PARTNERSHIPS

National

• Arts Education Leadership Network Initiative
  • Investigation into Strong State Arts Education Partnerships
    • For the Greater Good: A Framework for Advancing State Arts Education Partnerships, March 2003
    • Sharing the Lessons Learned, Proceedings from a Gathering in Washington, DC, November 2001
    • Profiles of State Arts Education Partnerships (learn from the experiences of your colleagues)
      • FL
      • HI
      • MS
      • OH
      • SC
      • Submit a state arts education profile for your state (email it to Carmen Boston)
      • Suggested Template
  • Initiative Archive

• Arts Education Partnership
  • Various Partnership Publications including:
    • Teaching Partnerships: Report of a National Forum on Partnerships Improving Teaching on the Arts
    • Strengthening State-Level Arts Education Partnerships
• Creative Communities (partnership to provide out-of-school arts instruction to youth in public housing)
• Kennedy Center Partners in Education (national assistance with education partnerships for cultural organizations)
  • Local Partnership Teams

Regional

• A+ Schools Network (private-public partnership around arts-centered school reform)

State

• Approaches
  • NY: Empire State Partnerships (learning community of NY partnerships among arts & education organizations)
  • RI: RI Arts Learning Network (outgrowth of Governor's Literacy in the Arts Task Force)
  • SC: Arts in the Basic Curriculum (ABC) Project (SC coalition)
  • TX: Big Thought: A Learning Partnership (Young Audiences affiliate and umbrella organization for 7 programs)

• Guidelines
  • OK: ArtsPower Education Grant Guidelines

Local

• NY: Center for Arts Education (mediating organization bridging arts, cultural, and education communities in NYC)
• IL: Chicago Arts Partnership in Education (partnerships among schools, artistic community)
• NC: Cultural Education Collaborative (cultural collaboration between school district and Arts & Science Council)

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Photo credits
Top: Photo courtesy of the Mississippi Arts Commission.
Bottom: Photo by Jane Lamb, courtesy of the Brunswick Area Arts & Cultural Alliance.