ArtsMatter

Social Arts empowerment
Professional learning access and resources for artists and community agency workers.
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Emphasizing the connection between arts education and the healthy whole development of children and youth.

ArtsMatter addresses gaps in arts education within the community and deepens the capacity for community agency workers to engage children and youth in the arts. Emphasizing the connection between arts education and the healthy whole development of children, ArtsMatter engages and empowers community organization staff and their spaces to create effective environments for the arts.

ArtsReady

Arts For All is strengthening partnerships with community partners to support artist educators entering the community and the staff and space are ready to receive arts programming.

Being ArtsReady means that the people who work with children and youth everyday understand the arts are important, and are ready to provide positive environments where meaningful arts education approaches engage children and youth.

Meaningful arts activities provide space to tap into inner worlds, express deep emotions and beliefs, and share these with others, so that we can all learn from one another and grow together as healthy, engaged citizens.others, so that we can all learn from one another and grow together as healthy, engaged citizens.

Professional Learning Access (PLA)

PLA Dates are professional learning access opportunities for artists and the community. The PLA Dates series offer workshops, tools and resources to make connections between arts and the healthy, whole development of young people, and engage in arts education and approaches.

Professional Learning Portals

Professional Learning Portals CKA is building our mentorship with you by encouraging ongoing professional development and feedback loop sessions where we participate with you in arts programming, and you participate with us, so that your capacity can continue to strengthen and evolve, and so that we can continue to learn from one another.
A space for Artist Educators and partnering organization staff to share learnings through inspiration, feedback, anecdotes, video and photos from program delivery and toolbox lesson plan exploration. We want to hear from you! CETELS is a safe space for internal sharing and reflection and is not intended for a public audience without consent.
CEPLAY is an online community hub for the dissemination of arts education learning resources and interactive components that build community learning and capacity available online, while offering guidelines for creating enriching environments for arts exploration.
CESET supports creating an environment for arts-ready spaces. It is a tool to help activate the relationship between CKA and the spaces that deliver our programs.

Creating an Environment

Focus-ready spaces are community sites where staff receive the arts with enthusiasm, engage with children in activities, and are consistently the sites where everyone has a positive experience. Children are able to benefit the most from these quality experiences in terms of developing the skills and capacities related to the arts in support of their overall human development.

Inquiry in Art

What are the different ways that learning can happen? How can we shape our classrooms to support new ways of learning? Can we deepen our understanding and make connections between arts exploration and inquiry-based spaces?

Workshop: Why Arts Education Matters

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A one-hour workshop designed for community organization staff to learn Why Arts Education Matters, make connections between arts and the healthy, whole development of children, and engage in meaningful arts activities and approaches.

Inquiry in Art Workshop

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This workshop engages all attendees in an experience that emulates an environment for arts exploration and plants a very important seed for thinking about children and their learning.