Community Access to the Arts (CATA)’s Post

New research that should be of interest to folks who care about arts and education --> Thanks to our colleagues at SRI for this first-of-its-kind study providing data about key elements of policy implementation in California arts education.

Navigating College Paths for Music and Performing Arts Majors Highlights ▪️ Performance arts majors require extensive auditions, portfolios, and essays beyond regular college applications. ▪️ Preparing early (sophomore/junior year) is key for performance arts majors. ▪️ Many myths exist around performance arts majors being "starving artists" - many develop multiple income streams. ▪️ BA vs BM degree offers different flexibility for performance arts students. ▪️ Performance arts skills (time management, communication, collaboration) are transferable to other careers like medicine or law. https://buff.ly/3vrlGxy

Navigating College Paths for Music and Performing Arts Majors Highlights ▪️ Performance arts majors require extensive auditions, portfolios, and essays beyond regular college applications. ▪️ Preparing early (sophomore/junior year) is key for performance arts majors. ▪️ Many myths exist around performance arts majors being "starving artists" - many develop multiple income streams. ▪️ BA vs BM degree offers different flexibility for performance arts students. ▪️ Performance arts skills (time management, communication, collaboration) are transferable to other careers like medicine or law. https://buff.ly/3vrlGxy

Consent Practices in Performing Arts Education is out now in paperback and hardback! This book, by By Elaine DiFalco Daugherty and Heather Trommer-Beardslee, explores #consent as a principle to guide practices and policies in university level performing arts education. It describes structural power dynamics present in educational spaces and tools for defusing them and adapts the protocols foundational to intimacy training to apply to classroom and rehearsal spaces across #performingarts. https://lnkd.in/e57cxbq4

Common Mistakes to Avoid in the College Application Process: Visual and performing art majors not having a reviewed portfolio or audition videos. If you are interested in applying to college as a visual or performing arts major it is important to check out the unique requirements for each school. It is a mistake to “go it alone” without some review and feedback from trusted professionals. For visual artists, presenting a portfolio that illustrates both your range and best work can be very important for your college application. For a specialized art school the portfolio will certainly be the most important factor. You should consult with one or more of your art teachers in assembling the portfolio to get a professional perspective. In addition, each year, between the fall and early winter, National Portfolio Day is offered at different cities around the country where students can get feedback on their portfolios from various participating colleges. which can then also provide information as to how competitive the programs are. For those applying to performing arts programs, many require either a live audition or an uploaded sample of work. If you are submitting audition videos be sure to have your music or drama teacher look them over and give you feedback on your performance, as well as both the visual and auditory quality of your video. Also, since some schools or programs have very specific requirements it is crucial to do your homework by checking each school’s website for the most accurate and up-to-date information. For all visual and performing arts majors it is imperative to start your application process early and to find resources to provide you honest feedback and assessment of your work and presentations. Visit us at https://lnkd.in/eMhCNmth for more common mistakes! #collegedocs #collegeapplications #commonapp #collegeessay #fairfield #CT #chicago #IL #bestfitcolleges #collegedisabiityservices #collegeplanning #collegevisits #miskatestoavoid #collegesearch #collegeadmissions

I know it’s SOP for the arts to be cut when schools are looking at their budgets. Teacher salaries make up the majority of public schools’ budgets. What decision makers fail to take into account especially in music, is the music classes have a much larger teacher to student ratio typically in band, orchestra, and choir. When you cut a music class you literally have to hire more teaching staff to absorb those displaced students, so the economic benefit is diminished. But more importantly, we need ALL subjects kept in school; art, music, dance, theatre, science, math, history, english, languages, trades, life skills. Every subject is as important as the other. We need to be sure education appeals to every student, so there’s something that every student has a personal reason to come to school for.

What a great (and important) idea for a workshop....I have been in awe of people who are musically inclined (and jealous!) Too often, they are not shown how to monetize these talents and only learn from trial and error. Hopefully, this is the first workshop of many! Well done Launchbox and Acadia.

I can't say this enough - WE NEED ARTISTS. We need artists to be able to afford to live in the city they care about and we need them supported in times of fear. Especially with everything going on in the world right now, artists using their voices to reflect on, process, and create magic impacts us all. Disheartening is an understatement when we read articles like the one in Dance Magazine by Guillermo Perez - https://lnkd.in/gqEWK7mD. In what world can something as essential to the human spirit as arts and culture NOT be a state funding priority? Florida governor Ron DeSantis announced that in 2024-25, the $32million promised to over 600 arts organizations was cut to $0. The arts CANNOT participate in the market economy the same way a car-parts manufacturer can. We cannot change our services to be one-size fits all, we cannot monetize services that communities rely on nonprofits for, and we must never take for granted the good federal- and state-funded programs provide for communities who cannot participate in the market economy. The wage gap is growing and costs for living keep rising. The Seattle Times shared an impressive story from Margo Vansynghel, who collected transparent income totals from artists living and working in the city limits. This further exposes the disconnect between what's available to people vs the conditions they must live within. Three cheers to funders like the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust for funding articles like the one shared below! We're going to be relying more and more on them in the years to come should these challenges be left unaddressed. Arts and Culture is critical to our society and a staple of good health. Why must we keep barking this from the rooftops and when will our governing bodies hear us?

How can we introduce students to viable careers in music? There are many creative options in the arts for college bound or work entry career students. Partnering with area experts, colleges, or universities can create many opportunities for student exploration. School #career and guidance counselors may invite community #experts, technical schools, and colleges to your schools or organizations. These opportunities offer students connections in future career options. Creating a #partnership with an area university with a successful arts program provides a multitude of possibilities. After meeting with the admissions director and university professors at the Hartt School University of Hartford, we created a meaningful experience for students to explore music careers. We developed a campus visitation where students rotated between three departments at the Hartt School of Music. Demonstrations in Acoustical Engineering, Music Business, and Audio Recording/Engineering provided lively interactive conversations in each academic area. Professors, Gabriel Herman and Bob Celmer along with Admissions Director, Richard Zeiser facilitated the university connections. These campus visitations provide students with real-world possibilities at colleges. Instead of reading about college majors, they are exploring them in person. The #connections that you make with college professors may lead to future #collaboration in the future for your students. National Association for Music Education (NAfME) ARTSEDGE Associated Universities, Inc.

The MoBBallet Dance Writers Convening was held June June 30th-July 2nd in conjunction with Pathways to Performance: Exercises in Reframing the Narrative @Kennedycenter and was supported by @criticalminded_community⁠ ⁠ Participates were invited to share their reflections on the convening.⁠ RACHEL HOWARD @msrhoward "At the Kennedy Center in July, our small but committed gathering of dance writers talked a lot about this traditionally journalistic “objective” voice, with its attendant dangers of dehumanization and dismissiveness. Several of us worried about the delicacies of pushing back against editors in order to write more personally. As a group, we found consensus about the value of cultivating a critical culture of the “subjective” voice. The tricky matter we left mostly unaddressed, though, is that an informative and usefully thought-provoking “subjective” voice is much more than a matter of writing in first person. The “subjective voice” can be a boon to the kinds of conversations that help the field. Many of my own favorite critics from the last century practiced it: The New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl, for one, and the aforementioned Deborah Jowitt, for another. At its best, a subjective voice lets us inside the writer’s personal experience of the art and why it mattered, while still situating the art historically and contextualizing its presentation and reception. The subjective voice depends not on the “I” pronoun, but on a mode of inquiry, one driven by curiosity about the artist’s choices and one’s own responses. But the subjective voice can become less than useful when subjectivity becomes the subject." READ FULL ARTICLE ON MOBBALLET.ORG LINK IN BIO