Looking for fun ways to incorporate the arts in your new lesson plans? Check out smART breaks, an interactive social […]
During AEP’s August quarterly partnership meeting, we discussed the positives, challenges and questions revolving around the use of artificial intelligence […]
The Origin Story The Connected Arts Networks (CAN) is a 5-year grant initiative funded by the U.S. Department of […]
The university environment creates a unique intersection of financial, social and academic stressors. Within our research, students identified specific personal […]
Through qualitative interview analysis, our research team uncovered several common themes across participant interviews. “Perfectionism. Burn-out. Alone or in front […]
In the spring of 2023, Researchers Sofia Pineda-Velez, Jasmin Storer, Grace Chavez and Sam Searfoss conducted a qualitative, human-based research […]
The first time I encountered the concept of cultural democracy was on a 2 train in Brooklyn. I was on […]
When choosing to go into battle, one must choose precision weapons. To fight anxiety and depression my weapons of choice […]
How do we make school improvement efforts impactful and lasting? Traditionally, school improvement efforts only address academic improvement and fall […]
The journey of a child through making meaning was one of the foundational learnings from the Arts Education Partnership’s work […]
Individuals navigate the world through the senses and textures of life, grounding us in our common humanity. Linking literacies and […]
My name is Sloka, and I am a neuroscientist and classical Indian dancer from Ahmedabad, India, and I now live […]
My first encounter with interdisciplinary instruction did not happen voluntarily. During my first year of teaching music, I was responsible […]
A powerful arts education, as defined by the Hewlett Foundation, inspires students to bring their full selves and their communities […]
My work as a teaching artist and arts administrator centers student artmaking. I have not always approached teaching and curriculum […]
“In curatorial practice, attending to decisions made in selecting, organizing, analyzing, and documenting content, as well as reviewing the evidence […]
Have you ever listened to children discuss an emotive work of art inside a museum? By visiting an art museum, […]
Literacy as it relates to reading and writing has been a passion of mine since I was an elementary art […]
Arts Education Partnership had a conversation with Prince Nwankwo about his arts experiences with Everett: Company Stage & School while […]
I love hats. Ever since I was a kid, I’ve enjoyed wearing them, from fitted baseball caps to vintage snap-backs […]
Background In late 2020, the Arts Education Partnership began exploring intersections of arts education and literacy. While connections between the […]
On August 2nd, Performing Statistics, a partner of Arts Education Partnership (AEP), announced the release of Freedom Constellations. This interactive […]
The educator and playwright Timothy McDonald once described theatre as “the superfood of the arts.” He was speaking to a […]
In 2010, Austin Classical Guitar (ACG) expanded our 20-year school-based guitar education program to the Gardner Betts Juvenile Justice Center, […]
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: False Binaries | Artist: MJ Robinson | Medium: Graphite on paper with digital edits
