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SD Alliance for Arts Education: Advance Arts Education
The SDAAE works with SoDA and the South Dakota Arts Council to advance arts education opportunities for children and their teachers.
South Dakota Alliance for Arts Education shares programs, members, offices and staff with South Dakotans for the Arts and the Community Arts Network of South Dakota.
Staff Pat Boyd, Executive Director • Shari Kosel, Program Director • Sue Stone-Douglas, Member Services
SDAAE ARTS EDUCATION PROGRAMS
- Arts Education Institute South Dakotans for the Arts and the South Dakota Arts Council sponsor this summer, week-long institute for teachers held on the campus of Black Hills State University. The Institute provides training for teachers and administrators in developing local content standards and curriculum in K-12 visual arts, music and special education. In addition to the morning standards and curriculum courses, a wide variety of afternoon workshops in various disciplines are offered to participants. Two hours of college credit will be given to registrants through BHSU. Scholarships are available for participants on a first-come, first-serve basis. The current brochure will be posted here when it's available.
- High School Congressional Art Award South Dakotans for the Arts and the South Dakota Arts Council partner with Representative Bill Janklow to participate in the High School Congressional Art Award. Each year, artwork by a South Dakota high school artist is included in the national exhibit in Washington, DC. A $200 cash award is provided by the Patricia Bawdon Endowment and the Arthur Holub Endowment.
- Start with the Arts is a new initiative providing staff training and professional development, artist residencies and resources in dance, music, storytelling and visual arts for South Dakota Head Start programs.
- A+ School Program South Dakotans for the Arts assists local school districts interested in becoming an A+ School offering an arts-based curriculum at the elementary level. Thirty four (34) sites in North Carolina serve as role models for this new program in South Dakota schools. A+ schools utilize multiple intelligences theories, integrated thematic units and daily instruction in the arts. SoDA and the South Dakota Arts Council have sponsored trips to NC schools for administrators and teachers from the Brandon Schools District, Sioux Falls School District and Howard School District. The Eugene Field Elementary School in Sioux Falls is South Dakota's first A+ Pilot School.
- Oscar Howe Institute Scholarship Two Native American students are awarded scholarships from South Dakotans for the Arts to attend the two-week Oscar Howe Art Institute at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion.
- ArtsCorr Designed at the request of former Governor William Janklow, ArtsCorr is a collaboration between South Dakotans for the Arts, the South Dakota Arts Council and the South Dakota Department of Corrections to integrate arts programs at the state's juvenile correctional facilities. ArtsCorr includes artist residencies and correctional staff training, as well as integration of the arts into chemical dependency programs, in-take assessments, and education.
- Children's Theatre Company of South Dakota SoDA and the SD Arts Council partner with the Black Hills Playhouse, Custer State Park, to create the SD Children’s Theatre. FY2001 was the first year of touring for the company, headed up by Dan and Deb Workman. The program is funded through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for which South Dakotans for the Arts is the fiscal agent. The Children’s Theatre Company of South Dakota is on the South Dakota Arts Council touring roster and schools can receive subsidy through that program. Contact the Children’s Theatre Company by calling (605) 388-0506, or emailing ctcsd@iw.net .
- Children's Capitol Art Exhibit South Dakotans for the Arts Day at the Legislature -- a biennial event sponsored by SoDA with support from the SDAC -- is one of the premiere public awareness campaigns for arts education.
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