jersey Foundation for the Blind visited Concordia Learning Center at St. Joseph’s to host art therapy [...]

When Washington, D.C.-based artist Kevin Reese moved to Wausau, Wis. last fall, he wasted no time launching his $30,000 project “Mobilizing the Community.” Reese visited various Wausau schools and had the students create miniature mobiles. He took photos of them all, studied them and then recreated the students’ ideas into 12 large mobiles.
The mobiles taught [...]

Amoako Buachie used to create fights with his mother in the morning. Now he creates art instead.
This June, the 18 year-old autistic artist will have one of his works of art displayed in the world-famous Metropolitan Museum of Art. Buachie’s painting is one of 75 pieces from New York’s K-12 public school students that was [...]

Teaching kids the tools of the trade doesn’t always mean picking up a paintbrush or pencil, according to one artist.
Michele Beschen, host of the PBS show “Be Organic,” believes students can use ordinary household items to create beautiful works of art. She put her theory to test recently at Terrace Elementary School in Ankeny, Iowa. [...]