Partners for Arts Education

art$TART Grants Go to 17 CNY Schools
Once again, we are delighted to announce that 17 area schools are receiving funding through PAE for arts-in-education partnerships. You can read more about all the projects on our website. Here are the projects that will be taking place this spring:

Onondaga County:
- Allen Road Elementary (North Syracuse CSD) with Everson Museum of Art and painter Evelyn Fiorenza, "New York's Native Flora & Fauna - Bringing the Outside In"
- Danforth Middle School (Syracuse CSD) with Wacheva Cultural Arts, “The Sound of the Drums"
- Dr. Martin Luther King School (Syracuse CSD) with Syracuse Children's Theatre, "Understanding Life on the Underground Railroad"
- Franklin Magnet Elementary (Syracuse CSD) with musician Patti Heath, "Evolution of Sound"
- Grant Middle School (Syracuse CSD) with Point of Contact/Syracuse International Film Festival and video artist Tim Brachocki, "Video Postcard Project"
- Jowonio (private) with ceramicist Erin Murphy, "Nature's Cycles in Clay"
- McKinley-Brighton Magnet Elementary (Syracuse CSD) with storyteller Vanessa Johnson, "GRIOT"
- Montessori School of Syracuse (private) with weaver Sarah Saulson, "Weaving Connections"
- Salem Hyde Elementary (Syracuse CSD) with photographer Jennifer Wilkey, "SELF-Portrait"

Cayuga County:
- A. J. Smith Elementary (Union Springs CSD) with visual artist Mariam Raqib, "Afghanistan"
- Millard Fillmore Elementary (Moravia CSD) with theater artist Holly Adams, "Bird World"

Cortland County:
- Cincinnatus Central School (Cincinnatus CSD) with Everson Museum of Art, "Thinking Through Art"

Jefferson County:
- Carthage Middle School (Carthage CSD) with radio producer Joel Hurd, "Connect on Home"
- Mannsville Manor Elementary (South Jefferson CSD) with illustrator Kazuko Stone, "Haiku Arts Infusion"

Madison County:
- Madison High School (Madison CSD) with Earlville Opera House and visual artist Louise Nataluk, "Analysis of Self Through Literature and Art"
- Otselic Valley Elementary (Otselic Valley CSD) with photographer Willson Cummer, "The Many Parts of Me: Photography"

Oswego County:
- Oswego Middle School (Oswego CSD) with musician Dan Duggan, "Making Dulcet Sounds"

PAE Welcomes Fran Hradil
Partners for Arts Education is very pleased to welcome Frances Hradil as our Director of Strategic Development.

In this newly created role, Fran will develop, manage, implement, and evaluate a fund-development program to strengthen the capacity of arts-in-education partnerships between cultural organizations and schools in collaboration with a variety of funding stakeholders, managing staff and volunteers in agency-wide sponsorship, capital, endowment, and planned giving programs. She will also be responsible for securing grants from government agencies, private foundations and corporations that provide education and arts funding.

Fran most recently served as the Director of Development and Marketing at the Friends of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo. Prior to that she was Director of Development at the Syracuse Opera Company. Fran is a graduate of Leadership Greater Syracuse, and was honored as one of Central New York’s “40 Under 40” in 2006. She is an active member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, and Vice President on the Board of Directors of the George & Rebecca Barnes Foundation.

Silda Spitzer and Gail Burnaford at CommonGround
CommonGround, New York State’s arts-in-education annual conference, will feature among its keynote speakers this year NYS First Lady Silda Spitzer and education researcher Gail Burnaford. Ms. Spitzer has long been involved in education, literacy, and arts issues, including as a founder of both Project Cicero, the annual NYC book drive that builds classroom libraries in underserved schools, and Children for Children, which creates opportunities for young people from all backgrounds to grow involved through volunteering and service. She has served on the NY Blue Ribbon Commission on Youth Leadership and served on the Board of The Children's Museum of Manhattan.

Dr. Gail Burnaford is Professor of Teacher Education at Florida Atlantic University, where she teaches doctoral course work in program evaluation and instructional practices. She is the author of four books, most recently Arts Integration Frameworks, Research, and Practice: A Literature Review, an essential resource for anyone involved in the research, theories, or methods and practices of arts integration. Her State of the Arts in Palm Beach County: Where Do We Go From Here? motivated universities, community organizations, and the school district to join forces in developing and implementing a long-range plan of action for arts education and teacher professional development in the county.

You can read more on our website about what’s happening at CommonGround, which will be held April 9 – 11, 2008, at the Crowne Plaza in Albany. Registration opens mid-January.

