| The International School of the Americas was selected to review and pilot NeXT, a new project developed by the Texas Commission on the Arts. NeXT will be a series of statewide visits with young people who do not necessarily participate in traditional arts activities or arts institutions. Seven meetings will be convened between December 2001 and June 2002. The gatherings will include people of a diversity of ethnic geographic and socio-economic strata from throughout Texas. | |
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| Jean Paul Batiste, Executive Director, and Rick Hernandez, Deputy Director, of the Texas Commission on the Arts explain the mission of their organization and the nature of the NeXT project to a group of ISA students. | Students review questions that explore the nature of people as consumers of the arts. |
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| Dr. Shari Albright, principal of ISA, Beth Costello, Mind Science, Jean Paul Batiste, Rick Hernandez, Amy Stengel and Pamela Valentine (not pictured) review student comments and create a new set of questions for the afternoon group of students to process. | Ms. Stengel explains the process to the afternoon group. Each group has a facilitator leader and a recorder. (See below for the questions they reviewed.) |
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| Ms. Stengel discusses the project with her class. | A brief discussion with the original group about the afternoon process ends the day. |
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NeXT
NeXT will be a series of statewide visits with young people who do not necessarily participate in traditional arts activities or arts institutions. Seven meetings will be convened between December 2001 and June 2002. The gatherings will include people of a diversity of ethnic geographic and socio-economic strata from throughout Texas.
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