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Professional Development
Call to Artists
Youth Art Month @ Josiah Quincy Elementary School
 MISSION STATEMENT: To expose every Josiah Quincy Elementary School (JQS) student to a variety of Visual Art disciplines, cultures, and history with an inspiring and educational experience through hands-on learning. Diversity issues will be explored, expressed, and celebrated. INTRODUCTION: Due to the economic climate, JQS no longer has a Visual Arts teacher, leaving our students devoid of the opportunity and guidance to express themselves creatively. As a parent-organized, volunteer-based Visual Art Committee, we are seeking to fill this void for our children. Our goal is to provide every JQS student with an exciting Visual Art experience through hands-on learning. March is national Youth Art Month and we are organizing the 1st Annual JQS Visual Arts Festival to take place March 1st & 2nd, 2012. For two exciting days, artists from our local community will be leading workshops in every JQS classroom, exposing our children & teachers to the power of expression thru the Visual Arts. This years’ theme is "Diversity Thru Art", covering a range of significant artists, movements, techniques and their impact on global culture. The culmination of these two days will be an Art Exhibit where will celebrate these creations, displaying all of the students’ work on the evening of Friday, March 2nd. Your help is needed to make this event a success. We urge you to join us in making JQS and our community richer thru art. BENEFITS FOR STUDENTS: • Art education develops students’ creative problem-solving and critical thinking abilities. • An understanding of multicultural values and beliefs will be fostered, building relationships school-wide. • Students will experience the sense of joy and accomplishment that comes with creating and sharing their artwork. BENEFITS FOR TEACHERS: • Identify ways to use the visual arts to support their students to creatively explore diversity issues. • Teachers who may be hesitant in their ability to create an arts experience will discover the artist within themselves. • Acquire new methods that will help strengthen their current skill set, renewing a sense of vigor in the classroom. HOW YOU CAN HELP: • Volunteer your time and talents as an Artist or simply as an Enthusiast, leading a lesson in one of our 44 classrooms. • Make a tax-deductible contribution to provide art supplies and to cover the costs of an inspiring Art Exhibit where our students can experience a great sense of pride and accomplishment in their work. • Help by developing appropriate lesson plans that fit within our mission to expose students to a variety of Visual Art disciplines, cultures, and history. • All partners and sponsors will be acknowledged in promotional announcements and publications. To volunteer or get more information please email Elizabeth McGarry at missesmcgarry@gmail.com. Exploring the Past:
 Walking beside thousand-year-old burial mounds, flaking raw stone into tools, learning how potsherds tell us about human behavior, and understanding how humans adapt to complex, ever-changing environments - our 2012 NEH Summer Institute features all this and more. The Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse will offer a three-week NEH Summer Institute on July 9 thru 27, 2012. This dynamic learning experience for K-12 teachers will explore how Native Americans and Euro-Americans have adapted to the Upper Mississippi River Valley over the past 13,500 years, and how archaeology leads to an understanding of how human cultures change and adapt through time. The Institute will feature a one-day excavation experience, field trips to archaeological sites, hands-on laboratory and workshop activities, demonstrations, and classroom activities. Individual projects will help participants tailor the content to their own teaching areas. NEH Summer Scholars receive a $2,700 stipend to help offset their expenses. Application and other information on the Institute will be available online at http://www.uwlax.edu/mvac/neh.htm. The deadline for applications is March 1, 2012. Symposium
 Understanding Julien Hudson Free Artist of Color In Context Saturday, December 10, 2011 9am - 5pm By bringing together all of Julien Hudson's known oeuvre, as well as selected works by his white and mixed-race contemporaries, this ground-breaking exhibition addresses questions of connoisseurship, patronage, style, and identity during a unique, little-studied moment in american art and cultural history. The symposium examines the work and life of Julien Hudson, places him in the context of new england history and art history of the same time period, and more fully examines the experience of mixed race persons in the americas pre-civil war. Symposium Topics and Speakers Include The Race to find Hudson: A Question of Style and Patronage William Keyse Rudolph, curator of american art and decorative arts, Milwaukee Art Museum Julien Hudson's Life Patricia Brady, Research associate, Loyola University New Orleans People of Mixed Ancestry in the Americas Thomas Doughton, Senior Lecturer, college of the Holy cross 19th Century Portraiture in Pre-Civil War New England Micheal Volmar, curator of collections, Fruitlands museum From Bondage to Belonging: the Worcester Slave Narratives Eugene McCarthy and Thomas Doughton, co-editors More information ... PDF Studio Residencies for Art Educators
