Challenges in Undergraduate Art Education

Challenges in Undergraduate Art Education

by | Oct 8, 2023 | General

The university environment creates a unique intersection of financial, social and academic stressors. Within our research, students identified specific personal and structural issues in their undergraduate experiences. These issues are often exacerbated within arts...
Has Arts Education Failed BIPOC Communities?

Has Arts Education Failed BIPOC Communities?

by | Aug 16, 2023 | General

In 2015, I took a job fresh out of grad school as the inaugural director of ASO Sympatico, the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra’s El Sistema-inspired music education program. I anticipated being responsible for overseeing music educators, developing branding, building...
The Pursuit of Art and Higher Education

The Pursuit of Art and Higher Education

by | Aug 2, 2023 | General

Why don’t more students pursue art in higher education?   For many students, art is more of an outlet rather than profession, and in a world where student’s lives revolve around academics, art gets sidelined. For our research, I interviewed Liam, an international...

The Arts Count

by | Jun 15, 2023

In May 2018, the Arts Education Partnership published Music Matters. This was the first in a four-part series of special reports that used ArtsEdSearch to illustrate the many benefits of arts education. The Arts Counts series went on to publish Visual Arts Matters,...
What’s New to ArtScan in 2023?

What’s New to ArtScan in 2023?

by | Mar 30, 2023 | Policy

Spring has officially sprung, bringing warmer weather, fresh blooms and a new round of updates to the ArtScan database! AEP collaborates with the State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education and Education Commission of the States to update this resource to equip...

Restorative Justice for the Arts Media

by | Feb 27, 2023

Restorative Justice for the Arts Yorkdale Elementary Mural Project Yorkdale Elementary Mural Project 20 Yorkdale Elementary Mural Project 16 Yorkdale Elementary Mural Project 15 Yorkdale Elementary Mural Project 13 Yorkdale Elementary Mural Project 12 Yorkdale...
What We Know About the Status of Arts Education

What We Know About the Status of Arts Education

by | Nov 29, 2022 | Policy

Jamie Kasper and Claus von Zastrow also recorded Talking About Arts Education Data, a corresponding podcast episode for the Arts ARE Education Talk It Up podcast. In May 2021, AEP published a post titled What We Know – and Don’t Know – About the Status of Arts...
What the NAEP Results Mean for Arts Education

What the NAEP Results Mean for Arts Education

by | Nov 23, 2022 | Policy

Since the release of the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) results, countless articles and analyses have revealed the same troubling trend: reading and math scores declined at an alarming rate for fourth and eighth grade students in the 2021-22...
ARP ESSER Funds: What’s in it for Arts Ed?

ARP ESSER Funds: What’s in it for Arts Ed?

by | Nov 1, 2022 | General

In March 2021, a year into the global Covid-19 pandemic, the American Rescue Plan (ARP) was signed into law to provide relief aid to entities across the United States. As part of this aid, $122 billion dollars — established as Elementary and Secondary School Emergency...
Restorative Justice Healing Through the Arts

Restorative Justice Healing Through the Arts

by | Oct 18, 2022 | General

In 2019, Arts Education Partnership (AEP) began its arts and juvenile justice work with the goal of understanding the role of the arts in juvenile justice spaces and how the work could expand. AEP is now expanding its focus to restorative justice and the arts focused...

Centering Student Voices to Transform Educational Systems

by | Aug 20, 2022

As policymakers continue to rethink, reshape and reform systems, it has become vital to involve the appropriate voices in these conversations. Inclusion of the people who are directly affected by policy and funding actions in their communities leads to equitable...

ArtsEd Digest Archive

by | Jun 22, 2022

ArtsEd Digest Archive Here you will find all past issues of ArtsEd Digest, AEP’s bi-monthly newsletter highlighting news from AEP partner organizations and the field, including reports, research and job opportunities. Hidden 2023 November 15, 2023 – ArtsEd Digest |...

Our Shared Future

by | Jun 17, 2022

Our Shared Future: Imagining a New Landscape for Teaching Artists On April 5-7, 2022, we hosted a virtual event in support of teaching artists across the country. Our Shared Future: Imagining a New Landscape for Teaching Artists featured sessions that dug into the...

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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