This video is a complete review of the 2011 event and
is courtesy of Bill Edwards
Acknowledgements
The MAAE expresses
deep appreciation to:
Rachel Ballentine for the creation of the
ceramic awards (click)
The Jackson MS Convention & Visitor’s Bureau (click)
Jones County Junior College (click)
The MAAE Board, Committee Members, and Presenters
The Mississippi Children’s Museum (click)
The Mississippi State Department of Education (click)
Power APAC (click)
The MAAE also expresses gratitude to our sponsors:
Anonymous donors
Ask for More Arts/Parents for Public Schools: Greater
Jackson (click)
Campbell’s Bakery
Althea and Raoul Jerome
Gloria and Stephen Johnson
Kat’s Wine (click)
The Perfect Performance (click)
Rainbow Spring Water
Standard Office Supply and Printing (click)
Dr. Penny Wallin
The MAAE appreciates the support of our state and
national partners:
The Mississippi Arts Commission
The Dana Foundation
The Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education
The opening session was IMAGINATION CONVERSATION
The BIG Question: What role does IMAGINATION
play in Mississippi?
Featuring Panelists:
Government: Mayor Johnny DuPree
Department of Education: Dr. Lynn House
Mississippi Arts Commission: Malcolm White
Artists: NunoErin, Nicole Marquez
Non-Profit/Service Sector: Philip Wright
Mississippi Development Authority: Melissa Medley
Moderated by Betsy Bradley
Videos documenting this opening session,
Imagination Conversation, are shown below.
These videos are courtesy of Bill Edwards who
documented the entire event--Thank you Bill!
Mississippi’s IMAGINATION
CONVERSATION, organized by the Lincoln Center
Institute to inform American Education Policy, was
presented by MAAE as the Opening Ceremony for the
Annual Arts Front and Center Forum, in partnership
with the Kennedy Center and the Mississippi Arts
Commission
Forum Schedule
2:00 p.m.-Imagination Conversation
(free to the public)
5:00 p.m.-Cocktail Reception/Silent Auction (requires
registration)
6:30 p.m.-MAAE Awards Ceremony (requires registration)
Saturday, April
30, 2011-Power Academic and Performing Arts Complex
(requires registration for Forum Workshop
Day; CEUs and SEMIs available)
Show Me the Money: Leveraging Money for Arts—Dr.
Charlotte Tabereaux
10:30 - 11:45 a.m. Concurrent Sessions
Arts Integration Teaching Artist Demo Lesson:
Flossie, a lesson in bullying (elementary)
Jodie Engle and Althea Jerome
Arts Integration Teaching Artist Demo Lesson: Dream
Big, (secondary)
Joseph Johnson and Dr. Elaine Gelbard
Mathematics plus Creative Arts = STEAM
Dr. Sallie Harper
12:00 p.m. - Networking Lunch
1:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
Waiting for Superman: What’s the message for
Mississippi Schools?
Carolyn Jolivette, Trecina Green, and Limeul Eubanks
Eco-Aesthetics: A Visual Arts Experience
Tony DiFatta
Six Schools Journey into Arts Integration-Oak Park
Elementary, Hawkins Elementary, Canton School of
Arts and Sciences, Walton Elementary, Quitman Junior
High, Oxford Middle School
3:00 p.m. Forum Finale with Student Performance
Forum Audience:
K-12 Superintendents and school administrators, K-12
teachers, higher education faculty and administrators,
K-12 students, arts and education employees from state
agencies, arts education professional organization
leaders, community arts organization and cultural
institution leaders, arts presenting organizations,
teaching artists, parent organization leaders,
community and business partners
Forum Purpose:
To recognize that tough times call
for sharing creative ideas for action that recognize
and honor the importance of rejuvenating our schools,
our communities, and our lives, as we strive
collectively to find imaginative and satisfying paths
which value arts in education
Forum Goals:
To consider
the challenges in education by imagining creative and
innovative solutions that will support our mission to
insure a better world for our children;
To commit to
acting on solutions to the problems by lifting our
children’s lives both in the arts and through the arts
as they learn to fly and soar.
Forum
Objectives:
1. Offer a venue where educators,
business leaders, government officials, and artists
can dialogue about fresh, imaginative perspectives for
21st Century education.
2. Raise awareness and appreciation of the impact of
an arts education on a child’s life.
3. Gain new insights and understanding how schools can
become more involved in arts education.
4. Broaden parent and community understanding and
involvement, investment, and support for arts in
education.
5. Recognize and honor all stakeholders for their
contribution to the education and advocacy support of
creativity, imagination and the arts across
Mississippi.
The Challenges
"We
have an historic opportunity to drive change and lift
education to a new level…The question is whether we
have the courage to face the truths about our current
state of education and to pursue fundamental change…
By working together and staying focused on children,
we can create an education system that instead of
leaving too many children behind, takes all children
forward. Let's get to work."
— U.S.
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan CNN: 4/30/2009
"This is the time to stand up and say what you
believe, not sweep the issues under the rug so that we
can feel good about getting along. Our mission is to
defend and promote the interests of children...There's
nothing more worthwhile than fighting for children."
The Arts Front and Center Forum is
partially funded by a grant from the Kennedy Center
Alliance for Arts Education Network
The
Mississippi Alliance for Arts Education is funded in
part by The Mississippi Arts Commission and The
Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network.
