Arts Education, Durable Skills and Workforce Success

by | Jul 2, 2026

Arts education is perfectly positioned to help students builds the durable skills necessary to succeed in today’s workforce. This report examines how schools can prepare students for life and work in an increasingly uncertain future.
Arts Education, Durable Skills and Workforce Success

Arts Education, Durable Skills and Workforce Success

by | Jun 23, 2026

Arts education is perfectly positioned to help students builds the durable skills necessary to succeed in today’s workforce. This report examines how schools can prepare students for life and work in an increasingly uncertain future. Inside, you’ll learn...

The State of Early Career Mentorship for Arts Educators

by | Mar 24, 2026

The State of Early Career Mentorship of Arts Educators, by our Partnerships With Higher Education Working Group, explores how mentorship programs can provide a solution for the supports needed for early career arts educators. The report highlights three mentorship...

ArtScan At-a-Glance

by | Apr 8, 2025

ArtScan, a project of the Arts Education Partnership, is clearinghouse that provides the most current information on 14 arts education policy areas related to pre-K through grade 12. ArtScan covers state policies for arts education identified in statute or...

Arts Education Data and Reporting Initiatives 2024

by | Oct 24, 2024

The Arts Education Partnership’s Data Working Group first met in 2023 to look at arts education data collection and reporting at the national, state, regional and local levels. The group’s goal was to discover where data are being collected and reported and where gaps...

Title: 2280 Pasos Bajo un Cielo Nublado | Artist: Hernán Jourdan | Medium: Film

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Title: Fluent Nature | Artist: Melli Hoppe | Medium: Film

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When I was asked to create a work of art exploring literacy, I wanted to create a dance but I had no dancers or a studio, so I chose to use my own body in the space I had, my yard. Fluent Nature is video of micro-choreography that explores what cannot be expressed with words, how nature has its own language, and how placing the human body in nature changes the story.

Title: What Is Me and What Is Not Me | Artist: Alex Chadwell | Medium: Music

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My thinking on arts and literacy centers around the concept of literacies and artmaking as both sense-making and meaning-making processes that organically and inevitably overlap, intersect, and reciprocate. Compositionally, What is me and what is not me is a sound collage of sorts (there is no notation for the piece, and I'd be hard pressed to recreate it accurately) that abstractly and aurally represents the relationships between literacies and artmaking.

Title: A Curious Honeybee | Artist: Gideon Young | Medium: Film

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Offering welcome through traditional and digital elements of literacy, A Curious Honeybee provides an experiential learning environment by activating visual, musical, natural, and emotional literacies.

Title: Tercera Llamada | Artist: Karilú Forshee | Medium: Audio

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La Carpa Theatre is a project that I am currently directing in the Detroit Latinx community. The project aims to strengthen and uplift youth voices through devised theatre, in the style of the Mexican Carpas. This audio was created in the theatrical environment envisioned for our project. The ways in which literacies are re-defined are at the heart of La Carpa Theatre's mission.

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Title: Literaseas | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite and ink on paper with digital edits

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Title: A Riddle | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite on paper with digital edits

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Title: False Binaries | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite on paper with digital edits

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