Advisory Council

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

A+ Schools of North Carolina

American Alliance for Theatre & Education

Arts Administrators of Color

ArtsNOW

Baltimore Children and Youth Fund

California County Superintendents Arts Initiative

Cathedral Arts Project

Crayola

Detroit Excellence in Youth Arts

District of Columbia Public Schools

Ingenuity Inc.

Institute for Arts Integration and STEAM

International Association of Blacks in Dance

The Learning Alliance

Local Learning Network

mindPOP

National Art Education Association (NAEA)

National Association for Music Education (NAfME)

National Association for Media Arts Education

National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM)

National Dance Education Organization

National Endowment for the Arts

National Guild for Community Arts Education

National Partnership for Juvenile Services

Ohio Music Education Association

Partners for Rural Impact

Pennsylvania Music Educators Association

Prince George’s County Public Schools

Research, Evaluation, and Measurement Center

Social Art and Culture

Spy Hop

State Education Agencies Directors of Arts Education (SEADAE)

Stillman College

Student/Youth Representative
Amy Roblero-Perez, Bardstown High School

Tennessee Art Education Association

U.S. Department of Education

The Wallace Foundation

Wisconsin Music Educators Association

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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