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Arts Matter! Skills for School, Work and Life
Contact 2001 Information
Pat Moloney
Phone: 208-385-9510 Fax: 208-389-9024
Email: pmoloney@rmci.net
Website: http://www.themeetingnetworkinc.com
Dates: October 12-13, 2001
Place: Boise, ID

Description

Goals of the conference are to 1) encourage participants to become partners in establishing a stronger presence for the arts in schools, as well as develop lifelong learning opportunities in communities and 2) emphasize the important connections between curriculum-based learning.

ClasSearch.Com

Contact

Phone: 888-ILEARN2
Email: help@classesusa.com
Website: http://www.classearch.com

Description

A database of enrichment classes, lectures, workshops, seminars, on-line learning, private instruction, volunteer opportunities, and educational travel.

Crossing Paths: A Performing Arts Educators Forum

Contact

2001 Information

1156 15th Street, NW, Suite 820
Washington, DC 20005-1704
Phone: 202-833-1717 Fax: 202-833-2686
Email: danceusa@danceusa.org
Website: http://www.artswire.org/danceusa/

Dates: July 26-29, 2001
Place: Indianapolis, IN

Description

Focuses on the benefits of collaboration among performing arts educators and emphasizes the importance of collaboration in four areas of concern: creative participation, collaboration, leadership, the artist. Sessions include workshops, breakout sessions, and performances.

International NETWORK of Performing and Visual Arts Schools Annual Conference

Contact

2001 Information

5505 Connecticut Avenue NW #280
Washington DC 20015
Email: execdir@artsschoolsnetwork.org
Website: http://www.artsschoolsnetwork.org/

Dates: October 31 – November 4, 2001
Place: New Orleans, LA
Title: "Currents in Arts Education: Community, Curriculum, Construction"

Description

Conference sessions include: visualizing poetry, integrating art and science, discipline for the actor, revisioning multicultural education, writing is communication, comprehensive music education curriculum design, and many others.

International Society for Education through Art (InSEA) World Congress

Contact

2002 Information

Judith Burton
Teachers College, Columbia University
525 W 120 St.
New York, NY 10027
Phone: 212-678-3361
Fax: 212-678-4048
E-Mail:PS123@COLUMBIA.EDU
Website:
http://www.arts.ohio-state.edu/ArtEducation/USSEA/intro.html

Dates: August 19-24, 2002
Place: New York, NY

Description

The main theme of the Congress is International Conversations through Art, which acknowledges the mission of InSEA: to represent art educators throughout the world. The purpose is to give voice to nations' visions of art education as a way to help explore cultural identity. Keynote panels, presentations, workshops, seminars, and exhibits constitute the program.

Kennedy Center Workshops

Contact

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2700 F Street, NW
Washington, DC 20566
Phone: 800-444-1324
Website: http://kennedy-center.org/education/profdev.html

Description

Teacher workshops and presentations that model the integration of the arts throughout the curriculum. Contact the center for a current list.

Media Arts Leadership Institute

Contact

2001 Information

346 9th Street
San Fancisco, CA 94103
Phone: 415-431-1391 Fax: 415-431-1392
namac@namac.org
Website: http://www.namac.org

Dates: November 7-11, 2001
Place: Silver Falls State Park, OR

Description

Sponsored by National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture. An intensive experiential workshop designed to encourage visionary leadership in the media arts field. Identify and practice key communication skills needed by leaders, create a personal Leadership Development Plan, broaden the network of peer support within the independent media field. Interactive exercises and dialogue sessions are combined with selected presentations and videos.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Teacher Programs

Contact

Phone: 212-570-3985
Website: http://www.metmuseum.org/events/ev_teacher.asp

Description

A variety of programs that introduce educators to works of art in the Museum's encyclopedic collection and explore interdisciplinary teaching methods. Titles from 2001 include: "Interpreting Works of Art," "Arts in Africa," and "Arts and Stories of the Medieval World."

