Arts Education Research

Arts Education Partnership Web Site
This web site contains a wealth of information. Some of the items are listed here.

Champions of Change
Leading educational researchers examine the impact of arts experiences on young people in this report from the Presidents Committee on the Arts and Humanities and the Arts Education Partnership.

Gaining the Arts Advantage
This document makes the case for district-wide arts education by documenting lessons from school districts that value arts education, such as Las Cruces Public Schools. This report is from the Presidents Committee on the Arts and Humanities and the Arts Education Partnership.

Learning Partnerships
A Guide to Arts Education Collaboration that aims to improve learning in schools by working with arts partners in the community. This reports it from the Arts Education Partnership.

National Assessment of Educational Progress
An assessment of what our nation's eighth grade students know and can do in the arts released by the Education Department's National Center for Education Statistics.

Americans For The Arts
This is a must-see site on the tour of on-line arts education resources. As a national organization whose mission is to make the arts more accessible to people of all ages, Americans For The Arts has developed a comprehensive, easy-to-navigate Web site with a category devoted entirely to arts education. This site provides a national inventory of arts education alliances as well as information about upcoming events in the field of arts education. An on-line clearinghouse for arts education research and publications lets you access and purchase books, articles, speeches, and book excerpts on topics relating to the arts and education. Be patient - Americans For The Arts is still improving the performance of this database and at times it can be quite slow. The site also disseminates information on issues ranging from funding and legislation to conferences and technical assistance opportunities for artists and arts organizations working with young people. You'll spend hours exploring all that this site has to offer, not to mention its 17 active listservs and hundreds of links to member organizations and arts education sites throughout the United States.

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Arts Edge
As one of the first educational web sites with almost ten years of history online, ArtsEdge provides invaluable resources and information relating to the arts and education. This site has had a recent face-lift, so don't be dismayed to find yourself in new terrain - the site is easy to access, complete with a site map and a "where did it go?" section for viewers familiar with the previous site structure. ArtsEdge's colorful, dynamically-designed site draws you to three main categories of information: NewsBreak, highlighting current events relating to arts education and linking to several educational indices; Teaching Materials, providing standards-based curricula for all disciplines and subject matter for K-12 classes, and inviting artists and teachers to submit examples of effective arts integration lessons; and Professional Resources, featuring best practices, arts education overviews and reviews, and advocacy resources. ArtsEdge also boasts six listservs, offers information about job opportunities, grants, funding, fellowships, and upcoming events and professional development opportunities, and links viewers to an array of other online arts education sites. Artists, educators, and practitioners alike can learn from this site while also contribute to it through its wealth of online forums, resources, and curriculum information and exchange. Definitely check out ArtsEdge - you'll never want to leave!

Arts Ed Net from the Getty

ArtsWire
This site provides an excellent online communications network for the arts education community. Created primarily for artists and community-based cultural groups, ArtsWire offers training, planning, and technical support for artists and arts organizations. This site will keep you in touch with the pulse of what's happening in the arts at the ground level in studios, workshops, and cultural organizations across the U.S. It also provides a fun, interactive forum for creating and experiencing online art. Through the more than 3,000 links to the web sites of artists and arts organizations, ArtsWire has developed one of the most comprehensive online databases for the arts, complete with contact information for artists and arts consultants, organizational sites, and listings of different projects involving ArtsWire members. This site also provides a monthly Non-profit Toolkit with current issues, reviews, and profiles as well as listings of weekly arts news, job opportunities, workshops, and artists' resource possibilities. What more could you ask for? ArtsWire is one of a handful of online arts education sites that boasts accessibility for users with disabilities - check it out!

Coming Up Taller
This site recognizes high quality arts programs and opportunities for young people taking place during the non-school hours. As a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, the Coming Up Taller Initiative showcases artistic excellence and enhances the availability of after-school, weekend, and summer arts and humanities programs for youth. Coming Up Taller offers yearly cash awards to quality non-school arts organizations; take a look at the 1998 and 1999 winners, or check out the Coming Up Taller Awards nomination form. You can also download the landmark 1996 Coming Up Taller report or read it online as a text file. One of this site's greatest features is its Program Profiles, featuring Coming Up Taller Awards recipients as well as other recognized non-school arts programs across the country. Search them by state, by name, or by artistic discipline, and get in touch to learn more about the creative opportunities they're providing youth in the out-of-school hours. Don't miss the wealth of resource links available at this site, as well as current news and information about arts education funding opportunities.

The Getty Center
Learn more about Discipline Based Arts Education at ArtsEdNet, with a wealth of information here relevant to educators, administrators, policy makers, artists, and others interested in arts education. The lesson plans, curriculum ideas, interdisciplinary activities, and teaching and learning materials are not to be missed, especially because you can sort them by grade level, alphabetic listing of subject, or - better yet - by the Getty recommended scope and sequence for Discipline Based Arts Education. Connections to national standards and sample assignments and assessments are provided too. Supplement these with hundreds of art images, publications, and the essential Discipline Based Arts Education bibliography, and you're ready to go. ArtsEdNet also offers an on-line forum for discussing arts education as well as a wealth of arts advocacy information and links to programs, resources, and arts educators across the U.S. This is a definite stopping point along the online arts education tour!

Kennedy Center/National Symphony Orchestra National Trustees' Summer Music Institute

The following information will introduce you to the Kennedy Center/National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) Summer Music Institute.  Through an initiative of the NSO National Trustees, young musicians are eligible to apply for a National Trustees’ fellowship.  This program is an extension of the NSO American Residency.  One musician from most states will be selected to participate on scholarship for the 2008 Summer Music Institute, with more than one student chosen from South Carolina, the Orchestra’s 2007-08 Residency state.

Program Description:  The Kennedy Center/National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute is a 4-week summer music program at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, for student instrumentalists.  The program is designed for serious music students.  Each student accepted into the Program attends on full scholarship, which includes the following benefits: round-trip air transportation to and from Washington, DC, housing, food allowance, and local transportation during their stay in our Nation's Capital.

• Private lessons taught by a member of the National Symphony Orchestra
• Chamber music coaching by NSO musicians     
• Master classes and seminars
• Attendance at selected rehearsals and performances of the NSO
• Participation in the NSO Summer Music Institute Orchestra, conducted by Elizabeth Schulze
• Performance opportunities in DC metropolitan area
• Exposure to internationally-renowned conductors, soloists, and musicians

National Endowment for the Arts

National Art Education Association
A professional organization for arts educators, the National Art Education Association (NAEA) promotes arts education through professional development, service opportunities, information dissemination, and leadership for increasing quality arts education in the schools. With over 17,000 arts educator members across the world, NAEA's website serves as a hub of invaluable information. The site includes recent news on arts education and a section dedicated to publications, with hundreds of materials ranging from assessment to child development, lifelong learning to standards for art education. Publications can be ordered online, and some can be downloaded directly from the site. If you get tired of reading these endless resources, take a break by browsing through the site's Electronic Gallery Exhibit, a juried exhibition featuring artworks by members of NAEA. The gallery isn't up and running yet, but will be soon. Be sure to check out all of the links, sortable by state, special issue groups, commercial exhibitors, and arts education sites. NAEA also offers arts education awards opportunities - what more could you ask for?