Creative and Performing Arts

Bibliography

Erickson, Christa. "Preparing an Educated Citizenry: Integrative Models of Undergraduate Education within the Arts: New media, New Strategies," Reinvention Center Conference (Nov. 2006): http://www.reinventioncenter.miami.edu/conference2006/christaerickson/summary.htm

Hertz, David and Giancarlo Maiorino. "Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Contexts: Performing and Fine Arts," Reinvention Center Conference (Nov. 2004): http://www.reinventioncenter.miami.edu/Conference_04/Fine_Performing_Arts/Fine_Performing_Arts.htm

McKayle, Donald. "Bringing Research into the Classroom: Within Fields and Majors: Performing and Fine Arts," Reinvention Center Conferrence (Nov. 2004): http://www.reinventioncenter.miami.edu/Conference_04/Performing_Fine_Arts/Performing_Fine_%20Arts.htm

Exemplary Programs and Practices

Bard College Music Program: http://www.bard.edu/academics/programs/programs.php?id=591248&pid=780

The Bard Music Festival Bookseries: visit: http://fishercenter.bard.edu/bmf/bookseries/

Indiana University’s Comparative Literature Department: http://www.indiana.edu/~complit/

Lotus World Music Festival website: http://www.lotusfest.org/

Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities at the University of Washington: http://www.washington.edu/research/urp/sinst/index.html
See also Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington: http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/

Innovative new models for media arts education:
Arizona State University arts and engineering program: http://ame.asu.edu/
Indiana University Fine Arts BFA and MFA: http://www.fa.indiana.edu/
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Art Department: http://www.arts.rpi.edu/
University of Michigan cross-disciplinary art program: http://www.art-design.umich.edu/

Course and Curricular Innovation

For links to local, regional, national, and international arts organizations and funding opportunities visit http://www.arts.uci.edu/article.php?a_id=896

The University of Michigan’s First-Year Seminars includes courses in the Arts. http://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_results.aspx?termArray=f_09_1760&cgtype=ug&allsections=true&show=20&reqs=First_Year_Sem

Funding

Arts at Michigan, University of Michgian: Provides funds for undergraduate student projects, performances, productions, workshops, etc and supports faculty who incorporate arts-based learning into an undergraduate course. http://www.arts.umich.edu/funding/index.html

The Getty Grant Program: Promotes the understanding and conservation of the visual arts and offers funding for research, internships and conservation programs. http://www.getty.edu/foundation/index.html