Iowa Alliance for Arts Education

Website URL:

https://iowaalliance4artsed.org/

Address:

Hampton, Iowa

Primary Contact:

Leon Kuehner - leongkuehner@gmail.com

Organization Type:

Education

Organization Mission

The primary mission of the Iowa Alliance for Arts Education is to increase awareness, recognition and support of policies, practices, and partnerships that ensure and advance quality arts education for all Iowans.

Areas of Expertise

IAAE has three main areas of concentration:

  1.  Advocacy for quality arts education at the local, state and national level
  2. Professional development for all fine arts educators
  3. Mentorship of beginning fine arts educators

Current Top Priorities for Guidance or Collaboration

Contact us to learn more about these current priority areas or to explore collaboration opportunities.

Our top priorities include:

  1.  Continuation and expansion of participation and funding for the IAAE “Model of Excellence” mentoring program for beginning fine arts teachers.
  2. Presentation of the bi-annual Fine Arts Education Summit for all fine arts educators in June of 2025.  This event is done is collaboration with the Iowa Department of Education and the Iowa Arts Council.
  3. Implementation of a K-5 STEAM education plan for Iowa.
  4. Increased advocacy effort by IAAE to inform new legislators on the importance/benefits  of arts education in Iowa schools.

Geographical Areas Served:

Midwest, Rural/Remote, Suburban/Exurban, Urban,

Primary Audience Served:

Children (0-15), Higher Education institutions, Organization Administrators, Organizations, Pre-K Schools and Learning Centers, School Administrators, School-based Teachers, Youth (15-24),

Artistic Discipline:

Dance, Literature and Storytelling, Media Arts, Multidisciplinary Arts, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts,

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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