San Francisco should be a leader in making sure every student benefits from arts education.

Let’s celebrate Arts Education Month by talking to the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education about the profound importance of arts education and about our contributions as a community of arts providers.

Let’s bring youth and community members to ask that San Francisco endorse the Declaration of the Rights of All Students to Equity in Arts Learning to become an Arts Equity District.

Click through to register so we can alert you about when public comment will occur.

Image by Janie Mendosa, 11th grade, Arcata Arts Institute, Humboldt

This month, we are inviting the arts education community and representatives from Teaching Artists Guild, Arts for a Better Bay Area, Emerging Arts Professionals, and CREATE Alameda County to discuss the arts education ecosystem in the Bay Area.

We will be continuing our conversation about how organizations can best recruite and retain teaching artists, and how our whole field can become more sustainable and equitable.

Click through to register, so we know how much coffee to get.

Make sure your organization is represented at the most comprehensive gathering of arts education organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area.

This fair will be attended by an art coordinator from every school in the San Francisco Unified School District as well as educators from around the Bay Area.

Members of the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area are eligible for a discount on reservations. Become a member now.

This event is to register as an exhibitor. If you are an educator or parent, please RSVP on Facebook or on our website.

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This month, we will be joined by Annie Yalon and Matthew Travisano. Yalon is Work Based Learning Systems Specialist for Career Technical Education at the San Francisco Unified School District. SFUSD is in need of more arts organization partners to help support work-based learning throughout the year, especially in media arts, the largest CTE pathway in the district.

Travisano is CTE Coordinator at Oakland School of the Arts where he is also Artistic Director and Chair of the School of Theatre.

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Join us for the San Francisco Arts Commission’s fifth annual EVERY DAY, EVERY WAY: Arts-Focused Youth Programming in Afterschool Mini-Conference.

Edutainment for Equity presenter Candice Wicks-Davis leads a participatory workshop for youth and culture workers, administrators and teaching artists exploring the connections between art, equity and social justice in an afterschool setting.

The workshop includes time for creative exploration and strategizing about how to implement these activities with youth at your afterschool site.

Light breakfast and lunch provided.

The Arts Education Alliance endorses Proposition E for the November 2018 election in San Francisco. Proposition E recommits hotel tax funds to support the arts.

Commit to joining us on Nov. 5 - election night eve - to make phone calls to encourage voters to say "yes" to Proposition E: Arts For Everyone. The measure needs approval from 2/3’s of voters to pass, which is a high bar, even for a proposition that has the overwhelming support of politicians in the city.

Help show that arts educators are a political force to be reckoned with! You don’t have to wait until November 5. Join this Facebook group and visit the Arts for A Better Bay Area website to find more ways to advocate for the arts. Click through to register.

Bi-monthly Arts Education Policy Roundtable: The purpose of this forum is to provide timely information for arts provider organizations and individuals about activities and policies of agencies that support arts education programming in the San Francisco Bay Area.

This month: Getting engaged to expand opportunities for the arts.

We have enlisted an all-star line-up of local arts education players to help frame important issues, opportunities, and strategies so we can plan together for effective action.

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The Arts Education Brown Bag series is a bi-monthly event where we bring lunch to the library* and learn from our arts education colleagues.

This month, Charles Chip McNeal and Timmy Yuen from the SF Opera will tell us about their work with the Jerry Rosenstein Arts Project (JRAP) in building a holistic approach to middle school performing arts instruction.

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*not in the library this month

After attending the Informational Workshop for the San Francisco Arts Commission Artists & Communities in Partnership grant, stick around for a match-making reception for non-profit organizations and artists to find a partner with whom to apply for the grant.

We’ll have some light refreshments and a room full of possibilities.

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Reserve a table for your arts education program to connect with parents and educators from across the Bay Area.

Learn about the Oakland Unified School District's Arts Incentive Grants, which provides three years of funding for schools and their partners to design and implement innovative arts programs. 

Click through to register now by September 7.

Members of the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area are eligible for a discount on reservations. Become a member.

Share skills with colleagues while auditioning to work for 17 bay area theatre education organizations.

We are seeking theatre artists of various levels of experience with students of all ages (K-Adult), and we particularly encourage bilingual teaching artists and teaching artists of color to apply.

Choose from 3 time slot options.

The Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area is inviting our members to join fellow educators in the Bay Area at a reception at the Inventing Our Future conference at the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland.

Have a glass of wine and meet your colleagues.

Register for the whole conference or just one day at http://www.inventingourfuture.org .

Click through here to RSVP for just the reception.

As the school year closes, we will celebrate. RSVP and spread the word on Facebook.

Celebrate the end of the school year with the arts educators who work in bay area public schools.

Bay Area teaching artists and administrators: you deserve this.
Supporters of arts education: come and buy a teaching artist a drink.

Thank you to Virgil's Sea Room for donating a portion of cocktail sales to the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area to advance arts education for every child.

The Arts Education Brown Bag series is a bi-monthly event where we bring lunch to the library and learn from our arts education colleagues.

This session will be led by consultants from Third Plateau and Olive Grove, the strategy firms that SFUSD has engaged to manage the AEMP refresh process. Facilitators will include Paul Perry and Somoh Supharukchinda, two directors from Third Plateau. Paul is a former teacher, assistant principal, and nonprofit executive for various education organizations; Somoh has managed policy, programs, and partnerships for state and district education agencies and nonprofits.