National Art Education Association

Contact

1916 Association Drive
Reston, VA 20191-1590
Phone: 703-860-8000 Fax: 703-860-2960
Email: naea@dgs.dgsys.com
Website: http://www.naea-reston.org/programs-cosponsored.html

Description

A list of conferences, workshops, courses, etc., as activities for professional development benefits to NAEA members.

National Art Education Association Annual Conference

Contact

2002 Information

1916 Association Drive
Reston, VA 20191-1590
Phone: 703-860-8000 Fax: 703-860-2960
Email: naea@dgs.dgsys.com
Website: http://www.naea-reston.org/convention.html

Dates: March 22-26, 2002
Place: Miami Beach, FL

Description

Aims to provide substantive professional development services for the purpose of improving visual arts instruction in American schools. Includes over 750 to 850 participatory workshops, panels, seminars, research reports, discussions, exhibits, and keynote addresses by world-acclaimed educators, artists, researchers, and scholars.

PartICIPATE 2001

Contact

2001 Information

Americans for the Arts
P.O. Box 91261
Washington, DC 20090-1261
Phone: 202-371-2830
Email: mtobias@artsusa.org
Website: http://artusa.org

Dates: July 28-31, 2001
Place: New York, NY

Description

A joint convening of Americans for the Arts and the National Assembly of State Art Agencies. Attendees learn from each other in the creation of personal and collective strategies for advancing the impact of the arts on communities. Attendees will explore: what successful implementation looks like; barriers to that successful implementation; indicators of progress or problems; and immediate actions or strategies participants can use. Pre-conference events July 26-27.

SIGGRAPH Conference

Contact

2001 Information

401 North Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60611 USA
Phone: 312-321-6830
Email: registration@siggraph.org
Website: http://helios.siggraph.org

Dates: August 12-17, 2001
Place: Los Angeles, CA

Description

Educators and researchers exchange ideas on creative and innovative uses of computer graphics for learning. Workshops, paper sessions, and forums include topics such as: the promise of the web for learning, teaching computer animation for results, and graphics.

Smithsonian Summer Seminars for Teachers

Contact

Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies
900 Jefferson Drive SW
Washington, DC 20560-0402
Website: http://educate.si.edu/ut/prof_summer_fs.html

Description

Participants learn to use museum collections, resources, and methods to bring new excitement to classroom subjects in courses led by Smithsonian educators. See website for program listing.

Southeast Center for Education in the Arts Summer Institutes

Contact

2001 Information

Dewayne Stephens
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Southeast Center Education in the Arts--Dept. 6706
615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga, TN 37403
Phone: 423-755-5204
Fax: 423-755-4632
Email: dewayne-stephens@utc.edu

Dates: June 18-22, 2001
Place: University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Description

Choosing either dance, music, theatre, visual art, or arts administration as an area of concentration, participants are able to investigate the historic and cultural context in which works of arts were made, engage in critical discussions, create their own art, and discover instructional methodologies and ideas for interrelating curriculum. Schools strongly encouraged to send a team comprised of an administrator and at least two teachers for one or more arts areas.


Websites


Contacts

  • Southeast Center for Education in the Arts

615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga, TN 37403
Phone: 423-755-5204
Fax:423-755-4632

  • Alliance for Arts Education

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Education Department
Washington, DC 20566
Phone: 202-416-8800

  • The Getty Education Institute for the Arts

1200 Getty Drive, Suite 600
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1683
Phone: 310-440-7315

  • The National Art Education Association

1916 Association Drive
Reston, VA 22091
Phone: 703-860-8000

  • Americans for the Arts

927 15th Street, NW, 12th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: 202-371-2830

  • National Assembly of State Arts Agencies

1010 Vermont Ave, NW Suite 920
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: 202-347-6352

  • National Endowment for the Arts

Education and Access Division
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 702
Washington, DC 20506
Phone: 202-682-5438

  • Very Special Arts

1300 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 800-933-8721


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