- Jan 23
- 1 min
Advancing Social Equity Through The Arts: A Conversation
On Friday January 22nd, AEABA Board Member and Destiny Arts Center Program Manager Shanna Bowie and AEABA Executive Director Indi McCasey...
- Apr 22, 2020
- 3 min
Online Arts Learning: Tools for Now & Into the Future
Rebecca Recco, an Oakland Unified Visual Arts teacher at Bret Harte Middle School, joined our Teaching Artist Think Tank on April 22 to...
- Mar 9, 2020
- 7 min
Unpacking AB5, a recap
We held a March 4 roundtable at the Museum of Children’s Art in Downtown Oakland to unpack AB5. We had a highly knowledgeable panel, and...
- Jan 12, 2020
- 6 min
Summit of Arts Education Master Planners
School districts, arts partners, and county offices of educations across the Bay Area are making plans to bring more arts education to...
- Sep 6, 2019
- 8 min
VAPA in transition :: Notes from our policy roundtable
notes from our September 6 Arts Education Policy Roundtable This meeting was the first introduction of Sam Bass, the new director of the...
- Jun 14, 2019
- 2 min
Member Meeting and Spring Party Re-Cap
Learning the foundational steps of Salsa Rueda “And now with the music!” In just a few short minutes, we graduated from stepping in place...
- Feb 8, 2019
- 3 min
Working together for our teaching artists
How can we make our arts education ecosystem more sustainable for our teaching artists and our organizations? This is the question we...
- Mar 27, 2018
- 1 min
From Ratchet to Revolution, Rasheed Shabazz
Media is constantly reframing realty to denigrate African-American heroes. Rasheed Shabazz teaches his students to use social media and...
- Mar 6, 2018
- 1 min
Artists as Activists, Gina Griffiths and Ann Ledo
At San Francisco's Creative Arts Charter School, Ann Ledo-Lane and Gina Griffiths help their 1st and 8th grade students use their art...
- Feb 26, 2018
- 1 min
Creating Narratives of Youth of Color, SoMapagmahal Photography Mentorship Program
SoMapagmahal Photography teachers Erina C. Alejo and Dara Katrina brought their young artists, David, Dayzsha, and Julianna, on stage...
- Feb 24, 2018
- 1 min
It's Personal, Jennifer Klecker
Jennifer Klecker took a break from the classroom to go back to school. The revelations that transformed her own art practice inspired...
- Feb 22, 2018
- 1 min
For Students, By Students: How to Build the High School Survival Kit, Sierra Reading
As a fashion instructor for teenagers at Youth Art Exchange, Sierra Reading wants to make sure her students understand that they have...
- Feb 21, 2018
- 6 min
Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Teaching Artists
Notes from the "Becoming the Arts City We Say We Are" event held on December 7, 2017 at the San Francisco Arts Commission. Facilitated by...
- Feb 14, 2018
- 1 min
The Table With Walls, Carolina Zamora
Zamora describes how the sensory table in her pre-Kindergarten classroom at Rockridge Little School enable her students to play and take...
- Dec 19, 2017
- 4 min
The Challenges of Partnerships :: an Arts Education Policy Roundtable recap
Every two months, we hold a gathering of arts educators for an arts education policy roundtable. On December 1, 2017, we met underneath...