Program Schedule: Saturday, May 3, 2008 –
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Registration – 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon – The Pozen Center – Massachusetts
College of Art and Design
9:45 – 11:15 a.m. – Museum Tour
1 - Exploring the
Margaret K. Burchenal, Sanea Magalhaes and Michelle Grohe,
Led by
9:45 – 10:45 a.m. – One Hour Workshops
2 - Monthly Drawing Workshops for ANY Classroom
Kristen Ripley & Katie Kelley, Belmont
Drawing workshops are an
inexpensive, easily adaptable, and highly successful way to introduce and
reinforce drawing concepts from basic to advanced levels. We will explain and provide examples of the
drawing workshop program that we’ve implemented and run on a monthly basis at
our school. You will see dramatic
improvement of skills and confidence in your students!
3 - The Hidden Curriculum of the
Peter Curran,
For students with
deficiencies in social interaction, especially those with Asperger’s
Syndrome, an art room’s interactive environment may prove overwhelming. We’ll explore strategies for uncovering the
“hidden curriculum” of
the
4 - Wallpaper Ideas – using elements of design
Nancy Deveno,
This workshop will explore
wallpaper expansion. A swatch of wall
paper will be camouflaged using line, shape and color. Why artists need to understand how to
camouflage in the visual arts.
5 - Visual Metaphor: Ways of Thinking & Making
Dan Serig,
What is visual metaphor? How do artists create visual metaphor? What are the contributing cognitive, social,
and personal influences? This
presentation considers these questions and their impact on art education.
6 - First Year Reflection: Multiculturalism in the
Classroom: Gaining Trust with Middle School Students
Cassie Doyon, Bradford
Reflections of a 1st
year middle school art teacher implementing a multicultural curriculum within
the classroom with resulting promises and pitfalls.
7 - I, Too, Can Create: Art from American Prisons
Phyllis Kornfeld, Stockbridge
We will talk about surprising
art work by incarcerated people – inventive, authentic, and motivated by a pure
creative impulse that is inherently transformative.
8 - Pop-Ups: Making Paper Dimensional
Stephanie Mahan Stigliano,
Following a brief visual
presentation, the presenter will demonstrate simple folding and cutting
techniques to make pop-ups. No gluing
required! We will enliven the pop-ups
with colored pencils.
9 - MFA Educators Online: 200,000 Works of Art at Your
Fingertips!
Willamarie
Moore,
Teach and learn with one of
the largest online collections in the world!
The session will be an introduction to exciting new web site resource in
a hands-on session where participants create their own online galleries.
9:45 – 12:00 noon - Two Hour Workshops
10 - Developmental Understanding for Ourselves and for
Our Students: A Model for Growth
Maureen
Kelly,
New contributions to the
field of development challenge us to consider how we can move our students and
ourselves forward in the developmental process, especially via art making. Come learn & make!
11 - Photography Without a
Camera
Jessica Swegel,
This workshop will focus on
the process of making Cyanotypes (blue prints).
You will learn the technical aspects of the process and create your own
prints using found materials. No
darkroom is necessary for this process.
12 –Monoprint Workshop Page
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In MassArt’s
premier Printmaking Studio, participants will create oil based monoprints. This
workshop will introduce art educators to this very painterly process.
13 – Look to Learn from Contemporary Art (or How Can I
Make Sense of This!?)
What museum education
strategies are in your tool kit? Do you
shy away from contemporary art because you feel a little lost? Bring your most curious, inventive, and
collaborative self to this session to work with educators from MassArt’s “Looking to Learn” program. Discover creative and engaging teaching
methods for learning from objects of art.
14 – Responsive Education
Mara Metcalf,
Draw from live model to
express more about the model that can be carried by the visual appearance
along. Several techniques for
approaching the form to emphasize the expressive qualities will be explored.
15 – Portfolio Lab Workshop
Elena Bell White, Gerald Rojek
and Evelyn Rydz, School of the
This interdisciplinary
approach to portfolio building and critique enhances your ability to support
your students as they grow as artists.
