CAE: Community Arts & Education

Embracing Arts Education to Achieve Title 1 Goals

April 2nd, 2013 Comments Off

This week in Washington DC, at the Arts Education Partnership’s National Forum Spotlight: Educating the Next America, the California Alliance for Arts Education (CAAE) releases a new white paper, A Policy Pathway: Embracing Arts Education to Achieve Title I Goals.

Co-authored with Danielle Brazell of Arts for LA and Dr. Lauren Stevenson of Junction Box Consulting, the paper documents the journey CAAE has been traveling for the past eighteen months to make it possible for schools and districts to embrace arts strategies for achieving the goals of Title I and improving educational outcomes for low-income students who are often underserved in public schools.

CAAE's interest in this issue was spurred by the substantial body of research demonstrating that certain forms of arts education can be an asset to schools and districts in achieving Title I goals. Despite that research evidence and the support of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan who states that “Arts education remains critical to leveling the playing field of opportunity,” we have found a lack of clarity about whether and how the arts might play a role in Title I programs.

In response, the Alliance has been working to clarify a policy pathway—a shared understanding aligned across school, district, state, and federal levels of leadership regarding what is allowable when it comes to expending Title I funds on arts education. CAAE's hope is that this policy pathway will evolve into the natural landscape of Title I programs and strategies, supporting all students in achieving success. Read the paper. 

African American Art and Culture Complex Welcomes New Executive Director

March 7th, 2013 Comments Off

Kimberly Hayes joins AAACC staff as the new executive director

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 7, 2013
Contact: Michelle Parker, 415/922-2049
Email: info@aaacc.org 

HAYES TO USHER IN NEW ERA AT AFRICAN AMERICAN ART & CULTURE COMPLEX
New Yorker to Take Over Helm, Following Supervisor Breed’s Long Tenure

SAN FRANCISCO – The African American Art & Culture Complex has chosen Kimberly Hayes to take over as its new executive director, following the successful decade-long tenure of London Breed, who was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors last year.

Hayes hails from New York City, where she has spent the last seven years working for Viacom’s MTV Networks as a senior sales executive.  Hayes has a long history of volunteerism and community work, and set her sights on the AAACC job once Breed was elected in November.

“I'm thrilled to be joining the team at AAACC,” Hayes said. “Although I know I have big shoes to fill, I'm optimistic about the work to be done and how it will impact the center and the community.” (more...)

Deep Roots 11: Iron Mom and the Students at Hilltop

May 10th, 2013 Comments Off

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For the past three years, WritersCorps teaching artist Minna Dubin has been teaching at Hilltop, a San Francisco school for pregnant and parenting teens that enables them to complete their education.

This year, Minna brought together a group of 10 students who volunteered to collaborate with poet and performance artist Leticia Hernandez in a year-end performance about the realities of motherhood as women of color. The culminating event, titled Iron Mom: Not Just A Baby Mama, premieres at Brava Theater on May 14.

Hear from Minna, Leticia, and one of the young moms as the Arts Commission’s Cristal Fiel sits in on a few rehearsals in preparation for the performance.

About The ARTery Project

February 21st, 2012 Comments Off

Theatre Flamenco of San Francisco performs at Urban Solution's 2 Blocks of Art. Photo by Glenn Halog

The ARTery Project began as a series of art events taking place in the Central Market neighborhood coordinated by the San Francisco Arts Commission with a larger vision to develop the neighborhood into a lively and sustainable cultural district with arts at its core.

In 2010, with seed funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, projects included Art in Storefronts, temporary art installations in vacant storefronts; Lights on Market Street, three site-specific light installations; Market Street Blooms, two 20-foot tall steel flower sculptures; and a series of special events such as festivals, exhibitions, and performances hosted by neighborhood arts organizations. (more...)

About WritersCorps

July 17th, 2009 Comments Off

Roseli Ilano with student at Mission High School

San Francisco WritersCorps places professional writers in community settings to teach creative writing to youth.

Since its inception in 1994, the program has helped thousands of young people from neighborhoods throughout San Francisco improve their literacy and increase their desire to learn.
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