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Purpose: To support, promote, and unite art educators and art education in Alaska
Benefits: Newsletter, dual membership in National Art Education Association
Annual Conference: Fall
Affiliation: National Art Education Association
Contact: Connie Lutz
Colony High School
HC01 Box 6048
Palmer, AK 99645
Telephone: (907) 746-9500 x536
Fax: (907) 746-9509
Purpose: To provide a summer Fine Arts Camp for junior high and high school students
Contact: Fine Arts Camp
PO Box 2133
Sitka, AK 99835
Affiliation: Alaska Music Educators Association, MENC, NBDA
Contact: Vicki Robbe
1025 Vail View Dr.Telephone: (907) 457-6007
Purpose: To improve education in the arts through the cooperative efforts of school districts, professional associations, and the business community
Benefits: Staff development, graduate courses, lecture series, research on request
Affiliation: University of Alaska, Getty Center for Education in the Arts
Contact: Kathy Schwartz
Kenai Peninsula College
34820 College Drive
Soldotna, AK 99669
Telephone: (907) 262-0369
Fax: (907) 262-0358
Affiliation: ACDA, MENC, AMEA
Contact: Francis Gloria
PO Box 83507
Fairbanks, AK 99708
Purpose: To provide instruction and dance performance.
Contact: 4101 University Drive, #20
Anchorage, AK 99508
Telephone: (907) 277-9591
Purpose: To present performing arts for young audiences produced by visiting professional theatre companies
Benefits: Public performances and school field trips
Contact: Charlotte Fox, Executive Director
329 F. Street, Suite 204
POBox 240652
Anchorage, AK 99524
Telephone: (907) 272-7546
Fax: (907) 272-3035
Purpose: To advance a high standard for school library professionals and library media programs in schools in Alaska; coordinating agent for Battle of the Books
Benefits: newsletters, membership directory, handbook
Annual Conference: early March
Affiliation: American Association of School Librarians
Contact: Dela Mathis, School Library Media Coordinator
Alaska State Library
344 W. 3rd Ave. Suite 125
Anchorage, AK 99501
Telephone: (907) 269-6568
Fax: (907) 269-6580
E-mail: dellam@muskox.alaska.edu
Purpose: To promote music education
Benefits: Quarterly publication
Annual Conference: November
Affiliation: MENC
Contact: Jennifer Dalby, President
Pioneer Peak Elementary School
HC01 Box6493
Palmer, AK 99645
Telephone: (907) 745-0157
Fax: (907) 745-6113
Purpose: To promote knowledge of Orff Schulwerk
Benefits: Quarterly newsletter, to sponsor a 4-hour workshop in Anchorage and in Fairbanks each fall, a 1-credit class in Anchorage each spring, an introductory and some levels training courses some summers
Affiliation: American Orff-Schulwerk Association
Contact: Mary Alice Donaldson, President
8221 Upper Huffman
Anchorage, AK 99516
Telephone: (907) 345-0295
Purpose: A state arts agency offering grants and services to artists and non-profit arts groups statewide.
Contact: Tim Wilson, Executive Director
411 W. 4th Ave. Ste. 1E
Anchorage, AK 99501-2343
Telephone: (907) 269-6610
Fax:(907) 269-6601
E-mail: asca@alaska.net
Purpose: Offers packaged educational materials related to Alaska studies. The kits consist of hands-on artifacts, games, activities, audio-visual and other resource materials, and teacher's manual which suggests lesson plans for using the kits.
Contact: Jerry D. Howard, Coordinator
p>Alaska State MuseumTelephone: (907) 465-2901
Purpose: To train teachers in the writing process
Benefits: Writing institutes across the state, school year credit classes, seminars, and in-services
Annual Conference: October
Affiliation: National Writing Process
Contact: Debbie Manion
University of Alaska Southeast
1108 F Street, Bill Ray Center
Juneau, AK 99801
Telephone:(907) 465-8743
Fax: (907) 465-2166
E-mail: JNdam@aced.alaska.edu
Purpose: Offers workshops and produces theatre with young people
Contact: P. Shane Mitchell
P.O. Box 231292
Anchorage, AK 99523
Telephone: (907) 338-4901
E-mail: alaskatheatreofyouth@hotmail.com
Purpose: To sponsor exhibits, tours, and special programming for students throughout the year.
Contact: David Edlefsen
121 W. 7th Avenue
Anchorage, AK 99501
Telephone: (907) 343-6185
Fax: (907) 343-6149
Purpose: Alaskan made and designed curriculum that provides Native Heritage and elements of art on an elementary level.
Contact: Yvonne Merrill
8840 Gloralee
Anchorage, AK 99502>
Telephone:(907) 243-2395
Purpose: To provide a forum for teaching the appreciation of the fine arts
Contact: PO Box 419
Haines, AK 99827
Telephone: (907) 694-8909
Purpose: To provide a forum for teaching the appreciation of the fine arts
Contact: Sylvia Callahan
PO Box 773989
Eagle River, AK 99567
Telephone: (907) 694-8909
Purpose: To promote contemporary and traditional arts
Benefits: Monthly meetings
Affiliation: NALAA
Contact: Kathleen Bungart, Education Program Director
PO Box 72786
Fairbanks, AK 99707
Telephone: (907) 456-6485
Fax: (907) 456-4112
Purpose: Community theatre producing classic, experimental, and original plays for both adults and children.
Benefits: Art gallery and studio theatre
Contact: PO Box 73601
Fairbanks, AK 99707
Telephone: (907) 456-7529
Purpose: A statewide Native arts organization founded to assist Aleut, Eskimo, and Indian artists and to encourage continued development of Alaska Native arts.
Benefits: bi-monthly journal
Contact: PO Box 80583
Fairbanks, AK 99708
Telephone: (907) 456-7491
Purpose: Produces the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival
Annual Conference: Late July-early August
Contact: PO Box 80845
Fairbanks, AK 99708
Telephone: (907) 474-8869
Fax: (907) 479-4329
Purpose: Performs traditional arts of Korea
Contact: Dr. Won Pal Chung
Telephone: (907) 562-2430
Purpose: Sponsors statewide activities in visual, performing, and literary arts for children and adults with disabilities.
Contact: Kathy Allely, Director
PO Box 773185
Eagle River, AK 99577
Telephone: (907) 694-8722