OTHER PROGRAMS
Artist in the Community Grant
Photo Contest
Any Given Child Sacramento
Any Given Child Professional Development
Creative Aging
Model Arts Program
Community Arts Program
Congressional Art Competition
Poetry Out Loud
InnerSpark: California State Summer School for the Arts
Resources
The Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission is pleased to announce the pilot year of the Artists in the Community grant program. Schools and community organizations are invited to apply for up to $1,500 to assist in hiring artists listed in the Arts Education Directory for educational projects.
Through its arts education programs, SMAC has cultivated a network of skilled teaching artists who can provide meaningful opportunities that engage both children and adults in the arts through hands-on learning in dance, theatre, visual arts, music and literary arts. The Arts Education Directory includes over 80 local artists and arts organizations whose qualifications have been screened through the Arts Commission’s panel review process. The artists have experience teaching a variety of ages in school or community settings.
Download the Guidelines.
Download the Application.
Download the Artist Agreement Form.
Arts Education In Action! Photo Contest
They say that an image is worth a thousand words. We want to hear what the Sacramento community has to say about the arts education process, as expressed in a singular moment captured on film (or digitally!). The Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission invites Sacramento area photographers to participate in the juried photography competition Arts Education in Action. Photo-submissions will be judged on how well they visually tell the story of how art is taught, learned, and made.
Download the Guidelines (PDF)
Download the Artwork Submission Form (PDF)
Any Given Child is a program initiative developed by the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington D.C. to bring access and equity to arts education during the school day for K-8 students. The 2012-13 school year will mark the third year of arts programming in Sacramento City and Twin Rivers School Districts under the Any Given Child Sacramento program, through a partnership between the Kennedy Center and Mayor Kevin Johnson’s For Arts Sake initiative. An important goal of the program is to develop a systematic, equitable process for making community arts resources available to the region’s schools
The Arts Commission administers the three areas of Any Given Child programming: Arts Exposure Experiences, in-class arts residencies, and professional development for teaching artists, classroom teachers, and school administrators.
To ensure you receive updates regarding the program, please sign up to receive our weekly e-newsletter.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES!
The Real Deal: Demystifying Creativity, Whole-Brain Learning, and Arts Integration through Collaborative Energy and Innovative Lesson Development
MAY 2, 2013 • 4:30 – 7:300 PM • SJUSD District Office Board Room • no charge
Classroom teachers will have the opportunity to view the Common Core through an Artful lens, watch an arts integration team in the creative process, and develop a hands-on lesson that you can use tomorrow! Contact your district representative to register:
Sacramento City USD: Gayle Carrick, Gayle-Carrick@scusd.edu
San Juan USD: Craig Faniani, CFaniani@sanjuan.edu
Robla School District: Sue Battimarco, SBattimarco@robla.k12.ca.us
Twin Rivers USD: Jackie White, Jackie.White@twinriversusd.orgPresenters: Gayle Carrick, Sacramento City USD; Craig Faniani, San Juan USD; Jackie White, Twin Rivers USD
Common Core Standards and the Arts: What’s the Connection?
MAY 7, 2013 • 4:30 – 8:00 PM • S. Natomas Community Center • no charge • includes light supper
Presenters: Ron Jessee, San Diego Arts Consultant; Sarah Anderberg, CCESA Arts Initiative Dir.
You work with students in classrooms will be more dynamic and relevant if you can skillfully integrate state Visual and Performing Arts Standards with the new Common Core Standards. Learn how in this experiential workshop for school arts specialists and teaching artists offered by Any Given Child, Sacramento. To register now, click on this link: http://tinyurl.com/c64ehbn
ANNOUNCING ADDITIONS TO THE 2012-13 ARTS EXPOSURE EXPERIENCES ROSTER
In preparation for another dynamic year, Any Given Child (AGC) Sacramento recently released a call for additional arts organizations and artists whose programming could be added to the existing roster of Arts Exposure Experiences offered to local schools under the Any Given Child program. On August 29, 2012, a panel of six arts and education experts convened to review the thirteen applications we received. Six arts education providers were chosen to join the providers currently listed in the roster below, from which 115 local K-8 schools will be able to choose arts assemblies, hands-on workshops, or field trips for their students. The new additions are:
- Images Theatre Company
- I Can Do That!
