R.E. provides
tools for
incorporating
creative
arts-based
learning inside
and outside of
the classroom.
Love is always creative,
fear always destructive.
- Emmet Fox
Arts Resources >
Raising
Expectations Inc.
Raising Expectations Inc. provides helpful tools to teachers, parents, and students on
how to enhance their connections with the beauty and diversity of artistic expressions in
the music, dance, visual art, and spoken word.  And now modern technology allows
visual/performing arts genres to be experienced through amazing computer graphic
designs!  

Visit websites of our affiliated artist to learn more about what they are working on in their
careers.  Raising Expectations Inc. can bring these artists to you through our workshop
series or we can organize a site visit to their studios where you can see exactly how they
create their artwork and run their innovative businesses! Scroll down more and you'll find
some of our helpful resources in arts development and past RaisingSTARS e-newsletters!

Don't forget about our Arts Apprenticeships over the summer as well.  Complete
Apprenticeship Registration Form to become a R.E. Arts Apprentice and work one-on-
one with artist mentors and learn from each other as you innovate designs together.

Music Websites

Bomani Armah's Park Triangle Productions  - www.parktriangle.com
Amadou Kouyate's In Memory of African Culture (Drumming)
Afi (Soul Songstress) - http://www.liberatedmuse.com/profile/AfiSoul
Nusaiba's Record Company - http://www.spawkenempire.com/home.html
Shaman Work Recordings
Hip-Hop Educational Literacy Program (H.E.L.P.)


Art Websites

Akili Ron Anderson's Stained Glass and Sculpture Studios - www.jiii.com/akilironanderson
K. Wesley Clark's Sonrise, Inc. - www.sonriseinc.com & Eldridge & Claiborne, LLC
Joyce Wellman's Art Gallery Website - www.joycewellman.co
Groove Arts Collective - www.iconnecthedots.com
AM/Radio Mbilashaka  (*2008 Youth Mural Project Partners)
Montana Ray's website - artBeatCollective
Tai Rotan's T-Shirt Art Designs - Oxossi Website.
Custom Printed T-Shirts by RushOrderTees.com

Dance Websites

Binahkaye Joy's "Open Space Activation" Dance Rebirth - www.osadance.blogspot.com
Dance Place
Step Afrika
The Washington Ballet


Theatre Websites

The Arena Stage
Atlas Performing Arts Theatre
The Lincoln Theatre
Gala Hispanic Theatre


Helpful Resources

Teaching and Learning Techniques
Community Change for Youth Development
Imagine! An Introduction to Arts (NEA Publication)
Screening and Assessing Youth Mental Health
How to Increase Family Involvement
Collection of Youth Studies
Art in Peacemaking Guidebook


Check out R.E.'s Network of Artists and Arts Educators!
(by last name)

  • Abeo Anderson (Founder) - Poetry & Spoken Word, Dance
  • Afi (Affiliated Artist) - Soul Songstress
  • Akili Ron Anderson (Affiliated Artist) - Sculpture, Stained Glass, Graphic Design
  • Elva Anderson (Affiliated Artist)– Visual Arts, Art Therapy
  • Karim Ali - Graphic Design, TV Media
  • Kimani Anku (Board Member) - DC TV Studios
  • Bomani Armah (Affiliated Artist) – Music Production, Graphic Design, Poetry & Spoken Word
  • Christon “Christylez” Bacon (Advisory Committee)– Musician, Poetry & Spoken Word
  • Ishmael Basha (Advisory Committee) - Crescent Moon Productions, Poetry & Spoken Word
  • Ron Brown aka DJ RBI (Affiliated Artist) – Music Production & DJ'ing
  • Debra Butler (Chef) - Hospitality Training Institute
  • Wesley Clark (Advisory Committee) - SonRise, Inc., Visual Art, Graphic Design, Gallery Framing
  • Jabari Exum - Drumming, Dono Drumming & Dance Ensemble
  • Binahkaye Joy (Advisory Committee) - Indigenous Joy Dance
  • Jokeeta Joyner (Affiliated Artist) - Collage & Decoupage, Mosaic Design
  • Amadou & Bintou Kouyate (Affiliated Artist) - Drumming, In Memory of African Culture, Inc.
  • Tracy Press (Advisory Committee) - Powerful Beyond Measure, Inc. youth organization
  • Montana Ray (Board Member) - Literary Arts (artBeat Collective)
  • Nana Malaya Rucker (Dance/Fitness) - Nubian Institute
  • Trey Wallace aka “DJ 2ToneJones” (Board Member) - Music Production and DJ'ing
  • Danielle "Nikki" Woodhouse-Johnson (Affiliated Artist) - Jewelry Design
  • Willette Woods (Affiliated Artist) - Liturgical and Modern Dance




            If you would like to reach out to any artist in R.E.'s Network, contact us
            at 1-888-549-3695 or e-mail
Info@RaisingExpectationsDC.org.
                                                
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October/November 2006 Issue
Includes Poetry Corner
submissions, Congressional
Report Card on the Arts, Taste
of Justice Art Gallery Showcase,
Words from a Young Male Artist
and more!

Dec 2006 /January 2007 Issue    
      Includes helpful resources
in arts programming, articles on
R.E.'s Holiday Karaoke Jam,
R.E.'s Voice Lessons
Workshop, R.E.'s Sculpture
Studio visit and more!

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