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- There is a national crisis in arts education.
Facing financial hardship, many school districts have decreased or
abandoned their commitment to arts training, despite the denial of
opportunity to children with high artistic aptitude and against mounting
evidence that shows artistic skills to be necessary to pupils' acquisition
of language, math, and science concepts. ArtsBridge aims to provide,
at the local level, classes, workshops, performances, and other interactive
arts experiences to young people from kindergarten through the 12th
grade. ArtsBridge does not merely provide talks and demonstrations
of art but believes firmly that the arts are best conveyed through
interactive hands-on experience. The program provides arts projects
and aims to stimulate and inspire other college and university campuses
to adopt the ArtsBridge plan, thus addressing the arts crisis on an
ever-widening basis
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- In 1998, the University of California initiated
ArtsBridge programs at UC campuses throughout the state.
In 2001, the Federal Department
of Education's FIPSE program provided funding to disseminate te program
to six new campuses nationwide. CSUS began its ArtsBridge
program in 2001.
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- Click here to go to the National
ArtsBridge website.
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