Events

Do you create using recycled materials? Are you inspired by a pile of cans? Do automotive parts get your creative juices flowing? Does trash become something beautiful in your hands? Then American Craft Week is looking for you! American Craft Week is searching for 25 exceptional craft artists who make their art out of recycled materials. Entries accepted until midnight, Friday, June 22.

Learn how you can use the recently released Creative Youth Development (CYD) National Action Blueprint as a resource in your work to advance the role of creativity in youth development. Led by the CYD National Partnership and a cross-sector coalition, this one-hour, interactive forum is designed for CYD practitioners and alumni, funders, researchers, and allied youth sector leaders.

STEAM and project-based learning work together. From cross-curricular learning and the processes of inquiry and problem-solving to “the four C's,” our educator panel will showcase classroom-tested approaches. The creative economy is the future. Will your students be future ready? This is a FREE live event.

An arts education professor is working to remove barriers to participation and creation in visual arts for students who are blind or have low vision through the Sensory: Please Touch the Art workshop series. Launched in 2016, the workshop program engages teens and adults in visual arts instruction exploring different topics, including expressing emotion and approximate perspective, and allows them to create and exhibit their own artwork.

AEP Director Jane R. Best will join Joe Landon, executive director, and Laura Smyth, Title I program director, at CAAE for the Leveraging the Every Student Succeeds Act to Advocate for the Arts webinar at 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday, May 29. This webinar will provide an overview of ESSA and opportunities for the arts in education under this new law — including how states addressed the arts in their ESSA plans — and will explore CAAE’s Title I initiative.

STEAM and project-based learning work together. From cross-curricular learning and the processes of inquiry and problem-solving to “the four C's,” our educator panel will showcase classroom-tested approaches. The creative economy is the future. Will your students be future ready? Click here to attend this free live event.

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.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ VSA Intersections: Arts and Special Education Conference, taking place Aug. 7-8 in Atlanta, convenes professionals in arts education and special education to explore equitable access to art-based and arts-integrated instruction for students with disabilities. Attendees will have opportunities to share timely information and knowledge in research, practice, programs and policy to help drive educational improvement for students with disabilities. Early-bird registration rate ends June 30.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ VSA Intersections: Arts and Special Education Conference, taking place Aug. 7-8 in Atlanta, convenes professionals in arts education and special education to explore equitable access to art-based and arts-integrated instruction for students with disabilities. Attendees will have opportunities to share timely information and knowledge in research, practice, programs and policy to help drive educational improvement for students with disabilities. Early-bird registration rate ends June 30.