GST BOCES

Arts in Education

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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 GST 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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Arts in Education Program Specialist