Spotlights

NH Teen Poet Laureate Team

With Hannah Rubin, NH Teen Poet Laureate and Allison Hawkins, NHSCA About Us: The New Hampshire Teen Poets Laureate (NHTPL) Team is a...

Embodied Healing

Spotlight on NHSCA Arts Partnership Conference 2021-2022 In fall 2021 and spring 2022 the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the...

"Life at Chocorua Lake" crankie

The "Life at Chocorua Lake" crankie grew out of a field trip collaboration in May of 2019 between the K. A. Brett School in Tamworth, the...

New Hampshire State Arts Standards Revision Update

Writing teams in dance, media arts, music, theatre, and visual arts are composing revisions to the NH Curricular Frameworks in the Arts

Young writers publish anthology and receive academic credit

Avenue A Teen and Community Center in Antrim, NH provides a safe, supportive after school environment for youth from 5th through 12th...

Funding for the Arts under ESSA Title IV-A

Title IV, Part A is a federal funding source available to all New Hampshire public school districts and public charter schools. The...

Birds of Prey

Sunapee Central Elementary School Collaborators: Pam Larpenter (grade 3 classroom teacher), Michele Shepherd (grade 3 classroom teacher),...

Say it Loud

We all have a monologue about why arts education is important. And since we say it so many times, it can sound stale and rehearsed. How...

Behind the Scenes

Chris Lord’s (Pinkerton) students created a behind-the-scenes documentary on their film making process, as they prepared their submission...

Project Based Learning Powered by STEAM

New Hampshire Schools are making pretty exciting leaps in educational pedagogy. Worksheets and rote memorization are going by the wayside...

State Library Initiates Summer Arts Engagement

During the school year, students are exposed to the arts in a variety of ways: in their classrooms, through special presentations, and...

Nashua Students Introduced to Stravinsky, Beethoven, Prokofiev

How can a school district increase enrollment in its music programs? Nashua found an innovative response. Administrators worked to give...

Dance, Integration, and Community Bonding: A Dance Success Story

Since 2012, New American Africans, an organization for community members who have recently emigrated to NH, has offered African dance...

"Phenomenal Women": Portsmouth Teens Explore Their Own Potential

"I'm going to keep making art of course. Art lets me show people that I'm just like them" ~AIR Participant Teenage girls spent eight...

Bringing Arts Education to the North Conway Community

"What makes this so rewarding for me is that the lives of some of these children could make them eligible for quilts and that several of...

Superheroes and NH Wildlife: Creating Comics in the Classroom

"Marek Bennett inspired me and my friend, Brody, to make more comics. Our comic books were on imaginary creatures... The title of our...

Roses From Concrete

From September through October 2012, SNHU's McIninch Art Gallery presented the exhibit "Roses from Concrete: Entrepreneurship of Urban...

Lebanon HS Ceramics Students Learn From a Master

"I feel like I learned more from one day with Dave than in some of my other classes all year" ~Devin What? Lebanon High School students...

Students of Madison Elementary Connect with the Outdoors and Their Inner Poet

Madison Elementary School recently hosted two local artists--Mark Ragonese and Brieghan Gardner--for a school-wide integrated creative...

New Interest in an Ancient Artform: High School Students Explore Stained Glass

As a new art teacher at Merrimack High School, professional glass artist Carolyn Rordam had a dream of bringing glass art to her...