Author: North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources

Publication Year: 1980

Media Type: Report

Summary:

The Arts and the Child Conference was held March 12-14, 1980, in Raleigh, North Carolina, at the Raleigh Civic Center.

Abstract:

The Arts and the Child Conference was held March 12-14, 1980, in Raleigh, North Carolina, at the Raleigh Civic Center.

The philosophy behind the conference was as follows: Two of the most valuable resources in North Carolina are our children and our arts. To insure a quality future for our youngsters we must now be responsible for providing arts as a basic component of their education and development. If the arts are to flourish in the coming years, it will be our children who must eventually take the responsibility for their nurture and growth.

The Arts and the Child Conference will provide an opportunity for North Carolinians to join together in the sharing of ideas, talents and energies, a unique undertaking to insure that the lives of all children will be enriched through a variety of creative experiences.

The objectives of the conference were to: Change or reinforce attitudes about the importance of the arts to the total development of the child. Celebrate the innate creativity of the child. Identify existing state and local resources in order that they may be more readily used to promote and encourage the individual talents and human potential of each child. Focus attention on exemplary arts programs for children. Provide technical information about current availability of local, state and national funding for arts education programs. Support families in their search for and belief in the providing of arts experiences for their children.

CONTENTS
Arts and the child: one viewpoint.

Speeches:
   Children, the Arts and us - what's next?
   The unending search: balance and wholeness in schooling.
   Integrations and arts spaces: challenging the either/or.
   Go ahead and teach.
   You don't bother me none.

Panels:
   Architecture as art and adventure.
   Artists-in-schools works in North Carolina.
   Arts Councils care about kids.
   Arts Education, Public Relations and Morale.
   Awakening the senses through media.
   Blue chip volunteerism.
   Doing for ourselves.
   Giving my children the arts.
   If we could tell the future.
   Let's talk aesthetics.
   Making arts dreams realities.
   Private foundations do fund the arts.
   Programs from the North Carolina Museum of art and affiliate galleries.
   The arts: State and Federal funding.
   The making of a teacher.
   The pre-school child deserves the arts too!
   We give at the office.
   We tried it and liked it - Title IV-C.
   What happens in the summer.

Individual presentations:
   Children's art in the concentration camps.
   Five and six year olds can read, write and create...music.
   Getting acquainted with the North Carolina school of the arts.
   How troubadors attack trouble in the Charlotte Poetry program.
   Networking and collaboration: Strategies for the arts in education.
   Project ENTICE: inception and continuation.
   School places for the Arts.
   Teaching, learning, creating.

Workshops:
   A dramatic approach to Word attack.
   Arts experiences for the mentally handicapped.
   Creative dance for the normal healthy disruptive child.
   Creative drama as a prevention program.
   Easing into the arts.
   Evolution of a visual image.
   Let's do it with music.
   Making music together.
   Promotion of the self-concept.
   Promotion of the self-concept through visual expression.
   Visual perception and the graphic image.

Arts & Intersections:

Categories: Arts Education