Advisory Council

AEP’s Advisory Council helps inform and guide the outreach
and work of AEP.

American String Teachers Association (ASTA)

ArtsNOW

Baltimore Children and Youth Fund

City Lore

Crayola

Educational Theatre Association (EdTA)

Ingenuity Inc.

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The Learning Alliance

Media Arts Committee

Michigan Assessment Consortium (MAEIA Project)

mindPOP

Minnesota Education Equity Partnership (MnEEP)

National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM)

National Art Education Association (NAEA)

National Association for Music Education (NAfME)

National Dance Education Organization (NDEO)

National Endowment for the Arts

National Guild for Community Arts Education

New Jersey State Council on the Arts

Partners for Rural Impact

State Education Agencies Directors of Arts Education (SEADAE)

Student/Youth Representative
Zechen Su, Master of Arts Student, Columbia University

Tennessee Art Education Association

U.S. Department of Education

The Wallace Foundation

Wisconsin Music Educators Association

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts

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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