Sarah Anderberg currently serves as the Director for the California County Superintendents Educational Services Association (CCSESA) Statewide Arts Initiative. CCSESA represents California’s 58 County Superintendents of Schools and their respective county offices of education that connect to over 1,000 school districts in the state. Through this infrastructure, she leads state, regional, county, and local arts learning professional development and support programs intended to strengthen and expand arts learning in pre-K through 12 classrooms throughout California. She is the Director of the Creativity at the Core initiative and oversees the development of arts education professional learning resources developed by county offices of education in partnership with arts organization partners throughout California. She is currently working on a rural arts initiative to increase access to arts education in rural communities across California. Sarah’s leadership experience includes working at UC Davis as Director of Arts Education for the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts and as Director of Sierra Arts Project at the School of Education where she taught arts education courses and directed arts education programs and institutes for educators. Sarah serves on the Policy Advisory Council for the California Alliance for Arts Education and on the Leadership Council for CREATE CA, a broad-based statewide coalition involving CCSESA, the California Department of Education, the California Alliance for Arts Education, the California State PTA, and the California Arts Council and other arts and education leaders. Through collaborative efforts, she was part of two state task force efforts to strengthen arts education in California involving multiple organizations and partners. She is the past Chair of CREATE CA.
“In curatorial practice, attending to decisions made in selecting, organizing, analyzing, and documenting content, as well as reviewing the evidence of learning, opens layers of realizations and insights for teachers […]
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
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
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.
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.