Welcome to the Department of Arts & Humanities
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The Center for Arts Education Research consists of an interdisciplinary arts group which engages in basic and applied research in the arts and human development, art education and the arts in education. The Center calls upon expertise from professionals in the arts: visual, music, dance, theater and media and also from philosophy, cognitive and developmental psychology, curriculum, education and technology. A mix of focuses characterize the Center's work. Studies explore the role of the arts in diverse educational settings from the vantage point of school reform, curriculum development, arts integration and assessment. Of particular interest is the role of the arts as they interweave in urban culture and education. Other studies deal directly with aspects of artistic-aesthetic thinking, perception and action both within and across the diverse domains of the arts.
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The Creative Arts Laboratory (CAL) was established at Teachers College in 1994 as a result of a three-year grant from the US Department of Education: Fund for Innovative Education. CAL's purpose is to change school cultures by preparing teachers of economically disadvantaged and educationally challenged students to integrate the arts into core curriculums of public elementary and middle schools in New York City.
As a professional development model, CAL is based on the premise that integrating the arts into the school curriculum facilitates teachers' capacities to help students make connections across subject matter areas. CAL believes that critical thinking skills and positive attitudes about learning enhance students' repertoires of problem-solving abilities. These problem-solving abilities provide the impetus for students to formulate their own ideas and to engage in meaning-making activities from the perspectives of the arts, (dance, drama, music, and visual arts), in conjuntion with core academic disciplines, (eg, math, science, language arts, and social studies).
After three years of federal funding, and three years of NYC Board of Education Funding, we are confident that CAL is meeting its objectives for teachers and children. Participating CAL teachers report CAL experiences have dramatically increased :
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The Macy Gallery is part of the Art and Art Education program of the Department of Arts and Humanities at Teachers College, Columbia University. The Gallery exhibits artworks by national and international artists, graduate students and faculty members, as well as the finest examples of children's works.
The mission of this academic Gallery is to present a wide range of exhibitions from around the world reflecting the commitment of Teachers College to cultural diversity in education and the arts.
The Gallery is located on the fourth floor of Macy Hall at 525 West 120th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues. The Gallery contains 1,377 square feet of floor space and 1,633 square feet of wall space. It is open Monday through Friday 11:00 AM until 6:00 PM, and by appointment. Special arrangements can be made for groups to visit the Gallery and participate in our ongoing Artists' Talks and Lectures.
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Macy Gallery
Art and Art Education Program
444 Macy Building
Teachers College, Columbia University
525 West 120th Street
New York, NY 10027
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Our world-class curriculum and dedicated, professional musician, instructors engage campers with exciting activities that enable them to learn how to improvise solos and perform in small and large mixed ensembles. While learning how to improvise, students will discover how their overall performing skills improve, as well as the ability to play by ear, compose, arrange and conduct.
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Caught between paying homage to the artistic spirit and to the almighty dollar, the arts sector must deal with issues of social welfare, censorship, public policy, and arts law and management while simultaneously dedicating itself to the continual development of significant artistic ideas and images. While arts organizations continue to rise to this challenge, it has become increasingly clear that institutional survival in the arts at the expense of the artists themselves is no survival at all. It is for this reason that artists and arts organizations must be encouraged and aided. Part of this assistance comes in the form of reliable and consistent information which helps us to understand the needs and objectives of these constituents in their own terms.
The Research Center for Arts and Culture (RCAC), as both a service and a resource, provides data and ideas for applied research, education, advocacy, policy making, and action. In addition to the vast resources of Columbia University, including the considerable cooperation and participation of the faculty, an advisory board of artists, administrators, and members of the legal and business professions offers continuous support to the Center, helping it to provide services and expertise. Collaboration and cooperation with service organizations, trade publishers, and arts institutions strengthen the RCAC's unique position and enable it to translate its findings into useful, practical forms.
The Research Center for Arts and Culture is committed to:
Who We Serve
Artists, arts institutions, academics, researchers, private funders, policy makers and students all use the Center's research and resources for a variety of purposes. Although the data are distributed to a wide array of constituents, a frequent request for data comes from individual artists. These data show that many artists have similar career paths, goals, and obstacles, particularly in relation to their status in society.
