by Jean Palmer | Apr 3, 2023 | News
Talking With Artists Who Teach: Katenia Keller Katenia (pronounced Ka-teena) is a dancer, choreographer, visual artist, and arts educator based in the Belfast area. She has been a teaching artist with Maine Alliance for Arts Education’s Building Community...
by Jean Palmer | Jan 31, 2023 | News, Uncategorized
Dana Wieluns Legawiec, the new Executive Director for Maine Alliance for Arts Education (MAAE), understands the impact of arts education. When she was sixteen years old, Dana was directed by celebrated American playwright Edward Albee in a high school production of...
by Jean Palmer | Oct 29, 2017 | Arts Advocacy Day, Uncategorized
MAAE’s initiative to organize community/school advocacy coalitions around the state got a good start on Tuesday evening, Oct. 24 in Bridgton, where members of the community met with school arts teachers and students for a Community Conversation about arts...
by Jean Palmer | Apr 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
Twenty Maine student artists will have an audience of more than 70,000 students and educators for their artwork starting this fall. More than 200 students submitted images to be considered for the Maine Department of Education (DOE), Maine Learning Technology...
by Jean Palmer | Mar 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
An important opportunity exists right now for us to have a major impact on arts education in Maine schools. The Maine Department of Education is calling for public comment, via email, on the state plan required under the new ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act)...
