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is a four year arts initiative «re-imagining the explosive urbanism of Western Sun Belt cities, catalyzed by SMU Meadows School of the Arts» Meadows Prize.»

New Cities, Future Ruins is a four year arts initiative «re-imagining the explosive urbanism of Western Sun Belt cities, catalyzed by SMU Meadows School of the Arts» Meadows Prize.»

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This includes Corporate Social Investment, whereby the group promotes the development of learners through three academies which offer holistic, full - year programmes centred around sport, art and education; Entrepreneur Development which focuses on skills - based entrepreneurial development through its Tsogo Sun Book a Guesthouse and Supplier Development programmes; and Environmental Education, committed to initiatives that reduce the impact the business has on the environment.

Helen is the founder and coordinator of Speech and Drama in Waldorf Schools in North America (now in its 21th year), an initiative dedicated to developing the speech arts integral to Waldorf education.

Now in its eighth year, the civic engagement initiative was a collaboration between the Youth Bureau and The Center for Family Life and Recovery, Cornell Cooperative Extension, The Neighborhood Center, Thea Bowman House, John Bosco House, Utica Safe Schools / Underground Café, Dodge Pratt Northam Art & Community Center and The Salvation Army Utica Citadel to provide youth programing with the intent of introducing lessons of community service through volunteerism.

Trying to recover a U.S. lead As part of a new manufacturing initiative to boost U.S. competitiveness through the clean energy sector, the Department of Energy launched a state - of - the - art carbon fiber technology facility earlier this year at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

In recent years, the CFCA has expanded its presence on the Chicago arts scene, promoting critical thinking about cinema to a wider base through several initiatives, including the re-launch of a late - winter film awards ceremony; CFCA - hosted film screenings throughout Chicagoland; and a Young People's Film Criticism Workshop at Facets Multimedia.

Lance Rutter has spent the last 30 + years of his career devoted to graphic design, working on projects in his Chicago design studio, teaching design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, serving on the national board of the AIGA, and presiding over the 2008 and 2010 Chicago International Poster Biennials, among other public design advocacy initiatives.

Midway through a 10 - year initiative to restore arts education in Los Angeles - area schools, the program has expanded to 27 districts serving some 450,000 public school students.

The Project Zero Artist - in - Residence initiative piloted this year offers Arts in Education (AIE) master's students a chance to spend a semester engaged in a Project Zero idea, theme, question, or research project through the creation of an artwork.

After 16 years of deploying thousands of motivated college liberal - arts graduates to work in the nation's urban and rural schools, Teach For America plans to launch an early - childhood - education initiative this coming fall.

«Looking forward, the Arts Council's two major policy initiatives, the 25 - year Creative Talent Plan and the Durham Commission on Creativity and Education, will be exploring the importance of culture in young people's lives, and make proposals to government on unlocking creativity in children through education.»

Two years ago, the district did bring more arts specialists back into schools, thanks to an initiative funded by the Wallace Foundation.

This year's winners include an Australian initiative delivering arts - based programs to disadvantaged students and a miniature town helping youngsters in Finland learn about financial literacy and entrepreneurship.

Several of our faculty members are principal investigators with Project Zero, a landmark research initiative into the arts and education for more than 35 years.

The one - year, full - time AIE Program is ideal for self - directed learners who want to leverage the remarkable breadth of HGSE course offerings to become effective advocates for arts - based education initiatives, both in and out of schools.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

In a broader instructional intervention working with ELL students across grades K - 6 for whom science instruction replaced traditional reading / language arts, Klentschy (2003) showed that grade 6 students who participated in the initiative for 4 or more years averaged a percentile rank of 64 on a state - administered nationally - normed reading test.

For example HOT School principals come together 3 times a year to discuss progress, challenges, new state or national directives or mandates, etc.; related arts teachers meet to share collegial successes / practices / initiatives in their schools; multi-grade teachers convene to investigate, develop or improve a specific concept, plan or practice such as the intersections between science and the arts.

