High school students who take four years of Arts score 100 points higher on the SAT

The Arts teach the skills essential for success in the global marketplace: risk-taking, out-of-the-box creative thinking, team problem solving, excellence as the standard and academic discipline

Students who are involved in the Arts have improved self-esteem and are less likely to skip school or engage in disruptive classroom behavior

Students who take Art have improved attention spans, increased interest in school and foundations of success on which to build

Participation in the Arts promotes tolerance for other cultures, Art is about working together, about communication, about bridges and connections.

 

The beginning of school, early childhood education embodies the concept of active learning and the correlation between knowledge and experience. Art Education promotes this concept in the later years but the funding for art programs is decreasing.
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September, 2006

Rosie's Girls

 
 


Rosie's Girls is a national program inspired by the second world war poster of Rosie the Riveter, the program is designed to build self-esteeem, leadership and physical confidence with a group of girls at a 3-week camp each summer.

This program is a perfect example of the power of expression to change lives. The girls are immersed in a variety of activites including carpentry, painting, electrical work, writing workshops and graphic design. In addition they learn additional skills such as fire fighting, tree trimming and various technical trades in a "behind the scenes" collboration with the City of Santa Monica Maintenance Division and the Human Resources Division. More than 80 community members participate in teaching and mentoring the girls. It's not all work, the girls also learn kayaking, surfing, self-defense and other physical skills.

Coming out of this program the girls are transformed. The results include self-confidence, critical thinking skills, leadership abilities and a willingness to assert themselves in community activities.
Rosie's Girls Programs exist across the United States, the work below is from the Santa Monica Rosie's Girls Program

Examples of Carpentry, Painting and Metal Work

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Past Featured Art Education Profiles:
July 2006: Cerritos College High School Art Show

March: Fayette Academy Visual Art Program

June 2005, Teaching Watercolor to Elementary School Students

May 2005, Cerritos College Spring 2005 Student Show

October 2004, Carlsbad ArtSplash 2004 Children's Program

July 2004, Oregon Art Education Association's Youth Art Month

June 2004, The Country Shop

October 2003: Sedona Fine Arts Annual Scholarship Program

May 2003: Lakewood Artist Guild's Student Art Scholarship Program

March 2003; Camlin's All India Art Contest

January, 2003: Ms. Becky Kennedy's "House on Clay" Program

December, 2002 Linda Vista Leaders - Montgomery Academy

November, 2002 Multicultural lessons at Belmont Hill Elementary

October-September, 2002 Color Pencil Society work with Children at Risk

August, 2002 Peace Through Art program of the International Child Art Foundation

July, 2002 Native American Students at the Southwest Museum