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Today at the Farnsworth…

… was the first day of a 5 day institute with New York City’s Lincoln Center. The collaboration with the Farnsworth Art Museum and the Maine Department of Education to provide a top quality professional development arts education integration workshop was off to a GREAT start!

The facilitators are skilled teachers who make learning engaging and fun! The day flew by with the opportunity to get to know the 40 participants and view and discuss some of the Farnsworth’s Louise Nevelson collection.

Tomorrow the learning will continue and the evening will end with a performance at 6 p.m., at the Strand Theater in Rockland with a performance of Nightingale by the Figures of Speech Theatre, of Freeport. The performance is open to the public, free of charge, and no reservations are necessary.

Please join us at the Strand Theater at 6, Tuesday, July 27th!

Below photos from today’s participants and the work they were involved with.

Video awards

This Spring the Maine Design Team sponsored a video contest where students were invited to submit work that highlights Maine’s most innovative, creative, and imaginative school projects. The winners were chosen by the Maine Design Team, a group of educators and thinkers from local schools, the Maine Department of Education, the arts community, and the Maine Learning Technology Institute (MLTI), who have come together to help kickstart Maine’s learning environments and build on all the ways that we can teach our students to imagine, innovate, and create.

Oxford Hills School District MSAD 17 and Narraguagus High School in Washington Country are the 2010 winners of the CI2 Awards. You can view their videos and learn more about the projects at the Maine Arts Commission’s blog.