ArtsConnection

✨Sneak peek✨ of ArtsConnection Executive Director, Rachel Watts during her ABC7NY Here & Now interview with Sandra Bookman! 🫣🎥

Stay tuned for updates on ArtsConnection's exciting journey over the past 45 years and details about our upcoming benefit celebrations. Full interview coming soon! (Check your local listings)

🎉Congratulations to our Executive Director, Rachel Watts on being selected to champion nonprofits in NYC governance!

📰 “Every day, in every borough, New Yorkers are interacting with nonprofit organizations, whether you are an older adult at a community center socializing with friends, a person with a disability receiving vocational training to help secure employment, or a family receiving navigation support to access various benefit programs,” said Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Anne Williams-Isom. “Nonprofits play a vital role in our network of support for individuals, children, and families and they must have a seat at the table. The Nonprofit Advisory Council is an important mechanism to ensure regular and open dialogue between government and the sector, and ultimately drive towards our shared goal — to support every individual, child, and family to thrive.”

🔗 Link below to read Harlem World Magazine full article here: https://www.harlemworldmagazine.com/mayor-adams-reveals-new-york-citys-inaugural-nonprofit-advisory-council/

ArtsConnection Teaching Artist, Kim Grier-Martinez, and Kyla F. McKoll, the Director of Professional Learning at ArtsConnection, are set to speak at the 2024 Conference for Community Arts Education in Washington DC! 🛫

✨They will provide a sneak peek into ArtsConnection's Framework for Joyful & Liberatory Arts Education. Focusing on the interconnections of Cultural Humility and Responsive Teaching and Planning by:
👉connecting to & celebrating young people’s intersectional identities
👉supporting young people's artistic voice
👉utilizing accessible & inclusive practices
👉approaching teaching with vulnerability & a research mindset

🔗Learn more about our work here: "teachwithartsconnection.org”
(If you're in the DC area) Check out the conference details: bit.ly/3ToPFhF ➡️

The ArtsConnection Professional Learning team is going to MPLS!🛫

Erin L. and Erin O. will be presenting "Notice, Describe and Ask: Supporting Student’s Artistic Choice" at the 2024National Art Education Associationn Research Preconference on April 3rd! 👨‍🏫

These strategies they are sharing are the result of 8 years of collaborative research involving AC BRIDGES artists and over 100 classroom teachers.🤯

🌐If you work in art education and aim to foster empowering learning environments, we encourage you to explore these resources on Teach with ArtsConnection website: Notice, Describe & Ask - BRIDGES (teachwithartsconnection.org)

30 teens have applied to our OnTRaC: College & Career Readiness program! Help us meet this mentorship demand. If you or anyone you know is interested, please become an OnTRaC Mentor.

As an OnTRaC's mentor, you will:
👉 Attend 3 mentor events (in addition to mentor orientation and finale celebration)
👉 Give one-on-one advice and support to a creative youth
👉 Share best practices for resume writing, networking, and interviewing
👉 Be part of a mentoring cohort with other professionals in the NYC creative industry

Learn more here: https://buff.ly/3PjIYws
Apply by Sun., 3/17 here: https://buff.ly/43iF7FC

This is Film TRaC (Teen Reviewers & Critics) one of the FREE programs we run at ArtsConnection Teen Programs. 🎥✨
For this first session of the spring season, we partnered with theAfrican Film Festival, Inc.. to screen Eyimofe (This Is My Desire) by twin brothers, Arie and Chuko Esiri. Arie Esiri sat for a 30-minute Q&A with the teens following the movie and began by asking the teens "what interest they had in film". Most of the 15 teens want to be cinematographers, a few want to be directors and/or writer/director powerhouses, and one dreams of set design. The teens asked truly inquisitive questions about process, setting, choice, and budget which made this session feel like a college seminar.

At ArtsConnection, we invite teens to explore, engage, and connect with the arts. This is one example of the many ways we execute this mission and are thrilled when such opportunities coincide with initiatives like the 92NY's Teen Arts Week which was featured in the NY Times “What to Do in New York City in March” article! 📰

Learn more abou92nd Street Y Y Teen Arts Week here: https://buff.ly/48Z2uFThe New York Timeses here: https://buff.ly/3IHyRhb

Photo of Laurie Cumbo, NYC Commissioner of Cultural Affairs (left), and Rachel Watts, Executive Director of ArtsConnection (right) from our 2023 Benefit Gala.

