Discipline Definitions:
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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.
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Teaching Artist: Practicing, professional artists from any artistic field (music, dance, theater, visual arts, writing, etc.) that provide arts-based education for grade school students.
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Crafts: Refers to the art discipline that involves making objects using traditional techniques and materials. Craft art is a type of visual art that often uses materials like clay, paper, textiles, and wood.
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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).
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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, filmmaking, crafts, installations, conceptual art and architecture.
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Design Arts: A functional art form that includes product design, architecture, fashion, graphics, industrial, interior, landscape, and commercial art. The creative process involves detailed planning.
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Humanities: Pertaining but not limited to the following fields: history, philosophy, languages, literature (poetry, fiction, creative writing, screenwriting, spoken word, etc.), 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.
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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.
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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.
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Music: Refers to the art form who's medium is a combination of sounds. Pertaining but not limited to composers, conductors, instrumentalists, and vocalists.
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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.
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Musical Theatre: Refers to the interdisciplinary art form that combines acting, singing, dancing, and production to tell a story.
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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.
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Interdisciplinary: Refers to when two or more previously distinct and separate artistic disciplines cross traditional boundaries in their work to create something new or to work in a new way. (E.g., collaboration between/among the performing and/or visual arts).
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Multidisciplinary: Refers to when or more artistic disciplines work together or engage with one another without compromising their individual artistic principles.
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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.
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