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Advocacy

www.symphony.org/govaff/what/042502education.shtml
Contains the report "No Subject Left Behind: A Guide to Arts Education Opportunities in the 2001 Education Act" the result of a coalition of arts organizations including the American Arts Alliance, Americans for the Arts, the Arts Education Partnership, and the Association of Performing Arts Presenters. Provides advice and talking points for securing funding and support for arts education within the accountability-based structure of the No Child Left Behind Act.
aep-arts.org
Home of the Arts Education Partnership, publishers of the landmark arts education report "Critical Links". Includes arts education links as well as arts advocacy materials.

African Music and Culture

www.africanmusic.org/index.html
Links to web pages on African music and culture.
www.notz.com/african_links.htm
African Music Links - links to web pages on African music and culture.
www.uccf.org
Official website for the Ugandan Children's Charity Foundation and the Children of Uganda.
www.pbskids.org/africa/
A website designed for younger students to learn more about African culture and geography. Includes pictures and letters from children in various African countries, interactive activities, project instructions and folktales.
www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/tools/index.html
PBS's teacher resource site for African studies. Includes extensive lesson plans for all age groups with an emphasis on current events and Internet research. Ideal for older students to explore on their own or as a complement to the PBS Kids site listed above.
www.ecu.edu/african/sersas/Papers/MarshallFall2001.htm#Chapter%20V
Kirsten Marshall's academic paper on the changing role of women in Senegalese drumming, with a focus on Doudou N' Diaye Rose and Les Rosettes
www.si.umich.edu/chico/UMS/Drummers/
Performing Arts of West Africa site created by the CHICO group at the U-M School of Information, featuring The Mandinka Epic and Doudou N'Diaye Rose and his Drummers of West Africa.

Arab Culture

www.accesscommunity.org
Official website for Dearborn's Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS), partners with UMS in Arab Programming, including the 03/04 Simon Shaheen residency.

Arts-Focused Schools

www.artsschoolsnetwork.org
Site of the International Network of Performing and Visual Arts Schools.

Arts Education

artsedge.kennedy-center.org
The Kennedy Center's Artsedge website is the most comprehensive source of K-12, arts-based lesson plans and teacher guides that link to state and national standards. It includes information about grants and educational policy. A favorite of UMS staffers!
edartsinstitute.org
The Institute for Education and the Arts, located in Washington, DC, partners with leading educational and cultural organizations, including UMS to advance the integration of the arts into the academic curriculum.
www.getty.edu/artsednet
ArtsEdNet, the Getty Trust's arts education Web site, offers an extensive array of resources for arts educators and students, including lesson plans, online galleries, and information on professional development programs for teachers.
aep-arts.org
Home of the Arts Education Partnership, publishers of the landmark arts education report Critical Links. Includes arts education links as well as arts advocacy materials.
www.symphony.org/govaff/what/042502education.shtml
Contains the report "No Subject Left Behind: A Guide to Arts Education Opportunities in the 2001 Education Act" the result of a coalition of arts organizations including the American Arts Alliance, Americans for the Arts, the Arts Education Partnership, and the Association of Performing Arts Presenters. Provides advice and talking points for securing funding and support for arts education within the accountability-based structure of the No Child Left Behind Act.
aep-arts.org/PDF%20Files/ChampsReport.pdf
The report "Champions of Change: The Impact of the Arts on Learning", a landmark arts education study.
www.aeideas.com
The Arts Education IDEAS website offers a wide variety of resources for parents and arts educators, offering resources and articles on arts integration as well as workshops for teachers and administrators.

Arts-Education: Preschool

www.artsplay.org
Artsplay is the online resource for the Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, a national leader in arts education. Activities use the arts to teach social and learning skills to preschool students. Wolf Trap, based outside Washington DC, is the nation's only National Park for the Performing Arts. It has a national roster of workshop leaders, many of whom also visit Ann Arbor through the Kennedy Center Teacher Workshop series.

At-Risk Youth

www.AmericansForTheArts.org/youtharts/index.asp
The YouthARTS site of Americans for the Arts is designed to give arts agencies, juvenile justice agencies, social service organizations, and other community-based organizations detailed information about how to plan, run, provide training, and evaluate arts programs for at-risk youth.

Capoeira

www.capoeira.com
Claims to be the largest site dedicated to capoeira. Features links and information about capoeira schools.

Classical Music

www.classicalarchives.com
As recommended by the Kennedy Center Partners in Education Program, The Classical Music Archives is a collection of more than 18,000 digital files of classical music from almost 1,300 composers. Visitors can listen to these works while also downloading their notation for future reference.

Dance Education

www.ndeo.org
National Dance Education Organization is dedicated to promoting standards of excellence in dance education through the development of quality education in the art of dance through professional development, service and leadership. To that end, the organization holds public discussions and sponsors institutes, workshops, conferences, and a wide range of programs.

Disabilities

accessiblearts.org
Kansas City-based Accessible Arts works with educators, caregivers, organizations, and institutions such as museums and galleries to facilitate making the arts accessible to and participatory for children and adults with disabilities.
HandsOn.org
Founded in 1982, New York-based Hands On is dedicated to providing greater accessibility to arts and cultural events for the deaf and hard of hearing community.
www.vsaarts.org
VSA, a nonprofit educational affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., creates opportunities through the arts for people with disabilities. The organization's programs are implemented through a network of local, state, and national organizations, including educational and cultural institutions, arts agencies, associations for disabled people, and health and rehabilitation organizations.

