Re-Visioning Ohio's Fine Arts Standards
Drafts of Ohio's updated standards for dance, drama/theatre, music and visual art are now posted at the Ohio Department of Education website with important supplemental information and a survey form for comment.
You can help by reviewing one of the drafts and completing the survey—and by encouraging others in your network to do the same.
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Planning and Funding an OAC Artist Residency
The Ohio Arts Council's Artist in Residence (AIR) program connects schools and nonprofit organizations to accomplished teaching artists who can help design and implement in-depth, engaging, personal and sustained learning experiences in music, dance, theatre/drama, the visual arts, design, the media arts and the traditional arts.
If you are considering applying for funding to sponsor an OAC artist residency for the first time, here is a quick guide that explains how OAC artist residencies work, as well as where sponsoring organizations can find helpful resources and how they can make the most of their planning process.
Access a quick guide for planning and applying for funds...
Consider some ideas from five OAC teaching artists...
Online Registration Opens For Ohio's Poetry Out Loud
For the seventh year in a row, the Ohio Arts Council is sponsoring Poetry Out Loud (POL) with national support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, and with local assistance from the Ohioana Library Association and Thurber House. Teachers may register online now for the 2011-12 season of POL. Free POL teacher toolkits and other materials are available upon request.
July Imagination Summit Raises Awareness, Promotes Action
The Imagination Conversations project, launched by Lincoln Center Institute (LCI) in New York City, culminated in America's Imagination Summit held in July at Lincoln Center. The Ohio Department of Education, which co-sponsored three of Ohio's four panels, was among the state organizations represented at the summit.
