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AIE Possibilities

The Arts Center's Arts in Education Program works collaboratively with parents, teachers, and administrators to create residency and arts education programs that best fit the individual school community. Examples of individualized programs include:

College Hill Alternative High School: Providing elective art classes for high school students on a weekly basis.

Celebration of Youth Arts: An annual project that sponsors artists to work with classroom teachers on arts integration. Funded projects are exhibited in the Arts Center's main gallery. During its first year, the Celebration of Youth Arts worked with over 1000 children in 509j school district.

Annual High School Exhibit: An extension of the Celebration of Youth Arts. The Arts Center's Education and Exhibition program collaborates with local High Schools to sponsor and present a juried exhibit of HS student work.

Extended Residencies: Artists working in elementary school level for 3 weeks to 6 months.

Cultural Specialist Programming: Sponsorship of assembly programs that focus on traditional and contemporary art forms of various cultures. For example; 2009 Pow Wow and Inter-tribal Drumming assembly at geographically isolated Linn/Benton County schools.

Why Art?

• Arts transform the school environment to one of discovery and learning
• Students consistently involved in music and theater show higher levels of success in mathematics and reading
• Arts and Culture lead to increased parental involvement in schools and their student’s education
• Students who participate in school band or orchestra have the lowest levels of current and lifelong use of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs among any group in our society. - H. Con. Res. 266, United States Senate, June 13,2000
• An 11-year national study that examined youth in low-income neighborhoods found that those who participated in arts programs were much more likely to be high academic achievers, be elected to class office, participate in a math and science fair, and win an award for writing an essay or poem
• The arts lead to increased test scores
• According to the College Board, SAT scores in 1995 for students who studied the arts for more than four years were 59 points higher on the verbal and 44 points higher on the math portion than students with no coursework or experience in the arts
   

Individual Artists

Short, targeted workshops to full-year residencies are available.

• Design residencies to complement your current arts education program
• Focus on targeted age groups
• Work with less students+ offer more time = quality program
• Integrate your curriculum
• Offer teacher workshops

Arts and Culture Specialists

Expand your curriculum to include visual or performing arts on a weekly basis

• Contract for a consistent, quality program
• Individualize curriculum for schools and communities
• Integrate in-school or after-school classes