University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee Regional Chancellor Karen A. Holbrook, PhD, was honored at a special reception Monday by the Arts and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County, the Manatee Education Foundation and the Manatee Arts Education Council for being named the national recipient of the Arts Schools Network (ASN) Higher Education Award.
The ASN Higher Education Award recognizes higher education partnerships that support quality arts education in K-12 schools. The award will be presented at ASN’s annual conference, Oct. 22-25, in Jacksonville.
“I am really honored and humbled by this recognition, and I am thrilled to see so many of you who I admire and respect from the arts and education community,” Holbrook told attendees at the campus’ FCCI Rotunda. “The arts are embedded in so much of what we do, the range is incredible in our area; there is something for everybody.”
USF Sarasota-Manatee plays a direct role supporting the arts as home of the Florida Center for Partnerships for Arts Integrated Teaching (PAInT), which is managed by Denise Davis-Cotton, PhD.
PAInT sponsors and delivers a range of creative programming that supports arts-integrated education, from professional development for teachers around the state to programs that fight racism to summer camps for children that combine the arts with science.
“This award is really a tribute to Denise and the work that she does through PAInT to consistently deliver arts-integrated programming to children in K-12 classrooms and our community in creative ways,” Holbrook said.
USFSM also hosts the Perlman Music Program’s Winter Residency Program — from late December to early January — when talented young musicians from across the world meet on campus for instruction from internationally renowned violinist and conductor Itzhak Perlman.
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