- Sacramento Blues Society
- Short Center Repertory
- Sacramento Values Project
- Sandy Martin
Below is a list of artists and organizations that will again offer assemblies, workshops and field trips through the Arts Exposure Experiences during the 2012-13 school year:
- A Day in the Life
- B Street Theatre
- California Musical Theatre
- Crane Culture Theater
- Crocker Art Museum
- Instituto Mazatlán Bellas Artes
- LAMECA
- Sacramento Theatre Company
- Sacramento Ballet
- Sacramento Children's Chorus
- Sacramento Opera
- Sacramento Taiko Dan
- Sacramento Youth Symphony
- Sons/Ancestors Players, CSUS
- Theatre of All Possibilities
Creative Aging: There’s an Art to Getting Older
Recent research shows that new brain cells keep developing throughout our lifespan if we stretch ourselves by getting involved in activities new to us, such as exploring new creative and artistic skills. In response, a citywide program of workshops and classes was launched last year to inspire and encourage adults 50 years old and better to get involved in the arts.
Creative Aging is offered through a partnership with Sacramento Metropolitan Arts and the Sacramento Department of Parks & Recreation, Older Adult Services Section and is funded by the E.M. Hart Trust Fund.
Summer and Fall 2011 classes are now closed. Please register for our e-newsletter to receive updates on future classes.
Model Arts Program
The Arts Commission is committed to developing model programs in school districts in Sacramento County. We welcome inquiries from school districts interested in replicating any of our programs or developing new projects. To learn more please email Erika Kraft, or call (916) 808-3983.
Community Arts Program
The Arts Commission is committed to facilitating collaborations where community organizations partner with regional artists in the visual, performing, media, or literary arts to develop projects that promote their organizational missions and enrich their important work in the community. We welcome inquiries from community organizations interested in replicating any of our programs or developing new projects. To learn more please email Erika Kraft, or call (916) 808-3983.
Congressional Art Competition
In the spring of every year, the United States House of Representatives hosts a Congressional Art Competition for high school artists. Members of Congress hold contests within their districts to choose winning pieces of art by high school students, and the winning entries from all districts are displayed in the Cannon Tunnel at the U.S. Capitol for a period of one year. The winning student from each district is invited to Washington, DC for the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
This year, Representatives Doris Matsui and Dan Lungren have organized contests for their districts, both co-sponsored by the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission.
The 2012 winners from each district, who were honored at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. in June, were:
- Megan Daly (Matsui, 5th District)
- Loren Pilorin (Lungren, 3rd District)
Feel free to email the Arts Education program or call (916) 808-3983 with questions.
Poetry Out Loud — National Poetry Recitation Contest
Poetry Out Loud is a growing nation-wide recitation contest for high school students in all schools. The students select from a large collection of historical and contemporary poetry. Recitation begins in the classroom culminating in contests that take place at the school, county, state, and national levels. POL is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the Sacramento County Office of Education, California Poets in the Schools, and the National Poetry Foundation.
For more information about the history and success of Poetry Out Loud, log onto the Poetry Out Loud website.
InnerSpark: California State Summer School for the Arts
The California State Summer School for the Arts (InnerSpark) seeks the most talented high school-aged visual, literary, media, and performing artists in California. The teenagers who are selected are designated California Arts Scholars, and attend one of the country's premier summer arts institutes on the campus of the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. InnerSpark represents a unique opportunity to spend four weeks studying and working with professional artists, writers and performers of national stature in the fields of animation, music, dance, film and video, theatre, creative writing and visual arts. For more information about InnerSpark, please visit their website.
