PLEASE NOTE: Both gatherings are now full. To be added to either waiting list, please email your name, organization, email and phone number to necap@aannh.org and ask to be included.
RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION
One Union Station
Providence, RI 02903
Thursday, November 8, 2012
4-6 pm
Check-in and welcoming reception 3:30 pm
Attendees need to pay for parking.
Questions? Contact Sherilyn Brown, Education Director, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
(401) 222-6994 Sherilyn.Brown@arts.ri.gov
LESLEY UNIVERSITY
1815 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 3-094
Cambridge, MA 02140
Friday, November 9, 2012
2-4 pm
followed by refreshments & a networking reception
Questions? Contact Diane Daily, Education Manager, Massachusetts Cultural Council, diane.daily@state.ma.us
For registration information, contact
Frumie Selchen
NECAP Coordinator
frumie@aannh.org, necap@aannh.org
603-323-7302 
Thank you for the great response! Both gatherings are now at capacity, but we do have waiting lists. Email your name, organization, email address and phone number to necap@aannh.org, and tell us which list you'd like to be added to.
Conversations with Nick Rabkin
Principal Investigator, Teaching Artist Research Project,
NORC at University of Chicago
NECAP and its local partners, the Rhode Island Foundation and Lesley University, are convening gatherings with national researcher and author Nick Rabkin. Nick will review and discuss the policy implications of his study, the Teaching Artist Research Project (TARP). Boston and Providence were two of the twelve TARP study sites.
There have been remarkable advances in arts education, both in and out of school, over the last fifteen years, despite a difficult policy environment. 
Teaching artists, professionals who link the arts to education and community life, are a creative resource behind this innovation. Their work is central to defining the roles the arts play in education, economic development and civic life.
Excellent research has shown that arts education is instrumental to the social, emotional, and cognitive development of young people. But little has been known about teaching artists.
The Teaching Artist Research Project (TARP) deepens our understanding of the world of teaching artists, and these dialogues with Nick Rabkin will help inform policies designed to make their work more sustainable, more effective, and more meaningful to the region.
About NIck Rabkin:
A consultant and researcher for arts organizations and arts policy, Nick’s career in the arts began producing new works for the stage as executive director of Chicago’s Organic Theater Company, in 1980. He was the deputy commissioner of cultural affairs for Chicago under Mayors Harold Washington and Richard M. Daley, the senior program officer for the arts and culture at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and directed the Center for Arts Policy at Columbia College Chicago. He’s done extensive research on arts education and, in particular, on teaching artists, writing widely. His major work includes Putting the Arts in the Picture: Reframing Education in the 21st Century (2005), and Teaching Artists and the Future of Education (2011). He blogs on Huffington Post, and is a member of the team that developing a new cultural plan for the City of Chicago. (October 2012)
Read about TARP
Read the Full TARP Report
Read the TARP Executive Summary
Nick’s Huffington Post blogs
Read Nick’s Huffington Post articles about Teaching Artists
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nick-rabkin/artists-bring-what-school_b_1237995.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nick-rabkin/the-three-horsemen-of-art_b_1147351.html
