Restorative Justice for the Arts Media

by | Feb 27, 2023

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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...
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 2026 Aug. 12, 2026 – ArtsEd Digest | Arts...
Power of the Arts: A COVID-19 Silver Lining

Power of the Arts: A COVID-19 Silver Lining

by | Apr 8, 2022 | General

Remember when teaching was “only” about high achievement, standardized testing, active shooter drills and differentiating our instruction? All kidding aside, the fact that educators have been juggling those demands with the new educational landscape of...
New ArtScan: Update or Upgrade?

New ArtScan: Update or Upgrade?

by | Apr 1, 2022 | Policy

AEP is committed to enhancing ArtScan to continuously meet the needs of our network as they utilize the database for their respective work. We are excited about this year’s update…or upgrade as some may consider it. Our goals with the changes this year are to make the...
A State Policy Vision for Arts Literacies Integration

A State Policy Vision for Arts Literacies Integration

by | Mar 28, 2022 | General

The journey of a child through making meaning was one of the foundational learnings from the Arts Education Partnership’s work on The Arts and Literacies. Specifically, meaning making supports students to develop knowledge, awareness, appreciation and empathy of...

AEP Research & Funder Policy Briefing

by | Mar 16, 2022

Join us on March 29 for a FREE, virtual policy briefing for researchers and funders in arts and education! Explore existing gaps in arts education research and focus on creating a deeper dialogue among funders, researchers and practitioners during the policy briefing....
Prince and the Power of the Arts

Prince and the Power of the Arts

by | Jan 25, 2022 | General

Arts Education Partnership had a conversation with Prince Nwankwo about his arts experiences with Everett: Company Stage & School while in the care of the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services (DYS) and the continued arts support as he made his transition...

The Arts and Literacies

by | Dec 7, 2021

This interactive and adaptive resource captures the insights and reflections of attendees who joined AEP’s Arts and Literacies Thinkers Meeting Series. It incorporates art and text to support different experiences and interactions as visitors explore the...
Dreaming of a Future Through the Arts

Dreaming of a Future Through the Arts

by | Dec 7, 2021 | General

On August 2nd, Performing Statistics, a partner of Arts Education Partnership (AEP), announced the release of Freedom Constellations. This interactive public art project represents a new monument that asks youth to illustrate a road map toward freedom for all young...
For-Credit Arts Programs in Juvenile Justice

For-Credit Arts Programs in Juvenile Justice

by | Nov 16, 2021 | General

In 2010, Austin Classical Guitar (ACG) expanded our 20-year school-based guitar education program to the Gardner Betts Juvenile Justice Center, a residential facility that houses a school within the Austin Independent School District (ISD)for middle and high school...

The Arts and Literacies

by | Oct 28, 2021

Welcome to this living and evolving resource! In late 2020, the Arts Education Partnership began exploring intersections of arts education and literacies. Traditionally, literacy has been defined as the ability to read and write text. From the beginning of our work,...

Title: A Riddle | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite on paper with digital edits

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Title: 2280 Pasos Bajo un Cielo Nublado | Artist: Hernán Jourdan | Medium: Film

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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: 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: False Binaries | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite on paper with digital edits

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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.

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.

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Title: Literaseas | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite and ink on paper with digital edits

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