Join us to represent your experiences working with this and other school districts. Click through to RSVP.

Teaching art is itself a powerful art form. Join us to celebrate, and be inspired by, the most talented arts educators in the region.

The Arts Ed Alliance Curriculum Slam will showcase the way educators bring creativity, critical thinking, and innovation to their classrooms. Presenters will have 7 minutes to share their story. Each presentation will consist of 14 PowerPoint slides with only 30-seconds to speak about each slide.

Bi-monthly Arts Education Policy Roundtable: The purpose of this forum is to provide timely information for arts provider organizations and individuals about activities and policies of agencies that support arts education programming in the San Francisco Bay Area.

For this session, facilitated by Amy Kweskin of Artsightful, we will ask you, our stakeholders, to provide input for our strategic planning process. How should the Arts Ed Alliance approach the coming years?

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The Arts Education Brown Bag series is a bi-monthly event where we bring lunch to the library and learn from our arts education colleagues.

This month, we will feature Jill Dineen, Executive Director of Leap, Arts in Education. 

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Note: the date of this event has been changed so as not to conflict with the SFUSD Arts Education Master Plan steering committee meeting on February 15.

Arts education thrives through collaboration. 

At our arts education partnership showcase we will bring some of our most successful practitioners together to talk about their process.

Stay tuned for more details and a list of speakers. Click through to register.

We’ve all daydreamed about a sustainable arts education ecosystem in the Bay Area and now is our time to make plans to create those dreams together!

Join teaching artists, program directors, and arts administrators who make up our landscape of arts education as we explore the question: What does a sustainable arts education ecosystem look like in the Bay Area?

Click through to register. We would especially like to see arts administrators and teaching artists coming together from organizations, with everyone being compensated for their time.

Bi-monthly Arts Education Policy Roundtable: The purpose of this forum is to provide timely information for arts provider organizations and individuals about activities and policies of agencies, including SFUSD and DCYF, that support arts education programming in the city of San Francisco.

For this edition, we will take a closer look at program evaluation. How do we assess the work we do?

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Join us for the most comprehensive gathering of arts education organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area.

This fair will be attended by an art coordinator from every school in the San Francisco Unified School District as well as educators from around the bay area.

Come to the Asian Art Museum to meet representatives from scores arts education providers.

Spread the word on Facebook.

Want to exhibit at the Arts Education Resource Fair? Register here.

The Arts Education Brown Bag series is a bi-monthly event where we bring lunch to the library and learn from our arts education colleagues. 

No RSVP necessary. 

This month we will learn about the Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco’s Citywide Creative Arts program. Patricia Zamora will tell us about this award-winning and nationally recognized art program that provides top quality art instruction while uniting youth, families and communities in a powerful way across San Francisco. 

How do we become the arts city we say we are? Does San Francisco and the Bay Area truly fit the vision of an “arts city” template?

Arts leaders seek to create education programs and partnerships that are sustainable and have impact on the community. To make this happen it’s important to have strong models and a healthy ecosystem that includes the organizations, partners, and teaching artists. In this workshop we will discuss the best practices as well as challenges (and solutions) of recruiting, retaining and developing teaching artists; teacher advocacy; and explore how we can collaborate and potentially share resources as organizations.  

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Read the recap blog post of this event here.

For this edition of the policy roundtable we will discuss and compare policies around how arts education organizations partner with school sites in different Bay Area districts. 

How can we foster more and better partnerships between schools and our programs? 

Featuring Ruth Grabowski and Stefanie Eldred of the San Francisco Unified School District Community Schools and Family Partnerships office along with Michelle Holdt, Executive Director of Arts Ed Matters and Coordinator, Visual and Performing Arts for San Mateo County Office of Education.

A free public forum

In the culture of design, we have grown adept at talking about the future without integrating “future citizens” into the conversation. Specifically, this means creating policy and programming decisions that are for and about young people without consulting or including young people in the process.

Join other teaching artists as we explore the question: What does a sustainable arts education ecosystem look like in the Bay Area?

Aimee Espiritu and Mika Lemoine will facilitate a dialogue among peers to surface the needs of those in the field and discuss how WE might meet these needs by working in coordination.

This month we will be discussing our survey of the Bay Area arts education organizations about pay and employment structures for teaching artists.

How can this data be used for further collaboration?

Bi-monthly Arts Education Policy Roundtable: The purpose of this forum is to provide timely information for arts provider organizations and individuals about activities and policies of agencies, including SFUSD and DCYF, that support arts education programming in the city of San Francisco.

Click here to see notes from past Arts Education Policy Roundtable. 

The San Francisco Arts Commission presents it's 4th annual mini-conference for after-school educators.

Keynote speaker: Sarah Crowell, Artist Director, Destiny Arts Center, plus, choose 1 of 4 practical, hands-on workshops in dance, theater, digital media or visual arts. Learn and share best practices for creating art with youth in after-school settings.

Free breakfast and lunch provided.

The Arts Education Brown Bag series is a bi-monthly event where we bring lunch to the library and learn from our arts education colleagues. 

This month: 
Jasmine Yep Huynh
Manager of Youth Programs and Teacher Support
San Francisco Ballet

RSVP not necessary.