Archive for February, 2014

Georgia Students – smARTer with the ARTS!

It’s the math teacher going to the art teacher saying what can we do together. Across the country, teachers and administrators are coming to a similar conclusion: art informs science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and vice versa. Consequently, they are pioneering new methods of teaching that combine disciplines which have been isolated from one […]

February 25, 2014 · admin · Comments Closed
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For the Poor, the Arts Are a Path to Opportunity

“To the Editor: Re: “N.E.A. Funds Benefit Both Rich and Poor, Study Finds” (Arts pages, Opinion, New York Times, Feb. 5): A few years ago, a homeless girl in Los Angeles walked into a community arts center. Her name is Inocente. An Oscar-winning documentary by the same name told the story of how the arts […]

February 19, 2014 · admin · Comments Closed
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ArtsGeorgia – THE ARTS VOTER REGISTRATION CAMPAIGN

Valentine’s Day 2014, ArtsGeorgia launches THE ARTS VOTER Registration Campaign. Do you love the arts? Do you want to see arts funding increased? Are you registered to vote? Will you help us register 5,000 new arts voters before the next election? Find the forms and learn how to register here, http://sos.ga.gov/index.php/Elections/register_to_vote Download a fillable, postage-paid […]

February 14, 2014 · admin · Comments Closed
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NEA Chair Named

President Obama announced Wednesday that he plans to nominate Jane Chu as chair of the National Endowment for the Arts — a position that has remained vacant for more than a year. “Jane’s lifelong passion for the arts and her background in philanthropy have made her a powerful advocate for artists and arts education in […]

February 13, 2014 · admin · Comments Closed
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Georgia Students – smARTer with the ARTS!

Americans for the Arts, along with twelve other arts and educational advocacy organizations, has released “A Shared Endeavor: Arts Education for America’s Students.” This document articulates the purpose and value of arts education in the balanced curriculum of all students, asserting its place as a core academic subject area, and detailing how sequential arts learning […]

February 11, 2014 · admin · Comments Closed
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Atlanta Ranks No. 1 on List of the 10 Best Cities to be an Artist!

“There was one more thing that surprised us in our compiling of this list: all of the cities in the top 10 have a population of less than a million people. Where one might expect to see the Big Apple, Chicago or Los Angeles, they instead found Minneapolis, Nashville and Atlanta. This list showed that […]

February 5, 2014 · admin · Comments Closed
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