National

• ArtsEdSearch (is an on-line clearinghouse maintained by the Arts Education Partnership that collects and summarizes high-quality arts education research studies and analyzes their implications for educational policy and practice)

• ArtScan (a project of the Arts Education Partnership)

• National Core Arts Standards

• The Teaching Artist Guild

  • Teaching Artist Guild Asset Map

  • Teaching Artist Guild Mapping Project

• National Endowment for the Arts Accessibility Office

• National Council on Aging tip sheet: Engaging People with Disabilities in Evidence-Based Programs (PDF)

• Project Access Database

• National Center for Creative Aging: Online Artist Training

• National Arts and Health Alliance Database, Resources & Publications

• Article on Benefits of Choirs for Elders

• Governor’s Commission on Disability

• UNH Institute on Disability

• Rhode Island Teaching Artists Center's "Artists Working in Healthcare" keynote presentation by Elaine Sims and Paula Most

• Healing Arts Programs in New Hampshire

  • Crotched Mountain

• Education News

• Northern New England Clinical Oncology Society

STATE

• RI State Council on the Arts

  • Roster Application

• Healing Arts at RI Hospital

• Healing Arts at Butler Hospital

• Healing Arts at Hasbro Children's Hospital

• Healing Arts at Bradley Hospital

• Dance Alliance of Rhode Island

• RI Music Education Association

• RI Art Education Association (Visual Arts)

RESEARCH&RESOURCES

• Teaching Artist Research Project (TARP) @ University of Chicago

• Association of Teaching Artists Recent Research

• Teaching Artist Guild Mapping Project

• National Endowment for the Arts study: Arts and Aging, Building the Science (PDF)

• Teaching Artists Found Critical to the Future of Arts Education

• Teaching Artists and the Future of Art Education

• Preparing Students for Next America, the Benefits of Arts Education

• Critical Evidence.  How the Arts Benefit Student Achievement

• Reinvesting in Arts Education: Winning America's Future Through Creative Schools

• The Arts and Achievement in At-Risk Youth

• Arts Education a Mainstay in Schools, Despite Testing, Budget Woes

• Teaching Artist Video Library (Bartol Foundation of Philadelphia)