Young Jazz Composers: Jazz to the Future
Brett Campbell
May 9, 2022
Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble’s education program helps young musicians create new music.
Creativity is a critical component in helping young people learn and think and yet arts education is often squeezed by tight budgets. This series spotlights programs that are filling that gap. How are they working? How are they sustainable? How are they adapting to a diverse population? What can we learn from them and how can they be replicated?
This series is supported in part by a generous grant from the Fred W. Fields Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation.
Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble’s education program helps young musicians create new music.
Legendary but long dormant Oregon music showcase returns with a new vision and a new venue.
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Esteemed Morehouse Glee Club director teaches local choral students at three-day event in Portland.
An interview with the founder and creatives behind the non-profit PlayWrite
The Art of Learning: PYJO celebrates its third decade and return to the stage with a March 14 concert at Portland’s Alberta Rose Theatre.
Trayshun Holmes-Gournaris of the Oregon School for the Deaf wins the Poetry Out Loud state title; new at the art museum; downtown art space trashed.
Two potters have turned an abandoned middle school into a center for art classes serving adults and Reedsport School District students.
Students are using non-recyclable debris to create a tidal-rock sculpture that will grace the new Lincoln City Cultural Center Plaza.
The bill, which would redress decades of inequality in arts access, has broad support but faces a long journey in Congress.
The Oregon Coast Council for the Arts’ repurposed school bus will bring activities to children in rural areas.
Tualatin Valley Creates’ Arts & Leadership Incubator helps artists connect their work to the community.
Portland’s All Classical Radio moves to bring more diverse music to more diverse audiences.
The Oregon affiliate of Venezuela’s famed El Sistema education system gives diverse students access to music education
Luiza Lukova interviews the artist and educator about claiming space, engaging students, and creating “social forms.”
The Hoff Online program celebrates Manzanita Day with a talk by Ketzel Levine.
Portland writer Kathleen Lane and her smart new novel for middle schoolers turn the table on anxiety and spark creativity.
Put together a composer with a post-Halloween idea, a passel of puppets, and the Portland Columbia Symphony. Add YouTube and instruments. Voila!
Lincoln City students blend art with technology to create self-portraits during a year of virtual learning.
The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School Museum of Contemporary Art has faced a difficult year, but it has adapted to the pandemic and kept its students engaged.
Portland’s I Am MORE helps traumatized young people heal by sharing their stories
A grant will help a Lincoln County arts activist spread happiness, one ukulele at a time.
Band students at Toledo Jr/Sr High School have their choice of instruments, but a tuba remains out of reach.
An arts education nonprofit set out to film demonstrations in grade-school classrooms. Then came the pandemic.
Artists Rep and The Actors Conservatory join to create a new teaching and performing dynamic.
The Portland choral director and educator leaves a rich legacy in sounds and singers.
From pets to the pandemic, a Sitka Center project spurs discussion among second-graders about the year’s events.
Pandemic inspires youth orchestra to create a new music festival and commissioning program featuring new music by diverse voices Art is all about creativity, so when the pandemic struck, Portland Youth Philharmonic, facing cancellation of in-person classes and concerts, got creative. The
Sitka Center brings a Native American tradition to elementary students.
The Music is Instrumental program pays for mentors to keep music education alive in Lincoln County schools.
As Portland Public Schools teach long-distance, the district’s arts teachers find creative ways to adapt.
A music-ed program that aids teachers globally is helping schools cope with the pandemic’s challenges.
Technology challenges an online drama club, but the tradeoff is lessons in creativity and self-reliance.
With studio dance classes on hold for the pandemic, dance teachers and their students have begun to adapt to the new reality: Zoom dance classes. It’s working.
This month’s Virtual Supper Club supports pianist Michael Allen Harrison’s program to bring music lessons to Oregon students.
Cascadia Composers’ In Good Hands expands students’ horizons and brings music to the next generations.
Kids in Newport’s Online Summer Drama Club will learn all about theater — and put on a play — via computer.
The Metropolitan Youth Symphony gets savvy and shows that shutdown doesn’t have to mean shut up.
As schools shut down, arts teachers in Lane County shift online and take the art to kids across 16 districts.
Creative Quarantine provides activity kits for kids and online entertainment for adults.
Even without a pandemic, middle school can be stressful. Create More, Fear Less channels that anxiety into art.
Portland’s Wayfinding Adademy and Alder Commons move arts education to the center of their approach.
Metropolitan Youth Symphony director talks full STEAM ahead about the links among science, education, and the arts.
The revolutionary mission of an innovative program in the schools: to transform learning through the arts.
As her mentor Stan Foote retires, Oregon Children’s Theatre’s Baldwin commits to her Young Professionals.
Plus: It’s a print in the Gorge, a paint-out at the coast, dance for a prince, a Woody Guthrie opera. The week in Oregon arts.
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