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Partners for Arts Education’s Reeder Joins Teaching Artist Journal

(May 16, 2006; Syracuse)Laura Reeder, Executive Director of the Syracuse-based nonprofit Partners for Arts Education, has agreed to take on the position of Newsbreak Editor for Teaching Artist Journal (TAJ).

TAJ is an international quarterly publication from the Center for Arts Policy at Columbia College in Chicago, and is the leading peer-reviewed periodical for addressing practice, research, theory, opinion, and issues related to teaching artists (professionals with skills in both teaching and the arts). It is published by Lawrence Earlbaum Associates. The founding editor was arts education innovator, Eric Booth.

Ms. Reeder will edit the “Newsbreak” section of TAJ, which disseminates information on changes in the field, conferences, grant opportunities, and advocacy occasions.

Said Nick Jaffe, editor-in-chief, “Laura brings tremendous vision, experience and energy to our editorial team. We're very fortunate to have her in this role that can be so important to sharing important developments and making vital connections across the field. I'm sure her contributions to building and shaping the journal will extend far beyond the Newsbreak section.”
Ms. Reeder maintains an exciting balance in the arts education arena as a visual teaching artist, an arts specialist, a college professor, a museum educator, and mother. She works closely with the New York State Council on the Arts, Empire State Partnerships, the Institute for Aesthetic Education, and hundreds of schools and cultural organizations in and beyond the state of New York to deepen the role of the arts in our everyday lives.

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