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