Frequently Asked Questions?

How do I qualify?

Any educator can participate free of charge!

What is Find Your Art?

Find Your Art is a search engine for educators to identify thematically interesting and meaningful arts events that match their curricula and curiosities. The search engine exists for you to: Find your art. Learn your part. Change your heart.

Why does CHANGE Arts think Find Your Art is important?

Multi-Disciplinary Arts Approach: Just like our taste buds, our perceptions, expectations, and realities change over time, and as we change so might how different forms and pieces of art resonate with us. Even if someone doesn't "like" a work of art, there is no arts experience that doesn't present an opportunity for reflection and joy. Find Your Art encourages of all its participants to find and test their artistic entry point, build personalized connections to information, and empower their growth and empathy.

Accessibility is critical in all CHANGE Arts conversations. We all make sense of the world in different ways, and it’s all celebrated in Find Your Art.

Learning and Critical Thinking: Interleaving and Perceptual Learning both back up the argument for the functional purpose of the arts, not just in traditional learning situations but in all critical thinking.

You can read more about Eleanor Gibson’s Perceptual Learning here. Gibson’s Perceptual Learning also applies to the cognitive science word, Interleaving. “Interleaving boosts learning by mixing up closely related topics, which challenges students to compare, contrast, and discriminate.” As an example, think about learning about World War II not just with a textbook but through relevant artistic works as represented in different artistic disciplines.

Perceptual Learning and Interleaving dare our brains to not only memorize, but to personalize.

Arts Education: Now imagine these principles of Perceptual Learning and Interleaving as applied to Mark Schubart's 1972 arts education research, "The Hunting of the Squiggle.” Schubart wrote, “In other words, the objective [of the research] is not necessarily to teach young people to love Brahms or Pinter or Balanchine, but to help them to hear and to see or, more importantly, to want to hear, to want to see.” Towards the end of this foundational work, Schubart goes on to write, “… in between general interest and professional aptitude there lies a spectrum of involvement which gives us the passionate amateur, who is likely to be the truest art lover of all.”

So, who is the greatest learner, thinker, and arts lover of all? CHANGE Arts believe we all have that potential when arts access is married to investigative learning practice.

Cultural Institutions and Arts Partners: CHANGE Arts converts arts lovers into your audiences and patrons. Join us!

Do we get to see anything we want?

CHANGE Arts wants to support you finding the arts event and related educational programming (e.g., workshops, discussions, etc.) that best match your group’s interest. Therefore, any arts event or educational programming available from a CHANGE Arts partner is available to you.

How does this work?

CHANGE necessitates flexibility, so there is no one-size-fits-all script or structure. What works best for your group is what will work best, and CHANGE will serve as your liaison with our arts partners to ensure clarity and organization.

How much?

CHANGE Arts will subsidize all experiences based on your school’s Title 1 status and through CHANGE’s Fund for Future Audiences.