The North Carolina Arts Council announced recently that a team of educational and arts leaders from North Carolina were selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for an arts education institute that could lead to statewide reform on how arts education is provided to students in K-12 public schools.
Selected from a field of 20 applicants from 19 states across the country, North Carolina will participate in the first Education Leaders Institute, scheduled March 2008 in Chicago. Other participating states are Alaska, Kentucky, Nebraska and Wisconsin.
North Carolina’s team members are Dr. June St. Clair Atkinson, Superintendent of Public Instruction; Linda Bamford, Arts in Education Director from the North Carolina Arts Council; Becky Carney, North Carolina House of Representatives; Howard N. Lee, Chairman, North Carolina State Board of Education; Christie M. Lynch, Arts Education Consultant for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction; and Karen Wells, Executive Director of Arts North Carolina.
The Institute is modeled on the successful Mayors’ Institute of City Design (MICD), a 20-year partnership program of the National Endowment for the Arts, The U.S. Conference of Mayors, and the American Architectural Foundation.
For more information on the announcement from the NEA, see the press release from the NEA. For questions, contact me at (919) 807-6520 or by e-mail, jessica.a.orr@ncmail.net.
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