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 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 [...]

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 [...]

Boston University student Natalie Turturro wants kids to know that “school opens doors,” and her method at getting out the message involves using her own education to do it.
For her thesis project, Turturro created an installation art exhibition at the non-profit Ellis Memorial Children’s Center, a settlement house in the South End of Boston that [...]

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 [...]

When singer Josh Groban transferred to Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, he gained not only an art education, but also an art community.
“[The school] really helped give me the foundation for everything that I did in the future,” he said. “I had come from a couple of school systems that were fine [...]

The National Art Education Association held its annual conference April 14-18 in Baltimore, Md., and more than 4,000 art teachers attended this year.
One of the attendees, Melissa Techman from the School Library Journal, learned that art teachers play a key role in developing 21st century skills. According to Techman, art education has a major part [...]

Several schools in Quebec, Canada, are participating in a research study looking at art’s effect on student behavior and engagement. The schools all make use of a program called ArtsSmarts, a learning strategy that relies on artistic activities as a way to foster students’ growth as creative thinkers. �
The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation launched ArtsSmarts [...]