2012 Illinois Arts Education Week Poster Contest!

The week of March 12-18, 2012, will be Illinois Arts Education Week. It is sponsored in cooperation with the Illinois Alliance for Arts Education (IAAE) and the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE). This poster contest reinforces the importance of the arts in the growth and development of all students.  Each year an Illinois student’s artwork is featured on the poster which is sent to all public and private schools in Illinois.  The winner will be recognized at the Annual IAAE Awards Ceremony and by the Illinois State Board of Education. The deadline for entries is November 30. Entry information can be downloaded here (Word format) or here (pdf format).

2011 Illinois Arts Education Week

The third week of March is traditionally designated Illinois Arts Education Week by Governor Pat Quinn. Illinois Arts Education Week was March 14-20, 2011, and was sponsored in cooperation with the Illinois Alliance for Arts Education (IAAE) and the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE). Each year an Illinois student’s artwork is featured on the poster which is sent to all public and private schools in Illinois. The winner was recognized at the Annual IAAE Awards Ceremony and by the Illinois State Board of Education. This year's theme was "The Arts Rock!" The winner of the competition was Nicole Maslow, a senior at Hinsdale South High School.

Arts Alive 2009: Co-Equal Integration of the Arts

Our fourth annual IAAE “Arts Alive in the Classroom” professional development seminar in Princeton (July 21-22) was another successful event. Participants rotated through sessions on integrating all four arts areas into different classroom subjects at both the elementary and high school level. For the first time graduate credit was offered through Aurora University. Tuesday evening Steve Leaver, of Imagination Theater, led participants in a drama session at the library, before attending "The Laramie Project," performed by members of the Festival 56 theater company. Wednesday began with Roberta Volkmann (bottom center) leading a session on ways of integrating the arts, then sessions in drama (Jan Booth, not pictured), music (David Larkin, not pictured), visual art (Sheila Heth, lower left) and dance (Becky Slettum, lower right).