me arts ed

Phase II of the arts education census work

Gail Scott, Project Director

Last week a committee of readers met to review the applications of communities who applied to be named Imagination Intensive Communities (IIC). This is part of the second phase of the statewide arts education census work that was started over two years ago.

Please click here for the census report which is located on the Maine Department of Education arts education webpages. The report has a great deal of information that can be useful in your community arts education work.

Several communities submitted an application for IIC and the panel of readers agreed that all the communities who submitted documentation are doing very exciting and worthwhile work with young people. The documentation they provided showed over and over the resources they have to support the development of imagination in children and youth.

Dennie Wolf and Cathy Melio reading applications

The six communities selected will be named in the near future and a panel will visit their communities to document and learn first hand and indepth about the outstanding work they are doing with young people.

The project is being conducted by the Maine Alliance for Arts Education and the Maine Department of Education. The project is supported in part by a grant from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Betterment Foundation and the Maine Arts Commission supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.