Sentences with phrase «on civic art»

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When the collection of major works housed at the city's world - class Detroit Institute of Arts Museum was in danger of being liquidated to pay off municipal debt, the federal mediator, Judge Gerald Rosen, city emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, and other civic leaders leaned heavily on community and national foundations, lawmakers and the museum itself to put their money where their masterpieces were.

The project integrated its different facets last year to create one company that focuses on the areas of art, civic engagement, inclusion, education, global networking, philosophy and gifting.

[153] His civic work has involved serving on the boards of several organizations in the New York - New Jersey area, including the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, the New York Philharmonic, the New York Child Study Center and the NYC Partnership.

By focusing on the well - being of students after graduation in relation to their undergraduate program, the report returned to a basic premise of a liberal - arts education: moral formation for civic life.

Flat, blank facades on buildings conceived as commodities — or just oddities — rather than works of civic art; flat modernist pictorial abstractions; the flattening of cultural history into pseudo-history packaged as what Henry dismissed as «applied sociology» — all spoke to him of something far more ominous, the abasement of man and the crude negation of his proper relationship to nature as embodied in the great tradition.

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Partly in response to federal accountability measures ~ curriculum in many schools particularly those serving predominantly disadvantaged students has narrowed to focus on reading and math at the expense of the arts ~ physical education ~ civics and other subjects.

The initiative will focus on contexts of student learning not only in and across the disciplines, but also in diverse spaces that may function effectively and productively as a civic commons, such as museums and events like ISV's Arts Learning Festival.

While the standards focus on English Language Arts and mathematics, a recent briefing sponsored by the Albert Shanker Institute and the American Federation of Teachers highlighted how the Common Core could reinvigorate the civic mission of schools.

They have assets like a baby college, civic associations, youth - development programs, and arts programs, and they can be integrated into the schools, instead of just existing on a parallel basis.

Once they're comfortable with the way that one thinking routine has worked in their classroom, they can branch out and focus on different kinds of inquiry, like Here Now / There Then, which could be used in a civics class to help students understand how past perspectives change over time; or Parts, Purpose, Complexities, which encourages observation and understanding of art objects or mechanical systems.

13, will be at the Ed School to speak on the importance of art and the role of museums in youths» civic engagement.

ArtsEdSearch focuses on research examining how education in the arts — in both discrete arts classes and integrated arts lessons — affects students» cognitive, personal, social and civic development, as well as how the integration of the arts into the school curriculum affects educators» instructional practice and engagement in the teaching profession.

This unnatural focus on testing produced perverse but predictable results: it narrowed the curriculum; many districts scaled back time for the arts, history, civics, physical education, science, foreign language, and whatever was not tested.

This fall In the City of Savannah, Savannah Classical Academy opens, offering a rigorous classical, liberal arts education with a strong emphasis on civics.

Rally organizers will call on union leadership to demand a «real path to better public schools,» including reduced class sizes; a renewed focus on the arts, music, civics, and physical education; and funding for afterschool programs and wrap - around programs.

Professional development under Title IIA for public and private school staff members must focus on the promotion of academic achievement in one of the core content areas of English, reading or language arts, math, science, foreign languages, civics and government, economics, arts, history, geography and social studies.

Centers must focus on one of the following themes: science, technology, math, and engineering (STEM); civic engagement; career awareness and exploration; or visual and performing arts.

English, reading or language arts World languages Arts Mathematics Economics Science Geography History Government and Civics In addition to these subjects, we believe schools must move beyond a focus on basic competency to promoting understanding of academic content at much higher levels by weaving 21st century interdisciplinary themes into curricuarts World languages Arts Mathematics Economics Science Geography History Government and Civics In addition to these subjects, we believe schools must move beyond a focus on basic competency to promoting understanding of academic content at much higher levels by weaving 21st century interdisciplinary themes into curricuArts Mathematics Economics Science Geography History Government and Civics In addition to these subjects, we believe schools must move beyond a focus on basic competency to promoting understanding of academic content at much higher levels by weaving 21st century interdisciplinary themes into curriculum:

Make your case for arts education with the help of ArtsEdSearch, a research and policy database providing summaries on academic, cognitive, personal, social, and civic outcomes for students of arts education.

For years, critics of test - based school accountability have pointed out that when schools face pressure to raise students» scores in math and reading, they tend to respond by doubling down on those two subject areas and cutting back on the teaching of history, art, music, civics, and more.

This classic 1905 Arts and Crafts style museum home was built for noted civic leader and merchant George W. Marston and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Courses of study include Community Arts — focused on «art practice as a means of civic empowerment, community organizing and development, activism, education and more» — as well as filmmaking, graphic design, and a low - residency summer program for Studio Aart practice as a means of civic empowerment, community organizing and development, activism, education and more» — as well as filmmaking, graphic design, and a low - residency summer program for Studio ArtArt.

Art Production Fund's Advisory Services draw on our unique 16 - year history of commissioning and presenting public art projects to assist civic, private and non-profit partners in developing art initiatives in public spacArt Production Fund's Advisory Services draw on our unique 16 - year history of commissioning and presenting public art projects to assist civic, private and non-profit partners in developing art initiatives in public spacart projects to assist civic, private and non-profit partners in developing art initiatives in public spacart initiatives in public spaces.