Thank you Medium for the insightful article of Rachel on "5 Ways Empathy Will Affect Your Leadership". Read the full article here for more details: https://buff.ly/3v0qOJe

✨BREAKING NEWS✨
ArtsConnection is celebrating 45 years of art programming! 🎉 We extend a huge thank you to News 12 Brooklyn for helping us spread our stories. Click on the link below for the complete coverage of ArtsConnection's 45-year-long partnership with PS 38 in Brooklyn, featuring one of our current programs there: Steel Pan with the 3rd grade. 📰

https://brooklyn.news12.com/news-12-takes-a-look-at-local-organization-bringing-art-programs-to-nyc-schools-for-45-years

"Theatre education isn’t one-size-fits-all...It starts with Awareness."

We are so proud of the work that our Teaching Artist & Educational Theatre Associations does to advocate for ways of making theatre more accessible. Link below to access the complete article and discover how Kerry uses the resources on teachwithgive.org (developed by ArtsConnection in partnership with Community Word Project & New Victory Theater) to create vibrant and inclusive arts experiences.

4 Strategies for Enhancing Theatre Accessibility:
👉Start with an Access Check
👉Adjust, Don’t Discard
👉Prioritizing Representation
👉 Check Your Language

Full article here: https://buff.ly/3T7TZmA

Are you looking for a way to give back to your community? Are you interested in mentoring a teen? Look no further than OnTRaC!

OnTRaC: College and Career Readiness is a FREE program designed to help teens interested in entering the creative industry. They meet twice a week in workshops covering college applications, resumes, portfolios, and more. Each teen is paired with a mentor working in the industry that they are interested in.

As a Mentor, you will:
👉 Give one-on-one advice and support to a creative youth
👉 Share best practices for resume writing, networking, and interviewing
👉 Be part of a mentoring cohort with other professionals in the NYC creative industry
Learn more here: https://buff.ly/3SFK1HU

Apply by Sunday, March 17!

🔗Application link: https://buff.ly/48oIdZw

We are honored to partner with Mizzen Education to share our curriculum beyond NYC.

“In building something, in creating something side-by-side, you make room for more connection and belonging. Art is also a chance to address disparities—and make classrooms, cities, and communities more equitable places.” — Erin Loughran, Senior Manager of Professional Learning & Evaluation, ArtsConnection

Are you coming to Beyond School Hours '24? Explore ArtsConnection's creative arts curricula in Mizzen live at:

💜 "EmpowerEd Cultivating Creative Confidence in Youth Development!" (workshop)
💜 Mizzen exhibit booth #105 (aka “the lounge”)

, let’s and at BSH!

We're so glad that enjoyed MJ the Musical 🤗🎵🕺.
Ticket opportunities like these were made possible throughout the 2022-23 school year through our NEA grant to support BIPOC-led shows and theaters with School, Community Based Organization and Youth Serving Organization trips to performances.

Join us on Governors Island this weekend:

KYLA MCKOLL & CHLOE PAISLEY
– Found object & Recyclables Puppet or Mask Making Workshop

CHIA-YING KAO
– "This is Cactus Land"

ANDREW STRANO
– hands-on deep-dive into the fundamental nuts and bolts of songwriting

https://buff.ly/3qw5rN0

🍎🍊🍇 First TAC Meeting: Setting Our Community Agreements with Fruits and Fun! Let's Build Our TAC Fruit Basket Together! 🍉🍌🍓 -making 🎉

Join us on Governors Island this Saturday for two exciting events:

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14 @ 1:00 PM
Multidisciplinary artist Manuel Acevedo presents “The Altered Sites” series, a collection of original photographs of places and monuments that have been changed, removed, restored, etc. using a variety of interventions. Guests are to consider the imaginative possibilities of a given place through image or object, and transform it, if only superficially. During the open studio exhibition, participants are invited to alter a set of local photographs by drawing/collage on the surface and consider the current space, site, and status quo as it could be otherwise.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14 @ 3:30PM
Composer Truth Future Bachman, in collaboration with Logan Fischer, the senior gardener on Governors Island, will present a suite of songs that allows audiences to interact with the unique natural habitat on Governors Island through a sense of play, adventure, and connection to the land.

Also on view through November 5th: art installations by Angel Thompson, Geuryung Lee, and Kerry Warren with Sherry Tagoe.

For more information visit https://buff.ly/3qw5rN0