Are You A Teaching Artist?

UPDATE: link below corrected! thanks!

One of my fellow National Arts Policy Committee Droogies is putting together a massive study of teaching artists in America.  This is an important time for such a study, part of Obama's arts policy is the creation of Artist Corps, so figuring out how teaching artists work etc. and so forth.  Here's all the info (you get a free This American Life compilation!):

If you are a teaching artist in any discipline (visual arts, music, dance, theater, writing, etc) or manage teaching artists, register for the First National Teaching Artist Research Project at http://surveylab.uchicago.edu/projects/tarp.shtml

The Obama campaign pledged to advance arts education and to create an Artists Corps, and that means the coming years will be important for teaching

artists. The information collected through this study will help assure that new policies and practices create meaningful opportunities and real support for artists who do extraordinary work but who have rarely been recognized.  Whether you teach in a school or a community site (a church, a prison, a community art center, or a youth or social service agency), whatever your art form, whether you teach adults or children, we want to learn about your experience.   The more artists we include in this research project, the more inclusive, accurate, and helpful the study will be.

This study focuses on teaching artists that live or work in the metro areas of Boston, Providence, or Seattle, in Chicago, and in these California communities -- the Bay Area (Alameda and San Francisco Counties), Los Angeles, San Diego, San Bernardino, Santa Cruz, Salinas, Bakersfield, and Humboldt County. So, if you're a teaching artist and live or work in one of our study site areas, please us the above link to sign up!  

Even if you are not a teaching artist, everyone can help us by forwarding this email to all of your arts contacts. 

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or ideas of ways that we can reach out to more teaching artists.  All those who complete the survey will be given a free CD of two amazing stories about teaching artists from Ira Glass' radio program 'This American Life'.

Comments

[Tommer]

Isaac - Link is dead in the entry above. Corrrect link is:

http://surveylab.uchicago.edu/projects/tarp.shtml

[Scott Walters]

Isaac -- Has your colleague been in touch with AlternateROOTS? That would be a good resource.