Talking Points Page
This page on the Ohio Citizens for the Arts website contains six short articles, including “The Arts are Basic to Education,” that can be useful. The link below takes you directly to that page. When you enter your zip code in the Ohio Citizens for the Arts online form, you are taken to an action page with links to legislators and current issues.

Talking Points Page link — http://www.ohiocitizensforthearts.org/points.php

Advocacy Agenda
Ohio Alliance for Arts Education: www.oaae.net.   An Arts on-line update containing updated weekly news appears on the OAAE homepage.

The Ohio Alliance for Arts Education's Advocacy Agenda outlines goals and objectives to improve arts education in Ohio for all students. OAAE Advocacy goals state that the arts are included in Ohio's "core" curriculum, that all students will have access to quality arts education programs, and that the arts will be included in statewide efforts to improve student achievement. The site suggests checking the “How To?,” “Advocacy Networks” and “FAQ” sections and to reach OAAE Joan Platz, Information Coordinator at <Platz.1@osu.edu> for additional information.

Online Resource List link — http://www.oaae.net/download/index.php
Ohio Citizens for the Arts and Ohio Alliance for Arts Education, Donna S. Collins Executive Director —  http://www.oaae.net/advocacy.php

Public Value—Take pART, a new initiative launched in 2008 by the Ohio Arts Council to gather public value stories from citizens around Ohio. http://www.oac.state.oh.us/aboutOAC/publicvalue.asp

Advocate for the Arts, Americans for the Arts, Robert L. Lynch—President and CEO
On the Americans for the Arts website, the Advocacy Center contains a broad range of advocacy information and links. The current Advocacy Center homepage includes an Arts Action Center for Arts Education. This page also contains action steps, including current action to tell Congress to support a funding level of $36.5 million for the Arts in Education programs within the U.S. Department of Education. These programs support model arts collaborations with schools, teacher professional development, and arts programs for at-risk youth.  A clickable button lets you “TAKE ACTION NOW.” 

Advocacy Center link — http://www.artsusa.org/get_involved/advocate.asp

Making a Case for the Arts: How and Why the Arts are Critical to Student Achievement and Better Schools is found on the Arts Education Partnership (AEP) website.  New research published by AEP in this new brochure describes the benefits of arts education and can be used for many advocacy purposes.  http://www.aep-arts.org/publications/info.htm?publication_id=25

The Arts Journal—arts,culture, ideas was introduced online in 1999 as a digest of arts and cultural journalism and features links to stories culled from more than 200 English-language newspapers, magazines and publications. The current site is the fourth design with blogs (added in 2003) and features more than a dozen prominent writers on culture. You may want to follow a variety of blogs including those of Richard Kessler - 21C.

To see what is up currently at 21C, go to:
http://www.artsjournal.com/dewey21c/2011/06/the-things-you-hear-about-arts-1.html

 

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