{"id":7297,"date":"2012-09-11T11:36:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T15:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=7297"},"modified":"2013-02-05T11:12:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T15:12:42","slug":"website-launched-for-national-arts-in-education-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2012\/09\/website-launched-for-national-arts-in-education-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Website launched for National Arts in Education Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2010, the United States Legislature declared the second week in September as National Arts in Education Week to bring awareness to the importance of arts education for our children, our schools, and our communities.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/09\/Arts-in-Ed-Week-Logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" data-attachment-id=\"7298\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2012\/09\/website-launched-for-national-arts-in-education-week\/arts-in-ed-week-logo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/09\/Arts-in-Ed-Week-Logo.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,283\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Arts-in-Ed-Week-Logo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/09\/Arts-in-Ed-Week-Logo.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7298\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/09\/Arts-in-Ed-Week-Logo-300x141.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/09\/Arts-in-Ed-Week-Logo-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/09\/Arts-in-Ed-Week-Logo.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>To celebrate National Arts in Education Week<em> <\/em>in Chattanooga, Laurie Melnik, director of theatre education at UTC\u2019s Southeast Center for Education in the Arts, has collaboratively developed a website \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chattarts.com\/\">ChattArts.com<\/a> \u2013 with Kate Warren from The St. Andrew\u2019s Center and Emerson Burch from The 35.85 Guild. ChattArts.com provides resources that inspire everyone to think within, between, and beyond what they already know.\u00a0The Southeast Center for Education in the Arts invites anyone to share resources and ideas pertaining to arts education and its impact on the greater community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe purpose of the website is to convene like-minded individuals who are passionate about arts education and want a different way to connect and brainstorm ideas. The website launched this week,\u201d said Kim Wheetley, Southeast Center for Education in the Arts Director and Lyndhurst Chair of Excellence in Arts Education.<\/p>\n<p>National arts organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts and the Arts Education Partnership have supported and promoted National Arts in Education Week<em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>with relevant research that identifies the many benefits of arts education.\u00a0Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aep-arts.org\/resources-2\/national-arts-in-education-week\/\">here<\/a> for more information about the national movement.<\/p>\n<p>The proclamation for National Arts in Education Week reads \u201cArts education enables students to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills, imagination and creativity, discipline, alternative ways to communicate and express feelings and ideas, and cross-cultural understanding, which supports academic success across the curriculum as well as personal growth outside the classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2010, the United States Legislature declared the second week in September as National Arts in Education Week to bring awareness to the importance of arts education for our children, our schools, and our communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2012\/09\/website-launched-for-national-arts-in-education-week\/\">Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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