The Lied Center developed this free training initiative to help identify and establish educational arts opportunities for teaching artists throughout the state of Kansas.

Lied.Art.Teach participants become members of a teaching artist corps and acquire strategies and activities to present arts education to school teachers, children and communities across Kansas.

The Lied Center works with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. to implement principles from their Teaching Artist Seminar Series into the curriculum of Lied.Art.Teach The goals of this comprehensive project include:

• Training participants in workshop and residency development, and links to Kansas and national learning standards.
• Developing cross-curriculum teaching techniques for individual teaching artists and art forms.
• Identifying and providing opportunities to present workshops in Kansas-based arts organizations.
• Offering local and state level educator workshops to train participants in methods to incorporate the arts into school curriculums across Kansas

With the Kansas Arts Commission, the Lied Center has completed the training for the first teaching artist corps, presenting the following three free Kennedy Center seminars:

• Planning Effective Workshops for Teachers
• Artists as Educators: Presenting Effective Workshops for Teachers
• Artists as Educators: Planning Effective Arts-Integrated Residencies for Students


In 2008, the Lied Center received special funding from the Dana Foundation to help bring the Kennedy Center seminars to Kansas again beginning in the fall of 2008.

Currently, the Lied Center is accepting Lied.Art.Teach applications for the 2008-09 season. Rural-based artists are strongly encouraged to apply. If you, or an artist you know are interested in participating in the free Lied.Art.Teach program, please contact Anthea Scouffas, Lied Center director of education at 785-864-2795 or anthea@ku.edu.

“A teaching artist (artist-educator) is a practicing professional artist with the complementary skills and sensibilities of an educator, who engages people in learning experiences in, through or about the arts.”
--- Eric Booth

The Lied.Art.Teach initiative is supported in part by an award from The Dana Foundation.