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Have you heard? It is National Arts Education Week! September 11-17, 2016. The National Arts Education Week page on the Americans for the Arts website offers three...
Continue ReadingHeather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment Americans for the Arts, Arts Advocacy, arts education, artsedweek, becauseofartsed, impact of the arts
Have you heard? It is National Arts Education Week! September 11-17, 2016. The National Arts Education Week page on the Americans for the Arts website offers three...
Continue ReadingHeather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment arts education, dance, dance education, dance professionals, michigan dance council
This past Sunday, dancers leaders from around Michigan gathered at the Happendance School to address new initiatives and to gather input about what Michigan Dance Professionals need, including in the K-12 sector. The MAEIA tools...
Continue ReadingCarrie Jeruzal Leave a Comment arts assessment, arts education, Carrie Jeruzal, design process, design thinking, mishaps, object design, parenting, redesign, V.T209, visual arts
Just like great art, great art education is often inspired by personal experiences. But, not always in the way one might expect…. A couple of years ago my oldest daughter’s class was holding a...
Continue ReadingElizabeth Andrews Leave a Comment arts classrooms, arts education, compassion, dance education, empathy, kindness, leadership, teaching, teaching arts
It is 8:00 in the morning. I left my house at 6:30 to drive over an hour in order to be ready when my less-than-exuberant high school students enter the dance studio. They are here for Dance...
Continue ReadingHeather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment Creative Many Michigan, Creative State Michigan, DataArts, MCACA, Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs
Dear MAEIA community, Below is a message from Creative Many Director of Public Policy and Advocacy, Sarah Gonzalez Triplett. Creative...
Continue ReadingJoni Starr Leave a Comment arts education, arts integration, communication, creative process, creative thinking, critical thinking, Joni Starr, social intelligence, transferable knowledge
Arts education benefits students because it affords them creative capacity and this allows students to be a part of making their own education instead of just receiving it. The creative process asks students to be...
Continue ReadingBarb Whitney Leave a Comment Americans for the Arts, Arts Advocacy, arts education, Barb Whitney, Kalamazoo College, Lansing Art Gallery, portfolio career, The All-American Singers
I haven’t always thought of myself as an artist or an arts advocate. I currently serve as the executive director for Lansing Art Gallery & Education Center. I am proud to lead the work...
Continue ReadingHeather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment COVID-19, dance, music, Online Learning, Resources, theatre, visual arts
In light of COVID-19 and our commitment to support arts educators and families, the MAEIA social media pages will be ramping up our posts sharing tools and resources to keep kids creating. Find us on
Continue ReadingJoni Starr Leave a Comment Gratitude
At this time of year in particular, we pause for the practice of gratitude. We assess our lives through the question, “What am I grateful for?” My answer often includes creativity, the ability to see...
Continue ReadingIn this blog post we are thrilled to introduce the ponderings of Jim Dalling as found in his Remarkable Fools Letter series. Recently Jim was talking with his 14-year-old daughter about how people...
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