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In This Body – Dreaming Awake
John R. Killacky in “Dreaming Awake” (Photo by Laurie Toby Edison) Sixteen years ago, I had surgery to remove a tumor from inside my spinal cord. Although the tumor was benign, the surgery paralyzed me...
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Teacher Gets to Core Curriculum through the Blues
Jon rocks out with students. By day I am an elementary school teacher; by night I’m a wannabe blues musician. For years I kept these two callings separate, but with the Kids Like Blues Band, I found a...
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The Top 10 Skills Children Learn From the Arts
Lisa Phillips 1. Creativity – Being able to think on your feet, approach tasks from different perspectives and think ‘outside of the box’ will distinguish your child from others. In an arts program,...
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There is No Such Thing as ‘McArt’
MK Wegmann The topic of scalability, model projects, and replicability evokes the idea of franchising: perfect a process, carefully design the ingredients, control the actions of the people according...
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Use Arts Integration to Enhance Common Core
Susan Riley These days, integration in any area, be it STEM or the arts, seems to be the buzzword to curriculum designers everywhere. There are so many resources floating around out there with the...
View ArticleGetting to Know Our Staff: Kristen Engebretsen
In December 2012, Kristen Engebretsen, arts education program manager at Americans for the Arts, spoke with “V for Vitality” host Susan Brender for a podcast on WomensRadio.com. Brender, a former...
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Getting to Know Our Staff: Ten Questions with…Tim Mikulski
Selling our wares at the 2011 National Arts Marketing Project Conference. Last week we launched a new regular series on ARTSblog that spotlights the staff here at Americans for the Arts. While Kristen...
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What Are “The Arts” Anyway?
Howard Sherman Art. The arts. Fine arts. Performing arts. Visual arts. The lively arts. Arts & entertainment. Arts & culture. Culture. High culture. Pop culture. The preceding phrases are all,...
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Getting to Know Our Staff: Ten Questions with…Hannah Jacobson
Christine Meehan and Hannah Jacobson at our 2012 National Arts Policy Roundtable (Photo by Fred Hayes) We recently launched a new series on ARTSblog that spotlights the staff at Americans for the Arts...
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Concept-based Creative Dance for Babies & Toddlers
Rachael Carnes Babies and toddlers love to move! Any parent or caregiver can tell you that. For further demonstration, just look at the happy expression on their little faces as they flap their arms...
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Yo-Yo Ma Spins an Emotional Tale of “Art for Life’s Sake”
Tim Mikulski As I have been sitting back at my desk at Americans for the Arts this afternoon, I’ve had a hard time coming up with a way to describe what I experienced last night at The John F. Kennedy...
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2013 Annual Convention Spotlight: Exploring Pittsburgh’s Art Community
Michelle Clesse An installation art museum, a nationally renowned glass studio, and a cartoon museum walk into a bar. Just kidding. Museums and studios do not have legs, and therefore, cannot walk...
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Business Support for the Arts (from the pARTnership Movement)
Lane Harwell It is not coincidental that New York is a business and cultural capital; business and the arts are one. Arts and culture improve livability, drive tourism and economic development, and...
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A Tending
Aracelis Girmay I begin with that which is languageless. Gesture, wordless calls of grief or joy, exclamation, a dancer’s body moving in time. What John Edgar Wideman calls, in his essay “In Praise of...
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Teaching Artists: Applying the Breadth of their Skills
Nancy Ng The typical structure of 99% of U.S. non-profit arts organizations includes segregated artistic, administrative, and development departments. My colleagues who work in such segregated...
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