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What is the Arts Education Consortium?
The Arts Education Consortium is an innovative community program
that mobilizes community involvement of organizations, individuals,
businesses, and government. We supports arts education
in Bainbridge Island Public Schools by bringing local artists into
classrooms, offering professional performance opportunities, teaching
art skills to our teachers, training artists in integrated arts
for the classroom, training art docents, and acquiring and creating
arts education resource materials for use by teachers, parents and
students.
Founded in 1999, the Arts Education Consortium now encompasses
all schools in the district, impacting more than 4000 children.
The program is administered by the Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities
Council (BIAHC) a non-profit organization, and is funded by the
Washington State Arts Commission, the Bainbridge Island School District,
the Harvest Foundation, other grants, and community donations. Ninety
parent and community volunteer Art Docents add 100’s of hours
of additional arts lessons each month.
The Teen Empowerment through the
Arts programming continues to grow. At present it:
1) Provides in-classroom Art Study Projects
with professional artists and performances in support of middle
school and high school History and Language Arts studies in the
schools.
2) Links high school film and video studies with Bainbridge Island
Television, with camera certification, community service filming,
documentary film production, and programming
3) Offers Arts Mentor/Teen Apprentice
Program for high school credit in all the arts
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The Cultural Element of the City of Bainbridge
Island Comprehensive Plan is Our 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.
Our Mission:
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Strengthen partnerships between the schools,
and local artists, parents/families, agencies, organizations
and businesses.
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Support a comprehensive, quality arts education
program in the schools and in the community.
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Expand community understanding of the arts as
a means to teach other subjects in schools.
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Use the arts as a vehicle for understanding and
celebrating other cultures and Bainbridge Island heritage. |
Contact:
Program Manager: Bonnie Showers
(206) 855-7816
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