Bill Details
HRES.165 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-25 - Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Introduced Date
2025-02-25
Policy Area
Arts, Culture, Religion
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This resolution shows support for recognizing February 28, 2025, as Community Arts Education Day. It says community arts education helps people learn through the arts in ways that build creativity, cultural understanding, confidence, health, and a stronger sense of belonging. The resolution highlights that arts education can support people of all ages, connect communities, and give people ways to express themselves, share their heritage, and work together for positive change.
- It describes community arts education as a hands-on, community-based way of learning that includes dance, music, theater, writing, and other art forms.
- It says arts teachers, culture bearers, and program leaders play an important role in bringing arts learning to people in schools and in community settings.
- It states that arts education can help people build important life skills, including confidence, social awareness, emotional self-control, and stronger relationships with others.
- It also notes that students who take part in the arts often go to college at higher rates than students with less arts participation.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
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[H. Res. 165 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. RES. 165
Expressing support for the designation of February 28, 2025, as
Community Arts Education Day.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 25, 2025
Ms. Velazquez (for herself and Mr. Jackson of Illinois) submitted the
following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight
and Government Reform
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RESOLUTION
Expressing support for the designation of February 28, 2025, as
Community Arts Education Day.
Whereas community arts education is a dynamic and inclusive approach to learning
and engagement in the arts, fostering creativity, cultural expression,
and social transformation within communities;
Whereas community arts education encompasses a broad range of artistic
disciplines and practices that empower individuals to develop their
artistic skills, deepen their cultural understanding, and cultivate a
sense of belonging and agency within themselves and their communities;
Whereas community arts education is a participatory and transformative practice
that engages individuals in the creation, exploration, and critical
dialogue of the arts within a community context, and community arts
education goes beyond individual skill-building or personal expression
and it connects through a larger social context;
Whereas community arts education leaders, which can include culture bearers,
teaching artists, and administrators, play a vital role in providing
essential arts instruction and learning to diverse communities, both
within and outside of formal educational settings;
Whereas community arts education is liberatory by uplifting our communities'
culture, heritage, and history in many forms such as dance, music,
theatre, literary arts and other modes of self-expression;
Whereas community arts education can build people's imaginations, build critical
learning and life skills, promote better health, and generate a sense of
shared culture and community belonging;
Whereas research has shown that community arts education positively impacts
individuals of all ages and develops social emotional competencies like
confidence in self-expression and ideas, social awareness, and self-
regulating emotions; and
Whereas students who actively participate in the arts tend to enroll in
competitive colleges, as well as four-year colleges in general, at
higher rates compared to students with lower engagement in the arts:
Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives supports Community Arts
Education Day and recognizes Community Arts Education Day is more
crucial than ever as a vehicle for activism, individual and collective
self-expression, and healing.
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