- Visualize a World Where Support for the Arts Abounds. Take Action!
Have your voice heard in your backyard and on Capitol Hill. As professional art educators, we know and understand the essential value that visual arts education holds for learners.
But do others know and understand? Your school leaders? Parents? Your elected representatives? School Board members? Your local media? Who needs to hear your voice? What are the critical legislative issues affecting art education? - It's time we bring our knowledge and our voice to art education advocacy!
Don't know how to find your representatives? Do you need advice on how to engage with your elected officials? Look no further! This document has lots of helpful information.
Click on the links below to learn more:
- Why Art Education is Essential
- Why Art? Advocacy posters
- Arts More Than What You See
- Art Education Made Simple
- Letter from Secretary of Education - Arne Duncan
- 10 Lessons the Arts Teach
- Education and the Arts
- Schools and the Arts
- Advocacy and the Arts
- A Visual Arts Teacher Is
- NAEA Advocacy Resources
- Learning In A Visual Age
- Critical Evidence How the Arts Benefit Student Achievement
- The Creativity Crisis- Newsweek 2010
- Kennedy Center Arts Education Toolkit
- Tips for Parent Art Advocacy
- Art Educator Bookmark
- Art Educator Student Bookmark
This presentation was created for the Graduation Requirements Task Force but has a lot of good information on why Visual Arts Education is essential.
KAEA Survey on the Condition of the Arts- the responses are on different pages which you can scroll through along the bottom of the spreadsheet.