The Art of Advocacy
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Review of the many ways teachers can develop advocacy efforts for the their art programs.
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The Art of Advocacy
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- 4. Add explanatory text to exhibits. Horseback paper marbling
- 8. Look for exhibit spaces such as banks, hospitals, and libraries.
- 9. Have your students participate in community art events.
- 10. Create a Permanent School Art Collection
- 11. Have a great website! Create a website or blog for your art program.
- 16. Tricia’s blog Tricia Fuglestad
- 17. Cassie Stephens
- 19. Janine Campbell
- 21. Betsy DiJulio
- 22. Ian Sands
- 25. PROUD ABOUT YOUR DISTINGUISHED ARTISTIC YOUTH! February 4, 2011 Response to a Song Tyler Furman Grade 12 Acrylic Landscape Will Page Grade 12 Response to a Song Lamont Tyre Grade 12 Self Portrait drawing Shannon Walters Grade 12 Pen & Ink and watercolor Emily Nields Grade 11 Monochromatic painting Amryn Synder Grade 12 Monochromatic Self Portrait Luke Frey Grade 12 Response to a Song Marissa Smurl Grade 12 Self Portrait drawing Hunter Burleson Grade 9 Pay Day Online Exhibit
- 27. Voicethread
- 28. Animoto
- 30. For all advocacy efforts, you need great photos. Keep a digital camera with you at school. Always have a camera with you.
- 31. Get signed photo release forms from students at the beginning of the school year.
- 33. Take photos at every state of the artmaking process.
- 35. For 3D work, use a large piece of paper for a backdrop, rolling It, not folding it.
- 36. Shoot over the student’s shoulder.
- 37. Don’t be afraid to stand on a chair.
- 38. An example of high resolution images from SchoolArts.
- 48. Americans for the Arts
- 50. Join Art Ed 2.0
Editor's Notes
- Advocacy for your art program is one of the art teacher’s prime responsibilities. No one else is going to do it for you.
- When you first think of advocacy, you may first think of school student artwork displays to share what is happening in your classroom.
- It is important to share artwork from all of your students, as often as you can. If you are responsible for bulletin boards or display cases at your school, be sure to keep them full and to change them frequently.
- It is helpful to accompany exhibitions with explanations of the objectives of the lesson and what students did. I learned this when exhibiting student artworks where the students made the marbled paper backgrounds as well as the silhouettes. Without an explanation, everyone thought I gave them the marbled paper.
- Add explanations or artist statements to your exhibits. This is from Cassie Stephens.
- Attract attention anyway you can.
- Display student artwork in unique and interesting ways. Be sure the students’ names are included.
- Look for other places to show your students’ work: hospitals, public libraries, banks, local business.
- Have students participate in community art projects.
- Look into having a permanent art collection for your school. If you have an art club, it can raise money to purchase work from students and to have it framed. Start with office to display the work. The library is another good site.
- The best advocacy tool you can have is a proactive website or blog for your art program. My district makes a site available for every teacher (even if nothing gets posted).
- The Fugleblog by Tricia Fuglestad
- Cassie Stephens’ blog
- Amy
- Betsy DiJulio’s high school website, The Blooming Palette of High School Art
- High School Art Room blog by Ian Sands.
- You can have a Facebook page for your art room.
- Consider a email newsletter for your art program.
- Your newsletter can take another form, such as this one.
- Have your students participate in social justice projects such as Pinwheels for Peace and Empty Bowls.
- Voicethread is a digital storytelling website.
- Animoto is a fantastic, easy to use, presentation platform.
- Get published!
- Buy the best digital camera that you can and always have it with you at school. Try not to reveal the identity of the student in your photos.
- SchoolArts Magazine has these online but you can also use your school’s.
- Take photos at every state of the artmaking process. Focus on the student’s hands, not their faces.
- Don’t be afraid to stand on a chair to get a photo.
- Join Artsonia
- NAEA offers many advocacy resources online.
- Join NAEA Facebook pages.
- Americans for the Arts