Participate in 2-D and 3-D exercise/ min-projects and groups discussions.
11:00 a.m. –
12:00 noon – One Hour Workshops
16 - The Arts Laboratory
Jamie MacInnes,
This workshop will cover how
easily it is to incorporate science into art lessons and make it fun for the
students. Teachers will leave with a
packet of lesson ideas.
17 - Murals Made Easy
Lale Lewis,
Presenter will present
participants with a slide presentation, lesson plans and learning standards on
how to create colorful and curriculum relevant murals using a number of
techniques to accomplish a finished project.
Included in the lesson plan packet are several different models for
Standard-Based Plan Criteria to consider, along with samples of Formative and
Summative Assessment samples.
18 - Photosynthesis – High School and Museum
Photography Collaboration
Guy
Michel Telemaque,
Students:
Adrian Guerra, Sergio Merry & Luis John Bonilla
From the point of view of
Boston Arts Academy teacher and students, a discussion about a photography
collaboration between the BAA, Winchester High School and the Griffin
Museum. Through this project, the lesson
reached far beyond the classroom.
19- Using Action Research to Improve Instruction in a
Choice-Based Art Program
Diane Jaquith,
Observing artistic behavior
leads teachers to develop theories connecting learning with teaching. Hear how action research inquiry and
reflection improves instruction for diverse student needs.
20 - Student Research: Means and Goals to Impact
Children’s Expressive
Janet Sebell and Students
from
Students in the Art Education
Concentration at SSC will present their research on the expressive goals and
teaching questions that impact the quality of children’s art. This will be a poster type presentation with
several students talking to small groups of participants at the same time.
21 - Digital Storytelling: How to Incorporate the Arts
and Multimedia in the Classroom
Young Imm Kang Song,
How does a classroom teacher
select topics, write scripts, create storyboards, and use software to make a
movie? Participants will learn these
techniques by viewing a variety of examples and handouts.
22 – Design in Your Curriculum: A National Look
Ralph Caouette, Holden
Why design approaches added
to your curriculum helps complete a modern art education. Find out what is happening nationally on
design in the curriculum.
12:00 noon – Luncheon & Awards – The
2:00 – 4:15 p.m. – The
23 - What will you find this time? Exploring the
Willamarie Moore and Judith
King,
The Museum is undergoing
major changes as it expands, and collections are rotating more frequently than
ever. Discover what’s currently on view
in this interactive tour led by MFA staff.
2:00 – 3:00 p.m. – One Hour Workshops
24 – Unite Through Action
Nikki Murphy,
Reinvigorate art curriculum
and civic engagement during the “Season of Non-Violence” and beyond. Through the lens of one
25 – The Art of Manga within
the Classroom
Angelique Leon,
Manga or Japanese comics are becoming increasingly popular
with today’s students. This hands-on
workshop will provide participants the opportunity to learn about and create
their own manga-inspired art.
26 – Honoring Ambiguity in All the Right Places
John Crowe,
Join in lively exploration of
art teaching models which represent varying degrees of clarity and
ambiguity. This session will address a
perceived crisis of pedagogical understanding.
27 – Teaching Art Amidst War,
Terrorism, Patriotism and Flag Waving
Patty Bode, Art Education, School of the Museum of
Fine Arts/Tufts University
Place student voice at the
center of current events by studying how artists respond to war throughout
history. Engage K-12 students in
dialogue with the sociopolitical context of visual culture and student art
making.
28 - Words Can Make A 1000
Pictures
Sandra Robillard,
The saying goes “a picture is
worth a thousand words,” but did you ever consider that the word is the
picture? This form of art is called
shape poetry and does just that. We will
draw our pictures with words.
29 – Sowing the Seeds of Visual Literacy
Rosemary Agoglia and Meghan
Burch, The
Learn about the Carle’s
approach to thinking about and making art.
