For Immediate Release

Contact: Nicole Griffin, SAM Public Relations
(206) 654-3158; email: PR@SeattleArtMuseum.org

Seattle Art Museum Explores
The Arts and the Achievement Gap
with UCLA Professor James Catterall

SEATTLE, March 16, 2010 –

WHAT:
James Catterall, leading professor and Chair of the Faculty at UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies speaks about his 2009 book,

Doing Well and Doing Good by Doing Art: A 12-Year Longitudinal Study of Arts Education—Effects on the Achievements and Values of Young Adults.

WHERE:
Seattle Art Museum
1300 First Avenue
Plestcheeff Auditorium
Enter through the First Avenue & University Street entrance.

WHEN:
March 29, 7-8:30 pm

DETAILS:
From SAM’s series Building a Community of Thinkers, this timely discussion addresses the questions: “Do the arts matter?” “For whom?” and “How?”

While some argue that the arts are a waste of time and resources in overburdened and under budgeted schools, Professor James Catterall has demonstrated through a 12-year longitudinal study of more than 12,000 students that this is not the case. In fact, intensive involvement in the arts by middle and high school students has a direct correlation to higher levels of academic achievement and college enrollment.

In an economy facing school budget cuts and a society that demands ever higher standardized test scores, the public will not want to miss this deep dialogue about the state of education in our communities.

Please register in advance if planning to attend.

To register, go to: www.seattleartmuseum.org/secure/events/eventRSVP.asp?eventID=18546.

More information can be found in the Seattle Art Museum’s online calendar at www.seattleartmuseum.org/calendar/calendar.asp.

 

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