Arts in Education
Arts in Education News & Events
Spring 2012
January 25: Kimberly Dawson
The 2009 AIE grad, programming director for ZUMIX community arts center in East Boston, speaks to the AIE cohort about the community arts project, Allston/Brighton ArtsBridge, that she cofounded during her year in the AIE program with classmates Angélica Allende Brisk, Maura Tighe Gattuso, and Vicki Hayes-Wepler.
February 6: Jack Megan and Jill Johnson
The director of the Harvard University Office for the Arts and the director of the Harvard Dance Program visit the core AIE course to discuss the implications of the report on Harvard's Task Force on the Arts (718KB pdf).
February 7: Wynton Marsalis
The influential jazz musician and educator from Jazz at Lincoln Center joins HSGE faculty Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Richard Weissbourd, and Karen Mapp, Harvard Law School professor Lani Guinier, and Harvard Divinity School professor Diane Moore in a panel discussion of Educating for Moral Agency and Engaged Citizenship, after an introduction by AIE director Steve Seidel.
February 8: Lauren Elmore
The HGSE doctoral candidate and AIE teaching fellow presents a guest lecture on her research into the history of Robert Brustein's innovative theater programming at Yale in the late 1960s.
February 13: Tricia Tunstall and Eric Booth
Tunstall, the author of Changing Lives: Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music, speak about El Sistema, the innovative music-education program founded by Venezuelan economist José Abreu, and its implications for arts-education advocacy.
February 15: Edward Clapp and Shari Tishman
The AIE cohort discusses the 2008 Project Zero publication The Qualities of Quality: Understanding Excellence in Arts Education (509KB pdf), with co-author Steve Seidel, HGSE doctoral candidate and Q of Q staff researcher Edward Clapp, and co-author Shari Tishman, director of Project Zero.
February 17: AIE Cabaret
AIE students and special guests from other HGSE programs play classical music and vocal folk music, do modern improvisational and flamenco dance, read poetry, and show videos in a Friday evening festivity.
February 21: Frank Maugieri
The artistic director of Red Moon Theater, visits AIE at the invitation of current student (and Red Moon colleague) Angie Tillges to speak about the "spectacle" work of the company.
February 22: Cassius Johnson
The policy advisor and analyst for Jobs for the Future in Washington, D.C., and Boston, speaks to the AIE cohort about his work in arts education policy and advocacy.
February 27: Andrea Sachdeva
The AIE program alumna, teaching fellow for the AIE core course, and co-founder of the AIE alumni networking project Continuing the Conversation presents a guest lecture on her work as international director of evaluation and curriculum for the ArtScience Prize.
February 29: Stephanie Riven
The former director of the Center of Creative Arts (COCA) in St. Louis, now serving as a consultant on arts funding and a member of the AIE Advisory Council, speaks to the AIE cohort about the "habits of mind" necessary to effective advocacy.
March 5: Howard Gardner
The author of Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, Five Minds for the Future, and other books, a long-time faculty member of HGSE and former co-director of Project Zero, discusses the ongoing debates about the intrinsic value of arts education and the relationship between arts learning and academic achievement.
March 19: Marinell Rousmanier
The director of the Boston Public Schools Arts Expansion Initiative discusses the effort to expand arts programming in the Boston schools within the Massachusetts Arts Curriculum Frameworks (1906KB pdf).
March 22: Jessica Hoffmann Davis
The founding former director of the HGSE Arts in Education program talks about her new book, Why Our High Schools Need the Arts, in Gutman Library's Distinguished Authors Series.
March 27: PRE-text Workshop
Doris Sommer, the director of Harvard's Cultural Agents initiative, leads AIE students and others in artistic exercises designed to encourage literacy and good citizenship in young learners.
March 28: Paul Kuttner
The HGSE doctoral candidate, a board member of the Harvard Educational Review and a former teaching fellow for the core AIE courses, discusses his research on community arts organizing.
March 31: Harvard-to-Harvard Arts Symposium
AIE student intern Val Heron-Duranti leads the creation of a new intercampus event, featuring student-led arts workshops, hosted at the Harvard Law School, with workshop topics ranging from Color, Clarity, and Communication to The Arts, Change and Social Justice, to Paper Marbling and much more.
April 2–11: Arts for All
AIE students present proposals for a variety of arts education initiatives to an audience of their peers and a mock board of funders that includes AIE director Steve Seidel and core AIE course teaching fellows Edward Clapp, Lauren Elmore, and Andrea Sachdeva.
April 12: AIE Cabaret
AIE students and special guests from other HGSE programs have their fourth and final open mic cabaret of the year featuring, as always, a variety of work in video, poetry, music, and dance.
April 16: Edward Clapp
The HGSE doctoral student, AIE teaching fellow, and Harvard Educational Review board member discusses the results of his work as editor of 20 Under 40: Re-inventing the Arts and Arts Education for the 21st Century.
April 26: HGSE Arts in Education Advisory Council Dinner
Members of the program advisory council meet with current AIE students for a buffet-style banquet in the Eliot Lyman Room.
