Kennedy Center

ArtServe Michigan is a proud member of the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network (KCAAEN). KCAAEN is a coalition of statewide non-profit Alliances for Arts Education working in partnership with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to support policies, practices, programs, and partnerships that ensure the arts are an essential part of American K-12 education. As Michigan’s State Alliance, we work closely with the Kennedy Center to ensure that our rich arts education sector and its students are able to be recognized and rewarded for their contributions at the highest levels. KCAAEN programs recognize outstanding work by individuals, organizations, and institutions that make the arts an essential part of a student's education.

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR ARTS EDUCATION AWARDS!

DEADLINE EXTENDED - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Schools of Distinction in Arts Education Awards

Launched in 1999, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Schools of Distinction in Arts Education Awards Program recognizes schools that have done an outstanding job of making the arts essential to the education of their students. The national and state level awards provide an important opportunity to honor schools and the role they play in providing a creative learning environment for outstanding student achievement. Levels of recognition for this program are awarded at the state and national level.

State Level: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Schools of Excellence in Arts Education

The State Level award program is presented to individual schools that have arts education programs that include two or more of the following components:

1. The school should teach all the arts (music, visual arts, dance and theatre) as specific disciplines as well as integrated into other subject areas.
2. The school should use creative approaches to learning, provide appropriate learning environments for teaching the arts, and recognize that the arts are critical and essential to education.
3. The school should provide opportunities for parental involvement in the educational lives of their children through hands-on, creative, arts-based activities.
4. The school should provide students various opportunities for learning about other cultures through the arts.
5. The arts program should provide community connections that build value and respect for the community by offering students diverse experiences beyond the classroom.   Students leave the school to attend artistic events in the community, and community artists and artistic venues also provide programs at the school.

Deadline for submitting completed submissions to ArtServe Michigan for the 2010 Schools of Excellence in Arts Education Award nomination is Monday, February 22, 2010 by 5:00 pm EDT.   Completed applications meeting the program guidelines must be submitted to ArtServe Michigan by mail or hand delivery to 1 Clover Court, Wixom, MI 48393.

    * Schools of Distinction in Arts Education Award Guidelines (PDF)
    * Schools of Distinction in Arts Education State Level Nomination Checklist and Form (DOC)

In its role as the KCAAEN State Alliance for Michigan, ArtServe will convene a panel of its statewide arts education partners and select one nominee for Michigan to go forward to the national competition, submission deadline April 2, 2010.

National Level: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts National Schools of Distinction in Arts Education

This award honors up to five schools each year from across the nation that provide teaching programs in the four basic art forms (music, visual arts, dance and theatre). ArtServe Michigan nominates up to five schools for consideration for the national-level award. These nominees are drawn from the pool of recipients that were chosen at the statewide level. Winners receive a modest honorarium to support their programs, a plaque for display in their building, and the opportunity to be featured in performance at the Kennedy Center as part of KCAAEN events.   

In addition, the KCAAEN collaborates with the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) to recognize the K-8 Principals of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts National Schools of Distinction in Arts Education Winning Schools.

National Schools of Distinction Past Winners from Michigan

• 2001 – 2002: Detroit High School for the Fine and Performing Arts (Detroit, MI) 
• 2000 – 2001: Traverse City West Senior High School (Traverse City, MI)

Kennedy Center/National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute

The Kennedy Center/National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute is a four-week summer music program at the John F. Kennedy Center for the performing Arts in Washington, DC, for student instrumentalists. The program is designed for serious music students. The fellowship provides the following benefits to students accepted into the program:

• Round-trip air transportation to and from Washington, DC
• Housing, meals, and local transportation, during the program
• Private lessons taught by a member of the National Symphony Orchestra
• Chamber music coaching by NSO musicians
• Master classes and seminars
• Attendance at selected rehearsals and performances of the NSO
• Participation in the NSO Summer Music Institute Orchestra
• Performance opportunities in DC metropolitan area
• Exposure to internationally-renowned conductors, soloists, and musicians

Each year, through an initiative of the NSO National Trustees, ArtServe Michigan recommends up to five young Michigan musicians for a National Trustees' fellowship. The program is open, by application including a recorded audition, to high school students, as well as college freshmen and sophomores, seriously considering orchestral music as a career and willing to devote themselves to a musical education. Applications are evaluated by a team of professional musicians and music education professionals and the top five applicants are forwarded for further consideration at the national level.

Deadline for Applications: Materials must be submitted to ArtServe Michigan, 1 Clover Court, Wixom, MI 48393 by Friday, January 22, 2010 at 5:00 pm EDT. Students will be notified of the results by mid-March 2010. 

* NSO Summer Music Institute Application Form (DOC)
* NSO Summer Music Institute Financial Aid Form (DOC)

KCAAEN and NSBA Award

THIS APPLICATION DEADLINE HAS PASSED.

Since 1998, the KCAAEN and the National School Boards Association (NSBA) have provided an annual award to a school board(s) that has demonstrated support for and commitment to high-quality arts education in its school district, community, state or special jurisdiction. This national award recognizes districts that have included all four major artistic disciplines – visual arts, music, theater and dance in their programs.

The award competition program involves one school board per state that comprises the maximum national pool of nominees. Final selection is made by a national panel of arts educators and arts administrators including representatives of KCAAEN and NSBA. The national Award is presented every year at the annual national conference of the NSBA.

 ArtServe Michigan will convene a panel of its statewide arts education partners and will select one nominee for Michigan to go forward to the national competition, submission deadline December 1, 2009.

In 2003 Farmington Public Schools, Board of Education, Farmington, MI received this prestigious award.

For more information about any of these arts education award programs please email Jennifer Goulet at jennifer ‘at’ artservemichigan ‘dot’ org or contact 248-912-0760 ext. 2#.