Extra! Extra! ArtScan Captures New Policy Area

Extra! Extra! ArtScan Captures New Policy Area

by | Apr 5, 2021 | Policy

Part of our mission at AEP is to research the latest policies and emerging conversations on arts education to provide a one-stop shop for readers. To that end, following last year’s ArtScan release, we got to work gathering feedback from our partners at the State...
Welcome to ArtsEd Amplified!

Welcome to ArtsEd Amplified!

by | Mar 15, 2021 | Outreach

AEP is proud to launch the new ArtsEd Amplified blog! While we’ll continue to cross-post relevant policy-related items on the ECS Ed Note blog, ArtsEd Amplified will provide a platform to showcase great work by partners and affiliates that might not be directly...

State Information Request: Dance Certification

by | Feb 9, 2021

An arts organization requested information on the status of academic standards and teacher certification for dance in each state and details on licensure assessment requirements to become a dance educator in states where dance certification exists. Our response...
Arts Integrated Teacher Education Benefits Elementary Students and Teachers Alike

Arts Education Policy Trends to Look for in 2021

by | Dec 18, 2020 | Policy

The 2020 AEP Virtual Gathering may feel like it happened years ago, but it’s only been three months! At this year’s gathering we reflected on the past 25 years and looked ahead to the next 25. We also considered drivers of change in arts education policy and practice...
ArtsEdSearch: 300 Studies and Counting

ArtsEdSearch: 300 Studies and Counting

by | Dec 9, 2020 | Research

In 2012, the Arts Education Partnership curated an extensive collection of research on arts education in one place: ArtsEdSearch. Eight years later, this online clearinghouse of research continues to support practitioners, researchers, policymakers and other...

State Information Request: Media Arts in State Policy

by | Nov 12, 2020

An Arts Education Partnership partner requested information on the status of media arts in state policy. Specifically, the partner wanted to know which states have media arts included in state policy and in what ways they are included. Our response includes an...

Expanding the Arts Across the Juvenile Justice System

by | Oct 28, 2020

This Policy Brief captures the discussion, insights and policy considerations that came out of a Thinkers Meeting with 11 experts in the arts education and juvenile justice fields. It builds on the report, “Engaging the Arts Across the Juvenile Justice System,” by...

The Arts in Charter Schools

by | Sep 10, 2020

This Special Report examines how arts-based charter schools in the District of Columbia, Louisiana, Maryland and North Carolina provide access to arts education and integrate the arts schoolwide across curricula, community engagement and teacher professional...
Arts Integrated Teacher Education Benefits Elementary Students and Teachers Alike

New to ArtScan? Here’s What You Need to Know

by | Apr 13, 2020 | Policy

Did you know that Nevada has arts education instructional requirements for K-12 public schools, youth centers, state facilities and detention centers? Neither did I, until I joined the team at the Arts Education Partnership and began working on ArtScan. As part of...

State Information Request: Funding the Arts in CTE

by | Apr 1, 2020

An AEP partner asked if states are allowing schools to use Perkins V funds for arts pathways — other than digital media or film — within CTE programs. Our response includes an overview of three states’ CTE programs that incorporate visual and performing arts, and...

ArtsEdSearch Study Submission Form

by | Mar 11, 2020

ArtsEdSearch Study Submission If you wish to submit a research study for possible inclusion in ArtsEdSearch, please begin by reviewing the Criteria for Inclusion. Studies must meet all criteria to be eligible for inclusion in ArtsEdSearch. If your study meets the...

Resource Library: Juvenile Justice and the Arts

by | Mar 2, 2020

In response to COVID-19, AEP is actively working with organizations involved in the arts and juvenile justice to share resources and insights on best supporting youth who are involved in the juvenile justice system, including youth in detention centers, during these...

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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