We’ll draw on the power of the picture book in helping museums,
educators and parents forge string links between visual and verbal literacy.
30 – Contemporary
Carroll Conquest,
Every present has a past and
every culture has a relationship with other cultures. Primary sources from
31 – The Art and Growing Up: A Rites
of Passages Program
Julia Katz,
The Art of Growing Up is an
integrated arts program celebrating the transition into young womanhood. The presentation will include research and
rationale for the program. Objectives,
lessons, and student work will be shared.
2:00 – 4:15 a.m. – Two Hour Workshops
32 – Fabulous FRESCOS!
Maureen Caouette, Holden
This workshop will focus on
the ancient art of the fresco.
Participants will create their own portable fresco secco. This project aligns with the Middle School
ancient civilization standards.
33 – Monoprinting Techniques
With and Without a Press
Rhoda Rosenberg, School of the
Techniques include: additive
and subtractive methods, overprinting in different colors, turning print into
books stemming from autobiographical perspective of art making. The session will emphasize narrative and/or
metaphorical visual language for young artists.
34 – Teaching Color Theory with Adobe Illustrator
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Joe Landry, School of the
This workshop explores the
possibilities of utilizing the powerful tool of Adobe Illustrator computer
program as a means of teaching color theory, color interaction and color
expression to high school students.
35 – Demonstration Gallery Drawing for Children
Angelica Vanasse, MFA
Studio Art Classes,
This will be a demonstration
of the Drawing for Ages 10-12 class in which participants will be
encouraged to participate in children’s class activities. Drawing for Ages 10-12 is a children’s
class that is currently offered as part of the MFA Studio Art Classes and
Workshop Program. The goal of this class
is to bridge learning basic drawing skill while working directly in the
galleries drawing from the collection as well as from imagination.
3:30– 4:30 p.m. – Special Exhibition Tour – (Tickets
are required and need to purchased with your Registration Form.)
36 – Ticketed Tour of El Greco Exhibition at the
This is an opportunity to view the El Greco Exhibition
at the
3:15 – 4:15 – One Hour Workshops
37 – Professional Development in Your Pajamas!
Katherine Douglas, Middleboro
Art Teacher isolation is a
concern in many districts which often do not provide art-focused professional
development to support to improve art teaching. Learn how active online
learning communities provide support to improve art teaching.
38 – Shaping a Curriculum Around
Essential Question
Marie Shack,
What are essential questions
and how does one shape a full-year curriculum around them? This presentation demonstrates the research
process used by pre-service students in the Tufts/SMFA Art Education program to
prepare a year-long curriculum. This
strategy can be applied to a diverse range of subject matter from introductory
to advanced classes and from photography to ceramics.
39 – Artful Thinking
Susan Barahal,
We will explore the Artful
Thinking program which was developed by Project Zero at
40 – Art Jump Off!
A 6th-8th
John Giordano,
This presentation discusses
the evolution of the Art Jump Off! program at the
41 – Art for Everyone: The MFA at the Children’s
Hospital,
Cynthia Woo, Jason Springer and Jessica Finch,
Last year, the MFA and
Children’s Hospital,
42 – Studio Thinking: A Description of Artistic Mind
Lois
The Studio Thinking
framework, developed from observations of local art teachers, describes what
students are meant to learn in visual arts classes. This presentation explores how teachers are
using it.
43 – Technology in the Elementary Classroom
Laura Y. Davila-Lynch, Randolph
This workshop will present
various examples of the use of new technologies in the art classroom. You will see how to transfer digital media to
the internet and back to the classroom.
44 – Are Fourth Graders Motivated to Make Art When
They Know It Will be Hung for Those Who Inspired Their Art Work to See?
Vanessa Ring,
Discussion and reflections
made about my findings from the current action research project as part of the
art education “Partnership” course that the presenter is taking at the
4:30 – 5:30 p.m. – End of the Day Reception – The
School of the