2010 International Early Arts Summit & Conference - Pittsburgh, PA, USA

The Early Arts Network, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Pittsburgh Association for the Education of Young Children present:

 “Where Creativity & the Future Begin”

May 14 & 15, 2010
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

   This first, biennial, International Early Arts Summit & Conference will be presented in Pittsburgh to “help early childhood educators learn the importance of early arts experiences to young children.  What better place to start than the home of Fred Rogers?” Philip Horn, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

 
“Children are born ready to learn.  Right from the start, they begin learning about the world through touch, smell, sounds, sight.  All through the early years, that’s how they learn best – though their senses.  They put things together, move them around, experiment, explore, and discover.”   Fred Rogers

 
“From a baby’s first lullaby, to a three-year-old’s experimentation with finger paint, to a seven-year-old’s dramatization of a favorite story, developmentally appropriate arts experience is critical.  For all children, at all ability levels, the arts play a central role in cognitive, motor, language and social-emotional development.”  Young Children and the Arts (Report of Task Force on Children’s Learning and the Arts:  Birth to Eight)

For more information contact:

Brooks Eldredge-Martin, Executive Director
Bradford County Regional Arts Council
     570-268-2787 or brooks@bcrac.org

Michelle Figlar, Executive Director
     Pittsburgh Association for the Education of Young Children
     (412) 421-3889 or mfiglar@pghaeyc.org

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Planning/Advisory Group:

Judy Abrams, Cyert Center for Early Education

Arnold Aprill, Chicago Arts Partnerships

Ruth Churchill Dower, Arts Council England

Kera Daily, Pennsylvania PTA

Brooks Eldredge-Martin, Bradford County Regional Arts Council

Linda Ehrlich, Pittsburgh School District

Michelle Figlar, Pittsburgh AEYC

Mimi Flaherty, Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts

Becky Gorton, Northampton Community College

Lisa Hoitsma & Carol Wolfe, Gateway to the Arts, Pittsburgh

Philip Horn, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

Lou Karas, Applachian Education Initiative

Deborah Krotec, Head Start  Western PA (PA Key)

Polly Lipkind, Shady Lane Preschool

Sue Mitchell, PA Office of Child Development & Early Learning

Roxie Nestlerode, Penn State University

Sarah Tambucci, Arts Education Collaborative

Hedda Sharapan, Family Communications Inc.

Jane Werner, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh

E-mail us at info@bcrac.org for more information on EarlyArts, the Learning Early Network or other early childhood programs of the Bradford County Regional Arts Council.