You are cordially invited to participate in

Arts Education:
Meeting the Challenge
for College and Career
Ready Students
An interactive discussion among local business,
community and education leaders, and state and
national experts on arts education, about the
remarkable potential of arts education to prepare
young people for success in a 21st Century world.
Topics of conversation will include the
contribution arts education makes to higher
student achievement, to cultivating creative and
critical thinking, as well as problem-solving and
communication skills, and the state of arts
education in Arizonas schools.



Arts Education: Meeting the Challenge for
College and Career Ready Students

Monday, October, 20, 2014
8:00 - 9:15am

Phoenix Art Museum | 1625 N. Central Avenue
Phoenix, Arizona

Registration opens at 7:30am
Breakfast will be served.

To attend, please register by October 15, 2014, at
http://azcaartseducationforum.eventbrite.com

This forum on community support for arts education is a
program of the Arizona Citizens for the Arts Education
Outreach and Advocacy Initiative, made possible in part
by support from Americans for the Arts and
DMB Associates, Inc.


Featuring:
Dr. Steven J. Tepper
Dean, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts,
Arizona State University

John Abodeely
Deputy Director, Presidents Committee on the
Arts and the Humanities

Mary Luehrsen
Executive Director, The NAMM Foundation

Jacky Alling
Chief Philanthropic Services Officer, Arizona
Community Foundation

Todd Sanders
President, Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce

Catherine Rusty Foley
Executive Director, Arizona Citizens for the Arts








This event is presented in conjunction with the 2014
Joint Arts Education Conference (JAEC). The JAEC is
presented by the Arizona Department of Education
and the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and brings
together Arizonas arts education leaders for a full day
of professional development. Anyone interested in
attending the full conference may register at
www.azarts.gov/jaec.