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BAINBRIDGE ISLAND ARTS EDUCATION COMMUNITY CONSORTIUM (BIAECC)
Mission:
- Strengthen partnerships between the schools, and local artists, parents/families, agencies, organizations and businesses.
- Support a comprehensive, quality arts education program in the schools and in the community.
- Expand community understanding of the arts as a means to teach other subjects in schools
- Use the arts as a vehicle for understanding and celebrating other cultures and our Bainbridge Island heritage.
Goal:
The arts - dance, music, theatre and visual arts - are one of the requirements of public school education in the state of Washington, on par with other academic subjects such as science, math, language arts, and social studies.
The goal of the BIAECC is to support the Bainbridge Island School District's implementation of arts education in the K-12 curriculum.
By employing multiple learning styles, the arts become the means through which all academic subjects become engaging and meaningful for students.
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What is the Arts Education Community Consortium?
Background - Substantial research in arts education nationally over the last two decades links arts education definitively with student success, achievement, and teacher motivation, all leading to more positive and healthy school and community environments. In 1993 both the federal government and Washington state passed laws including the arts in K-12 basic education.
The arts, defined in Washington as dance, music, theatre and visual arts, are academic subjects on par with science, math, language arts, and social studies. Funding for this key component of the academic curriculum, however, has been slow to mobilize.
In 1998 the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) crafted the Arts Essential Academic Learning Requirements, and since 2003 has been piloting Classroom-Based Performance Assessments in these four arts disciplines. In 1998 the Washington State Arts Commission (WSAC) launched a visionary arts education grant-based program founded on extensive research throughout the country.
This leading national model, the Arts Education Community Consortia, has led to high standards in arts education practices, with community partners working with the schools toward sustainable K-12 arts education programming. The WSAC grant program continues to support communities who share and develop resources to support arts education in their schools.
The Bainbridge Island Arts Education Community Consortium has been awarded WSAC funding for 10 years, and through this vital support has become a leading program in the state.
International Arts Focus
BIAECC offers several international performing arts residencies each school year in support of the world history, world cultures, and community studies curriculums in grades 2, 3, 6, and 7. These are lead by professional performing artists skilled in an international arts discipline who are also exceptional teaching artists. During a typical five day residency, the artists conduct a professional development workshop with classroom teachers; the classroom teachers prepare curriculum for the students; the students participate in interactive workshops with the artists and attend performances; and all participants engage in arts-based reflection and evaluation.
The goal of the BIAECC International Arts Focus is to share with students a glimpse into the values, traditions, and arts of a culture. Students begin by studying the history and background of a region and culture prior to the artists' arrival. The special curriculum and workshops help the students understand the performances they watch. By participating actively with their bodies and minds in the workshops with the artists, the students understand, often intuitively, the cultural connection. By sharing so generously of their talents, the artists model a way of being for the students. This way of being reflects the intention to reach out across cultural differences with mutual understanding and respect, and broaden the students' views of the world. We have observed over the years that these experiences are profoundly moving and inspiring for students and teachers. The ripple effect of these encounters leads to a lively curiousity about other cultures, and a sense of responsibility and respect toward all humanity.
International Arts Focus Residencies 2005-2010
2005 - Manoranjan Pradan, Odissi Classical Indian Dance, Orissa, India
2006 - Le-La-La Dancers, First Nations Dance Troupe, Vancouver Island, Canada
2006 - Urvasi Dance Company, Odissi Classical Indian Dance
2007 - Theatre of Yugen, Kyogen Comic Theatre of Japan
2007 - Urvasi Dance Company, Odissi Classical Indian Dance
2008 - Wayang Golek Rod Puppetry, Sunda, Indonesia, with Gamelan Pacifica
2008 - Ocheami West African Dance and Music
2009 - Urvasi Dance Company, Odissi Classical Indian Dance
2009 - Ocheami West African Dance and Music
2010 - Urvasi Dance Company, Odissi Classical Indian Dance
2010 - Le-La-La Dancers, First Nations Dance Troupe, Vancouver Island, Canada
George Taylor, Le-La-La
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2009-2010 DOWNLOADS
For Teachers:
For Artists:
The Cultural Element of the City of Bainbridge Island Comprehensive Plan is Our Community Centered Mandate:
The Goal -- Arts Education
Demonstrate commitment to quality arts education and lifelong learning by advocating for comprehensive inclusion of the arts in our schools and in community settings.
Solution -- The Bainbridge Island Arts
Education Community Consortium
The arts serve as an essential element of education by teaching communications, creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving, perception, motivation, individualism and interpersonal skills, and the arts provide one of the best avenues for learning about and celebrating other cultures.
Celebrating Community Partnerships for Arts in Our Schools
Reception & Benefit February 18, 6-8pm
Bainbridge Performing Arts Gallery, 200 Madison Avenue North
BIAECC celebrates ten years of arts learning in the Bainbridge Island public schools with this dynamic mixed media exhibit highlighting teaching artist, student, and classroom teacher partnerships and achievements in the visual arts, poetry, and the performing arts. The exhibit will be available for viewing throughout the month of February.
2009-2010 Awards for the Wendy Jackson-Hall Memorial "Sharing the Art" Artist-Teacher Mentorship Opportunity Announced
BIAHC offers its deepest appreciation to Bill and Jane Jackson for continuing to fund this very special professional development opportunity for district teachers, now in its fourth year. Awards are being given to: teachers Martha Wells and Denise Melton-Todd to study wire garden sculptures with sculptor Kristin Tollefson; teachers Jill Phillips, Theresa Ball, and Diane Bedell to study printmaking techniques using color, light and shadow with printmaker Wendy Orville; teachers Elizabeth Vroom and Maggie Hitchcock for study in wire and natural materials with sculptor Kristin Tollefson; and teacher Carol Wilding to study ink-plate etching with etching artist Babette Gazarian Cherne.
Bainbridge Island Studio Tour Donation to BIAECC
The Bainbridge Island Studio Tour recently gave $1,353 to the Artist Mentor program. This donation is from an optional giving program in which over 100 Summer and Winter Studio Tour artists from 2009 provided a donation based on 1% or more of their sales from the two art shows. Studio Tour Dinah Satterwhite stated that many of the artists generously exceeded the 1% donation. The Artist Mentor program provides art material stipends for student artists at Eagle Harbor High School.
A Mythic Weekend Donation to BIAECC
BIAECC thanks the organizers of A Mythic Weekend for its generous donation in support of local youth arts programming. The November 2009 event featured a screening of Steven and Whitney Boe's award-winning documentary "Mythic Journeys" and related community events. The donation came from a portion of the proceeds of the event.
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