Grants and Funding

gtionline.fdncenter.org
Foundation Grants to Individuals Online lists nearly 5,000 foundations and charities that fund individual students, artists, and researchers (not schools or organizations).
artsedge.kennedy-center.org
The Kennedy Center's Artsedge website is the most comprehensive source of K-12, arts-based lesson plans and teacher guides that link to state and national standards. It includes information about grants and educational policy. A favorite of UMS staffers!
fdncenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml;jsessionid=O5WVCGWFGHEB4P5QALRSGXD5AAAACI2F ?id=36000004
"Arts Funding IV: An Update on Foundation Trends" has just been released by the Foundation Center and Grantmakers in the Arts. The publication examines the growth and distribution of foundation funding for the arts, culture, media, and the humanities.

Impact (Social and Economic) of the Arts on the Community

www.americansforthearts.org/information%5Fresources/economic%5Fimpact/"
Findings of the Americans for the Arts - "Arts and Economic Prosperity: The Economic Impact of Nonprofit Arts Organizations and Their Audiences", which revealed that America's nonprofit arts industry generated $134 billion in economic activity during 2000. Includes information and materials that make the case for increased public and private sector funding, including the Arts & Economic Prosperity Calculator, a tool that allows organizations and communities to estimate the economic impact of their expenditures.
www.ci-sv.org/cna_index.shtml
Results of a two-year study that examined the state of arts and creativity in Silicon Valley and their impact on community development. The Creative Community Index was developed as part of a three-city pilot study to develop cultural indicators of the nonprofit arts sector. In addition to creating a database of Silicon Valley nonprofit arts and cultural organizations, Cultural Initiatives designed a multi-language public opinion survey to learn more about community attitudes and practices around cultural participation. This kind of multi-language cultural participation survey is believed to be the first of its kind in the country.
www.allianceforarts.org
Site of the Alliance for the Arts, publishers of the study Culture Builds New York: The Economic Impact of Capital Construction at New York City Cultural Institutions. The study demonstrates how renovation, expansion, and construction of nonprofit cultural institutes provides direct and indirect economic benefits, based on a 1992-2002 study.

Jazz

www.iaje.org
Website for the International Association for Jazz Education, including a comprehensive list of links.
www.jazzatlincolncenter.org
Jazz at Lincoln Center, a leading organization for jazz preservation and education. Includes RealAudio clips.
www.jazzinamerica.org/jrl.asp
Jazz Resource Library, Thelonius Monk institute of Jazz. Jazz images, timeline, musicians, resources, links.
www.northwestern.edu/jazz/education.html
From Northwestern University. Links to several jazz education sites containing free music, pedagogy, and lessons.

Kids

www.mythweb.com
Children's website about Greek mythology.
www.sfskids.org
The San Francisco Symphony's colorful, creative website introducing children to musical concepts like harmony and tempo. A favorite of UMS staffers!
www.listeningadventures.org
Carnegie Hall's Listening Adventures website brings Dvorak's New World Symphony to life with visual animations that help students recognize the themes and motifs in the work. A favorite of UMS staffers!

Latino Arts and Culture

www.nalac.org
National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, service organization for Latino arts and cultural organizations and artists.

Lesson Plans

Music Education

* See also Arts Education *

www.vh1.com/insidevh1/savethemus
The VH1 Save the Music Foundation serves elementary school children of all backgrounds by working to restore music programs in our public schools. The foundation does not give grants to schools or school districts, but instead provides instruments and complete band, string, and keyboard programs to eligible schools.
www.menc.org
Site of the National Association for Music Education, the professional organization for music educators. MENC has recently published a book-and-CD set called Benchmarks in Action: A Guide to Standards-Based Assessment in Music.

Mythology

www.mythweb.com
Children's website about Greek mythology.

Opera

www.operaed.org
The Metropolitan Opera Guild Education Department offers an innovative network of programs designed to help further music and arts education in schools and communities across the world.
www.operastuff.com
Includes links to opera singers, sheet music, recordings, and research information.
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/aidas
Online resources to accompany the PBS special Aida's Brothers and Sisters: Black Voices in Opera. Includes video clips of Marian Anderson and Leontyne Prices as well as an interview with opera singer and University of Michigan professor Shirley Verrett on breaking the color barrier.

Symphony

www.sfskids.org
The San Francisco Symphony's colorful, creative website introducing children to musical concepts like harmony and tempo. A favorite of UMS staffers!
www.listeningadventures.org
Carnegie Hall's Listening Adventures website brings Dvorak's New World Symphony to life with visual animations that help students recognize the themes and motifs in the work. A favorite of UMS staffers!

Tap Dance

performingarts.net/Shafman/Rhapsody/history.html
A brief history of tap dance by the group Rhapsody in Taps.
www.nicholasbrothers.com
The official website of the Nicholas Brothers, who are among the pre-eminent tap artists of the 20th century.

Teaching Artists

www.kennedy-center.org/education/partners/creating_capacity.html
Online report "Creating Capacity: A Framework for Providing Professional Development Opportunities for Teaching Artists."
www.artsed411.org
Contains "Creative Collaborations: Teachers and Artists in the Classroom", published by the California Alliance for Arts Education and the San Bernadino City Unified School District and funded by the California Department of Education. Provides a framework for effective collaboration between artists and teachers, for the benefit of students. The focus is on the student, the teacher, and the artist and what each brings to the learning environment in terms of expertise, responsibility, and commitment.

Theater Education

www.aate.com
The mission of the American Alliance for Theatre and Education is to promote standards of excellence in theater and theater education by disseminating quality practices in theater education; by connecting artists, educators, researchers and scholars with each other; and by providing opportunities for its membership to learn, exchange, expand, and diversify their work, the audience, and their perspectives.

Visual Art

www.dia.org
Includes event listings and online tours of its collections. Exquisite collection of African art and artifacts.
www.getty.edu/artsednet
ArtsEdNet, the Getty Trust's arts education Web site, offers an extensive array of resources for arts educators and students, including lesson plans, online galleries, and information on professional development programs for teachers.