Your Gift Matters! Donations to Michigan Youth Arts provide
essential support to maintain artistic
excellence at the Michigan Youth Arts Festival – unique in the nation for its scope and diversity – and to continue our work to ensure the future of arts education in Michigan. Your gift is an investment in the artistic development of our youth, and in the future of our Festival.
Michigan Youth Arts recognizes, supports, and celebrates the artistic excellence of young artists in Michigan. Michigan Youth Arts is a statewide association that serves as an alliance of arts education organizations across artistic disciplines: creative writing, dance, instrumental music, media arts, music composition, theatre, visual arts, and vocal music.
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Michigan Youth Arts produces the Michigan Youth Arts Festival, confers arts education awards, advocates for comprehensive arts education, convenes statewide, crossdisciplinary leadership roundtables, and supports programs for youth, schools, and arts education professionals throughout Michigan. The Michigan Youth Arts Festival offers statewide arts education programming, strengthens arts and culture by facilitating partnerships between arts education organizations, increases the visibility of quality arts education, nurtures the creative talents of Michigan’s youth, and encourages their present and future participation in the arts.
Michigan Youth Arts Partner Organizations American String Teachers Assoc., Michigan Unit
Digital Arts, Film & Television
Interlochen Center for the Arts
Kalamazoo Regional Education Service Agency / Education for the Arts
Michigan Art Education Association
Michigan Council of Teachers of English
Michigan Dance Council
Michigan Educational Theatre Association
Michigan Humanities Council
Michigan Interscholastic Forensic Association
Michigan Music Educators Association
Michigan Music Teachers Association
Michigan School Band & Orchestra Association
Michigan School Vocal Music Association
VSA Michigan
Western Michigan University College of Fine Arts
Supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs
Michigan Youth Arts 301 W 4th St, Suite 415, Royal Oak, MI 48067 248-545-9200 (t) 248-545-9201 (f) info@michiganyoutharts.org www.michiganyoutharts.org
Michigan Youth Arts is a leader in arts education advocacy in Michigan. We work to highlight best practices in arts education, serve as a resource for professional development, and recognize excellent arts educators in Michigan with our annual Educator of the Year Awards.
The Michigan Youth Arts Festival is a comprehensive arts spectacular.
It culminates a nine-month search for the finest artistic talent in Michigan high schools. More than 250,000 students across the state are involved in the adjudication process that results in nearly 1,000 being invited to participate in the annual, three-day event each May in Kalamazoo.
The Michigan
Youth Arts Leadership Roundtable convenes
around advocacy initiatives relevant to the arts education community as a whole, further enhancing the dialogue between statewide organizations and various disciplines, and brings together top leaders in the arts to greater advocate for best practices within their organizations and throughout Michigan. Its members include sixteen statewide arts education organizations in consultation with the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Michigan Department of Education.
We support a sustainable, comprehensive, equitable, standards-based arts curriculum for all Michigan youth. Our annual Policy Forum addresses issues in arts education throughout the state. Bringing together representatives from statewide arts education associations and government agencies, the strength of our combined efforts is key to giving us a louder voice throughout Michigan and beginning a dialogue that will shape arts education policy for years to come.
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We are proud to be a resource for arts education advocacy. Our website offers downloadable tools for local and regional efforts, and our monthly newsletter combines advocacy news with educator opportunities and information. Visit us online and subscribe to our e-newsletter at michiganyoutharts.org.
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