AEABA News

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...