regional initiatives, encouraging arts education in many of Maine’s most isolated and under-served communities. These pilot efforts have launched two highly successful arts programs: LINC—Arts, which matches talented high-school students with mentoring arts professionals; and Building Community Through the Arts, a high-school residency program which received its fourth round of funding from the NEA this year. Both programs teach the arts in ways that encourage imagination, inspiring students to purse their dreams and achieve their best, while helping schools to improve arts education in the curriculum.
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Creative and collaborative activities in the arts can build a sense of community and break down social barriers. For two weeks BCTA connects a theater or dance educator with an academic class for an intensive in-class student collaboration to create an original short drama or movement performance. Since the project's debut in 2000, all 19 high schools in Maine's Penobscot and Piscataquis Counties, seven high schools in Aroostook County and two schools in Franklin County have participated. The program has gone into English classes, social studies classes, and even foreign language, math and science classes. (read more)
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Learning in Community Arts is a mentoring program available for high school students in Hancock County.
The LINC-Arts program:
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- provides educational experiences for high school students who are highly talented in any arts discipline (music, drama, dance, visual arts, creative writing)
- provides mentorships, internships, apprenticeships, and independent study
- Works with school personnel to match students with outstanding local artists, performers and writers
- Provides an on-line database of local artists who can serve as mentors, workshop leaders, and artists in residence
- Provides an opportunity for local artists to do educational work
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