Resources and Arts Advocacy

Resources, Articles, & Scholarly Research for Arts Advocacy

Are you interested in advocating for the arts or bringing Ballet Arizona to your school? Look through the sources below on how to be an arts advocate, find funding, and be a voice for the arts in our community!

Quick Links & Resources

STEM vs. STEAM
STEM + ARTS
Arts in Education
Effects of Arts Education on Students
Americans for the Arts
Arizona Commission on the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
Act One
Donors Choose
Use Tax Credit Money to Take Your Students to the Theater
Kinder Morgan Foundation

Articles & Videos

OPINION: Trading textbooks for dance?
Why dance is just as important as math in school
Don’t get it twisted: Dance is an intellectual pursuit
Lifelong success starts with social-emotional learning
TED Talk: Do schools kill creativity?
TED Talk: Empowering ideas with action
TED Talk: How dance helps me deal with stress
TED Talk: Teach arts and sciences together
TEDx Talk: Teaching art or teaching to think like an artist?
TEDx Talk: Art in Education

Scholarly Research

Art Works – NDEO: Evidence Report on Impact of Dance
Dancing thoughts: an examination of children’s cognition and creative process in dance

Funding Tips

Writing a Successful Grant Proposal

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