How do partnerships for professional development in arts integration take shape? In this posting we’ll look at the avenue down […]
Fifth House Ensemble has been refining the design of our educational programming since our founding in 2005. With a mission […]
When live music performances and in-person art shows came to a halt during the pandemic last year, many arts professionals […]
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We were co-teachers of neo-traditional West African dance in an urban elementary school. Avalon, the classroom teacher, trained in the […]
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Over my years as an arts educator in California, I have learned that making significant changes in arts education policy […]
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Becky Bailey, founder of Conscious Discipline, says, “No significant learning can occur without significant relationships. Connection is the key.” Students […]
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As a folklorist, I know that narratives based in racism, sexism and other ideologies of power and control act insidiously […]
Starting a new music program is quite an undertaking, especially for a school principal who does not have a music […]
What is the nature of teaching and learning in dance and theater; and, in what ways do they influence second […]
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.
Title: Tercera Llamada | Artist: Karilú Forshee | Medium: Audio
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.
Title: Literaseas | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite and ink on paper with digital edits
Title: False Binaries | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite on paper with digital edits
