INNOVATION COLLABORATIVE RECEIVES NEA FUNDING
Researching the Impact of the Arts, Science, and Humanities Intersections on Creative and Innovation Thinking
Washington, D.C. – May 31, 2016 – National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Jane Chu approved more than $82 million to fund local arts projects and partnerships in the NEA’s second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2016. Included in this announcement is an Art Works professional development award of $20,000 to the Innovation Collaborative to support the Collaborative’s Effective Practices research. This research will deliver the first national data on effective practices that promote creative and innovation thinking at the intersections of the arts, science, technology, engineering, math, and the humanities.
The NEA grant will fund a D.C. convening of the Collaborative’s Research Thought Leaders, who are nationally-recognized leaders in the arts, sciences, neuroscience, creative thinking, and the arts/sciences intersections. They will help develop the next steps in the Collaborative’s research efforts. This includes working virtually with selected classroom teachers to develop ways to test in classrooms across the U.S. the Collaborative’s newly-researched matrix of effective practices. The outcome of these efforts will be deep, research-based underpinnings for the growing STEAM movement across the U.S.
The Innovation Collaborative is a DC-based coalition of national institutions representing the arts, sciences, humanities, and higher education. It identifies and disseminates information about the many ways that effective integration of the arts, sciences, humanities, engineering, and the use of technology reinforces teaching and incorporates lifelong learning in both in-school (formal) and out-of-school (informal) settings. It is an outcome of the National Science Foundation-funded Science, Engineering, Arts, Design (SEAD) network, which were co-organized by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Science Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The organization’s Board of Directors and Advisory Council lead this effort in collaboration with its Research Thought Leaders, educators, national advisors and government leaders in Washington, D.C. The Innovation Collaborative reports its findings to the Congressional STEAM Caucus, co-chaired by Reps. Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) and Elise Stefanik (R-NY), in addition to federal agencies supporting education.
Institutions represented in the Innovation Collaborative include Americans for the Arts (AFTA), Association of Science - Technology Centers (ASTC), Educational Theatre Association (EdTA), Exploratorium, Federation of State Humanities Councils, ICEE Success Foundation (ICEE), NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, National Art Education Association (NAEA), National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), National Dance Education Organization (NDEO), National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), National Writing Project, New York Hall of Science, and Drexel University, University of Texas at Dallas, Michigan State University and George Mason University. For more information, go to www.InnovationCollaborative.org
The NEA Art Works grant category supports the creation of work and presentation of both new and existing work, lifelong learning in the arts, and public engagement with the arts through 13 arts disciplines or fields.
More details on the NEA Art Works grants are available in the NEA’s grant announcement: https://www.arts.gov/news/2016/823-million-grants-will-support-art-projects-nationwide.
The NEA grant will fund a D.C. convening of the Collaborative’s Research Thought Leaders, who are nationally-recognized leaders in the arts, sciences, neuroscience, creative thinking, and the arts/sciences intersections. They will help develop the next steps in the Collaborative’s research efforts. This includes working virtually with selected classroom teachers to develop ways to test in classrooms across the U.S. the Collaborative’s newly-researched matrix of effective practices. The outcome of these efforts will be deep, research-based underpinnings for the growing STEAM movement across the U.S.
The Innovation Collaborative is a DC-based coalition of national institutions representing the arts, sciences, humanities, and higher education. It identifies and disseminates information about the many ways that effective integration of the arts, sciences, humanities, engineering, and the use of technology reinforces teaching and incorporates lifelong learning in both in-school (formal) and out-of-school (informal) settings. It is an outcome of the National Science Foundation-funded Science, Engineering, Arts, Design (SEAD) network, which were co-organized by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Science Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The organization’s Board of Directors and Advisory Council lead this effort in collaboration with its Research Thought Leaders, educators, national advisors and government leaders in Washington, D.C. The Innovation Collaborative reports its findings to the Congressional STEAM Caucus, co-chaired by Reps. Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) and Elise Stefanik (R-NY), in addition to federal agencies supporting education.
Institutions represented in the Innovation Collaborative include Americans for the Arts (AFTA), Association of Science - Technology Centers (ASTC), Educational Theatre Association (EdTA), Exploratorium, Federation of State Humanities Councils, ICEE Success Foundation (ICEE), NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, National Art Education Association (NAEA), National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), National Dance Education Organization (NDEO), National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), National Writing Project, New York Hall of Science, and Drexel University, University of Texas at Dallas, Michigan State University and George Mason University. For more information, go to www.InnovationCollaborative.org
The NEA Art Works grant category supports the creation of work and presentation of both new and existing work, lifelong learning in the arts, and public engagement with the arts through 13 arts disciplines or fields.
More details on the NEA Art Works grants are available in the NEA’s grant announcement: https://www.arts.gov/news/2016/823-million-grants-will-support-art-projects-nationwide.