The Voice of Arts Education in NJ:
Keeping you up to date in our field
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When it gets to be mid-July, I always start to feel like fall is right around the corner. There doesn't seem to be too much down time in the summer. In fact, this summer is filled with transitions: moving, graduations, and many big life changes. The NJAEP is taking time this summer to reach out to educators to ask them how the ARTS ED NOW campaign can help them in their teaching practice. Bob Morrison of the NJAEP and Ennis Carter of Social Impact Studios will lead a session on July 19 at the Educational Leaders as Scholars Conference. The session entitled -
ARTS ED NOW - Join the Conversation
will pose the following questions - What successes can you share with others about the arts programs in your school? Did you have a great arts teacher or teaching artist in your school who changed the way you think about learning?
We know that active
creative learning is good for all students...and good for New Jersey! Connect with the New Jersey Arts Education Partnership for an Arts Ed Now creative salon, where you will meet with experts to discuss and develop new strategies to promote arts education in your school. As a participant in an upcoming salon, you will directly contribute to the creation of a statewide 'toolkit' for educators, and come away with new tools to advocate for arts education.
Keep in touch with artsednow.org to see the progress of the toolkit and get a copy for your students.
New Jersey Arts Education Partnership
New Jersey Arts Education Partnership
16 Mount Bethel Road, Suite 202
Warren, NJ 07059
Phone: 908-542-9396
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New Jersey Arts Education Partnership Receives $100,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. More Than $82 Million Awarded for Arts Projects Nationwide
Warren, NJ
- National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $82 million to fund local arts projects across the country in the NEA's second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2017. Included in this announcement is an Art Works award of 100,000 to the New Jersey Arts Education Partnership to support the expansion of the ARTS ED NOW Campaign. The NEA received 1,728 Art Works applications and will make 1,029 grants ranging from $10,000 to $100,000.
"The arts reflect the vision, energy, and talent of America's artists and arts organizations,"
said NEA Chairman Jane Chu. "The National Endowment for the Arts is proud to support organizations such as the New Jersey Arts Education Partnership in serving their communities by providing excellent and accessible arts experiences."
We are honored to have been selected to receive this grant to support the expansion of the ARTS ED NOW campaign to bring arts education to all students in our state," stated Bob Morrison, co-director of the Partnership. " This grant serves as a validation of our collective impact approach to engage a wide range of stakeholders to develop a statewide effort to expand arts education opportunities for all students."
The New Jersey Arts Education Partnership, a coalition of all statewide stakeholders in arts education, received the grant for the expansion of the multi-year ARTS ED NOW campaign. ARTS ED NOW is a statewide public action initiative of like-minded organizations dedicated to the goal of expanding access to, and participation in, quality arts education for all students throughout New Jersey. Current support comes from the NJ State Council on the Arts, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation, Americans for the Arts, and a partnership team including all major statewide arts and education organizations and associations including New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association/Foundation for Educational Administration, ArtPride NJ, Education Law Center, New Jersey Education Association, New Jersey School Boards Association, NJTV. The NEA grant will support the third campaign phase of ARTS ED NOW for the 2017/2018 school year. This phase will empower local citizens with arts education data, will expand statewide public awareness/support for arts education and will implement arts education policies to achieve the campaign's overarching goals. The goals are by 2020:
- All students will have access to arts education
- Increase the number of schools providing more than two art forms
- Increase arts participation in elementary and middle schools to 100%
- Increase participation in high schools to 60%
- Increase school engagement with community resources
- Develop a statewide network of local stakeholders
New ARTS ED NOW initiatives will be launched in September of 2017 as part of the new school year.
To join the Twitter conversation about this announcement, please use
#NEASpring17.
For more information on projects included in the NEA grant announcement, go to
arts.gov
Bob Morrison
Co-Director
New Jersey Arts Education Partnership
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BLOG: ARTS ED NOW- LOCAL ACTION, COLLECTIVE IMPACT
Posted On July 12, 2017
This June the New Jersey Arts Education Partnership took part in Sustainable Jersey's 2017 Sustainability Summit, held at The College of New Jersey. A spirit of collaboration filled the air, as the theory of collective impact was made tangib...
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New Voices: Trenton Central High School's Dance Department Showcase
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On Friday, J
une 9, 2017, Trenton Central High School's Dance Department hosted their sixth dance showcase, New Voices. The Dance Department is part of the Visual and Perform
ing Arts Academy, one of four career-aligned academies under the umbrella of Trenton Central High School. The evening featured performances by students in the Boys Dance Too Ensemble, the Dance I classes, and Choreographer's Workshop, showcasing a range of experience from students who performed for the first time to those wishing to professionalize. Throughout the evening the celebration of student voice was the unifying factor. All of the pieces presented were either collaboratively choreographed between students and dance educator, Elizabeth Rose Zwierzynski, or completely student conceived, choreographed, and directed.