 Studio Residencies for Art Educator workshops are offered each year during the month of July in an intensive week-long format. One studio residency, "Artists Who Teach", is offered in Boston at the Art Institute of Boston Campus (AIB) in Kenmore Square. A second residency, "Works on Paper", is offered off-site in Bar Harbor, Maine. These intensive studio workshops are designed for artists who are also art educators and have limited time to create their own work in a focused environment during the academic year. Art Educators are awarded 67.5 PDPs at the successful completion of these intensive studio experiences. Art Educators/Students may take these courses for credit at the regular undergraduate or graduate tuition rates . URL http://www.lesley.edu/aib/EXTRA/educator_residencies.html Contact: Linda Harris, Director of Programs, Office of Extended Programs -- 617.585.6724 or lharris@aiboston.edu
Conservatory Lab Charters School  Conference Details Date | Friday, March 30, 2012 Time | 8:30a ¬ 5:30p Location | Wheelock College For | Upper Elementary School Educators In Collaboration with | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston For more information on this conference and Conservatory Lab, please visit us at www.conservatorylab.org or contact Chris Schroeder, Conference Coordinator, at cschroeder@conservatorylab.org. More information ... PDF Polymerge Workshop -
A program dedicated to exploring Art
and Science  Polymerge is an interdisciplinary curriculum for K-12 art classrooms that encourages students to explore intersections between Art and Science. Images collected from cutting-edge scientific research at UMass provide the basis for art projects that teach students basic concepts about materials and how they relate to different artistic techniques. Space is limited. For more information, and to register, please contact Jennifer Green (413-577-1130 or jgreen@mail.pse.umass.edu). Workshop details: Saturday, Oct. 1st, 9AM ? 12PM More information ... PDF Teacher Leadership Opportunities  More information ... PDF Professional Development Opportunity - Art of Education
Tentative Agenda for September 27th NECME:
Creative Learning in the 21st Century MAEA 2011 Annual Conference November 11-13, 2011 Hyannis MA MAEA 2011 Conference - Call For Workshop Proposals Professional Development Opportunity - Art of Education  To often, arts teachers spend countless hours sitting in classes that are not relevant to their content area. Professional Development shouldn't be and doesn't have to be this way. Take online courses designed by an art teacher specifically for art teachers through The Art of Education, and even have the option to earn graduate credit in the process. Art of Education classes only take about an hour per day, and it's all online. There are no specific times you need to meet online you work at your own pace, on your own time! Please see course catalog to get signed up for upcoming classes. More information ... PDF PDP Opportunity  Greetings All! March & April feature ten great workshops from our Boxed-Set Series. Join us for an entire day of art-making and fun! Take advantage of this exciting opportunity to experiment with new materials and techniques in an intimate studio setting. For a complete list click here: Be sure to register early - space is limited and classes fill quickly! All levels welcome ? All materials are included. For info. on how to register click here: (PDP?s available for educators. See web site for details). Check out the FPSS Gallery which features a recently completed Alphabet Book by Artist-Educator, Elaine Schaffner. Her piece was inspired by workshops taken at FPSS with instructors Stephanie Stigliano and Peter Madden. For more information click here: Feel free to forward this information to friends and colleagues! Warm Regards, Lisa Knox Fort Point Studio School 249 A Street, Studio 41 Boston, MA 02210
Summer Teacher Institute Exploring the Past: Archaeology in the Upper Mississippi River Valley
Harvard Ceramics Program
Known internationally for its leadership in the field, the Ceramics Program provides a creative studio and laboratory study environment for Harvard students, staff, and faculty, as well as designers, artists, scholars, and scientists from the greater Boston, national and international arenas.
Teacher Institute Multi-Dimensional Art (2D, 3D and 4D Art)
The Graduate Certificate Program in Web and Interaction Design at UMass Dartmouth. Courage to Teach Institute: Sustaining Professional Practice Chinese American Cultural Bridge Center Worcester Art Museum Museum Institute for Teaching Science (MITS) |
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