New Study Shows Why Arts Education Matters

New Study Shows Why Arts Education Matters

by | Jun 16, 2021 | Research

As a theatre artist, no one needs to convince me that the arts have a powerful impact on youth. I have personally experienced and witnessed how the arts transform students’ learning experiences by fostering positive creative youth development outcomes such as...
The photo captures an outdoor mural in the Las Vegas, Nevada, Arts District during a bright, sunny day. The artist painted the mural on the side of what appears to be an apartment complex. The mural depicts a headshot of woman against a rainbow-striped background. The woman has blue skin and has her eyes closed. Her long black hair flows from her head in all directions and transforms into computer cords with plugs at the end, evoking the Greek mythological character Medusa. Beside the mural on the right, the photographer includes a partial view of a palm tree trunk and palm fronds that seem to touch the mural. Photo Credit: Photo by Alex on Unsplash

The photo captures an outdoor mural in the Las Vegas, Nevada, Arts District during a bright, sunny day. The artist painted the mural on the side of what appears to be an apartment complex. The mural depicts a headshot of woman against a rainbow-striped background. The woman has blue skin and has her eyes closed. Her long black hair flows from her head in all directions and transforms into computer cords with plugs at the end, evoking the Greek mythological character Medusa. Beside the mural on the right, the photographer includes a partial view of a palm tree trunk and palm fronds that seem to touch the mural. Photo Credit: Photo by Alex on Unsplash

by | May 6, 2021

The photo captures an outdoor mural in the Las Vegas, Nevada, Arts District during a bright, sunny day. The artist painted the mural on the side of what appears to be an apartment complex. The mural depicts a headshot of woman against a rainbow-striped background. The...
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...
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...

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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