PAE Postcard September 2008

Apply for an art$TART Grant
Teachers: Are you ready to bring the arts into your classroom?
Artists: Are you ready to share your artistic process with students?
Cultural Organizations: Are you ready to excite the next generation about your art form?

It's time for you to apply for an art$TART grant! Up to $2500 in matching funds is available for partnerships between teachers and teaching artists or cultural organizations that use an art form to teach to the NYS Standards in any subject. (Up to $5000 is available for schools that have successfully completed an art$TART partnership and are ready to deepen their practice.)

Applications will be due October 27, and there are grant-writing orientation sessions in September in locations around Central New York (Auburn, Pulaski, Watertown, Potsdam, Verona, East Syracuse) to answer your questions and make it easier for you to apply. Check our website for updates on locations near you.  If you would like to attend any of these sessions, please RSVP to Sue by email or phone at 234-9911.

Arts in Mind Update
We are happy to welcome two new schools to the Arts in Mind initiative this year – Frazer School and Van Duyn Elementary. They join last year's pilot schools – Danforth, Franklin, Grant,  and McKinley-Brighton – that are bringing the arts into their buildings as part of their whole-school planning process. We also have nine local cultural organizations making their offerings available for access, alignment, integration, and professional development in schools. The R/E/D Group LLC, an independent evaluation organization (affiliated with the Office of Professional Research & Development at University College), is currently compiling data from the 2007-08 school year, which we eagerly await.

You can read about last year's pilot partnerships at the Arts in Mind website. We are looking forward to another successful year of bringing schools and arts together for Syracuse's children.

Coming Soon – Online Auction to Benefit PAE
In mid-October PAE will be launching its first online benefit auction! For a few weeks, you'll be able to bid on an exciting array of vacation packages, artwork, entertainment, merchant services, and other delights for yourself or for gift-giving. Look for details arriving in your mailbox soon.

If you would like to donate a tax-deductible item or service for auction, or would like to become an auction sponsor, please contact Kristin Swift by email or at 315.234.9911.

Resources
Picturing America offers high-quality reproductions of American art
Application Deadline: October 31, 2008
Application at http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/
Picturing America is a tool for teaching that uses art as a catalyst for the study of America—the cultural, political, and historical threads woven into our nation’s fabric over time. The package of materials includes forty 24” x 36” high-quality color reproductions of selected American masterpieces, a Teachers Resource Book providing a wide range of ideas and background information to support educators using the works of art in core subject areas, and additional resources and lesson plans available through PicturingAmerica.neh.gov . Public, private, parochial, and charter and home school consortia (K-12), as well as public libraries, are eligible to receive Picturing America awards. The application period concludes October 31, 2008 (for delivery in the Spring of 2009).

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Partners for Arts Education
Delavan Center Suite 221  501 W. Fayette St.  Syracuse, NY  13202
315.234.9911  info@arts4ed.org  www.arts4ed.org

State of the Arts

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