Connie Walters,
Network Coordinator
Partners for Arts Education
501 West Fayette Street, Studio
221
Syracuse, NY 13204
Phone: 315-234-9911
E-Mail Connie Walters
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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 11, 2008
NYS
Arts Leader Appointed to National
Arts Education Council
Americans for
the Arts, the nation’s
leading nonprofit organization for
advancing the arts in America, has
appointed Laura Reeder, Founding
Executive Director of Partners for
Arts Education, to sit on its Arts
Education Council.
The Arts Education Council
represents the Arts Education Network,
a segment of the professional members
of Americans for the Arts, who work
to improve access to and quality
of arts education. The council provides
guidance on the development and execution of
programs and services that meet the
needs of the Arts Education Network.
“The economy of the 21st century
requires citizens to imagine the
new and bridge cultural differences
to solve problems,” said
Ms. Reeder. “The arts are crucial
to all learning in and out of the
classroom. The work of the Arts Education
Council brings creative innovation
to the center of our national dialog.”
Laura Reeder is the Newsbreak Editor
for the Teaching Artist Journal,
a visual teaching artist, pre-K–12
educator, and adjunct professor of
Cultural Foundations of Education
and Arts Integration for social-educational
settings at SUNY Oswego and Onondaga
Community College. She has been a
consultant/collaborator with the
New York State Council on the Arts,
the New York State Alliance of Arts
Organizations, Lincoln Center Association
of Institutes for Aesthetic Education,
and hundreds of schools and cultural
organizations. She had been
an advisor and “Firestarter” for
Silda Spitzer’s “Brain
Drain” initiative.
Partners for
Arts Education is a Syracuse-based
not-for-profit that provides funding
and support to deepen and enrich
educational experiences in and
through the arts for students,
teachers and artists. Through
the New York State Council on the
Arts, it has administered grants
totaling over $766,000 to schools
statewide since 2002. It also convenes
the state arts-in-education annual
conference and provides professional
support to the field.
Ms. Reeder is one
of three additions to the Council,
along with Miriam C. Flaherty Willis,
Senior Director of Education at Wolf
Trap Foundation for the Performing
Arts, Vienna, VA, and Lynn Tuttle,
Director of Arts Education at the
Arizona Department of Education.
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Partners for
Arts Education inspires learning and
leadership for arts in education in
Central New York and throughout New
York State. We provide funding and
support to deepen and enrich educational
experiences in and through the arts
for students, teachers and artists.
Partners
for Arts Education
Delavan Center Suite 221 501 W. Fayette
St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
315.234.9911 info@arts4ed.org www.arts4ed.org
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