Arts in Education

The Department of Culture and the Arts though Creative Connections, its partnership with the Department of Education, is taking a lead role in the promotion of the arts in education, recognising the three key principles of the recently released National Education and the Arts Statement.

• All children and young people should have a high quality arts education in every phase of learning
• Creating partnerships strengthens community identity and local cultures
• Connecting schools with the arts and cultural sector enriches learning outcomes.

Creative Connections: An Arts in Education Partnership Framework

In January 2005 the Hon Sheila McHale, the then Minister for Culture and the Arts and the Hon Alan Carpenter, the then Minister for Education and Training released Creative Connections: An Arts in Education Partnership Framework 2005 – 2007. 
Read the summary.

For further information about Creative Connections please contact the Senior Policy Officer, Young People and Education.

Artists in Schools

Artists in Schools: The ArtsEdge guide for artists and teachers in Western Australia 07-08 and its companion volume, Telling Tales: Western Australian Artists-in-Schools Partnerships are practical resource tools for artists and teachers to use in partnership when developing artists in schools programs.

Artists in schools programs offer new and exciting ways of teaching and learning.  
Developed in conjunction with the Department of Education, these guides have practical information on funding, planning, delivering and evaluating arts programs in schools.

Both these publications are available from the ArtsEdge website.

ArtsEdge

ArtsEdge is a strategic partnership between the Department of Education and the Department of Culture and the Arts, and a key delivery mechanism of Creative Connections.  

ArtsEdge facilitates collaboration between the education, arts and cultural sectors. By creating opportunities through partnership, we aim to encourage, develop, promote and celebrate learning environments which spark creativity in young people and their school communities. 

Contact the ArtsEdge Co-ordinator for more information at artsedge.dca.wa.gov.au or call 9224 7429

Introducing the AIR Grants Program

The Creative Education Partnerships: Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Initiative, to be called the AIR Grants Program in Western Australia, is a pilot funding program designed to support artist-in-residence activity in schools and universities and to improve students’ access to high quality arts in education programs in this State.

In the first year of the four year pilot program, $280,000 will be available for artist-in-residence projects in Western Australian public schools and teacher training institutions.

Full details on grants, eligibility and assessment criteria is available from the ArtsEdge website at artsedge.dca.wa.gov.au (go to the Artists in Schools pages).