How can arts education spark dialogue in a way that supports the next generation of artists by encouraging inquiry, ensuring agency, and empowering students to find their voice?

The 2016 Amplify Arts Learning Summit is a gathering for supporters of K–12 arts education inside and outside of the classroom—teachers, arts administrators, parents, students, artists, and cultural workers. This summit features an exciting mix of sessions, peer exchanges, interactive art making, and performances designed to help us imagine new possibilities for delivering and supporting arts learning.

FREE, but space is limited. Please register in advance. CPDUs will be provided.

Presenters

Keynote address by Robyne Walker Murphy, Cultural Access Program Director at Cool Culture in Brooklyn. One-woman performance of No Child by Patrese McClain.

Other presenters include: Frances Garcia (Calmeca Academy), Rob Schroeder (Senn Arts), Monica Haslip (Little Black Pearl), Marc Sandroff (Lead Guitar), Urban Gateways, SkyART, Rashayla Marie Brown (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Michael Driscoll (Changing Worlds), Jim Duignan (Stockyard Institute), Patrick Jagoda (Game Changer Chicago Design Lab), CoCre8, UChicago Arts + Public Life's Teen Arts Council and Community Actors Program, ElevArte, Chicago Park District's TRACE program, Scott Sikkema (Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education), Steven Shewfelt (Ingenuity Inc.), Sydney Chatman (UChicago Charter School–North Kenwood/Oakland), Ricardo Gamboa (Free Street Theatre), Sylvia Gonzalez (96 Acres Project Education Initiative), Jacqueline Edelberg (author, How to Walk to School: Blueprint for a Neighborhood School Renaissance), Shaz Rasul (UChicago Office of Civic Engagement), and others.

Amplify partners

The Summit is organized by Amplify at the University of Chicago. Amplify is a partnership of arts and cultural organizations that offer arts learning programs, including Arts + Public Life, Court Theatre, Logan Center for the Arts, Oriental Institute, and Smart Museum of Art.

Support

The Inaugural Amplify Arts Learning Summit is made possible by the generous support of Marc and Deborah Sandroff and the Reva and David Logan Foundation in partnership with the many participating organizations listed above.

The Amplify Initiative at the University of Chicago is generously supported by the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation.