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Looking for LA teaching artists - free Ira Glass CD

Dear Art Education Colleague,

Please help the Teaching Artist Research Project reach all the teaching artists and program managers in Los Angeles. The project, led by Nick Rabkin has been collecting names for their on-line survey for some time now, but have hit a plateau far from their estimate of the number of teaching artists in LA. It is vital that we help this project capture the breadth of teaching artists' experiences and perspectives, so please help build their list by taking the actions listed below.

Despite the economic challenges we face, this is a moment in which it may be possible to extend the reach, deepen the impact, and make teaching artists' work more sustainable and sustaining. The passage last week of legislation that will for the first time include artists in national service initiatives is evidence that the landscape is changing and that this is the right time to learn what we need to know about how to best support teaching artists. So...

1. Please register now for the survey if you are a teaching artist or if you manage a program for which teaching artists work. Just go to http://teachingartists.uchicago.edu.

1. Then forward this email to five, ten, twenty or more friends and colleagues - artists or managers. A personal word of encouragement will help a lot.
In a few weeks the Teaching Artist Research Project will invite everyone who registers to take an on-line survey about their work. All those who complete the survey (an investment of just 15-20 minutes) will receive a free CD of stories about teaching artists from the archives of Ira Glass' This American Life radio program. Artists and program managers can register right now at http://teachingartists.uchicago.edu.

Many thanks,
Megan Kirkpatrick
Implementation Manager
Arts for All: Los Angeles County Regional Blueprint for Arts Education
Los Angeles County Arts Commission