This series of workshops have been designed to help elementary school educators increase confidence and enthusiasm when integrating the expressive arts throughout their curriculum. Art can be incorporated into any area of the educational curriculum and can be a valuable tool when supporting learning differences in students. These workshops will offer techniques in using fine art media through experientials that can be applied in classrooms. Each workshop is a weekend day from 9am-4pm with an hour break for lunch. Participants are encouraged to pack a lunch, however there are many local restaurants in walking distance.
Cost: Workshops are $100 per session individually
or $700 for the entire series.
**All art materials are included in the cost.
I. Translation Through Representation
Fine art experiential: Drawing Materials
Saturday, January 28, 2012 from 9am-4pm
Metaphors are created so one can better internally visualize and compare to another concept from which one can draw his or her own conclusion. Using the expressive arts in translation creates lasting learning and rules out memorization and short-term learning. Participants in this workshop will explore the use of fine art throughout their curriculum to translate lessons into active representation. Participants will also learn the fine art properties of pencils, colored pencils, pastels, oil pastels and markers in the art experiential.
II. Assessment and the Arts
Fine art experiential: Acrylic Painting and Color Theory
Saturday, February 25th, 2012 from 9am-4pm
The expressive arts can be vital in assessing the progress of a student. The arts can broaden the view of a child's progress and provide the teacher with inner thoughts, concerns, dreams and hopes. In this workshop, participants will explore the importance of student self-assessment as well as come away with strategies and tools to collect evidence to support youth with learning differences. Sources will include Piaget and Lowenfeld. Participants will also explore acrylic painting and color theory.
III. Imagination, Creativity and Technology
Fine art experiential: Mixed media
Saturday, March 24, 2012 from 9am-4pm
Creativity is innate in all human beings. To create something suggests that something is created consciously and voluntarily. In this workshop participants will explore how culture and resources may play into the creativity of all humankind. The importance of process vs. product also will be investigated. Participants will also learn applications to mixed media work, including collage, found objects, drawing materials, paint and more.
IV. Supporting Learning Differences Using the Expressive Arts
Fine art experiential: Water soluble media
Saturday, April 14, 2012 from 9am-4pm
Unique individuals have their own learning styles. In this workshop participants will explore the goals of equitable education and experience methods to incorporate the expressive arts to support any student. Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of the wide range of learning styles. Participants will also learn the range of water soluble media, including traditional tube watercolor, palette watercolor, watercolor pencils, watercolor sticks, watercolor markers and salt technique.
V. Communication, Expression, and Experience: Literacy and the Arts
Fine art experiential: Zines
Saturday, May 5, 2012 from 9am-4pm
The arts can be viewed as language. Often individuals are able to find words for a thought in the process of creation. In this workshop participants will look at the expressive arts in relation to visual, aural, tactile and kinesthetic properties. Participants will come away with expressive art techniques to increase literacy amongst their students. Participants will also discuss working in groups and the importance of pod learning. Expressive art tecniques will include picto-spelling, poetry and zines.
VI. Math and the Arts
Fine art experiential: Perspective
Saturday, June 2, 2012 from 9am-4pm
One who unravels the mysteries of math could be seen as an inventor. In math one must understand the relationships of time, space, plane, point and line. In this workshop participants will explore how the expressive arts could be incorporated in solving problems using imagination and following the language of action and reflection. Participants will also be instructed on basic perspective drawing and applications for elementary school aged youth.
VII. Science and the Arts
Fine art experiential: Print making
Saturday, June 30, 2012 from 9am-4pm
A naturalist approaches the natural world in a very similar way that an artist does. Both question the world, use all their senses of observation, create notes and sketches, have an inquiring mind and both interpret or translate their findings. In this workshop participants will explore methods to incorporate the expressive arts in the science curriculum. Additionally, participant will learn the basics of print making.
VIII. Teacher Aesthetics
Fine art experiential: Mixed media
Saturday, July 28, 2012 from 9am-4pm
Aesthetics broadly refer to how an individual relates to their surroundings. In the art world aesthetics focus on the formal elements in art, which may include point, line, shape, space, value, color and texture. These elements define the visual experience. In this workshop participant will leave understanding the formal elements of visual art making as well as explore their own teaching aesthetics. Participants will explore methods to engage student's senses to increase their successes in the classroom.
Workshop location:
100th Monkey Studio
110 SE 16th Ave
Portland, OR 97214
bethann@the100thmonkeystudio.com
503-232-3457
