Initiatives

Initiatives are large-scale projects, which may encompass workshops, performance, extended residencies, as well as public artworks or content-specific programming.

Arts Integration Residency for Educators Fellowship

The Arts Integration Residency Educator Fellowship is an opportunity for Indiana educators to partner with teaching artists to develop and implement creative, arts-integrated residencies for the students in their classroom.

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third space

An installation of a transformative work of art created by established local artists.

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Fresh StART

Fresh StART aims to enhance a school’s sense of pride and strengthen its connection to the surrounding community by improving an underused area, within or around the school, with an art installation inspired by students.

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Wolf Trap

Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts is the flagship education program of Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. A nationally recognized leader in early childhood arts-based learning, Wolf Trap Institute trains early childhood educators to use the performing arts as a teaching strategy to engage children in active learning across curricula. Arts for Learning Indiana is proud to be Central Indiana Wolf Trap.

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ArtForce Summer Program

ArtForce is a three-week summer program perfect for high school students interested in exploring the arts as a possible college and/or career options.

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Arts & Literacy

Arts & Literacy is a year-long residency that utilizes a school’s reading and language arts curriculum as the basis for artist-led workshops, reinforcing reading and literacy goals. Teaching artists connect learning in the arts with students’ literacy lessons in the classroom, reinforcing student understanding of grade-level specific reading and ELA standards, increasing literacy growth, and emphasizing SEL competencies.

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Artists Building Community

The Artist Building Community (ABC) Fellowship is an inquiry-based, people-centered approach that empowers teaching artists building partnerships in their community. The Fellowship pairs an AFL Teaching Artist, a Lead Teacher, and an AFL staff member in an 18-month deep dive into the culture of a school community.

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ABC Monthly Newsletter Form

Please submit this form to Clockwork by the 1st day of each month, summarizing and documenting the work you have put in the past month. Just one form per school 🙂 I’ll put the content you send me together, make it look snazzy, and send it back to folks to be informed for our monthly meetings!

Name and role(Required)

What fellowship programming has taken place this past month? Please specify the audience (students, teachers, parents, neighbors), and demographic data.(Required)

Don't think too hard about this, just a measure of your gut feeling today – what does art programming in your school community look like 5 years from now?(Required)

What planning has taken place this past month for programming in the future? Please indicate dates and times if these are events that would be good to invite funders to.(Required)

What events have you attended and/or meetings have you had to build relationships and better know the needs and assets of the school community?

What progress have you made toward the fellowship's long-term goals this month of an increase in both student & teacher retention, expressing feelings of healthier, more positive school cultures?(Required)

What progress have you made toward the fellowship's long-term goals of implementing a new 5+ session residency/lesson plans centered on teaching young people about the socio-cultural history of their neighborhood through an arts integrated approach?(Required)

What events are happening in the next 2 months at your school that you would like to advertise?(Required)

What progress have you made toward the fellowship's long-term goals this month of applying for grants + title funding and/or fundraising work to for funding the 3-year ABC Vision Plan (for what arts programming looks like after this grant is finished).(Required)

What pictures and/or videos of your Fellowship work did you take this month?(Required)

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