Arts Education: Refers to learning, instructing and programming based upon the arts. Art education includes performing arts like dance, music, theatre, and visual arts like drawing, painting, sculpture, and design works.
Craft & Design Arts: Art that focuses on the creation of functional work, or engages with product design, architecture, fashion, graphics, landscape, and commercial art. This may include works created with clay, paper, textiles, and wood. Specifically excluded are works related to food services and trades.
Dance: Refers to a performing arts discipline that involves movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. Dance can be categorized by its choreography, historical period, or place of origin.
Folklife/Tradition: Refers to artistic practices that are passed down through communities and reflect their values and beliefs. These arts can include music, dance, storytelling, woodcarving and more.
Go-Go: Pertaining, but not limited to, composers, conductors, instrumentalists, vocalists, or visual artists specifically contributing to Go-Go music or culture as the official music of the District of Columbia.
Humanities: Pertaining but not limited to the following fields, history, philosophy, languages, linguistics, archaeology, jurisprudence, history and criticism of the arts, ethics, comparative religion, and those aspects of the social sciences employing historical or philosophical approaches including, cultural anthropology, sociology, political theory, international relations, and other subjects concerned with questions of value and not with quantitative matters.
Interdisciplinary: Refers to the collaboration or interaction of two or more artistic disciplines contributing to a shared creative outcome, without compromising each discipline’s creative integrity and principles.
Literary Arts: Art practice that focuses on the written or spoken word. This may include but is not limited to poetry, fiction, non-fiction, creative writing, playwriting, screenwriting
Media: Refers to screen-based projects presented via film, television, radio, audio (podcasts), video, interactive and mobile technologies, video games, storytelling, and satellite as well as media-related printed books, catalogues, and journals (including work created using computers or other digital/experimental media as the primary expressive media).
Multidisciplinary: refers to the practice of two or more distinct artistic disciplines.
Music: Refers to the art form who's medium is a combination of sounds. Pertaining but not limited to composers, conductors, instrumentalists, and vocalists.
Musical Theatre: Refers to the interdisciplinary art form that combines acting, singing, dancing, and production to tell a story.
Public Art: Refers to work of art in any media that has been planned and executed with the specific intention of being sited or staged in the physical public domain. Public Art signifies a working practice of community involvement, site specificity and collaboration. It is typically outside and accessible to the public.
Teaching Artist: Practicing, professional artists from any artistic field (music, dance, theater, visual arts, writing, etc.) that provide arts-based education to the public.
Theatre: Refers to the interdisciplinary art form that combines acting, directing, set design, costume design, lighting, and sound. Pertaining but not limited to actors/performers, design (costume, lighting, set, sound), directors, playwrights, choreographers.
Visual Arts: Refers to art forms that express their message, meaning, and emotion through visual means. Forms include painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography (staged), video, image, installations, conceptual art and architecture.
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