Grades 9-12 Lesson: Exploring A Streetcar Named Desire
Students study setting, plot, and character development in Tennessee Williams' play, A Streetcar Named Desire and discuss its impact on American theater.
Playwrights & Plays, Education, Theater, Literature

Grades K-2 Lesson: Let's Talk About Painting
This lesson introduces young students to the elements of the arts, and teaches them to use appropriate vocabulary when discussing paintings
Education, Young Artists, Visual Arts

Video: ARTSEDGE
The Kennedy Center opens its doors to thousands of children each year – and hundreds of thousands more step in through ARTSEDGE, our K-12 arts education network.
Education, Dance, Literature, Music, Theater, Young Artists

Video Series: Diane Ravitch on the Arts in Education
Education historian Diane Ravitch discusses the inequity in access to arts education among American schools
Education, Controversial, Family

Video Series: The Kennedy Center Education Department
Learn about the activities and programs of the Education Department of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Education, Family, Art Venues

Video Series: Garry Golden, Professional Futurist
Garry Golden is a professionally trained Futurist who writes, speaks and consults on issues shaping business and society in the 21st century
Education, Controversial, Innovators & Pioneers, Young Artists, Jobs in the Arts

Collection: ARTSEDGE Flash Interactives
This collection features legacy ARTSEDGE interactives built in Adobe Flash, which is not supported on some popular mobie devices (like Apple iPads and iPhones). Rather than promote content that is likely to be unusable to many users, we are beginning a process of assessing, repurposing, and in some cases, retiring the content in these interactives.
Technology, Education

Audio Series: Artfully Speaking
An audio series pulled from lectures, workshops and other events for educators presented by and through the Education Department of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Education, Jobs in the Arts

Arts Quotes: Michelangelo
"Genius is eternal patience."
Europe, Visual Arts, Education

Arts Quotes: Joan Mondale
"The arts are the signature of a nation."
Art Venues, Education, America

Arts Quotes: Og Mandino
"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."
America, Literature, Education

Arts Quotes: Norman Vincent Peale
"Imagination is the true magic carpet."
America, Education, Literature

Arts Quotes: Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions."
Education, Young Artists

Arts Quotes: Hans Hofmann
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
Europe, Education, Visual Arts

Arts Quotes: Aaron Howard
"Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening."
Music, Education, Young Artists

Arts Quotes: Brian Tracy
"Never settle for anything less than your best."
Education, Innovators & Pioneers, Young Artists

Arts Quotes: Wynetka Ann Reynolds
"Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art."
America, Education

Arts Quotes: Carl Sagan
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere."
America, Science, Education

Arts Quotes: Hans Hofmann
"A work of art is a world in itself, reflecting senses and emotions of the artist’s world."
Europe, Education, Visual Arts

Arts Quotes: Dale Carnegie
"Learning is an active process. We learn by doing."
Education, Art Venues

Arts Quotes: Anonymous
"Any museum can invite you to look. A great one changes the way you see."
Art Venues, Education

Arts Quotes: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."
Europe, Literature, Education

Arts Quotes: Hans Hofmann
"The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color."
Europe, Education, Visual Arts

Arts Quotes: Albert Einstein
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
Innovators & Pioneers, Science, Education

Arts Quotes: Albert Einstein
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
Innovators & Pioneers, Education

Welcome!: The ARTS DAYS App
This free app will bring you a full year of events connected to the arts – from key...
Education

Arts Days: November 10, 1969: Street Smarts
Breaking new ground in the realm of children’s television, Sesame Street was one of the first shows to combine entertainment and education for young viewers. With a mix of appealing actors of all ethnicities, plus puppets created by Jim Henson, the show uses songs, dances, skits, animated sequences, and other vehicles to help kids learn about letters and numbers.

Moral messages—the importance of being kind, why it’s always best to tell the truth—are also communicated to audiences by the human and puppet stars of the show. From Big Bird, Elmo, Bert, Ernie, and Oscar the Grouch to Bob, Gordon, Maria, and Mr. Hooper, the cast has taught and continues to teach generations of children “the basics” while strolling down Sesame Street.
Innovators & Pioneers, Television, Education, Puppets, Cartoons, Comics, & Animation, America

Arts Days: April 19, 1836: Schooled in the Arts
Augustus Juilliard was born on a ship while his family made the crossing to America from their native France. Raised in Ohio, Juilliard moved to New York City when he was 30, amassing great wealth through his work in the textile industry. Juilliard went on to use his fortune to support a range of cultural and social causes, from the American Museum of Natural History to New York hospitals.

Juilliard is said to have loved music, in particular opera music. In his will, he left money toward the creation of a music school, which today we call The Juilliard School. Juilliard is admired around the world for its rigor in turning out young dancers, musicians, actors, and singers. Those who are admitted into the school have to have exceptional grades and proven talent in the performing arts.
Art Venues, Europe, Education, Music, Music Legends

Educators: Educators Portal
Standards-based instructional resources, how-to's, guides and other supports for teaching with the arts
Education, Dance, Music, Theater, Visual Arts