Constituents have used the Center's research in the following ways:
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Imagination must be released in all dimensions of education ... Maxine Greene
Founded and directed by Teachers College Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Education Maxine Greene, the Center for Social Imagination, the Arts, and Education is committed to the development of alternative modes of inventing, creating, and interpreting. Through these endeavors of the imagination, and through its series of interdisciplinary programs, the Center seeks to shape visions of "a lovelier world," embracing, in all its diverse cultural richness, one humanity. Working in the tradition of Dewey, James, and the Existentialists, the Center brings schoolchildren, artists, academics, and social activists together in conferences and workshops to explore possibilities of reform and transformation in schools and social communities. By sponsoring monthly "salons," the Center attempts to generate dialogue and research projects that open new perspectives in the arts, humanities, and the human sciences. The Center is also in the process of developing networks that bring together art institutions, public schools, and Teachers College in order to investigate, document, and articulate just what role encounters with the arts-including the quintessential 20th century art forms of film and video-might play in inspiring social visions and, by consequence, in effectuating vibrant, moral communities. The Center, in its desire "to enlarge the conversation, to try for clarity, to persuade," will, in addition, publish occasional essays, in both belles letters and position paper formats, reflecting imaginative thinking and advocacy in these areas of concern. The Center for Social Imagination, the Arts, and Education is affiliated with the Teachers College
Center for Educational Outreach and Innovation. It is funded by the Aaron Diamond Foundation, the Solidago Foundation, and an anonymous donor.
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The Heritage School, now in its tenth year of life, is a partnership between Teachers College and the New York City Board of Education. Conceived by Professor Judith M. Burton, Director of the Art and Art Education Program, in 1996, the School has as its mandate education in the arts and culture at the core of the curriculum.
The Heritage School is set in a land-marked building on Lexington Avenue in East Harlem. It is presently a public comprehensive high school grades 9-12 soon to become a secondary school grades 7-12. All young people in the school take art, music, dance and drama, along with their academic subjects as part of their program of study. An important feature of the School is its openness to learning in cultural institutions as part of it curricula provisions. To this end, all youngsters follow a program of visits to museums, galleries, theaters, libraries, and concert halls, which frame interdisciplinary learning across subject boundaries.
The School follows an extended day curriculum, engaging youngsters in an extraordinary array of offerings including: extra tutorials in subjects like mathematics and Regents preparation; it also offers opportunities to learn karate, Japanese, mural painting, sports, and undertake community internships. The School has a thriving computer center, and scholarships are offered for students to attend studio courses at Teachers College in photography, drawing and ceramics.
An important feature of the School is its work with the artists of the Tailler Boriqua, who share the building. The artists are frequent visitors to the classrooms; working with students on the creation of murals, books, and computer generated imagery. The artists also run an exhibition series of artwork from South America in their Gallery in the School building. Like the artists, the community parents are also deeply involved in the school, organizing debates, musical evenings, and conversations about how best to support youngsters through their final years in public school.
The faculty and students of The Art and Art Education Program are deeply involved in the School in an array of capacities as professional development consultants, administrators, teachers, visiting artists, interns, and student teachers.
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"My vision, in launching this Foundation, is to generate inquiry, imagination, and the creation of art works by diverse people. It has to do so with a sense of the deficiencies in our world and a desire to repair, wherever possible. Justice, equality, freedom–these are as important to us as the arts, and we believe they can infuse each other, perhaps making some difference at a troubled time." - Maxine Greene
The Maxine Greene Foundation was incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation in New York State in 2003. The Foundation is a private operating foundation, exempt from tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions to the Foundation are tax-deductible.
The foundation directs its primary attention to the intersections among various modes of social action and engagements with the arts. Social imagination most often finds expression in diverse art forms: film, literature, theatre, and dance.
The Foundation is concerned with supporting the creation of and informed appreciation of works that embody fresh social visions, that move people to perceive alternative possibilities for the making of humane communities.
This requires an approach to education not only in the schools but in community centers, churches, parks, and the like. In this context, education is seen as more than schooling but as a process of awakening diverse persons and enabling them to develop their talents and work with one another to help bring into existence a better and more just social order and a more meaningful way of being in the world.