ARTS AND COMMUNITY RESOURCES
A New Framework for Building Participation in the Arts available from the Wallace Foundation. Other material
about arts participation at http://www.wallacefoundation.org/WF/KnowledgeCenter/KnowledgeTopics/ArtsParticipation/
Creative Cities, Policies
and Practices available from the Canadian Policy Research Network.
Also available is "Creative
Cities: What Are They For, How Do They Work, and How Do We Build Them?"
Gifts of the Muse:
available from RAND. During the past decade, arts advocates have relied on
an instrumental approach to the benefits of the arts in arguing for support
of the arts. This report evaluates these arguments and asserts that a new
approach is needed. This new approach offers a more comprehensive view of
how the arts create private and public value, underscores the importance of
the arts’ intrinsic benefits, and links the creation of benefits to arts
involvement.
Arts Based Community Development: An excerpt from a keynote address given by William Cleveland at the Assembly
of BC Arts Councils’ Building Community, during the 2004 Conference, held in
Victoria during Arts and Culture Week 2004.
Art
in the Workplace: Innovation and Culture-Based Economic Development in
Canadian Small Cities. available from Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education of the University of Toronto.
| Community Arts Network | A website promoting information exchange, research and critical dialogue within the field of community-based art |
| Creative Communities.ca | Vancouver's community-based public art resource -- tells of a number of successful projects |
| Renfrew Colliingwood Arts Pow Wow | A multi-faceted project to bring artists and community members together to build community and enhance cultural capacity. |
| Community Arts Ontario Online | Community Arts Ontario serves as Ontario's only multidisciplinary, cross-sectional arts network. |
| Artists and Community | In neighborhoods across America, local residents and artists worked together to address concerns through the artistic process. |
| Art in the Public Interest | Art in the Public Interest (API) is a nonprofit organization that supports the belief that the arts are an integral part of a healthy culture |
Questions? Email us:
acw@assemblybcartscouncils.ca or bcartsweek@artstarts.com
ARTS AND EDUCATION RESOURCES
Acts of
Achievement: The Role of Performing Arts Centres in Education. (5.8 MB) This 168-page report comes from the
Dana Foundation, 2003. It provides the first study of K-12 education
programs offered by performing arts centres across the US, and showcases
74 performing art centre institutions, large and small, partnering with
their local schools. Performing arts centers, many for the first time,
are expanding their missions to provide arts education for nearby
schools, at the request of their communities. In many cases, artist
residencies and other educational outreach projects represent the only
arts programs available in schools.
Artists
Residencies: Evolving Educational Experiences. (223 kb) This 13-page
essay comes from the Dana Foundation, 2003, and outlines the development
of school residencies and offering four checklists for arts organization
coordinators, artists, teachers, and school coordinators planning to
develop residencies. The essay provides guidance for developing and
improving school residencies.
Art, Artists and
Teaching. (83 kb) (This brief report comes from a symposium hosted by Bennington
College and the J. Paul Getty Trust, June 2002. It outlines the results
of a June 2002 symposium that brought together leaders in the fields of
art and education to explore new ways to infuse the creative impulses of
the arts and artists into education in America. Similar to the other
arts education reports this report notes that effective change won't
come from unilateral efforts but through collaborative partnerships.
This report posits that the teaching of art is fundamental even critical
to developing a healthy and creative post-industrial society.
Creative
Connections: An Arts in Education Policy Consultation Paper. (295
kb) This consultation paper comes from the Western Australia Department
of Education and Training and Department of Culture and the Arts,
February 2003. It is intended as a first step in designing an arts
education policy for the State of Western Australia. The paper
identifies the arts in education are not merely curricular subjects, but
an area of learning that should be integrated into the overall education
system.
Champions of
Change: The Impact of the Arts on Learning. (1.5 MB) This study comes from the Arts Education Partnership and
the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, October 1999. The
study used seven teams of researchers to examine a variety of arts
education programs and explore why and how young people are changed
through their arts experiences and how the arts impact learning. They
found that learners can achieve higher levels of achievement through
their engagment with the arts. One of the critical research findings is
that the learning in and through the arts can help "level the playing
field " for youngsters from disadvantaged circumstances.
Critical Links:
Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development.
(639 kb) This report comes from the Arts Education Partnership, May
2002. It provides not only synopses of studies, but overviews in each of
the arts and across the arts. The reviews of 62 outstanding arts
education studies—and the interpretive essays—in Critical Links reveal
important relationships between learning in the arts and cognitive
capacities (thinking skills) and motivations that underlie academic
achievement and effective social behavior. The studies suggest that for
certain populations – students from economically disadvantaged
circumstances, students needing remedial instruction, and young children
– learning in the arts may be especially helpful in boosting learning
and achievement.
For the Greater
Good: A Framework for Advancing State Arts Education Partnerships.
(705 kb) This study comes from the National Assembly of State Arts
Agencies, March 2003. It summarizes factors that have contributed to
successful arts education partnerships at the state level in the US.
Much of the advice on how to build and sustain arts education
partnerships is relevant for Canadians and others looking to move arts
education projects forward.
Learning Through The
Arts. ( 643 kb) This report comes from Learning Through The Arts,
April 2003. It contains the results of a three-year, nation-wide study
on the value of arts in education of which ArtStarts in Schools was a
key participant. At the conclusion of a three-year study, students in
the study score as much as 11 percentile points higher in math than
their peers in non-LTTA schools, a Queen's University Study has found.
Led by Dr. Rena Upitis and Dr. Katharine Smithrim, the study was
designed to determine the effects of arts education on learning. In
total, more than 6,000 students and their teachers in LTTA and control
schools were involved in the research.
Questions? Email us:
acw@assemblybcartscouncils.ca or bcartsweek@artstarts.com
