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GST BOCES
Arts in Education service provides a reliable arts reference
in the form of this web-site as well as our
directory.
The purpose
of the BOCES Arts in Education program is to vastly improve
students’ overall cultural awareness, increase their
creative ability, and heighten their aesthetic
sensitivity. By providing performances and residencies,
students not only learn more about the arts, but also improve
their self-image, gain in self-knowledge, increase their
learning skills and their understanding of other people and
diverse cultures.
The Arts in
Education Directory is for teachers and administrators who are
interested in providing arts and cultural programming for
their students. The directory which is available to schools,
contains names, addresses and biographies of outstanding
artists of various disciplines from a wide range of geographic
areas, many of them local to the SCT BOCES area. Many schools
select their visiting artists from this directory. Because the
number of artists included in the catalog is too great to do
profiles on everyone in this website, one or two artists will
be highlighted each month.
The BOCES
Arts Specialist represents both the artist and the school in
arranging for and scheduling programs that bring together the
talents of artists with the needs of students.
The service
is centrally coordinated for a multi-district audience to
allow for cost effectiveness and efficiency through shared
expenses. Boces Aid is provided to assist public schools
participating in this program.
This
web-site was conceived and is maintained by the BOCES Arts in
Education Program Specialist to provide for schools' current
information, spotlight area students, teachers, artists,
administrators, programs and schools, share ideas, lesson
plans, resources and other news.
New ideas and suggestions are not only welcomed,
but encouraged. Since the web-site will be for and about our
schools, we hope that this will be a web-site students,
parents, teachers, artists and administrators will enjoy and
refer to often. All are invited to provide information for
consideration for the Artist/Arts Student/Arts Teacher in the
news pages. Occasionally, entire programs or schools may be
highlighted.
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