Lots of energy
Cheryl Hulteen, author of YES YES GOOD! provided an energizing workshop for 40 participants last Thursday at the Franco Center in Lewiston as part of the pre-Maine International Conference on the Arts events. They were a mixture of PK-12 arts educators, teaching artists, and representatives from community arts organizations. Below are some photos to give you an idea of the learning and those who participated.
Cheryl Hulteen and Maine teaching artist Martin Swinger
Increased arts education in Boston public schools
Jazz musician in Boston is making a huge difference for students in dance, music, theatre and visual arts. Look at the impact in funding, almost doubled in five years. Increased funding is one of the keys. District funding as well as outside funding.
Changing minds about the value of arts education. Providing the opportunity for students to be creative and have access to arts education.
Digital Transformation Conference – April 20-22
Join hundreds of arts-in-education advocates in Cleveland, Ohio this coming April for Digital Transformation! This national conference is presented by the Center for Arts-Inspired Learning and Young Audiences Arts for Learning. Conference participants include program, education, marketing, and fundraising staff; teaching artists, teachers, and administrators; and non-profit board members and executive staff—a diverse group of individuals from the field-at-large engaged in improving student access to the arts and arts learning. The 2017 conference will be held at the iconic Metropolitan at The 9 hotel in Cleveland, Ohio on April 20-22, 2017. We will continue to update the conference website with confirmed speakers and a conference agenda in December.
Do you have a great idea for a breakout session that addresses the conference theme Digital Transformation — creating and sustaining digital arts programs that transform learning in and through the arts? CLICK HERE for more details on the RFP process.
Playing for Change
While on location filming spots for their Playing for Change inspired video “Understand” the Maine Academy of Modern Music (MAMM), with a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, filmed a number of stand alone videos showcasing their partnering artists’ own music. Below is one of those videos, House of Hope, Sorcha Cribben-Merrill.
Commitment
An interesting article that provides the inside scoop on a young man’s quest to find the right turntable. Below is an excerpt from the article named “Grandmaster Flash on ‘The Get Down’ and how he used science to pioneer DJ techniques”, written by Bethonie Butler, August 23, 2016, published in The Washington Post.
“I did extensive studies on the stylus. I had to figure out the proper needle that would stay inside the groove when it’s under the pressure of the vinyl being moved counterclockwise. That was the first step. The second step was figuring out what to do with the rubber matting that comes with the turntable. When I was trying to move the vinyl counterclockwise, it caused too much drag and too much friction, so I had to remove it. Then under that was the steel platter. The problem was I couldn’t put the vinyl on the steel platter because if there was a cut on the other side, I would ruin the record.
My mother was a seamstress so I knew different types of materials. When I touched felt, I said, “This could possibly work.” The problem with felt is that it draped, it was limp. So I ran home and got a copy of my album and I bought just enough felt to cut out two round circles the same size as a 33’ LP and — when my mother wasn’t looking — I turned the iron all the way up high and I used my mother’s spray starch. I sprayed it until this limp piece of felt became — I called it a wafer, like what you get in church at Easter. Today it’s called a slipmat.”
Read the entire article by CLICKING HERE and I’d suggest that you share it with your students.
Still room for Thursday’s Conference
Cheryly Hulteen
Arts teaching professionals have much to share in their partnership to create personal artful pathways for students to express and explore creative voice through the arts. Using the Multiple Intelligences Theory, join us in a collaboration-defining, exploring, celebrating and understanding different practices of artful teaching. We will build a learning community that reflects the role the arts play in everything we do, teach and learn by strengthening the creative exchanges of artful process and practice.
REGISTER BY CLICKING HERE. Please email Argy Nestor at argy.nestor@maine.gov or Beth Lambert at beth.lambert@maine.gov if you have any questions.
Following the idea lab there will be 20 breakout sessions with 4 specific to education including:
John Morris
Creativity: A Group Inquiry presented by teaching artist/dancer John Morris
Session Description: What is creativity? How can it potentially impact our lives? And how do we talk about it with each other? This structured group dialogue will help artists, advocates and educators make connections between creativity research and creativity in practice, while promoting inquiry into the nature of creativity, as well as its role in art, education and community.
STEAMing up in Maine – panel with KATE COOK WHITT, Thomas College Assistant Professor teaching STEAM education, (Kate has a B.A. in Neuroscience and Music History/Theory), JONATHAN GRAFFIUS, K-6 art teacher, Poland Community School, who includes STEAM in his teaching, MALLEY WEBER, self-employed artist and specializes in teaching about local glacial-marine clay and integrates the science of ceramics with art, CHUCK CARTER, Chief Creative Officer who creates video games connecting illustration and animation.Session Description: What is all the buzz about STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) going on across the country? What are the benefits of STEAM in Maine education and beyond? This presentation, in panel format, will bring together four people who are focusing on the topic in their work and play. From PK to higher ed, from teaching artist to game creator. Your questions and ideas are welcome!
Lindsay Pinchbeck
Stories and Images of Malawi – No one can show you the sun – Dzuwa Salodzelano with presenters LINDSAY PINCHBECK, director of Sweet Tree Arts and founder of Sweetland School, a Reggio Emilia Inspired Arts Integrated elementary program in Hope, ME. ARGY NESTOR, Director of Arts Education at the Maine Arts Commission.Session Description: An 18-day journey to Malawi in July led to the most amazing teachers doing incredible work with very little resources (financial or tangible). The arts were the powerful tool that guided the daily workshops with 12 teachers and opened the hearts and minds of all involved. Join Lindsay and Argy on a visual journey and hear stories of songs and traditions gathered along the paths in Malawi.
Middle and high school students – deadline: November 1, 2016
International Contemporary Ensemble plus others
This is a YouTube from the Grantmakers in the Arts Conference in Philadelphia on October 7, 2013. Idea Lab, a format similar to Pecha Kucha includes Ben Cameron moderating and artists Claire Chase, Tim Carpenter, and Germaine Ingram. I was especially taken by Claire Chase Idea – ICE. Take a look…
October
“The arts embody who we are as a people and have long helped drive the success of our country.” ~President Barack Obama, National Arts & Humanities Month 2016
Celebrate October as National Arts and Humanities Month. President Obama has already kicked things off by issuing an official White House Proclamation that articulates the importance of the arts and culture in our history and in our future.
Here’s how you can promote the arts and culture:
Share the President’s proclamation on your social media pages with the following link: http://bit.ly/2dH42wn. If you’re inclined join the Arts Action Fund for FREE by going to http://bit.ly/2dFFIsf.
#ShowYourArt – take a picture of something that you created or just love. Don’t forget to tag @ArtsActionFund so we can retweet!
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