Arts Education Network News October 2004

In this Issue:

Meet the Partners
Take a minute to acquaint (or re-acquaint) yourself with the people that bring quality support to your arts in education mission. Partners for Arts Education has recently undergone a strategic-planning process that will result in a re-structuring of our board of directors, staff, and advisory boards to better serve the needs of our colleagues all over New York State. Stay tuned for our board & advisory introductions in the months to come. In the meantime, stay in touch with the folks that continue to keep you informed, funded, connected, and highly professional!

Laura Reeder, Executive Director
My title never changes, but the reach of my work with all of you is ever-widening. Please call on me for broad strokes to paint the picture for all of the programs described below. I am deeply committed to developing panels, networks, and resources that use the expertise from New York State and national professionals in all that we do.

RJ Rapoza, Administrative Director
As AD I'm working on many things in support of PAE's overall mission.  Currently my work centers around coordinating the Common Ground conference, refining and re-visioning the administration of NYSCA's Technical Assistance Program (TAP), and overall fund development for the New York State PAE programs.

Georgia Popoff, CNY Community Coordinator
My major contribution to PAE is to coordinate the CNY Arts-in-Education Roundtable.  This gives me the chance to work with school districts, teaching artists, and cultural/community organizations in our 9-county region.  I am also the office administrator, which I hope helps our office serve you well.

Sue Stonecash, Funding Coordinator
My role at PAE is to administer the CNY art$TART grant and the state-wide School Arts Partnership (SAP) grant.  I try to offer our constituents counseling on the logistics of applying and implementing a partnership and help with coordinating the funding process.

Connie Walters, Network Coordinator
My job at PAE is to make it easy, pleasurable, and (especially) productive for the arts in ed community to use Partners as a resource for information. I put together this newsletter, take care of local and statewide e-mailings and press releases, and maintain our website.

Funding
SAP Grant Update
2004 - 05 SAP Grants Recipients
We congratulate this year's recipients of SAP Grants. As always, it was an intense and exhilarating process to see over 67 well-constructed partnerships in the making. As always, it was redeeming to see the fingerprints of the Empire State Partnerships all over these plans. There is no question that the investment of our hearts to school reform in and through the arts is working.

You can find out more about them at http://www.arts4ed.org/funding/SAP2_summary.shtml .

Technical Assistance
Common Ground '05
Planning is in full swing for next year's Common Ground Conference. You can get up to date information at http://www.arts4ed.org/conference/CG05/index.shtml. Regional advisory committees have been meeting around the state (Buffalo region, Rochester region, Southern Tier, CNY, Hudson region, Capital/Adirondack region, NYC, LI) - contact your local Arts Ed Roundtable or LCB for more information.

These regional committees will be encouraging the local arts-in-ed community to develop workshop proposals (see below), reminding their colleagues about TAP funds available for CG05 (see below), generating energy and excitement, and revisiting evaluation outcomes from last year's conference to shape development for this year.

Workshop RFP's due Dec 3
We are looking forward to another batch of outstanding workshops.  If you are interested in presenting a workshop at CG05 you can access the RFP at http://www.arts4ed.org/conference/CG05/RFP.shtml . The deadline for RFP's is December 3.

TAP funds available
TAP funds will be available to help cover conference fees. There are three deadlines for TAP CG05 - December 1, February 1, and March 1. It never hurts to plan ahead. Information on the special TAP CG05 grant application is available on our website at http://www.arts4ed.org/funding/TAP/TAP_CG05.shtml

For those of you who like a little friendly competition - we want to see who can register the most members of a NYSCA-funded partnership team. If your team comes as the delegation with the most partners, there will be special rewards and recognition! The record was set last year at 12, by Andy Salgado and his gang from InCollaboration! Bonus points will be extended for first-time attendees, parents, & teachers. Start signin' 'em up!

Resources
Website of the Month
October is National Arts and Humanities Month.  Check out the website for American for Arts, sponsor of the "Arts. Ask for more." campaign, and the coordinator of this event at http://www.americansforthearts.org/services/visibility/nahm.asp .  They also have tips for parents to keep their children actively involved in the arts at http://www.americansforthearts.org/issues/otherinterests/other_article.asp?id=1006

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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.

The Arts Education Network News is a free service of Partners for Arts Education. All of our programs are made possible with public funds from the NYS Council on the Arts and individual sponsors.

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