How the Arts Can Save Education
Erica Rosenfeld Halverson
Foreword by: Ellen Weinstein
Publication Date: October 22, 2021
Pages: 168
Barbara Ames didn’t write “Hamilton.” She hasn’t won the EGOT. And she didn’t create the upcoming podcast “Arts Educators Save the World.”
Without Ames, though, the world may not have the Lin-Manuel Miranda, Robert Lopez and Erica Halverson that did.
Ames taught each of the three renowned artists when they attended New York’s Hunter College Elementary School. Halverson, a University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education professor who is an expert in how people learn through the arts, is hosting the new podcast.
Its the first of 10 episodes, out Aug. 29, features Miranda (whose “Hamilton” runs through Sunday at Overture Hall), Lopez and Ames discussing the importance of their elementary school arts education on their eventual careers and great success.
Read the full announcement at The Capital Times