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Lincoln Center Institute (LCI), established in 1975 and located in New York City, is the educational cornerstone of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. LCI believes that the arts enrich our schools, enliven our classrooms, and engage our students in exploring wondrous possibilities. LCI is driven by its conviction that the imagination is an essential cognitive skill that can and should be taught. The Institute has applied imaginative learning in classrooms for over 35 years.

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A Convergence of Disciplines: Singapore’s New ArtScience Museum

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Linda Miles

Last week in the Bangkok Post, Ezra Kyrill Erker wrote about the stunning new ArtScience Museum in Singapore and about its three inaugural exhibitions. First of all, the lotus-shaped museum building by architect Moshe Safdie is quite beautiful and, most of all, fascinating—a part of Safdie’s Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort. The headline for Erker’s [...]

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Full STEM Ahead in Rochester

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

On March 4, I wrote about the connection between the STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—and the arts. Guided encounters with works of art and study of them based on the Capacities for Imaginative Learning help develop students’ imaginative and creative thinking skills—skills that supplement STEM knowledge in crucial ways. But let’s not try to [...]

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Comments from Korea

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

As I eagerly prepare to speak at the 2nd World Conference on Arts Education in Seoul, Korea in May, a news item from that capital city makes me even more excited about my upcoming visit. At the Global Metropolitan Forum of Seoul 2010 (GMF), a March event aimed at increasing the city’s economic competitiveness, Mayor [...]

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Notes from an Imagination Advocate, Part One

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

As regular readers of this blog know, most of my entries have to do with things going on in the world—with people in various sectors whose careers and actions embody imaginative practice. But it seems appropriate now and then to retreat from the hustle and bustle, exciting as it is, in order to reflect on [...]

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