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Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment arts education, community partnership, MAEIA, MCACA, Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

Thank you, Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs for funding a portion of our work for 2016-17! We are so grateful for your partnership and the opportunity to continue to support communities in...

Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment arts education, arts equipment, arts field trips, arts supplies, community partners, cultural events, grant funding for the arts, Michigan Youth Arts, professional performance

Michigan Youth Arts announces two exciting grant opportunities. In summary: Arts & Culture Trek Grant Open: August 15, 2016 Close: October 21, 2016 Michigan Youth Arts, on behalf of the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, is offering...

Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment arts assessment, arts education, create, dance advantage, dance assessment, dance education, national standards in dance education, perform, respond, teaching dance

As dancers, we are consistently assessing performance- individually, technically, artistically, collectively, and so on.

Heather Vaughan-Southard Leave a Comment arts assessment, arts education, creative thinking, critical thinking, dance education, education, response assessments, teaching dance

I continually find myself in a situations appearing to be dominated by “either, or”. It has prompted me to think about this in terms of dance education. In (dance) education, consumers- and many providers- seem...

I continually find myself in a situations appearing to be dominated by “either, or”. It has prompted me to think about this in terms of dance education. In (dance) education, consumers- and many providers- seem...