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San Francisco Art Commission FEB 241993
^rts Education Summary SAN FRANCISCO
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Goals
1) to make arts accessible to San Francisco children and teens at risk in school
and community settings
2) to facilitate collaborative projects and strategic planning
3) to provide resources: funding, Information, technical assistance
-l) to support the role of professional artists in education
5) to promote cultural equity in the distribution of resources
The primary purpose of the grants program is to be able
quality arts education programs locally, we do this by
support our arts education policy and goals The
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Government Information Center 1 process in the city tor arts education grant awards.
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SanFrancisco, CA 94102 wunfty Pilot Grants: Initiated in 1902, this program
totalling $73,700) to 15 organizations. This program Is
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the Commission's Youth Arts Fund and a 3-year grant
Dr the Arts. The grant awards are for one year and
Not to be taken from the Library workshops led by professional artists working with local
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groups. Although all projects have literary arts at their core, most are inter-
disciplinary in nature and include theatre, dance, visual arts, music, photography, and
media arts. We are planning an event with the Art Commission Gallery to showcase
student work developed within these projects
2. Youth Arts Festival: We provide $10,000 in support of this annual 5-clay
,May 5_9th) pUt on by the San Francisco Unified School District arid the Fine
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?rorn kindergarten through high school. Over 10,000 people attend
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Scholarships: We provide a 13,000 grant annually to California State
>chool for the Arts (C55SA) to mat e bCholarships available to low nuoine
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Goals ffihr^y 7 ?J
1) to make arts accessible to San Francisco children and teens at risk in school
and community settings
2) to facilitate collaborative projects and strategic planning
3) to provide resources: funding, information, technical assistance
-l) to support the role of professional artists in education
5; to promote cultural equity in the distribution of resources
Activities
GRANTING PROGRAMS; The primary purpose of the grants program is to be able
to facilitate the development of quality arts education programs locally, we do this by
creating granting guidelines that support our arts education policy and goals The
difference between the Art Commission and other local funders Is that we have an a
nands-on relationship with cultural and community renters, schools, and arts education
organizations. We provide information and technical assistance, as well as funding. We
have the only peer-panel review process in the city tor arts education grant awards.
/. Literary Arts Community Pilot Grants: Initiated in 1902, this program
made grants of $2,000-S6,750 (totalling $73,700) to 15 organizations. This program is
made possible with funds from the Commission's Youth Arts Fund and a 3-year grant
from the National Endowment for the Arts. The grant awards are for one year and
support local after-school arts workshops led by professional artists working with local
arts and community organizations. Over ,200 youth at risk, ages 1-17, are directly
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served through this program, and thousands more reached through performances,
exhibits, televised productions, and publications sponsored by the projects. The grantee
organizations are collaborating with over 30 schools and 20 libraries and community
groups. Although all projects have literary arts at their core, most are inter-
disciplinary in nature and Include theatre, dance, visual arts, music, photography, and
media arts. We are planning an event with the Art Commission Gallery to showcase
student work developed within these project's
2. Youth Arts Festival: We provide 110,000 in support of this annual fi-clay
festival (May 5-9th), put on by the San Francisco Unified School District and the Fine
Arts Museum. Over 80 schools and community arts group participate, showcasing student
art work from kindergarten through high school. Over 10,000 people attend
performances, exhibits, and hand-on art activities featured at the festival. The Art
Commission's Arts Education Office sits on the festival steering committee.
3. Scholarships: V/e provide a 13,000 grant annually to California State
Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA) to rnal e scholarships available to low income
San Francisco students accepted to the school CSSSA Is an Intensive summer
residential training program for high school students throughout the state who show
outstanding talent in dance, music, visual arts/crafts, creative writing, theatre, film,
and video. The Art Commission is the local sponsor for California Arts Scholar
Recognition Poy which takes place as parr or roe opening celebration for the Youth Arts
Festival. At this ever,',, local CSSSA students are publicly recognized as "California Art
Scholars" and are presented with commemorative medallions. Ten to fifteen San
Francisco students attend CSSSA each year.
COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITIES
/. Arts Education Fanciers Collaborative: This group is joint ly led by Bruce
Slevers, Director of Walter & EUse Haas Fund, Nolly White, Director, The Gap Foundation,
and Ann Wettrich, Arts Education Officer, S.F Art Commission, we began meeting in
August with the goal of facilitating strategic and collaborative planning locally In arts
education and allocating funding towards special projects identified by the group. The
group consists of about 20 foundations and corporations Involved in arts education
funding. The group has identified three projects to work on:
a) Arts Education Resource Dlreclory: TheArt Commission Is working with the San
Francisco Unified School District to create a resource guide loyouth arts programs in school and community
settings. The new directory titled, Inside/Out combines and updates two previous directories put out by the
District and the Commission. The directory features Information about In-school, after-school, weekend, and
summer arts programs for .ban Francisco children and teens. It will include neighborhood maps locating schools
and community art centers, and provide information about local arts services and festivals. Three to five
thousands copies ot the book will be printed and distributed in Spring of '93 ( tree) to public and private schools,
cultural and community centers, children service and arts organizations, PTA's, librar ies, and other interested
groups. This project is being funded by the Crescent Porter Hale Foundation, the Uap Foundation, the Walter &
Elise Haas Fund, the Bernard Osher Foundation, and the Pacific Telesis Foundation.
