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Mission and Vision
Mission
The mission of Concerted Effort is to develop practical methods
for nurturing imaginative experience and releasing the creative
spirit. Our educational programs use the arts to enhance learning,
promote literacy, support healing, foster creativity, and develop
understanding of the natural world. By guiding children and adults
through an artistic creative process, we want to strengthen each
individual voice and simultaneously build community. 3600 mah Omnia 7
Philosophy
Imagination is the wellspring of all creative human endeavors.
To sustain a vibrant democratic society, free and playful imagination
must flourish. To be at peace, as individuals and in communities,
we need to appreciate, understand, and live in harmony with nature.
Educational Rationale
Learning to listen, we become calm, quiet, and focused. Open
and receptive, we reach simultaneously inside ourselves, outside
to the world, and toward each other with wonder and curiosity.
Listening revives our spirits and allows us to learn.
Curiosity and wonder inspire a passion for learning, and they
are also at the heart of artistic expression. Creative arts experiences
allow each of us to make a personal connection to the world inside
and around us, discover meanings, and vividly share our insights
and experiences with others.
Incorporating the arts into academic subjects has many benefits.
The arts provide a creative outlet, enhance learning, and actively
engage multiple intelligences. Music, in particular, develops
listening skills, aids memory, develops coordination, reinforces
patterning, sustains attention (through awareness of steady beat,
which is the foundation of a sense of timing and the cognitive
rhythms of learning), encourages reading with expression, allows
for active play, and builds community. Get Free iphone 3g
History
Co-founded by composer Julie Kabat and pianist Carole Friedman,
Concerted Effort was incorporated in 1978, as a not-for-profit educational
cultural organization.
Funding
Concerted Effort has received grants and funding from the National
Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts,
New York State Council on the Arts (continuous grants since 1978),
NY Foundation for the Arts, NY Council for the Humanities, Meet
the Composer, NY State Alliance for Arts Education, Howard Foundation,
Bay Foundation, The Howard and Bush Foundation, Beard's Fund,
Albany Institute of History and Art, Adirondack Institute, Utah
Arts Council, Rhode Island Arts Council, and many school districts,
community groups, and cultural organizations, among others.
Education Programs
Since the beginning, we have developed arts in education residencies
and professional development workshops for many school districts,
as well as the State Education Departments of New York and Utah.
We have presented professional development workshops under the
auspices of the New York State Alliance for Arts Education, the
New York Foundation for the Arts, Utah Arts Council, and National
Young Audiences, among others.
We have produced environmental community projects at sites, such
as Zion National Park, the Adirondack Park; Opus 40; Navajo Mountain
Boarding School; and Art Park. Our on-going project, Voices
of the Hudson River, which began in 1996, has involved partnerships
with schools, museums, arts and environmental centers throughout
the Hudson Valley region of NY State.
Commissions
Over the years, Concerted Effort has commissioned new works, and
collaborated on creative projects with many artists, including
composers Steve Gorn, Marilyn Crispell, Neil Rolnick, Panaiotis,
Mitchell Korn, Hilary Tann, Jeff Presslaff, and Ann Silsbee; visual
artists Lori Lawrence, Jill Ann Schwartz, Elbert Weinberg, and
Alan Gussow; dancer Susan Griss; poet Richard Lewis; and theater
artists Amy Trompetter (puppeteer), Eliot Fintushel (mime), Bob
Koch (lighting designer), and Karen De Mauro (director/acting
coach/writer).
Concerts
In the past, we have performed concerts at venues including,
the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans; Dia Art Foundation,
NYC; Roger Williams Park Summer Festival in Providence, RI; The
Knitting Factory, NYC; Commotion Crossroads Music Series, Lancaster,
PA; "Lively Arts at Stanford" Series; UC at San Diego Vocal Concert
Series; Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton, New Brunswick; Composers' Forum
at Symphony Space, NYC; Carnegie Recital Hall; and at colleges
and universities, including UC at San Diego, U of Indiana at Bloomington,
Bennington, Middlebury, Antioch, McGill, Cornell, U of Massachusetts
at Amherst, Ithaca College, Skidmore, Union, St. Lawrence University,
Hamilton College, Marymount Manhattan College, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, San Jose State, University of Rhode Island, Bard, and
eleven colleges in the State University of New York system, among
others.
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