The walls that once pressed so hard now lend support — like the steel plates and cinderblocks that Carl Andre once laid for me on the floor, like the churches that once functioned simultaneously as art, symbolism, and a civic space.

She is working on a collection of essays for Duke University Press and a book describing her ten - year projects with youth and civic sectors in Oakland, California with the On the Edge research program at Gray's College of Art in Aberdeen, Scotlanon a collection of essays for Duke University Press and a book describing her ten - year projects with youth and civic sectors in Oakland, California with the On the Edge research program at Gray's College of Art in Aberdeen, ScotlanOn the Edge research program at Gray's College of Art in Aberdeen, Scotland.

In a response to an invitation from Ingrid Schaffner, curator of the 2018 Carnegie International, Kouoh reflects on the ideological civic project of the Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History.

In June 2017, YBCA and renowned artist and activist Tania Bruguera will embark on a wide - ranging collaboration in which the art center performs the functions of a civic institution.

«Chicago's leaders in business and the arts have come together for this landmark event,» said Guthman, commenting on the civic importance of the inaugural event.

The Los Angeles — based artist selected locations in the San Francisco Bay Area that are emblematic of distinct urban - redevelopment episodes: Islais Landing, a former tidal bog that once served as a sewage channel and slaughterhouse dumping ground; San Francisco City Hall, a Beaux Arts monument whose harmonious proportions and massive domed rotunda are meant to pique municipal pride (and good civic behavior); and Pacific Shores Center, a 106 - acre, 1.7 - millionsquare - foot corporate complex, planned during the dot - com glut of the late 1990s and built on marshland south of the city.

The undergraduate program at our main campus in upstate New York has a reputation for scholarly excellence, a focus on the arts, and civic engagement.

Founded in 2011, IdeasCity builds on the New Museum's mission of «New Art, New Ideas» by extending the Museum beyond its walls into the civic realm.

A useful museum, with a social function, focusing on civic engagement and repurposing art as a tool for change

Every two years, the CURRENT: LA Public Art Biennial will focus on an issue affecting Los Angeles and other global cities to inspire civic discourse and use contemporary art to deepen connections between peopArt Biennial will focus on an issue affecting Los Angeles and other global cities to inspire civic discourse and use contemporary art to deepen connections between peopart to deepen connections between people.

Today's conversation reveals the role of private investment in temporary and permanent public art across the U.S. Contemporary art collector Cricket Taplin, who with her husband Martin Taplin once owned the legendary Sagamore Art Hotel on Miami Beach, explains her philosophy on collecting as a mode of civic engagemeart across the U.S. Contemporary art collector Cricket Taplin, who with her husband Martin Taplin once owned the legendary Sagamore Art Hotel on Miami Beach, explains her philosophy on collecting as a mode of civic engagemeart collector Cricket Taplin, who with her husband Martin Taplin once owned the legendary Sagamore Art Hotel on Miami Beach, explains her philosophy on collecting as a mode of civic engagemeArt Hotel on Miami Beach, explains her philosophy on collecting as a mode of civic engagement.

You can sit in on talks with leading art, design, civic and architecture experts, including a discussion between Frances Bronet, the president of Pratt Institute, Debbie Millman, the host of the «Design Matters» podcast, and Sybil Yurman, the co-founder of David Yurman.

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts» Speakers Bureau, a dedicated group of volunteers that speaks on behalf of the museum, is now accepting requests for engagements at social and civic group programs.

And if three arts festivals wasn't enough, AiB does additional service to the community through advocacy, organizing discussions on the arts and civic engagement, connecting with other local groups, and so much more.

Opening on May 24, Common Ground, a group exhibition featuring sculpture, installation, and performance, looks at how different works of art approach the idea of public sculpture and civic engagement.

With colleagues in the Nelson - Atkins Education department, she also developed a curriculum that used objects in the American art collection to teach the content on the Civics portion of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Naturalization Test to new immigrants residing in the area.

It is within this platform or portrait painting and historical significance that Lerma finds windows of opportunity to expand on conversations of contemporary political, economical and civic discussion, creating work that is conscious of how the present is always contingent on the past and how art and history share parallel lines of innovation and progression.

Jordan Schnitzer also serves as a Director of the Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation and has served on over 31 civic and cultural boards, including the Portland Art Museum, the Japanese Garden Society of Oregon, the High Desert Museum, the Citizens Crime Commission, and the Friends of Astoria Column and has received numerous honors and awards.

She is Executive Director of Culture Push, an experimental organization that links artistic practice and civic engagement, and co-curator of Works on Water, a triennial of art that works on, in, and with the water.

On August 8, my beloved, complex, imperfect city of Chicago did the civic / art version of an historical battlefield reenactment... sort of.

DIY Tech + DIY Civic Engagement Projects selected to be featured in a street exposition last weekend — described as a «one - day explosion of DIY tech meets DIY civic engagement meets SF art scene» — ranged from Clip + Slide, a kit that converts stairs into musical slides, to the DIY Traffic Counter, a simple device that allows individuals or community groups to measure automobile or bicycle traffic on a given street.

In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Doermer serves on the board of directors for several companies and is active in multiple non-profit, civic, and arts - related organizations in the Chicago area.