Special Guest: June Choi from the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors' NYS Music Fund

How the newly granted NYS Music Fund Awards may impact the larger field of arts in education

Many NYS organizations have received NYSMF awards that will affect their arts-in-education programming. As our world becomes increasingly connected and interdependent, we have greater opportunities to exchange common experience and complementary knowledge/skills. The NYS Music Fund presents a current creative opportunity for our field. Join us for a discussion on how to leverage these funded projects toward lifting the AIE field. We will explore new opportunities for promotion, research, and development that may lead to increased recognition and funding for AIE work.

Thursday 11:00-12:30

Conference Strand: Education/Policy Reform

Educators: will have greater understanding of their access to external resources and actions that are being generated to support their work and mission

Artists: will know the larger shape of their individual work to the whole AIE profession

Organizational Administrators: professionals will increase their capacity to collaborate across the field to leverage funding from larger sources for whole system reform

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Laura Reeder applies her expertise as a visual artist, K-12 school teacher, and cultural administrator toward helping educators make the best use of their cultural resources. She is a panelist for the NYSCA, teaching fellow for Empire State Partnerships, adjunct Education Professor at SUNY Oswego and Onondaga Community College, and has served as independent arts education consultant with the Institute for Aesthetic Education, NYS Education Department, and numerous school districts and cultural centers. She has completed a BFA from Syracuse University, an MFA from Boston University, and post graduate research in arts administration.

June W. Choi works primarily on the New York State Music Fund, a multi-million dollar competitive grants program established by the New York State Attorney General as a result of a series of investigations into the practice of “pay-for-play” in the music industry. Over the past eighteen years, she has worked as an independent consultant with organizations ranging from startup community-based dreams to established institutions on change issues, organizational effectiveness, and philanthropy. She has also served as Executive Director of the Asian American Arts Alliance.