1 minute read
08 Arts & Education
The Office of Arts & Culture has long led the City’s efforts to advance access to arts education for youth. Through a longstanding partnership with the Kennedy Center, efforts have focused on professional development for teaching artists as well as providing teacher training for arts integration. Through the work of the Sacramento Arts Education Consortium in recent years, the City has begun to shift its focus from a direct provider of arts education to schools in Sacramento County, to a partner focused on systems level change.
Adoption of Artlook
Through its partnership with the Kennedy Center for the Arts, the City of Sacramento was afforded the opportunity to join a cohort of organizations across the country who are deploying Chicago’s impressive data platform artlook. The platform unifies data from school districts, school buildings and arts providers to create a complete picture of arts education in schools allowing partners to identify and address inequities in access. The public facing portion of the tool allows parents to understand arts programming at their schools and allows schools to find arts providers that meet their needs and goals.
This tool can be found at sacramento.artlookmap.com
A partnership with Friends of Sacramento Arts resulted in the launch of the Creative Schools Fund, a $150,000 incentive fund for schools to complete their annual profile on the platform. Once schools complete their profile they receive a $1,000 stipend to support arts education programming at their school. 20 schools were awarded stipends through the fund in 2022.
Sacramento Arts Education Consortium
The Sacramento Arts Education Consortium is a partnership of the City of Sacramento, Sacramento County Office of Education and Friends of Sacramento Arts. Together the group developed a coordinated work plan for advancing consortium goals, recognizing each partner’s individual contributions to the effort.
Teaching Artist Training
The Office of Arts & Culture sponsored a training series for artists interested in strengthening their skills in the classroom. This program was offered in partnership with Focus Five and 10 artists participated in the program.
Project Spotlight: Any Given Child
The Office of Arts & Culture entered into a three-year $450,000 partnership with the Sacramento County Office of Education to operate the Any Given Child program in Sacramento County. The move better positions the program for growth.
In its first year of the partnership, SCOE hired an individual to manage the Any Given Child program, as well as the Sacramento
Healthy HeART and Mind program, and engaged in planning work relating to the program, including surveying and interviews with district VAPA coordinators. SCOE offered 4 teacher professional development workshops and held a recruiting event to bring new teaching artists and arts partners to the program. 50 people attended.
