African American artists have participated in every major art style and movement since before the founding of this nation. However, until recent decades, this "grand epic" had been marginalized within the traditional survey canon of American art. Art historians have undertaken considerable scholarship (Bearden & Henderson, 1993;…

As of this writing, the Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) are in danger of losing more than two-thirds of their annual 150 million dollar budgets in the federal budget proposal for 2020 (Greenberger, 2018). On March 11, 2019, the presidential budget sent to Congress proposed a 10% overall reduction in…

This article explores four cases of donor-sponsored campaigns, illustrating their structure, variety, public impacts, and community building. The author outlines best practices for advocating for an art-based community awareness campaign.

In 2005, digital media artist/activist Liv Gjestvang founded a nonprofit organization, Youth Video OUTreach (YVO), to teach lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (LGBTQ) youth skills to create a documentary about their lives that could serve as a centerpiece for outreach and advocacy efforts by/for LGBTQ youth. While…

Suggests that a school district can increase its emphasis on arts education by (1) acquiring an administrator advocate; (2) seeking arts boosters and advocates among teachers, parents, the school board, and community members; (3) bringing more art to the schools; and (4) starting school aesthetics committees. (IW)

Cutbacks in federal spending have affected art programs severely. Arts advocacy is needed to produce solid arguments for the role of the arts in education. But standards and goals, perhaps those set forth by the National Art Education Association, must first be established by art educators. (CS)

Discusses a project that aimed at educating the public about art by bringing art to the people. Explains that students selected their favorite artwork and made a t-shirt displaying their artwork. States that the students went into their community and also created a mural. (CMK)

This study explores the concept of "outside influences" to Arts education as a legitimate and important area of research in Arts education. In this study "outside influences" is defined, generally, as those groups that choose to contribute to public school Arts education, but are not a part of the institutional system of public schooling.…