We have been gratified by the results of Dana's past support in the area of professional development for teaching artists. In the nine years of support for artist training, we have helped to train over 8000 educators and develop training curriculum for more than 100 organizations -- small and large, rural and urban. We feel that our publications, workshops and conferences have helped the field to coalesce.
For the past year, the Foundation has been discussing how best to integrate our continued support of brain research with our interests in arts education. As we move forward, the Foundation will continue to seek ways to offer greater access to the Dana Arts and Cognition Consortium studies and to other current research on how the arts influence learning.
With this shift, we are concluding grant making in the artist training grants program.
Profiles of Arts Educator Training Projects
The Dana Foundation has compiled profiles of several of its arts education organizations. These profiles contain in-depth descriptions of the organizations and the types of professional development training they provide. click here.