The grant - funded DREAM initiative trains California third - and fourth - grade teachers in arts / literacy practices, and after its first two years of implementation, language arts test scores of students in these teachers» classrooms increased by 87 points.

In the two years following, Ms. Fick taught 5th grade ELA and led literacy initiatives and professional learning at KIPP South Fulton Academy as the English Language Arts department chair.

The five new partners join the Duke Ellington School of the Arts College Summit, a veteran partner of Flamboyan, who has been piloting a family engagement initiative in their college readiness curriculum for the last two years.

The program eventually added a month to the school year for schools taking part in the elementary initiative, and used the added time to pair academics with enrichment programs, such as art and music classes and field trips offered by community organizations in partnership with the district.

Over the next two years, the initiative will flood the schools with leadership and staff training, art supplies, musical instruments, arts programs, and community arts events — and help them leverage SIG funding to support arts education.

The next year PCAH, in coordination with the White House and the U.S. Department of Education, launched Turnaround Arts, a national initiative that uses the arts to improve school climate and narrow the achievement gap in the lowest performing schools in the counArts, a national initiative that uses the arts to improve school climate and narrow the achievement gap in the lowest performing schools in the counarts to improve school climate and narrow the achievement gap in the lowest performing schools in the country.

Eve's work leading Grub Street was recently recognized by the National Arts Strategies when they selected her to join their Chief Executive Program, a two - year initiative designed to unleash the collective power of 100 of the top executive leaders in the cultural sector to re-imagine the potential of cultural institutions and to figure out how they can contribute to civil society in the 21st century.

With the help of generous donors, the UC Davis Center for Equine Health has worked to fund research that has advanced veterinary medicine and provide a knowledge base, establishing several focused research initiatives to concentrate resources, expertise, cutting - edge technology and state - of - the - art equipment in certain areas of scientific research over the past 45 years.

A product of the ongoing Art in the Parks initiative in the park, the exhibition also commemorates the NPS Centennial year.

Their main initiative is temporary art displays, changing every two years, with the favorites (voted by public) becoming permanent.

With a career that spans 30 years, Linda is a leader in marketing, brand management, e-commerce and promotion initiatives for major retailers, specialty retail, art industry, licensing partnerships, media and entertainment, as well as entrepreneurial business environments.

With a career that spans 30 years, DECOR Managing Editor Linda Mariano is a leader in marketing, brand management, ecommerce and promotion initiatives for major retailers, specialty retail, art industry, licensing partnerships, media and entertainment, as well as entrepreneurial business environments.

In his 1993 essay, Meyer identified pedagogy as an area that artists were engaging with in the 1990s, and one sees it again today in efforts like the Public School, a free learning initiative operating in many cities, and the Bruce High Quality Foundation and its ambitious free art school, BHQFU, along with others that have started in recent years around the world.

«Real Fake» is one of the five new artworks installed along the Riverwalk as part of the city's Year of Public Art — a $ 1.5 million initiative to commission artists to create new works for spaces across Chicago.

ACQUISITION The Detroit Institute of Arts marks the launch of a major, three - year multimillion dollar initiative to expand its collection of African American art with the purchase of «Bird,» a 1990 sculpture by David Hammons.

REcreativeUK.com launched in June 2011 as part of the Louis Vuitton Young Arts Project, a three - year arts and education initiative led by the South London Gallery in partnership with Tate, the Hayward Gallery, the Royal Academy of Arts and the Whitechapel GallArts Project, a three - year arts and education initiative led by the South London Gallery in partnership with Tate, the Hayward Gallery, the Royal Academy of Arts and the Whitechapel Gallarts and education initiative led by the South London Gallery in partnership with Tate, the Hayward Gallery, the Royal Academy of Arts and the Whitechapel GallArts and the Whitechapel Gallery.

