ArtsEd Digest

The ArtsEd Digest is AEP’s bi-monthly newsletter highlighting news from AEP partner organizations and the field, including reports, research and job opportunities.

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2025

Jan. 8, 2025 – ArtsEd Digest | What Would You Like to See at the Annual Convening?

2024

Dec. 18, 2024 – ArtsEd Digest | Newest AEP Partners and Affiliates

Nov. 27, 2024 – ArtsEd Digest | Register for the Dec. Partnership Meeting!

Nov. 13, 2024 – ArtsEd Digest | New Arts Education Data Report!

Oct. 23, 2024 – ArtsEd Digest | AEP Partnership Directory

Oct. 9, 2024 – ArtsEd Digest | Join AEP’s Advisory Council!

Sept. 25, 2024 – ArtsEd Digest | Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships

Sept. 11, 2024 – ArtsEd Digest | 2024 National Arts in Education Week

Aug. 28, 2024 – ArtsEd Digest | August 2024 Policy Update

Aug. 14, 2024 – ArtsEd Digest | The Annual Convening is One Month Away!

July 31, 2024 – ArtsEd Digest | Cultivating a Sustainable Educator Community

July 10, 2024 – ArtsEd Digest | Future Educator Pathway Success Story

June 26, 2024 – ArtsEd Digest | Registration Is Open For The Annual Convening!

June 12, 2024 – ArtsEd Digest | Arts Education in Juvenile Justice Systems

May 29, 2024 – ArtsEd Digest | Meet Our Newest Affiliates!

May 15, 2024 – ArtsEd Digest | Arts Education Policy Update

May 1, 2024 – ArtsEd Digest | Register for Our Next Town Hall!

April 17, 2024 – ArtsEd Digest | In-Person Partnership Meeting

April 3, 2024 – ArtsEd Digest | 2024 ArtScan Update

March 20, 2024 – ArtsEd Digest | Annual Convening Call For Proposals

March 6, 2024 – ArtsEd Digest | Check Out Our Latest ArtsEd Amplified Posts!

February 21, 2024 – ArtsEd Digest | Submit A Session Proposal For ECS National Forum

February 7, 2024 – ArtsEd Digest | Feedback for Annual Convening Content

January 24, 2024 – ArtsEd Digest | 2023 AEP Annual Report

January 10, 2024 – ArtsEd Digest | Welcome ECSs New President!

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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