Wells Fargo recently came under fire by artists all over the country over interesting ads they released promoting “Teen Day.” The ads, which were meant to reach out to teenagers who might have been ...

Art education: a topic of contention in the American education system. Why is it that art education fell by the wayside when it came to institutional priorities in school programs nationwide? An ...

On a surface level, art seems like any other side hobby, but it’s an important part of education. According to the Ellen Noel Art Museum, not every K-12 school can focus on the arts with their ...

In the room: Kimberly Olsen, executive director of Arts in Education Roundtable; and Lucy Sexton, executive director of New Yorkers for Culture and Arts. The importance of Arts and Education cannot be ...

During the campaign, Barack Obama pledged to "promote the importance of arts and arts education in America." Advocates of the promise say an arts education can help students raise their scores in ...

The unfortunate reduction of arts curriculum funding in Arizona provides an underlying assumption that an arts program is an extra — not an essential. The reduction attempts to negate the social and ...

In recent years, school districts across the United States have made the difficult decision to cut arts programs, including drama, music, and visual arts. In this new episode of Giving With Impact, ...

Over the course of his decades-long career, John Lithgow has played an alien, a serial killer, a reverend, and Winston Churchill—and that’s just scratching the surface. At 78, he remains a curious ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! At a conference Tuesday, around 70 Philly-area experts, educators and researchers ...