New York City welcomes the American Education Research Association back for its annual conference, “Dreams, Possibilities and Necessity of Public Education” Thousands of researchers from around the country are gathering to listen, review, feedback and pushback on the latest research … Continued
I have been invited to this congressional briefing this Thursday and want to share the details with you! Congressional Briefing Remarks by Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) Thursday, April 12, 2018 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (ET) 216 Hart Senate Building, Washington, … Continued
Introduction I thought it would be interesting to post the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ definition of arts integration. The JFK Center for the Performing Arts is one of the nation’s largest users of this type of … Continued
Big Week This week, in the span of two days, the trillion dollar budget passed with increases in arts funding and the students marched everywhere for their lives! What a week! Arts Advocacy Day I had been up on the … Continued
Arts Advocacy Day I was in Washington last week for Arts Advocacy Day where I met the legislative staff for 8 congress-people and 2 senators. The process includes a day of organizing by state, reading and understanding the briefing book … Continued
All of today’s blog comes from the three organizations who are linked in the first line…go there for more! AEP State Policy Symposium The Arts Education Partnership, with generous support from Americans for the Arts and the John F. Kennedy Center … Continued
When I wondered into the Pompey Museum of Slavery and Emancipation in downtown Nassau, Bahamas, I found a one room exhibit. What I did not expect was to find Christopher Davis, the museum’s historian speaking so eloquently about the exhibit, … Continued
Making Policy One of the things that make a difference in our world is our ability to take good ideas and make good policy from them. How hard is that? Very. Good ideas have been eaten by bad policy for … Continued
Where is Art? When I want to see some art, I turn to my museum. I was brought up by a family who regularly took me to the museums in New York City and who asked me to see what … Continued
Context David Byrne’s, “How Music Works,” (2012), starts with the chapter called, “Creation in Reverse.” In this first chapter, Byrne’s insight is that “context determines what is written, painted, sculpted, sung or performed” (page 13). He argues that artists don’t … Continued