2016 Nov. 18 — Wadsworth Atheneum Presents 43rd Annual Festival of Trees & Traditions Nov. 1 — John Trumbull Paintings Central to «Visualizing American Independence» at Wadsworth Atheneum Oct. 5 — First U.S. Exhibition by Artist Dulce Chacón Explores Human Feats and Failures in the Frontiers of Air and Space Sept. 23 — Grant S. Smith to Lead Development, Revitalize Fundraising Initiatives at Wadsworth Atheneum Sept. 9 — First Major Photography Survey in 27 Years to Open at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Aug. 16 — Francisco de Zurbarán's «Saint Serapion» Returns to Galleries at Wadsworth Atheneum May 23 — Exhibition to Highlight Diversity of Contemporary Artists, Artworks May 10 — Works by Salomon van Ruysdael and Kehinde Wiley Among Newest Acquisitions by Wadsworth Atheneum April 21 — «Vanessa German / MATRIX 174» to Confront Social Issues of Race and Violence Beginning June 9 March 25 — Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Names Anne Butler Rice New Director of Education

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.

Also this year the Fashion Textile Museum hosts a celebration of Anna Sui, whose romantic rock - n - roll designs draw inspiration from US popular culture, while prints by one of the nation's best - loved artists, Andy Warhol, tour the UK as part of the Art Fund supported initiative, Artist Rooms.

The Foundation assisted the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University in the organization of the Felix González - Torres Community Art Project, a three - year initiative that sponsors visits of internationally renowned contemporary artists to the campus of the school.

Bloomberg New Contemporaries is the UK's foremost annual arts initiative, offering critical support and exposure to recent graduates and final year students from British Art Schools at a crucial stage in their development, through its -LSB-...]

And finally, the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation have pledged USD$ 3 million each over the next 3 years to launch an initiative dedicated to diversifying art museum staff in curatorial and management positions.

Mallis served as executive director of the CFDA for 10 years, where she furthered the organization's charter to promote American fashion as a «recognized branch of American art and culture» and helped to implement the foundation's burgeoning philanthropic goals to raise money for breast cancer and AIDS charities, design scholarships, and numerous other initiatives to benefit designers and the industry at large.

After working for several years in Italy (Villa Medici and Rome Music Foundation), he moved to Israel to manage the French Institute (Institut français) for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then for three years in Lebanon as Regional Director, where he started several different cultural and art initiatives.

Each year the Park presents four major visual arts initiatives: The Spring / Summer Exhibition; The Emerging Artist Fellowship Program & The Socrates Annual Exhibition; The Folly / Function Architectural & Design Competition in Partnership with The Architectural League of New York; & The Broadway Billboard Series — all of which are described below.

More than 40 years ago James Turrell and Robert Irwin teamed up on a «hair - raising» art and technology initiative.

After years of planning, Pacific Standard Time: LA / LA, the Getty Foundation's ambitious multi-venue initiative focused on Latin American and Latino art, officially launches this week across Southern California.

Held at the Richard Meier - designed Rachofsky House in Dallas, TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art has raised over $ 60 million in its sixteen - year history in support of amfAR's AIDS research initiatives and the DMA's contemporary art acquisition progrArt has raised over $ 60 million in its sixteen - year history in support of amfAR's AIDS research initiatives and the DMA's contemporary art acquisition progrart acquisition program.

Related Programming The exhibition coincides with a year - long initiative at Williams College (including the Williams College Museum of Art and Clark Art Institute) dedicated to books, libraries, and information.

Frieze also feels more politically reflective this year: Claudia Rankine, a poet who examined race in the book «Citizen: An American Lyric,» is among the speakers in the Frieze Talks series (Sunday at 11:30 a.m.), and an initiative to help save the National Endowment for the Arts has been mounted.

Participating students have the unique opportunity to provide input on our programs over the course of a year, while at the same time realizing a capstone student - driven project related to arts and non-profit initiatives.