Each year, Allied Arts of Greater Chattanooga distributes over $270,000 in grant funds to over 31,000 students for arts activities and hands-on experiences. Last year, 70 schools in the Hamilton County Department of Education received funding from Allied Arts. Allied Arts strives to develop arts in education programs that support learning in the arts and enhance overall student achievement.
Rodney Van Valkenburg is Director of Arts in Education.
Contact Information: (423) 756-2787 or Rodneyvv@alliedartschattanooga.org.
ArtsDirect 2007-08
ArtsDirect is published annually by Allied Arts as a resource guide for schools and community organizations. ArtsDirect includes information about programs and services offered by local arts organizations and teaching artists. Programs include artist residencies, field trips, in-school performances and workshops, and professional development opportunities for teachers. ArtsDirect also includes information on funding available to schools from Allied Arts and the Tennessee Arts Commission, as well as biographical information about arts organizations and teaching artists. Click on the links below to explore the wealth of arts and cultural resources available for your classrooms and organizations.
Student Ticket Transportation Applications now available – First day applications accepted: September 12
Student Ticket Subsidies are enable students in public schools of the Southeast Tennessee Development District (Bledsoe, Bradley, Grundy, Hamilton, Marion, McMinn, Meigs, Polk, Rhea, and Sequatchie Counties) to attend cultural field trips or to invite performing groups and outreach programs to their schools. Funding for this program comes from the state legislature, administered by the Tennessee Arts Commission, and Allied Arts. Additional funds serve schools in North Georgia.
Through AIR, Allied Arts provides grants to bring artists into Hamilton County public schools. Resident artists work in partnership with the classroom teacher to produce an educational experience for students, which is both intellectually challenging and creatively stimulating, and to assist students to meet Fine Arts Standards and are connected to the classroom curriculum.
The goal of the Allied Arts School Program is to enable schools to design, refine, and implement a school-wide plan to provide students with basic skills, appreciation, and understandings of the arts. Thirteen Hamilton County Department of Education elementary schools will participate in the program during the 2006-2007 school year.
Application Guidelines and Form
The 2006-07 Allied Arts Schools:
Allen Elementary Barger Fine Arts Academy Battle Academy Clifton Hills Elementary Chattanooga School for Arts and Sciences Daisy Elementary
East Ridge Elementary
Normal Park Museum Magnet Ooltewah Elementary Rivermont Elementary Thrasher Elementary
Wallace A. Smith Elementary
Wolftever Elementary
Arts Education Services
Teacher Advisory Committee for the Arts (TACA)
The Teacher Advisory Committee for the Arts (TACA) is made up of two teachers from each Hamilton County Department of Education school. Through this joint venture between Hamilton County Schoolsand Allied Arts. The teachers disseminate cultural information and provide valuable input into the development of quality arts experiences for local students.
Teaching Artist Leadership Council (TALC)
The Teaching Artist Leadership Council (TALC) is comprised of top professional individual artists that provide services for students in local schools. TALC also provides advice to Allied Arts' Arts Education Programs and assist in developing Teaching Artists in the area.
2006-07 Teaching Artist Leadership Council:
Colleen Laliberte Dee Mays Ann Law Jas Milam Juanita Tumelaire.
Arts Education Professional and Personal Development
Local Kennedy Center Workshops
Allied Arts and Hamilton County Department of Education (HCDE) are participants in John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' Partners in Education Program. Through this program, professional development workshops for elementary school teachers will be presented during the 2007-08 school year connecting the arts to literacy instruction. The workshops are partially funded through a grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission.
Note:
Student ticket Subsidies and Artist in Residence funds may only be used for events and artists listed in ArtsDirect or in the following rosters: Tennessee Arts Commission: Artist in Residence Roster; Artists in the School Residency Directory, produced by the Memphis Arts Council and Memphis Special Schools; and Arts in Education Directory, produced by the Arts and Humanities Council of Greater Knoxville. Artists and events not listed on these rosters may be used with special permission by Allied Arts' Director of Education.
The teaching artists listed in the ArtsDirect are individual contractors and are not employees of Allied Arts. ArtsDirect is a listing of teaching artists and arts events; therefore, Allied Arts does not endorse any artists or event nor imply stature through their inclusion in this directory.
