Today's post is especially for readers from NY state, and is written by Donnalyn Shuster, a frequent contributer to this blog. Thanks, Donnalyn!
NYSATA’s 68th annual conference is just days away!
With over 100 workshops being offered, it is a good idea to develop your game plan of interests before arriving on site. Advocacy and community interaction with the arts is a popular workshop topic this year and for your benefit – here is a collection of my favorite picks of advocacy oriented and advocacy related events for you:
Put The Power of Art
to Work for You With Youth Art Month
Become a powerful advocate for your
program by participating in Youth Art Month events. Learn how YAM can build
visibility for your art classes, plus see other successful programs around the
state. Become a part of the award winning
YAM team in New York! Donnalyn Shuster, Heather McCutcheon, Julia
Lang-Shapiro (4 – 4:40 Friday – Town Hall Amphitheater) AND…stop by our booth
to meet your State Chairs and learn more about our new theme UNITY THROUGH
ART!!
Art and Advocacy:
Service Learning In Action
How can you engage students in meaningful
service learning projects? Learn how graduate art education students from SUNY
Oswego collaborated with ARISE, a local nonprofit that advocates for people
with disabilities, to create a painted and (portable!) mural. Gigina Long,
Jacquelyn Kibbey, Kelly Allen, Kathryn Alonso-Bergevin
Become an Art Ed
Advocate
This workshop will show you how to become an art education
advocate. My NAEA Webinar www.artedguru.com/ home/naea-webinar-recap. Eric
Gibbons, Dongkui Lin
And some more workshops with a strong focus on community
interaction, classroom collaboration, that lend themselves to great advocacy
projects.
Full Steam To The
Olympics... of The Visual Arts – NYSATA
Style
The Olympics of the Visual Arts NYSATA Program will be
celebrating its 35th anniversary year this fall. Be a part of the excitement!
Learn about the many ways to involve your teachers and students in this
creative problem solving design-thinking program. Category examples will be
shared, and networking across the state is encouraged. Anne Manzella, Roger
Hyndman
“Reimagining The Four
Freedoms”: Explore The Meaning of Freedom In The 21st Century
This is a perfect
example of tradition meeting innovation. Celebrate the 75th anniversary of
FDR’s “Four Freedoms” speech, by examining a regional effort connecting a
Studio Art lesson to the Norman Rockwell Museum and iconic works by the
commercial illustrator. Anne Manzella, Sheila Elario
Connecting to
Community: Art Education and Community Engagement
The Carnegie
Foundation recognizes SUNY Buffalo State as a Community Engagement Campus. This
session highlights how art education pre-service teachers, graduate students,
alumni, and faculty are actively engaged in longterm and meaningful
community-based projects. Teacher candidates and teachers foster a sense of
agency that is passed along to PK-12 students. Candace Masters, Alice Pennisi
Creating Community
Based, Arts Focused Partnerships with Urban Schools: Redhouse Arts Center and
Syracuse City School District.
At Redhouse Arts
Center, we believe art has the power to build community and change lives. Come
and learn about our collaborative partnership with the Syracuse City School
District. In our model, teaching artists from Redhouse push into five SCSD
elementary schools daily. Teaching artists provide instruction in curriculum
that uses the arts to teach math, science, social studies, and English. We
currently engage over 2,200 SCSD students from diverse backgrounds in theater,
music, and the visual arts. Our model provides exemplars on program
development, facilitating and sustaining community partnerships, and working
with diverse populations of students and families. Participants at our session
can expect to hear first-hand accounts from SCSD teachers and teaching fellows
about what participation is like for them. We will also share helpful
information including lessons learned along the way. Additionally, participants
will receive curricular resources (aligned with NYS CCLS and NYS Arts
Standards) and ideas/ suggestions for program replication. Hannah Samara
The Power of Art
The Lab School of
Washington and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation collaborated to provide a
highly successful approach to teaching students with learning differences
through an arts-based curriculum that is transferable to all classrooms of
diverse learners. Learn how this organization empowers arts educators and
school leaders to be persuasive voices in the national conversation about the
critical relevance of the arts in the education for all children in all
subjects. Dr. Susan Lane
Creative Cure for The
Common Core – Go Urban
Take your observational drawing lessons to the next level.
Get your students out into the community with Urban Sketching. Drawing,
painting, architecture, perspective, math, ELA, history, science, and even
community service are infused into this unit that starts with observational
drawing in your own community. In the tradition of the French plein air
artists, take the learning experiences outdoors. Jody Wilmarth, Donnalyn
Shuster
For information about specific workshop times and locations, you can download the convention app onto your phone or tablet by clicking on this link, or peruse your convention booklet when you arrive at the conference.
See you all next Friday at The Desmond!
Donnalyn Shuster – Region 3
NYSATA YAM Co Chairperson
