Now What? An Action Plan for Advancing Arts Education

Now What? An Action Plan for Advancing Arts Education

Description Join us for our closing plenary session centered on applying the key takeaways from the AEP Virtual Gathering to actionable policy recommendations developed by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. With a focus on turning the experience, knowledge...
Building a Holistic Narrative About Arts Education

Building a Holistic Narrative About Arts Education

Description The education landscape has changed dramatically over the past two years due to national and global events, and these shifts brought new and increased awareness about supporting young people not only in their learning but also for their social and...
Keynote and Conversation With Janel George

Keynote and Conversation With Janel George

During this plenary session, Janel George, senior policy advisor at the Learning Policy Institute, offers a keynote and conversation on education as a civil right and shares examples of anti-racist actions and policy changes — or those that are needed — to achieve a...
Keynote and Conversation with Paul Siefken

Keynote and Conversation with Paul Siefken

During this plenary session, Paul Siefken shares a keynote and conversation on the role of public television in ensuring that students have access to high-quality arts and media programming during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Presenter Bio Paul Siefken, president...
Virtually Free: Arts Education and Juvenile Justice

Virtually Free: Arts Education and Juvenile Justice

On a given day, more than 43,000 youth are held in residential placement facilities because of involvement with the juvenile justice system. Shine Global’s film “Virtually Free” follows teens detained in a Richmond detention center as they write and record poetry,...
Looking Back and Looking Forward: 25 Years of AEP

Looking Back and Looking Forward: 25 Years of AEP

This plenary session takes a trip down memory lane in recognition of AEP’s 25th Anniversary. Featuring speakers who paved the way for AEP alongside individuals who are blazing a trail for the next 25 years of arts education, they share the biggest successes of...

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

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

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