 The
Association of Teaching Artists created The Golden
Administrator Award in 2003 to encourage and to support
excellence in the
Arts In Education field. The Award recognizes an Arts In
Education professional whose talent, dedication, and
administrative skills actively strengthen and support the
role of Teaching Artists and the arts in the schools. The
first Golden Administrator Award honors Arlene Jordan.
Arlene Jordan, an art educator and photographer, has
devoted thirty years to creating arts programs in New York
City public schools. Since she assumed the position of
Supervisor of Expressive Arts in Community School District
25, Queens, the District received the School Board Award
from the NYS Alliance for the Arts and was recognized by
the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities for
its exemplary work. Arlene has served as a panelist on the
NYS Council on the Arts. Programs she has designed have
been generously funded by Center for Arts Education, NYS
Council on the Arts, J.P.Morgan Chase, NYS Education
Department, Helena Rubenstein Foundation and Dodge
Foundation. Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts
honored Arlene with the 2000 Arts Partner Award. Her most
recent work is the production of students’ original
Digital Operas.
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