Creative and Performing Arts
Listed below are links to exemplary courses and other initiatives pertaining to the 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