Arts Resource Videos
The Wyoming Arts Alliance produces webinars and provides links to other video presentations that will help its members be betters advocates, better educators, and better community developers.
Arts and creativity are central to vibrant Wyoming communities. Learning how to talk about the arts to decision- and policy-makers will help. These selected videos will show you how other experts are improving lives and communities through the arts.
5 Reasons to Support the Arts in Wyoming
Arts Building Cohesion in Communities throughout Wyoming
MacArthur Fellow, multi-media performing artist, author, social entrepreneur, artist-citizen, and educator Aaron Dworkin spoke at the Wyoming Arts Council’s biannual Arts Summit about the power of the arts to build cohesion.
2021 Wyoming Arts Council Year in Review
An overview of Wyoming Arts Council grants and program impacts from fiscal years 2019 and 2020 and information about the value of the arts in Wyoming using data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and from the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA). Created by Fort Atelier LLC from Casper, Wyoming.
ALAS 2022 Session 2
Policy for Creative Workers: Once-in-a-Generation Opportunities
(produced by WESTAF)
ALAS 2022 Session 5
Arts Advocacy Across the Political Spectrum: A panel including WyAA’s Vice-Chair, Karmen Rossi.
(produced by WESTAF)
ALAS 2022 Session 6
Policymaking for Cultural Trusts: A panel including Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund manager, Renée Bovée
(produced by WESTAF)
Art Speaks
A thought-provoking video about the importance of art in learning and in life. Dave Heinzel produced this presentation for the Springfield Public Schools.
Why the Arts Are Essential
The Wyoming Arts Alliance is a great source of information about how the arts contribute to the economy and to our well-being. WyAA Board Member Steve Schrepferman explains.
(A WyAA Production)
Telling Your Arts Story
WyAA Board Member Bruce Richardson talks about how the best way to talk about the arts is through stories about the arts.
(A WyAA Production)
Arts Advocacy: You’ve Got the Power!
This webinar from the Music Teachers National Association discusses the broad definition of what it means to be an advocate for the arts and the importance that arts advocacy plays within our studios, our community life and our nation
Why Art Matters
In this TEDx Talk, Dr. Linda Nathan explores the importance of the arts as key to a complete educational experience. Dr. Nathan is head of Boston Arts Academy, the city’s first public high school for the visual and performing arts.
Arts Advocacy Basics
Produced by Americans for the Arts, Senior Director of State and Local Government Affairs Jay Dick explains the critical differences between education, advocacy and lobbying, and gives tips about how to be an effective arts advocate.
Arts Education Advocacy
This video advocates for the importance of art education in schools and communities. Written and produced by Kenneth Grant Walsh.
Making Your Arts Pitch
To get your arts story told by the media, you have to think like a reporter. WyAA Board Member Micah Schweizer has the insight.
(A WyAA Production)
Art in the Schools
WyAA Board Member Jo Crandall talks about how creativity in our schools can become more visible to parents and to policymakers.
(A WyAA Production)
Teaching Art or Teaching To Think Like An Artist
Columbus Museum of Art’s Cindy Foley makes the case that art’s critical value is to develop learners that think like Artists which means learners who are creative, curious, that seek questions, develop ideas, and play.
Art Education As a Civil Right
Professor Patty Bode of the Ohio State University talks about how education involves learning and teaching . . . and that learning is what makes us human. Professor Bode believes that art education in our schools is a civil and human right.
Encourage Creativity: Teach the Arts
This fun and insightful video is packed with facts and figures presented in a lighthearted yet downright serious manner. Also, from Americans for the Arts.
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