January 14 workshop

Registration is now open through CAIS. Schools should be receiving links via listserve, and here is the web page listing all of the professional days, including the January 14 bookmaking, printmaking, and poetry writing workshop in Oakland http://www.caisca.org/events_conferences.asp

Cheers,

Jeni

Art Sub

Hi everyone,
Just wanted to share the name and telephone number of a local artist/educator that I worked with last week. He was fantastic. His name is Daniel Doherty 415 410 6814. He has work in Clarion Ally, is a young artist working in the mission, and also has a degree in art education from State. He's presently looking for sub work while he makes his own art.
Jen

Arts Education and Graduation Rates

blurb from NY Times:

In a report to be released on Monday the nonprofit Center for Arts Education found that New York City high schools with the highest graduation rates also offered students the most access to arts education. The report, which analyzed data collected by the city’s Education Department from more than 200 schools over two years, reported that schools ranked in the top third by graduation rates offered students the most access to arts education and resources, while schools in the bottom third offered the least access and fewest resources. Among other findings, schools in the top third typically hired 40 percent more certified arts teachers and offered 40 percent more classrooms dedicated to coursework in the arts than bottom-ranked schools. They were also more likely to offer students a chance to participate in or attend arts activities and performances. The full report is at caenyc.org.

CAIS workshop in January

*Save the Date* Thursday, January 14, 2010 , 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

California Association of Independent Schools

A professional day in Integrated Visual and Language Arts

Organized by Jeni Anderson, Julia Morgan School for Girls

Title: The Power of Personal Narratives Through Bringing Together Poetry Writing, Printmaking and Bookmaking

Location: Julia Morgan School for Girls

Fee: $50.00 per person (covers all materials and take away teaching resources)

Intended audience: Teachers of visual art and language arts in particular. Others welcome. All grade-levels.

Brief Description: Led by artist-educators Luz Marina Ruiz and Cathleen Micheaels, this workshop will offer a personally and professionally powerful integrated arts experience through written and visual imagery. Participants will write personal narrative poems, create relief prints to accompany their poems, and then bring the two together in books that they will hand-craft. The day-long professional development workshop will include time to share work and discuss ways to integrate such projects into the classroom as well as a break for conversation over a brown bag lunch.

Great meeting!

Caren Andrews and Jen Stuart hosted a great meeting of close to 30 art teachers from all over the bay area at San Francisco Friends School on Wednesday October 21st from 8:30-12.

Jen & Caren opened the meeting with the quaker practice of silent time, and then shared a little bit about their program. After a break to move cars the group took tours of the amazing historic building. We then generated small group discussion topics ranging from how to organize meetings to project sharing.

For the future: we would like to meet once or twice a year as an all bay area group in order to visit a variety of schools, make connections and spend a little time in self-generated topics. We will rotate this between weekends and school days in order to better serve more people traveling greater distances. We will meet whenever somebody volunteers to host and facilitate- anyone up for hosting the next meeting?

Regional or special interest groups can be called by anyone at anytime. The East Bay art teacher group is a great example of a group meeting to start collaborations, both with each other and the community, such as the homeless shelter BOSS in Berkeley. They have also talked about starting a website. This group will be meeting in November at Head Royce at 4 pm- location TBA. Please contact Nina Nathan if you are interested in joining them! nnathan@headroyce.org

Another example of this is if anyone wants to figure out how to teach animation, or talk about clay projects, or address issues particular to a specific age group. You don't have to be an expert to call a group together- just plan a date and put out the word!

We hope to work with (and take advantage of) CAIS for things like speakers or all-day workshops, as well as to disseminate announcements. Thank you Jeni Anderson (from Julia Morgan School) for working so hard to plan a professional day in January- look here for more details soon.

The blog will continue to serve, for now, as a place for EVERYONE to share ideas. If you have come to a meeting you will be invited to post, but anyone can request to post- just email Adra. Teachers are also encouraged to add links to galleries of student art in whatever form you have. A small group is also looking for other avenues for us all to communicate, led by Alice Engelmore & Adra Valentine. Just let either of them know if you have any expertise or ideas.

See you Wednesday, October 21st 8:30-Noon

Hope to see many of you at San Francisco Friends School Wednesday morning, October 21st from 8:30-12.

We will spend the morning working in small groups, sharing ideas and discussing topics that you bring. Please bring your ideas, project examples and lesson plans you would like to work on or share.

In the meantime, feel free to share ideas, questions and event announcements here! If you are ready to post, just send a request and I will set you up to be a contributor.

Where?
http://www.sffriendsschool.org/About/contact-sffs.html

When?
Wednesday October 21st
8:30-Noon

Steamroller prints at Center for the Book Sept 19th!

They are doing it again- it's the amazing annual San Francisco Center for the Book street fair and large-scale printing event. From 12-5 Saturday. Hope to see you there!
More info at
http://www.sfcb.org/php/event.php?id=T3-091909-EVT

Workshop Ideas?

Hi all,

I'm currently working with CAIS, doing a 2-year stint as the (visual) art educator on the Northern Professional Services Committee. Last year, we put together the CAIS conference at Head Royce. This year there will be a series of workshops in various subject areas, and I'm in charge of organizing one workshop focused on visual art.

I'm writing to ask if you have any ideas for a venue, theme, particular artist, specific hands-on art experience that could be shaped into a workshop during this school year. The workshops in the past have been 2-6 hours long, and they have included things like presentations by artists, tours of exhibits, demonstrations and art-making at local arts organizations. People may travel from southern California, but this year's workshops will all take place in or near the Bay Area.

