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.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
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
Monday, May 4, 2009
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/
http://makerfaire.com/education/
Sunday, May 3, 2009
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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
"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.
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.
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