Why Ask For More? Just like kids need to have good nutrition on a daily basis, kids need to have their daily serving of the arts. Chances are, though, that your kids are not getting enough art—in or out of school. The arts are much more than just fun "extra" activities for kids. Studies have shown the far-reaching benefits of an arts education. http://www.americansforthearts.org/public_awareness/

Why Ask For More? Just like kids need to have good nutrition on a daily basis, kids need to have their daily serving of the arts. Chances are, though, that your kids are not getting enough art—in or out of school. The arts are much more than just fun "extra" activities for kids. Studies have shown the far-reaching benefits of an arts education.

http://www.americansforthearts.org/public_awareness/ Americans for the Arts, The NAMM Foundation, and the Ad Council have collaborated with Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment to create new PSAs. As an extension of the current campaign, the new PSAs use characters from Disney's Little Einsteins™ to promote arts education to children pre-K to 8th grade and their parents. The PSAs show that the arts are beneficial as they encourage both children and parents to participate in the arts together. The characters’ adventures with the arts help kids develop creativity and self-expression while emphasizing teamwork, friendship, and exploration. We are very excited about our current television ads as well, which are part of the latest phase of "The Arts. Ask For More" PSA campaign! Created in partnership with the NAMM Foundation and the Ad Council, the advertising agency Leo Burnett has produced these incredibly informative and entertaining tongue-in-cheek commercials. By creating spoofs of "healthy arts food products" like "Raisin Brahms," featuring the composer Johannes Brahms, and "Van Goghgurt," featuring the artist Vincent van Gogh, parents are encouraged to make sure their kids are getting their daily serving of the arts.

http://www.americansforthearts.org/public_awareness/ Americans for the Arts, The NAMM Foundation, and the Ad Council have collaborated with Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment to create new PSAs. As an extension of the current campaign, the new PSAs use characters from Disney's Little Einsteins™ to promote arts education to children pre-K to 8th grade and their parents. The PSAs show that the arts are beneficial as they encourage both children and parents to participate in the arts together. The characters’ adventures with the arts help kids develop creativity and self-expression while emphasizing teamwork, friendship, and exploration. We are very excited about our current television ads as well, which are part of the latest phase of "The Arts. Ask For More" PSA campaign! Created in partnership with the NAMM Foundation and the Ad Council, the advertising agency Leo Burnett has produced these incredibly informative and entertaining tongue-in-cheek commercials. By creating spoofs of "healthy arts food products" like "Raisin Brahms," featuring the composer Johannes Brahms, and "Van Goghgurt," featuring the artist Vincent van Gogh, parents are encouraged to make sure their kids are getting their daily serving of the arts.

http://www.artsusa.org/hanks On March 30, 2009 Wynton Marsalis delivered the 22nd Annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy to a capacity crowd in the Concert Hall of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Mr. Marsalis's lecture, entitled The Ballad of American Arts, focused on the importance of arts and culture to the American identity and featured special performances throughout by members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. A performance not soon to be forgotten, the night included two standing ovations and a blistering encore performance from Mr. Marsalis and members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Please scroll down to watch and listen to the lecture, as well as read press coverage of the Nancy Hanks Lecture and other Arts Advocacy Day events. Wynton Marsalis and Members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Chris Crenshaw, trombone Victor Goines, saxophone Carlos Henriquez, bass Ali Jackson, drums Dan Nimmer, piano

http://artsusa.org/go/wynton Congressional Arts Breakfast Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Washington, DC

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