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RESOURCES FOR CREATIVE CHANGEArchive for arts integration
ARTSEDGE
ARTSEDGE — the National Arts and Education Network — supports the placement of the arts at the center of the curriculum and advocates creative use of technology to enhance the K-12 educational experience. ARTSEDGEempowers educators to teach in, through, and about the arts by providing the tools to develop interdisciplinary curricula that fully integrate the arts with other academic subjects.
ARTSEDGE offers free, standards-based teaching materials for use in and out of the classroom, as well as professional development resources, student materials, and guidelines for arts-based instruction and assessment.
Visit ARTSEDGE.
Arts in Criminal Justice National Alliance
Arts in Criminal Justice hosted a premier national conference in October 2007 to support integration of arts in the corrections system. The Arts in Criminal Justice National Alliance was formed by the momentum of this event. Visit their site to stay informed about future national and local events organized by the Alliance.
A Window Between Worlds
A Window Between Worlds (AWBW) is an organization based in Venice, CA that uses art as a healing tool for victims of domestic violence.
AWBW has a unique vision as “the only organization offering comprehensive training and ongoing support to domestic violence programs wishing to use art as a healing tool for battered women and children. By training shelter staff to lead workshops, AWBW builds the capacity of shelters. We provide our years of experience in arts program development, ongoing consultation, and the support of a network of 220 leaders in order to empower staff, who often lack experience with art prior to our training, to offer art as a meaningful resource to domestic violence survivors. Implementing the art program becomes part of the regular duties of each leader, making it a permanent addition to each shelter’s services. “
AWBW is also committed to evaluating program effectness to continually improve the quality of their service:
“…impact of the art workshops (are evaluated) through targeted and quantifiable questions on workshop logs completed after each session by art program leaders. The logs provide leaders with a way to debrief after each art session, to continually reexamine their approach, and to learn from their experiences. On a monthly basis, the leaders review their logs and submit them to AWBW, along with a monthly evaluation report that addresses specific questions regarding the effectiveness of the program, including its impact on their clients’ growth, healing, and empowerment over time. At the conclusion of each year, leaders submit an annual evaluation summarizing program accomplishments and its usefulness in their clients’ overall healing process.”
Please visit their site for further information on AWBW’s programs and how to get involved.
Futurefarmers
“Futurefarmers is a group of practitioners aligned through an open practice of making work that is relevant to the time and space surrounding us. Through collaboration, we explore the relationship of concept and creative process between interdisciplinary artists. Since 1995, Futurefarmers has served as a design studio producing projects for clients including Adobe, Swatch, Hewlett Packard, Levi’s, Autodesk, Nike, LucasFilm, Greenpeace, PBS, NEC and MSNBC.
Futurefarmers work across many media. We enjoy creating platforms for sociability, play and culitvating consciousness.
Futurefarmers employ a fertile approach to every project…Integral to our studio practice is ongoing research in new media technologies, renewable energy sources, and new configurations of learning. We host workshops, presents projects, seminars, and a web site that collectively question or challenge the social, political and economic systems we live in. Futurefarmers is where the energy of art production, education, curatorial practice and social interaction fuse to create a vital space and an environment of exchange.
Futurefarmers are well known as innovators within the new media art and design contexts. They have exhibited internationally at numerous galleries and museums, including the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, the ZKM in Germany and at America’s most prestigious art exhibition, The Whitney Biennale. They have received numerous awards including the Webby Award and the Transmediale award among others.”
-ZKM, Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany”
Futurefarmers also runs the wholly impressive resource site Free Soil.
Dorit Cypis, Artist/Mediator
Artist/mediator Dorit Cypis is a pioneer in expanding aesthetic strategy. Cypis’ extensive work using artistic approaches to examine relation bring her to apply these same aesthetic concepts to relationships facing conflict. You can learn more about Cypis’ work at her current artist/conflict resolution site. And stay tuned for her upcoming site ForeignExchanges which further merges her two inter-related roles.
