Welcome to the Adirondack Arts Education Partnership!
We're glad you've found us! Read below to find out more about the Adirondack Arts in Education Partnership including its LCB grant program, the Adirondack AE Consortium and what's making news right now!
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Upcoming Summer Arts Education Events - New!
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New Articles and Recent Events!
The AAIEP has had an incredibly busy Spring with LCB projects taking place in schools region-wide, artist professional development workshops and other AIE events taking place in schools around the Adirondacks. We've added new pictures to our Facebook Page and new articles to the site, so please take a few moments to peek at:
3. Recent Events - including artist sessions, conference presentations, and more!
4. AIE Around the Region - NEW! Take a look at a few exciting events taking place in schools around the region. (Have one you'd like to share? Please tell us!)
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Please act NOW!
A Call to Action: The Governor slashes funding for NYSCA (our funder!) by 40% in proposed budget. ACT NOW!
His proposal will slash funding from $41.6 million in 09-10 to $25.2 million , making this the largest state agency cut.
He also proposed a 12% cut to state operations...from $5.29 million to $4.84 .
On June 24th, the Press Republican prominently featured the AAIEP funded "Patterns in Nature" LCB project at Westport Central School, with teaching artist Elizabeth Lee! The article was written by local PR journalist, Alvin Reiner, who attended a contact session at the school on a day where students, their science teacher Mr. Fiegl, Elizabeth Lee (as well as AAIEP Coordinator, Janine Scherline) walked down by a stream near the school to photograph patterns in emerging spring plant life as well as on nearby trees and in the water from the stream. Students worked in pairs and observed the landscape around them - it's aesthetic beauty and scientific processes - and took careful notes about what they photographed and the settings that were used on their cameras. To read the article, click on the photo at the left and to learn more about the project, click on "Spotlight on LCB")
The Adirondack Arts in Education Partnership (AAIEP) was founded in January 2004 for the purpose of cultivating quality arts-based programs through education, financial support and advocacy in North Country schools throughout Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Hamilton - and most recently - Warren counties in New York. Grants are availablethrough its Local Capacity Building (LCB) Arts in Education regrant program to support partnerships between schools and regional teaching artists or cultural organizations that incorporate the study of the arts and non-arts subjects.
