About Arts-Based Collaborative
SCEA Giving
The Kim Alan Wheetley Gift Fund
Help us continue preparing future arts educators and provide professional learning opportunities in and through the arts!!
"SCEA doesn't just prepare me to teach the arts. They help me make a difference through the arts."
-Cierra Dolata, UTC Theatre Major and Education Minor, Class of 2019
Mission:
Transforming education in and through the arts.
We Believe:
Each artistic discipline contributes towards a well-rounded education through building bridges beyond the classroom and equipping us with ways we can make meaning of the past, embrace the world around us today, and create a flexible future.
Goals:
- Support academic and social emotional learning needs through an arts-based approach to teaching and learning.
- Cultivate a roster of visual and performing artists that connects our area's creative community with learning needs across multiple fields and disciplines.
- Empower communities to collaborate from a place of strength to close opportunity gaps in the arts.
- Activate pathways for ongoing professional learning opportunities in and through the arts.
History:
The Arts-Based Collaborative was founded in 1987 through a unique public, private and institutional collaboration among the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, Chattanooga-based foundations, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the State of Tennessee, and area school districts. Arts-Based Collaborative is one of six Getty funded regional institutes established to research and promote discipline-based visual art education. UTC and the Chattanooga community had the foresight to expand the concept to embrace music, theatre, and dance education. Their work in discipline-based arts education, now known as comprehensive arts education, serves as the foundation of all of their professional learning programs in arts education and concept-based arts integration.
Since its inception, Arts-Based Collaborative has set high standards for teaching and learning in and through the arts. Our instructional model has been tested and developed through site-based professional development projects across schools in the southeast. Key components of the framework include competency-based arts learning experiences, rich and meaningful interdisciplinary connections, and an asset-based approach that promotes collaboration and sustainability.
Who We Serve:
We build bridges beyond the classroom through supporting arts learning needs in school and communities from the tri-state, Chattanooga region (see service map below).
