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Mapping the MarComm Continuum
Clayton Lord As the marketing and communications director at an arts service organization, I’m often approached by marketing directors at our over 300 member companies with questions about various...
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Yes, And?
Anamika Goyal Stunned. It’s really the only word to describe my reaction to all of the previous posts. As a newly-minted, 21-year-old college graduate, I become quickly overwhelmed by the plethora of...
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How Do We Define Quality, Engagement, & Partnership in the Arts Education World?
Jane Remer It is always useful for me when starting a discussion about the arts as education to search for definitions that may help to bring participants closer together with the language we chose in...
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Quality Education Must Include the Arts…and Partnerships
Joyce Bonomini Arts education is my passion and I believe a solution to most problems in the world. I could stop there, but I won’t. I am fortunate to lead a team of arts educators and administrators...
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Building Commonly Valued Outcomes & Committing to the Journey
Jennifer Bransom Confession time, I’m writing this second blog in advance of the first blog being published (this is how publication works). So, I am hoping we’ve had a widely successful conversation...
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Where We Are & Where We Ought to be Going
Jane Remer In my first post, I suggested we needed definitions of quality, engagement, and partnership. I offered my thoughts on these three issues and left a “tentative conclusion” saying we probably...
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DREAM & TELL!: Arts Integration Models at Work (Part One)
Merryl Goldberg In considering quality, engagement, and partnerships, I’m really thrilled to be writing about DREAM and TELL! Developing Reading Education through Arts Methods (DREAM) is a four-year...
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The Creative Process Ensures Quality Instruction
Joyce Bonomini As a practitioner, I have often taken quality, engagement and partnership for granted: they are a given. How could you live without any of them? In fact, none of these factors exist...
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So…What’s Your Equation for Quality?
Kristen Engebretsen I hope that everyone has enjoyed reading the various thoughts and stories from leaders across the country during our bi-annual Blog Salon (come back in September for our second...
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What We Bring to the Table: Understanding Community Arts Impact on Youth
Rebecca Yenawine I have been a community arts practitioner in Baltimore City for the last 15 years. After years of being asked by funders how my program evaluates its outcomes and answering with...
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Small Enough to Succeed
Doug Borwick I have, for most of my life, been suspicious of the “growth is good” assumption that we often make in this country or did as I was growing up. (Sometimes when I replay in my mind the...
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A Tending
Aracelis Girmay I begin with that which is languageless. Gesture, wordless calls of grief or joy, exclamation, a dancer’s body moving in time. What John Edgar Wideman calls, in his essay “In Praise of...
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