2017 Poetry Out Loud Finalists Announced

2017 ALASKA STATE POETRY OUT LOUD FINALISTS ANNOUNCED JUNEAU, ALASKA – The Alaska State Council on the Arts (ASCA) and the Juneau Arts & Humanities Council (JAHC) are pleased to announce the ten state finalists for the 2017 Alaska Poetry Out Loud Competition.  These ten students have progressed in competition

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“Scaling Up” Artists’ workshop with Will Kozloff

Join Will Kozloff (see his work on Instagram @lodust) in creating the set pieces for the Governor’s Awards for the Arts. Learn about “Scaling Up” and becoming a successful public artist. At lunch time, take a break for lunch with Jeff Baird of the Rasmuson Foundation to talk about how

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15 Local Teaching Artists to Participate in Seminar Series

This Friday through Sunday, 15 local artists will participate in a Kennedy Center Arts-integrated seminar series on residency planning and lesson design. The seminars will be: Mapping the Journey: Planning Effective Residencies for Students and Anatomy of a Lesson: Designing Instruction. This is the final benefit as part of our Any Given Child

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Artists As Educators: Seminar Series

Calling all Teaching Artists interested in FREE Professional Development from The Kennedy Center! September 23, 24 & 25, 2016  The Juneau Arts and Humanities Council will sponsor visiting Teaching Artist, Randy Barron for a dual seminar series for teaching artists working in school settings. Seminar Series: “Mapping the Journey: Planning

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11 Juneau Reps attend Arts Integration Conference in D.C.

A team of Juneau educators traveled to Washington, D.C. at the end of June for a three-day conference on Arts Integration sponsored by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.  The team included four principals, an art specialist, and an instructional coach from the Juneau School District; School of

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2016 Poetry Out Loud Video

The National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation present Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest, in partnership with Alaska State Council on the Arts and Juneau Arts & Humanities Council. Poetry Out Loud provides a wonderful opportunity for high schools to introduce their students to poetry. Competitions in

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Any Given Child Offers Firsts for Juneau Students

This November, all the second graders in the Juneau School District had the chance to visit the Shuká Hit, or the clan house in Sealaska Heritage Institute’s Walter Soboleff Building. There, they listening to storyteller Lily Hudson Hope and learned about Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian customs. This is part of

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2nd Art Excursion for Any Given Child Juneau

  Juneau is fortunate to be one of 18 Kennedy Center Ensuring the Arts for Any Given Child sites nationwide. Any Given Child Juneau uses a collective impact approach of involving local arts organizations, businesses, government and community members to increase student access to arts education. This collaborative effort seeks

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