Fall 2011
Silk Road Ensemble: September 28
Members of the Silk Road Ensemble visit the core AIE course to discuss the development and performance of new music and multimedia pieces in their work as cultural educators.
HONK! Pedagogy Symposium: October 3
Following the sixth annual weekend-long HONK! Festival in Somerville and Cambridge, musicians and music educators under the direction of moderator Reebee Garafolo convene in HGSE’s Gutman Conference Center to discuss and demonstrate the power of music in community-arts education.
Simon Hayhoe: October 5
British scholar Simon Hayhoe, from the London School of Economics, asks, “Is Belief More Important Than Perception to Blind Students Studying Fine Art?” in his discussion of visual art and blindness and research he has been conducting at the Perkins School for the Blind and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
AIE Cabaret: October 10
AIE students borrow Harvard’s Arts@29Garden space for an evening of performances (of dance, music, poetry, video, and drama), catered Middle Eastern fare, and general merriment.
Junko Kayashige: October 14
Japanese artist Junko Kayasige, survivor of the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima, discusses her family’s experience of that event and leads a tour of her related exhibition of paintings in HGSE’s Gutman Library.
Arts, Architecture, and Advocacy: The Sugar Hill Project: October 20
Artist-educator Faith Ringgold, architect David Adjaye, and Broadway Housing Communities executive director Ellen Baxter discuss the creation of a children’s education center and children’s museum on the ground floor of a newly designed apartment building for low-income residents of Harlem’s historic Sugar Hill district—introduced by AIE director Steve Seidel for an Askwith Education Forum.
AIE Advisory Council Banquet: October 20
Members of the AIE program’s advisory council meet current AIE students for dinner in the Eliot Lyman Room of Longfellow Hall.
AIE Gutman Gallery: October-December
AIE student artists display their works (prints, photographs, drawings, paintings, and three-dimensional sculptural objects) in a picturesque alcove in the lobby of HGSE’s Gutman Library (as the library undergoes transformative renovation this fall).
Jessica Hoffmann Davis: October 21
The founder of the HSGE Arts in Education program, and the author of Framing Education as Art: The Octopus Has a Good Day, Why Our Schools Need the Arts, Ordinary Gifted Children, and Why Our High Schools Need the Arts, Jessica Hoffmann Davis speaks to current AIE students about the history of the program and the broader arts-education field.
Continuing the Conversation – AIE Alumni Conference: October 21–23
HGSE Arts in Education program alumni and friends gather on the Appian Way campus for three days of professional development workshops, discussions, and activities. Visit AIE’s “Continuing the Conversation” series page for more information.
HGSE Multicultural Festival: November 4
HGSE students from AIE and other programs gather in the Gutman Conference Center to celebrate (and demonstrate) the cultural diversity of the current cohort in the form of dance, song, poetry, and other artistic domains—including the culinary.
Rae Cayetano Jr.: November 7
The founder of Inks of Truth, a San Francisco-based project for young artists, talks about the organization’s incorporation of spoken word, acrylic painting, street art, and photography in the community centers, cafes, and vacant spaces of San Francisco’s Sixth Street neighborhood.
Performing Arts Ed in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Regions: November 9 John Ferguson, executive director of American Voices, and education director Marc Thayer discuss cultural outreach to countries emerging from conflict or isolation—and Iraqi student Alan Salih performs on violin.
Edward Clapp: November 14
HGSE doctoral student, AIE’07 program alumnus, core AIE course teaching fellow, and editor of 20 Under 40: Re-Inventing the Arts and Arts Education for the 21st Century, Edward Clapp presents a guest lecture on creativity.
Lisa Henson: November 15
The chief executive officer of the Jim Henson Company, Lisa Henson, talks about “First Friends in Preschool Television: Informal Education for Early Learners,” at HGSE’s Askwith Education Forum.
Elise Gallinot: November 17
The program of KIDsmART, a nonprofit organization in New Orleans, talks with AIE students about arts integration—the theory and practice of linking the arts with existing academic curriculum.
Arts IMPACT Presents “Creating Heat”: November 18
AIE students and HGSE classmates illustrate the artistic engagement of social-justice issues in Gutman Conference Center, through performances of modern dance, instrumental world music, spoken word, and video art.
Candlepin Bowling and Pizza Party: November 20
AIE students meet at Sacco’s Bowl Haven in nearby Davis Square, Somerville for a couple hours of challenging candlepin bowling and flatbread pizza eating.
Liz Lerman: November 21
Founder of Washington, D.C.’s Dance Exchange, recipient of a MacArthur Award, and Harvard Dance Program faculty member for the fall semester, Liz Lerman, speaks about her work in arts integration, partnership, and collaboration, and leads AIE students in a series of interpretive dance adventures.
AIE Cabaret: December 6
AIE students occupy the Eliot Lyman Room in Longfellow Hall on the HGSE campus for another evening of performances (of dance, music, poetry, video, and drama), this time catered by the HGSE-based staff of the Table of Contents catering company.
Please see the archive of the previous activities in the AIE program.
