In 2004, Cleveland became one of just eight sites across the country selected by The Ford Foundation to develop a model in how to improve urban, public education through arts-integrated programming. Grant recipient Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio convened the Cleveland Integrated Arts Collaborative, a partnership of 30+ arts, cultural, philanthropic and educational institutions, which together created Art is Education.
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map The Cleveland Music School Settlement The Cleveland Orchestra International House of Blues Foundation Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum Dancing Wheels Duffy Liturgical Dance GroundWorks Dance Theatre The Beck Center for the Arts Cleveland Film Society The Cleveland Play House Cleveland Public Theater Dobama Theatre Great Lakes Theatre Festival Karamu House Playhouse Square Cleveland Assciation of Black Storytellers Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage Poets' & Writers' League of Greater Clev Western Reserve Historical Society Art House The Cleveland Museum of Art MOCA Cleveland Art on Wheels Broadway School of Music & the Arts The Children's Museum Cleveland Botanical Garden Progressive Arts Alliance Tri-C JazzFest University Circle Interactive Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio Cleveland Institute of Art Cleveland Institute of Music Cleveland Municipal School District Cleveland State University
Art is Education is a community-wide initiative designed to foster achievement, promote retention and inspire innovation in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District. Infusing the district's existing standards-based curricula with arts-integrated programming, Art is Education works to ensure that every child in every school on everyday receives the academic, personal and civic benefits that arts education provides.