Arts in Education
(L to R) MSAC Director Theresa Colvin, Councilor
Barbara Bershon, and Program Director Chris Stewart (far
right) stand with winners
of the statewide Poetry Out Loud contest - Will Poxon,
Imani Harvill and Amanda Jackiewicz.
Student poetry champion crowned
In partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and
the Poetry Foundation, the Arts Council concluded this year's Poetry
Out Loud competition – a contest in which high
school students perform poems of their choice – with
its state finals at Center Stage in Baltimore, Feb. 21.
Amanda Jackiewicz, a senior at Baltimore Lutheran School in
Baltimore County, emerged as champion after she presented "Madmen," a
poem by two-time U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins. She will
represent Maryland in the national competition, April 28
in Washington, D.C.
The two other top finishers were Imani Harvil, a junior at
Baltimore's Western High School, and Will Poxon, a senior at
South River High School in Anne Arundel County. The trio will
appear at the CityLit
Festival, April 18 at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Cathedral
Street, Baltimore.
Arts educators to convene at CAFE X
The annual Cultural
Arts for Education (CAFE) conference – sponsored
by the Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance (AEMS) and
State Superintendent of Schools - will be held May 21, 8 a.m.
to 3 p.m., at Towson University’s Center for the Arts.
In addition to providing opportunities for networking among
the arts and education communities, the conference will present:
research supporting the inclusion of arts in the school curriculums;
information about the Voluntary State Curriculum for the Fine
Arts; and news about model programs and national developments
that relate to arts in education.
For information visit the AEMS
web site, or call 410-783-2367.
Underground exhibit staged in Annapolis
An exhibit of artwork by Maryland students (grades K-12) was
displayed in the tunnel of the Maryland
State House building in Annapolis. The seventh annual exhibit – sponsored
by the Maryland
Art Education Association – featured artwork by more
than 300 students from public and independent schools in Maryland.
March was “Youth Art Month.”
Contact: Christine Stewart, cstewart@msac.org,
410-767-6476 |