The six student-choreographed works were the culminating project of the Choreographer's Workshop class. The pieces ranged from exploring themes of identity, depression, cultural celebration, relationship building, dystopian society, and an exploration of movement qualities. Throughout the semester the students worked up to this project by exploring different improvisation scores and stimulus to inspire movement generation, applying conventional choreographic devices, structures, and forms, and creating proposals for their works including a project description, artistic statement, resume, and biography. After the students proposed their works, they collaboratively split their classmates as cast members and directed student rehearsals for the remainder of the semester. The curricular scope at TCHS presents a gradual release model that informs, nurtures, hones, and presents student voices. As TCHS Principal, Hope Grant, reflected in her closing announcement at the showcase, "This is a program that allows the students to become the teachers, and the teacher to become the facilitator".
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Commendation Presented Sussex Avenue RENEW School
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This past year was the school's 3rd year with AIE, and they'll be joining us again next year as an AIE school. Each year, the school has worked with teaching artist Kit Sailer on three different visual arts projects. This current school year (2016-17), Kit worked closely with the Principal, Darleen Gearhart, and the art teacher, Nelson Alvarez, on a project that was created by the 6th and 8th grade students. The students created a mosaic mural using glass tiles. The inspiration for the design came from music. Principal Gearhart arranged for rap artist President Philson to join the residency for a brief period. During his time with the students, President Philson led the students through exercises where each student wrote their own rap lyrics. These lyrics were then used as the inspiration for the design that the students created with Kit. The entire project was overseen and supported by the school's AIE Partner, Jackie Knox, from Young Audiences NJ & Eastern PA.
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- Pushcart Players ended their 2016-17 residency program at The Learning Center in Clifton, NJ with a poetry slam on June 20th. Guided by teaching artist, Gerald Fierst, the students wrote and read their poetry in front of the entire student body.
- Pushcart Players is currently running a summer promotion! Book your 2017-18 school assembly program now and receive $250.00 off!
- Back by popular demand! Pushcart Players is remounting "A Cinderella Tale ... happily ever after" for the 2017-18 year. Filled with beauty, grandeur, magic and wonder this beloved tale is given the trademark Pushcart spin! "A Cinderella Tale..." takes young and family audiences on that sometimes happy, sometimes sad - but always compelling journey fueled by inner beauty, courage and kindness as they triumph over greed and arrogance. A wondrous production that is sure to dazzle young audiences!
- Pushcart Players to present "Stone Soup & Other Stories" at Premiere Stages on July 26, 2017 at 10:30 a.m. (1000 Morris Avenue, Union, New Jersey 07083) - A well-seasoned blend of folk tales from Africa, India, Eastern Europe, and the United States, with a gentle emphasis on the joy of reading. Recommended for Ages 3 to 10. To purchase tickets, please call 908-737-SHOW (7469)
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Let's Keep the Arts in Our Schools
Active creative learning is good for all students...
and good for New Jersey!
LET'S DO MORE
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ARTSEDFACT: DID YOU KNOW...
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| Highlights from 2017 NJ State Teen Arts Festival & Scholarships
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The New Jersey State Teen Arts Festival commenced the 2nd year of its return and revival at Ocean County College in Toms River, NJ on May 31st, June 1st and 2nd.
Thousands of students, teachers, parents and arts advocates from across New Jersey gathered at Ocean County College for the three day state-wide showcase and celebration the accomplishments in arts education by educators and their pupils. This educational and community driven event would not be possible without the generous support of the Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation, New Jersey Education Association, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and the New Jersey State Council of the Arts.
The New Jersey State Teen Arts Festival is the statewide culminating celebration of the arts dedicated to inspiring New Jersey teen artists, educators, professional artists and arts advocates from all across the state to unite as one grand and all-inclusive community. The New Jersey State Teen Arts Festival strives to connect Teen Artists across the state to inspire collaborations amongst the young creative minds to invest in the pursuit of artistic professions and New Jersey Artist Network.
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Check out our SUMMER CREATIVE SESSIONS:
Must Not Miss Fall Events:
- September 10-16: Arts in Education Week Celebrations
- September 28th: The Second Arts Education Summit will take place, bringing together stakeholders from organizations throughout New Jersey. Check out the First ARTS ED SUMMIT SESSION
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#ARTSEDNOW Let's Get Active!
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