Resources
SSO Offers Open Rehearsals for Students
Each season the SSO opens its doors to students and teachers to attend Open Rehearsals. During these rehearsals, students get a behind-the-scenes look at an SSO dress rehearsal. All open rehearsals are Fridays at 10 am. 2008 dates include:
January 18 Beethoven’s Eroica (all Beethoven program)
February 29 Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto (with Berlioz and Elgar)
March 14 Elliot Fisk’s Guitar Excursions/Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring (with Haydn and Vivaldi)
You can find out more about the music on the programs at the Symphony’s website. Attendance is free, but reservations are required. If you would like to attend any of these rehearsals with your students, contact Jocelyn Rauch, SSO Education Associate, at (315) 424-8222, x273.

Oswego and Madison-Oneida BOCES Arts-In-Education Showcase May 16, 2008
The Arts-in-Education Showcase is an opportunity for artists to present a preview of their program offerings to many people responsible for scheduling Arts-In-Education programs in their school buildings. Fourteen performing artists will showcase abbreviated versions of the performances they can present in schools. There will also be an exhibition area to meet artists and agents. The following criteria will be considered in selecting participating artists:

Teachers, librarians, parents, administrators, school board members, and PTO members are welcome to attend. This is a great opportunity to preview artists for your school's 2007-2008 Arts-In-Education programming. (Remember, if your school pays for artist visits using the BOCES AIE CoSer, the money spent can be designated as the required match for an art$TART arts integration grant, allowing you to extend the work of the artist into the school day for your class.) Find out more about the showcase at Oswego BOCES’ website.

ArtsEdge Offers Multimedia Music Game Online
“Perfect Pitch,” a new feature of ArtsEdge, is designed to introduce students in fifth through eighth grades to musical instruments. This Web-based, multimedia exploration enables students to “meet” orchestral instruments. Students can mix and match instrument sounds to create an orchestral team, and then test their musical know-how in an interactive quiz.

Opportunities
Tell Presidential Candidates You Support the Arts
You can send a letter in support of the arts to all the presidential candidates -- all in one shot. Please take a couple of minutes to go to Americans for the Arts’ ArtVote webpage. Customizing the letter generally gets more attention.

Syracuse Stage Young Playwright’s Festival
Deadline: February 11, 2008
"Staging the Future: The Young Playwright’s Festival" is an annual competition for Central New York students and their original one-act plays. Sixteen talented writers are selected to attend a workshop at Syracuse Stage. They meet with theatre professionals and work on honing their craft. A panel then invites finalists to a festival evening of staged readings that will take place in April. One lucky student will receive a $500 scholarship prize. The. For more information go to Syracuse Stage’s website.

Art Gallery at Cazenovia College Exhibition Prospectus for interested artists
Deadline: February 14th, 2008
The Art on Campus committee meets in the spring semester to review slide submissions for the following academic year. We generally mount six to seven group exhibitions per academic year. Artists interested in submitting their supportive materials for 2008-2009 please send the following to the gallery director at the address below:
- 100 word artist statement - hardcopy
- 100 word Biographical statement - hardcopy
- current exhibition vitae - hardcopy
- work documentation (20 slides), CD Rom or DVD
- past gallery announcements, catalogue tear sheets, etc.
- S.A.S.E. if you wish your supportive materials returned.

View Gallery Info: www.cazenovia.edu/art-gallery
Jen Pepper, Art Gallery Director
Cazenovia College
22 Sullivan Street, Cazenovia. New York 13035
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2008 New York State Summer School of the Arts
Brochures and application forms for the 2008 New York State Summer School of the Arts are now available. Students will be selected for the summer programs through regional portfolio reviews and media arts shows. Please visit the NYSSSA website for program and application details, review locations and dates - www.emsc.nysed.gov/nysssa/. If you would like a NYSSSA booklet, please contact:
New York State Summer School of the Arts
Room 866 EBA, State Education Department
Albany, NY 12234
Phone: (518) 474-8773 FAX: (518) 473-0770
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Coming Up Taller Awards Seeking Nominees
Deadline: January 31, 2008
The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) is inviting nominations for the 2008 Coming Up Taller Awards. In partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), we are embarking on the eleventh year of the Coming Up Taller Awards, which recognizes the accomplishments of exceptional arts and humanities after-school and out-of-school programs. Coming Up Taller finalists receive $10,000, an individualized plaque, and an invitation to attend the Coming Up Taller Leadership Enhancement Conference.

The 2008 nomination application can be found at the Coming Up Taller website, www.cominguptaller.org.

National Peace Essay Contest
Deadline: February 1, 2008
The United States Institute of Peace ‘s National Peace Essay Contest topic for 2007-08 is "Natural Resources and Conflict." Participants are asked to write a 1,500-word essay stating what they believe are the necessary elements for the development of fair, peaceful, or effective use of natural resources after a conflict.

Students grades 9 - 12 in a public, private, or parochial school, or participating in a high school correspondence program are eligible to participate. Entries from home-schooled students are also accepted. First-place state-level winners are awarded $1,000 each and compete for national awards. First-place state winners are also invited to Washington, D.C. (expenses paid) for the awards program.

Partners for Arts Education
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