| Start Date: | 11/19/2018 | Start Time: | 12:30 PM |
| End Date: | 11/19/2018 | End Time: | 1:30 PM |
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Event Description
ArtistYear is the first
national AmeriCorps organization that enables artists to commit to a year of
service to their country.
WHAT IS ARTISTYEAR?
Our mission is to develop, support, and place recent higher-education arts
graduates across artistic disciplines at low-income schools as dedicated
teaching artists, to ensure every underserved student in America has arts
education through a national service arts corps.
ArtistYear is an organization born out of the traditions of service, creative
excellence and expression, and obligation toward our fellow citizens.
ArtistYear has leveraged lessons learned from a range of national-service and
arts education programs to marshal a corps of Teaching Artists, ArtistYear
AmeriCorps Fellows, to enhance and expand arts education in Title I schools.
Fellows use arts education as a tool to engage low-income students more deeply
in the life of their school and community, yielding increases in school
attendance, improvements in student attitudes towards their peers, school, and
neighborhoods, and for themselves as 21st century learners, artists, and
contributing citizens.
Fellows also support schools in becoming increasingly "arts-rich"
through the life of the partnership, working with certified arts specialists to
bolster a school's art department and curricular goals, building parent and
faculty support for expanded arts, and supporting capacity-building efforts
such as community art partnership cultivation.
Through these activities and weekly professional development training,
ArtistYear AmeriCorps Fellows develop as skilled teaching artists, effective
leaders, engaged citizen-artists, and active participants in our Democracy.
OUR APPROACH
ArtistYear has leveraged lessons learned from a range of national-service and
arts education programs to marshal a corps of Teaching Artists, ArtistYear
AmeriCorps Fellows, to enhance and expand arts education in Title I schools
while nurturing a new generation of citizen-artists.
ArtistYear programming is designed to yield positive impact for:
Low-income Students: Increasing arts access for positive outcomes;
Schools and Districts: Improving climate and culture, with greater arts
capacity over-time;
ArtistYear AmeriCorps Fellows: Cultivating and improving leadership, community,
and workforce skills to be competitive for jobs and engaged citizen-artists.
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Contact Information:
Name: Steinbright Career Development Center
Phone: 215-895-2185
Email: scdc@drexel.edu |
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Location:
Steinbright Career Development Center, 3201 Arch Street, Suite 250 |
Audience:
Undergraduate StudentsGraduate StudentsSenior Class |
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