This week we have worked through arts education, outreach and engagement. We have analyzed the typical structures and ventured into the emerging online participation models. Take a moment to venture deeper into arts organizations and how they frame arts education, outreach, and/or engagement (knowing that for many organizations there are significant cross over points in these areas). How are these ideas, definitions, and programs different due to the organization's size, discipline and mission? What are the opportunities and the costs (real or intangible) of taking engagement online? (not programs -- that's next week -- just engagement :-)
Take your conversations from Thursday, lecture/discussion on Tuesday and your readings. Now take a moment to extend your thoughts in this arena? The following questions are not to be answered directly but to serve as fodder for you to write a letter of opinion to one of the following papers that addresses what you think needs to happen in the field: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, NY Times, Washington Post, Politico, Arts Education Partnership blog, your discipline association's print publication like "American Theatre,"etc. This list is not exhaustive but expressive in that your letter should have a real potential audience and framework -- then the rest of the class can respond.
Thought starters: Where are arts organizations 'stuck' and where are they 'innovating'? What is the definition of real innovation in a system of education that has so many drivers (school boards, parents, national requirements, etc)? What opportunities exist on the web? Can arts education work in the digital world? What about the home school/online school model? Where are the arts in it?
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