Lincoln Center Institute

Lincoln Center Institute brings dance, film, music, theater, architecture, and visual arts from a diversity of cultures into classrooms around the New York metropolitan area and across the nation, challenging students and teachers to learn about and through the arts. The Institute believes that the arts are an essential part of a high-quality education, and that the study of the arts can develop skills of critical thinking, questioning, perception and reflection that support learning in all subjects across the curriculum and encourage creativity and imagination in students of all ages. The Institute’s approach is rooted in collaboration between professional artists, teaching artists, and teachers to lead students through a jointly-developed curriculum, focused on a specific work of art, over the course of a semester. Students participate in extended, hands-on study that includes seeing live performances and visiting museums, learning about the creative process and the vocabulary of the arts, making their own art, and exploring the cultural, historical, and social context of the work of art.

Founded in 1975, the Institute is the educational cornerstone of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. and is widely recognized as a leader in the field of arts and education, providing a model for many arts and education organizations around the globe. It offers direct-service programs in schools; professional development for teachers and school leaders; and skill building for teachers-in-training at schools of education throughout New York City.

Since its inception, the Institute has:

*Worked with more than 3.1 million students.
*Worked with more than 500 New York City public schools (pre-K-12) in all five boroughs.
*Worked with some 50,000 educators.
*Worked with nearly 350 undergraduate and graduate professors reaching over 9,600 students from 8 New York City schools of education.
*Worked with more than 3,000 superintendents, principals and other administrators from New York and across the nation.
*Served as a model for more than 30 similar organizations across the country and around the world.
*Trained and employed more than 700 professional teaching artists to work in collaboration with teachers and administrators.
*Produced a repertory of over 250 high-quality music, theater and dance performances designed to tour in New York City public schools and appear in the Institute’s own Clark Studio Theater. Repertory has been created and performed by a diverse range of artists and ensembles that includes Ailey II, Chen Shi-Zheng, Anna Deavere Smith, the Emerson String Quartet, Roy Hargrove, the José Limón Dance Company, the Merce Cunningham Repertory Group, Meredith Monk, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Trisha Brown Dance Company, and Urban Bush Women.
*Built a specialized library collection of print and media on the performing and visual arts, as well as education—some 6,000 reference and circulating items—housed in the Institute’s Heckscher Foundation Resource Center, which includes multi-media stations and high-speed Internet access.
*Developed the Teacher Education Collaborative, a unique and innovative program designed to work with teachers-in-training at schools of education to provide them with the skills and experience they need to use the arts effectively in the classroom.
*Developed the Focus Schools Collaborative, a whole-school model that integrates the arts into every classroom and every grade of a school, and serves as a powerful agent for school renewal and reform.

Facilities

*Clark Studio Theater
*Samuels Teaching Studio
*Heckscher Foundation Resource Center

See also

*Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
*John Dewey
*Experiential education

External links

* [http://www.lcinstitute.org Lincoln Center Institute official website]
* [http://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/jae.html Journal of Aesthetic Education]
* [http://www.aiae.org/ Association of Institutes for Aesthetic Education]