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Forrest Howell is a Senior Resident Teaching Artist at ArtistYear where they have been since July 2022. Before that, they were a Graduate Student Instructor at University of Michigan from September 2018 to August 2022. Additionally, they worked as an Artist Citizen at Our Own Thing Piano Program from January 2021 to May 2022. Forrest earned a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from University of Michigan - Rackham Graduate School, a Master of Music in Piano Performance from Brigham Young University, and a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from Brigham Young University. They have experience as a program instructor and curriculum advisor, overseeing teaching quality and curriculum adaptation to meet student needs.
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NATIONAL SERVICE FOR CITIZEN-ARTISTS. ArtistYear is dedicated to addressing inequities in Arts Education for K-12 students. To ensure that every low-income student in America has the opportunity to reap the social-emotional and academic benefits associated with creative learning, ArtistYear created a national service arts corps. We train and support AmeriCorps Resident Teaching Artists—gifted recent graduates across all artistic disciplines—and place them as full-time teaching artists at high-need schools. This innovative strategy significantly bolsters arts education for our most vulnerable youth, with all its attendant benefits, while improving student academic and social-emotional development, enhancing school climate and capacity, benefiting the larger community, and developing a new generation of artists and educators steeped in national service. ArtistYear is the nation's first AmeriCorps program focused on the arts.