West Valley Arts Council is actively recruiting students (ages 15-18 years old) attending high school in Goodyear (and within the West Valley) who are interested in the arts as a career for our Gallery 37 arts education program. Started in 2001 and typically a summer youth public arts education program, we are expanding the Gallery 37 program by providing students an apprenticeship during the summer of 2022 (May-June).

Students will be working with a professional artist to design, develop, and install a permanent piece of public art for the City of Goodyear.

• The Goodyear project will start end of May 2022
• Deadline to apply is April 29th
• FREE to apply.
• Students receive FREE college credits in partnership with Estrella Mountain Community College
• Students receive a cash stipend for their work
• Students will have the unique opportunity to develop vital career skills

For more information on our Gallery 37 program, you can visit our website at https://westvalleyarts.org/gallery-37/ and view a short video of the latest installed Gallery 37 public art project at Festival Fields in Avondale.  

The Arizona Theatre Company presents Justice: A Musical. The show connects to civics, history, English, and Music curriculum. The show will be available to stream into classrooms from April 26-May 31. (Free for Title I Schools). Scan the QR Code on the Flyer for more information.

The National Art Education Association (NAEA), in partnership with the Educational Theater Association (EdTA), the National Association for Music Education (NAfME), and the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) is launching Connected Arts Networks (CAN), a five-year grant initiative to create nationwide virtual Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) with educators in visual arts, music, theater, dance and media arts. The overarching vision for CAN is to build a sustainable model of professional learning for arts educators to strengthen their pedagogy, instruction and leadership skills in order to better serve students. This project is modeled after the successful structure of the PLC program in New York City, initiated by the Office of Arts and Special Projects (OASP), another partnering organization.

In year one of this multi-year project, we will recruit a passionate and diverse group of educators to create a national professional learning community of Teacher Leaders. In year two, the initial PLC of Teacher Leaders will receive specialized virtual training to build their capacity to address diversity, equity, inclusion, and social-emotional learning within arts instruction. After year two, each Teacher Leader will facilitate their own virtual PLC of arts educators of their same art discipline and student grade levels in these same content areas, while also emphasizing the importance of leadership skills. We view these content areas as the most pressing for arts educators at this moment in time and believe that we can positively impact students by creating opportunities for arts educators to learn from and with each other.

On behalf of the project, each national partner association (visual arts, theater, music and dance) will be selecting 15 Teacher Leaders. We welcome educators in media arts, and invite them to apply under one of these 4 art disciplines and to note media arts in the application. Upon being selected, Teacher Leaders will participate in a Project Orientation in May 2022, a Summer Institute in July 2022, and starting in September 2022, monthly meetings with their PLC (see below timeline for more details). The goal is that by June 2023, each PLC Teacher Leader will be prepared to facilitate their own virtual PLC, which will include 10 arts educators from around the country seeking a peer community.

Now accepting Workshop Proposals for:

ADE virtual “Title IV-A & B Symposium Building Better Tomorrows”

July 14 – 15, 2022

Showcase your creative & active student programs at the Title IV-A & B Symposium!

The Arabian Horse in Art

67th Annual Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show

February 17-27, 2022

Call for Art: Youth Photography Competition
Greater Arizona Chapter, National Society of Arts & Letters

The Greater Arizona Chapter of the National Society of Arts & Letters is calling for submissions to the 2021-22 photo competition, which is open to young Arizona students, between the ages 14-18. Applicants will have the opportunity to demonstrate their photography skills and their ability to talk about their artwork. The competition theme is Uniquely Arizona. Only one submission per youth, consisting of acompleted application, one digital image and a paragraph about the image. A cash award will be granted to the top ten top students. First place - $500; second place $250; third place $125; and $50 for honorable mentions. Images and descriptive paragraph will be showcased in the
ArtReach Space at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts from September 23, 2022 through January 9, 2023. Submissions will be limited to the first 500 entries for this year’s competition.

The New York Life Award offers $1,000 scholarships to students in any state whose works explore personal grief and loss.  

Arizona students are also eligible for a special state-level scholarship of $500.

All students in grades 7–12 (ages 13 and up) are eligible to participate.

The deadline for students in Arizona is December 6, 2021.

Teens can visit artandwriting.org/nylife to find out their regional deadlines and how to apply.

ESSA 2022 Virtual Student Showcase Update!!!

Every Student, Every Day, Every Opportunity

January 10-12, 2022

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Calling all arts educators to highlight innovative ways performing arts & interdisciplinary classrooms are engaging every student, every day, with every opportunity at the 2022 ESSA Conference January 10-12. The Virtual Student Showcase is an exciting opportunity for students, teachers, and schools to share the amazing and incredible arts learning experiences that are occuring within Arizona classrooms.