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June 11, 2018
external resource from Time, Meet the Parkland Teacher Behind That Emotional Performance at the Tony Awards
Herzfeld will receive the 2018 Excellence in Theatre Education Award at the 72nd Annual Tony Awards on Sunday — marking a positive start to the summer for her and her students after a difficult and life-altering past few months in the aftermath of the deadly shooting earlier this year.
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June 7, 2018
external resource from Vans Custom Culture, Vans Names Hixson High School In Tennessee 2018 Custom Culture Competition Winner; Awards $75,000
Vans, the original action sports brand and icon of creative expression, named Hixson High School from Hixson, Tennessee as the grand prize winner of the ninth annual Vans Custom Culture art competition. Vans and its program partners, including Journeys, Yoobi, Laguna College of Art + Design (LCAD) and Americans for the Arts, awarded $75,000 towards the school’s arts education program. The remaining finalists – Fontainebleau High School, Larned High School, Middle Township High School, and Moanalua High School – will each receive $10,000 toward their arts program and a limited-edition Vans gift.
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June 7, 2018
external resource from The Washington Post, There’s an edgy art show on tolerance. Where? At Betsy DeVos’s agency.
High-school students have contributed artwork to an exhibition at the US Department of Education on the theme of “Total Tolerance.” The display includes 20 works that explore themes related to racism, gender identity and immigration.
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June 7, 2018
external resource from Arts Professional, Global Teacher Of The Year – an Art Teacher – Says, ‘We Must Make Parents Value Arts In Schools.’
The arts and education sectors must collaborate more deeply to ensure parents value arts subjects and encourage their children to take them, or take up will continue to decline, Global Teacher of the Year Andria Zafirakou has warned. She urged the creative industries to come into schools to discuss their work and called for society to develop strong answers to the question: ‘What is art gonna get you’?
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June 7, 2018
external resource from Americans for the Arts, Schools Must Be Safe Places For Students To Learn And Pursue Their Passions
A nation plagued by school shootings watched the horror play out yet again in Southeast Texas when eight Santa Fe High School students and two teachers were killed and 10 others were wounded recently in the worst school shooting since the February assault on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Many of these victims were in an arts classroom making art at the time.
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May 3, 2018
external resource from The Wolf Trap Foundation, Wolf Trap Symposium to Explore How Arts Integration Supports STEM Learning
Wolf Trap will hold the third event of the Creativity Connects: Arts in Early Learning symposium series on May 7 in Charleston, S.C. This free, five-part series convenes community leaders to discuss early learning through the arts and how arts integration can improve outcomes for young children. This event will explore how performing arts serve as a tool for teaching science, technology, engineering and math skills in early childhood.
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May 3, 2018
external resource from Art21, Announcing Season 9 of Art21's Television Series, Art in the Twenty-First Century
At a gala celebrating their 21st anniversary, Art21 announced the upcoming season of their biennial television series Art in the Twenty-First Century. Continuing the thematic focus introduced in Season 8, the new season draws upon artists' relationships with the places where they live and work: Johannesburg, South Africa; Berlin, Germany; and the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA. Season 9 is presented in three parts and reveals the stories of twelve innovators in visual art--and, in a series first, a nonprofit art center. The new season premieres September 21, 2018 on PBS.
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