Here are some thoughts so far:

Demonstration and/or hands-on sculpture at the Crucible (Oakland)

Tour and discussion at SF MOMA, Asian Art Museum, MOAD, or the de Young (SF)

Center for Digital Storytelling (Berkeley)

Presentation and art-making at

SCRAP (re-use materials; SF)

Center for the Book (bookmaking and papermaking; SF)

KALA (printmaking; Berkeley)

Workshop with a local artist. (We all know many. If you have a name and contact info for someone who is a dynamic presenter, makes inspirational work, and might want to spend part of a day with art educators, please let me know!)

Thanks, and I'll keep you posted!

Jeni

Jeni Anderson

Art/Art History teacher

Julia Morgan School for Girls

5000 MacArthur Boulevard

Oakland, CA 94613

510-632-6000 x123

janderson@juliamorganschool.org

Teachers 4 Social Justice Conference

October 10, 2009 9-4 in San Francisco

This is a free workshop for educators, and I've heard good things about it from others who have attended in the past. More info at 

http://www.t4sj.org/templates/System/default.asp?id=39669 

Also, the NAEA Convention in Baltimore (April 2010) has Social Justice and the Arts as its theme 

http://www.arteducators.org/olc/pub/NAEA/news/news_page_17.html

Fall Meeting- October 21st 8:30-Noon

San Francisco Friends School will be hosting our fall meeting Wednesday morning, October 21st from 8:30-12. Mark those calendars and ask for a professional day now!

We will spend the morning working in small groups, sharing ideas and discussing topics that you bring. Please bring your ideas, project examples and lesson plans you would like to work on or share.

In the meantime, feel free to share ideas, questions and event announcements here! If you are ready to post, just send a request and I will set you up to be a contributor.

Where?
http://www.sffriendsschool.org/About/contact-sffs.html

When?
Wednesday October 21st
8:30-Noon

Happy Summer!

As we all head off for our summer adventures I wanted to invite everyone to share classes or experiences that you find invigorating.

I am taking a few glass classes at the Crucible- I'll let you know how they go!

Black Pine Circle Art Show

Our K-8 art show will be up May 26 (opening 4-6pm) thru Sunday May 31 (art fair 12-3pm, however I won't be at the art fair, my daughter graduates from high school that day!), open for viewing during school hours, in the theater.
Black Pine Circle School
2027 7th St -at University
Berkeley
(510) 644-1023, or check out school website for directions

I hope some of you drop by!
Thanks, Kieren Dutcher

PS If you want to see my work when I'm not at bpc, www.kierendutcher.com. I am currently illustrating a bilingual chinese/english children's book of nursery rhymes which will be published next year.

Art Teaching opening in Oakland

Leah Korican at Bentley asked me to publicize a full-time opening they have for a K-3 (+ ms elective) art teacher. More info at: Bentley employment posting

Free tickets to Maker Faire

Maker Faire (May 30-31 San Mateo County Expo Center) is giving away a limited number of free tickets for teachers!

http://makerfaire.com/education/

Wanna post? Wanna subscribe to posts?

Let me know if you want to post! It turns out that I can't invite everyone as an author (there are too many of us!), so shoot me an email if you want me to add you. My gmail account is valentine.adra (followed by gmail.com, of course). :)

If you want posts sent to your email try out the "subscribe to posts) at the bottom of the page!

Workshop opportunity!

Do you wish that your administrators, colleagues and parents of students could glimpse the unique learning happening in the visual art classes? Or, have you ever seen an amazing display of art work at a school and wondered how the students created it? Or, how the teacher taught the lesson so that you could teach it too?

"Documentation" inspired by the Reggio Emilia schools in Italy and "Making Learning Visible" (MLV) from Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of Education are two processes through which teachers can display the process of artistic creation as well as the products. Through this method of displaying student work; the art teacher shares the specific learning happening in his or her classroom; it is a great way to include the wider community in the learning happening in the visual art classroom.

Art instructors interested in learning about these approaches and applying them to their own teaching practices may participate in a program starting this fall. The program includes a Saturday workshop in September as well as two brief follow up meetings in the late fall and early winter. Participants will also be asked to fill out a brief email survey before and after the program.

K-12 Art teachers interested in participating or who have further questions, please contact:
Lisa Ostapinski
lostapinsk@yahoo.com or l_ostapinski@cais.org

Participation|Art

From Stacy Goodman at Athenian:

I have been working on a site designed for showing socially conscious and participatory art by young people. I would like for the site to be facilitated by teachers and I am also looking for more content generated by adults as well, ranging from comments and questions to critical essays that reflect on what art by the young tells us about our society.

Please check out the site – it is called Participation|Art.

http://www.participationart.com/

You can post art!

Here is small sample of student work from The Head Royce School. Silk-Screen's ala POP Art. Class: 2D art: Michelle Avery

Notes from April 25th art teachers get together

We spent a beautiful morning in the new MS art room of the Katherine Delmar Burke school. A big thank you to Adra Valentine from Marin Country Day for starting the group and our hosts Lori Now & Yara Helman.

After introductions participants proposed topics for small group break out discussions. There were too many amazing conversations to relay, but here are a few highlights:

One group discussed project ideas: felting (perhaps even a demo day of projects), cut and fold projects, each teacher had a project they mentioned, teaching strategies like project zeros critique rubric. Town school shared their art calendar (HRS, plans to steal this idea). : )

Another group focused on lessons with a social justice & sustainability core. Stacey Goodman (Athenian School) shared an inspiring website he has been working on at www.participationart.com which is well worth checking out, and will be the subject of it's own post.

We wrapped up by planning this blog and future meetings.