Pushing Our Thinking: Advancing Our Practice

A professional development seminar sponsored by Project U.N.I.Q.U.E. with the Association of Teaching Artists, George Eastman House, and Young Audiences of Western New York

WHEN: June 4 and 18 at 10 a.m.

WHERE: Board Room of the Burchfield Penney Art center

FOR: Teaching Artists and Museum Educators

ENROLLMENT IS FREE

ABOUT: A sequence of two facilitated dialogues to explore the question: Can we as teaching artists and museum educators push our thinking in ways that advance our practice?
 
Together we will explore cutting edge principles and practices in the evolving field of arts-in-education as they impact our work as teaching artists. In this process we will:

  • articulate what is essential for students to know, understand, and be able to do in our art forms
  • analyze how the elements and processes of our art forms relate to other areas of instruction
  • learn how to implement methodologies such as Action Research and Understanding by Design
  • examine the role of assessment in the teaching/learning process

 

PRESENTER BIOS:

Karin Wieder, executive director of Project U.N.I.Q.U.E., has helped to develop the field of arts -in-education for 34 years.  She has directed the Rochester CSD’s Artists-in-Residence Program, served as Theatre-in-Education Manager at GeVa, and initiated one of the first ESP projects of NYSCA.  In addition to chairing the Arts-in-Education Panel at NYSCA, she has been a member of NYSCA’s Appeals Panel.

Ward Hartenstein comes to arts-in-education as a composer, performer, and instrument inventor.  He is a lead teaching artist and assistant director with Project U.N.I.Q.U.E., where he has been involved in ESP programming for 11 years.  Currently Mr. Hartenstein serves as a panelist for NYSCA’s Arts-in-Education Program.

FUNDING: Funding for this seminar has been made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. There will be no direct cost for the participants.

HOW TO APPLY: Applicants are asked to download a registration form by clicking here. Please return the completed application by e-mailing it to sunnylee [at] yawny [dot] org or by sending it to Young Audiences of WNY, Inc., 16 Linwood Ave. Buffalo, NY 14209, ATTN: Sunnylee Mowery. Applications are due by May 31st.