l>) Arts Education Professional Dovolopmont Institute: Currently in the research
stages, this project will address the needs lor arts education in the schools by training teachers in the SFUSD and
facilitating artist-teacher partnerships. An advisory group is being formed to develop this prelect which will
include a summer institute tor San Francisco teachers,'a series of arts education workshops to be ottered through
SFUSD professional development program, and In-school workshops. This prelect strives to Initiate collaborative
and strategic planning among San Francisco arts organizations and schools, promoting quality arts education by
creating a structure where local arts education resources are made accessible to teachers. The goal of the Institute
is to give teachers the skills, knowledge and resources necessary to Incorporate the ai ts into their curriculum and
to utilize community resources In bringing a rich diversity of arts education opportunities to their students. The
institute will bring national arts education experts as keynotespeakersaim will contract local arts education
organizations, artists and arts educators to conduct workshops The idea is to unify efforts, establish common
goals, and focus resources to meet needs in a way that avoids duplication ot ettorl.
c) Arts Education Clearinghouse: Ihis project is in early conceptual stages The idea is to
create en information center with a data-base on arts education events, programs, issues and resources The
prelect might Include a newsletter. Discussions have taken place with several organizations that could possibly
devote space to this prelect--the new public library, and the new Verba Buena Children's Place. Both groups have
expressed an interest.
2. San Francisco Arts Providers: A consortium of approximately 30 arts
organizations In the city, who provide arts education programs to San Francisco public
schools. The Art Commission acts in an advisory capacity and helps to facilitate
collaborative initiatives and strategic planning in arts education among the membership.
J Cultural and Community Center Activities: The Community Arts &
Education Program at the Commission provideb financial and technical assistance
support to cultural centers and community arts centers. We hold monthly meetings with
these groups to disseminate pertinent Information and facilitate joint planning and
projects. Arts education information Is shared at these meetings and program
development In this area is encouraged.
4 Public Advocates: ine Pest Agenda tor Cniidren in S.F.
This is a broad-based coalition of groups, led by Public Advocates, serving children in
the city It includes representatives from schools, the teachers union, health and human
service organizations, city agencies and the business community. Trie goal Is for
strategic planning, creating common goals and an efficient plan for the delivery of
quality services to children in San Francisco. The group Is involved in putting together
an action agenda for the Board of Supervisors and the Board of Education to equitably
address the needs of children throughout the city. We have just begun working with this
newly formed group with the goal of getting them to include the arts and the creative
development needs of children in their agenda and action plan.
Staff
The Art Commission has one full-time temporary position in arts education made
possible through combined funding sources--the California Arts Council's State-Local
Partners Program, the Youth Art Fund, and a one-year special project grant from Walter
I. Elise Haas Fund. Ann V/ettrich was hired in hay '92 as Arts Education Officer. She
works within the Community Arts & Education Program under the direction of Sonia Gray,
Future Program Development and Funding
Our goal is to generate new public funds to secure the arts education position and
to expand our grants programs. We hope to create new granting programs to meet a
variety of needs in arts education, such as, scholarships to local arts programs; arts
apprentships, artist-in-residence programs for community day schools who work with
youth at high risk of educational failure, and other special project grants. Potential
funding sources are identified below.
I. City Funds: We have been meeting with the Mayor's Office of Children,
Youth and ThPir Families to receive an allocif ion of funds from the Children's Initiative
Forty percent or these monies, which are expected to total appro.:; r.ately 13.2 million
dollars for 93-9-1 cm a formula of J0.025 for each one hundreci dollars of assessed
property valuation are allocated to several city departments: Public Health, Social
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Services, Juvenile Probation, and Public Libraries, Recreation and Parks. Additionally
the Private Industry Council will be allocated approximately 2.66 million In 93-94 for
collaborative planning among city departments, facilitated by MOCYF, to utilize
this money as a whole. This departmental plan will emphasize collaboration with the
San Francisco Unified School District. We are nope to work with tins group, even though
the Art. Commission is not one of the city agencies currently being funded. The Art
Commission could play a pivotal technical assistance role In developing quality arts
programs with the other city departments and the local arts education community.
Approximately half of the Children's Initiative funds are regranted to
children's service organization In the first funding cycle only one arts organization was
funded. Our meetings with the MOCYF resulted in wider allocations for the arts built Into
the new guidelines for 92-93. These guidelines call for $400,000 to be granted towards
arts and cultural programs.
• 2. State Funding: Two legislative initiatives were signed by the governor this
year to fund arts education partnerships among local schools, arts agencies, and
community organizations. Funding is not expected to be available until 1994. The two
initiates are ^ 282 and *" 286. The first, known as the "license plate bill" will produce
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an arts license plate (designed by Wayne Thiebaud) to be sold throughout California.
Some undesignated percentage of the profits from these sales will go to the California
Arts Council to implement the arts education initiative legislation (* 1286) which will
fund public/private partnership projects In arts education throughout the state.
3. Federal Funding: Three primary sources:
a) National Endowment for the Arts The NEA is supporting two national projects in arts
education. These prelects are jointly developing national standards and assessment methodologies for arts
education. A draft will be available for Input across the Hold nationally in the early part of '93 Additional arts
education funding Is available to non-profit groups through the many Individual departments at the NEA. (The
Mission Cultural Center Is applying for one of these grants to fund an after-school multi-disciplinary arts
program.) Their grants program for local arts agencies is being re-evaluated thisyear. New guidelines have not
yet been established and await the results of the national standards and assessment projects.
h) Kennedy Center: In process of developing a grants program, similar to the state arts
education partnership program described above Mo funding is currently available.
c) Clinton Administration: We are hoping the new administration will allocate public funds
through education, social service, and Jobs programs that can be utilized to suppor' o »r arts education efforts.
We need help in promoting our work and leveraging public and private
support to expand our efforts and broaden arts education opportunities
throughout San Francisco.
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