“The Salaam Baalak Trust—an organization founded by the proceeds of Mira Nair’s 1988 film on street children, Salaam Bombay—gives rise to a whole generation of photographers, musicians, dancers, thespians and puppeteers.” This trust believes in art education as a means to provide these children with a potential livelihood. Many students don’t arrive at the schools [...]

Businesses are beginning to realize that having artistic processes as part of executive or MBA programs enables better creative thinking. As an artist starts with a blank canvas business students are being taught to look at opportunities with the same open mind through a variety of art curriculums.
Read Matt Symond’s article posted on Forbes.com addressing this concept…something [...]

Dosomething.org’s Make Art. Save Art. got some art publicity recently. Angela Kinsey and Ellie Kemper, stars from “The Office”,  have donated art to the campaign sponsored by HP and AMD.
As mentioned in an earlier post this campaign wants to use artists and students to spread the message  that arts are important to American schools.Â
Read more about what Angela [...]

Think how dull life would be without art or music. Granted, math and science are important but the other part of the brain needs stimulation. Art and music teach children “freedom of expression.” It spurs their curiosity and potentially can help them discover other creative forms.
See what else Paul Rance has to say regarding the [...]

The Neighborhood Big Draw takes place Saturday October 9th. This fun event is a wonderful activity to get neighbors together-drawing (also a great way to get children interested in art),  promote community and learn more about where you live. There will be a large one in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood, in Roswell, New Mexico, city-wide in Nashville, in [...]

As mentioned in a prior post, this week is Arts in Education Week. At the Art and Culture Center in Hollywood Arts in Education is celebrated everyday. Through a variety of programs the Center reaches many children who otherwise might not have the opportunity to participate in visual and performing arts. The Center runs  programs [...]

Julia and Mathew Carter volunteer at North Coast Youth Correctional Facility in Astoria, Oregon. They have developed an art program for troubled youths within the correctional facility run by the Warrenton-Hammond School District.  Students are selected with certain criteria to participate. The result is often a way for these young men to look at mistakes made, [...]

 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 [...]