Pre-MICA Arts Ed

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

Artful Teaching!

Still room for Thursday’s Conference

Teaching Artful Practice/ Practice Artful Teaching

Franco American Heritage Center: October 6, 11:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

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.

• $40 registration includes lunch, 4 contact hours provided (no cost for full time students).
• Primary Presenter: Cheryl Hulteen

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.

Guests are encouraged to attend the opening reception and keynote for the Maine International Conference on the Arts at the Franco Center beginning at 4:30. Featuring keynote speaker is Crystal Williams, a poet, essayist, advocate, Associate Professor of English, and Vice President for the Office of Diversity at Bates College; speaking on “Practical Approaches to Creating Impact: Getting to Cultural Equity.

MICA starts the next morning, Friday, October 7 at the Bates Mill with an Idea Lab which includes 5 presentations (similar to pecha kucha).  The Arts Commission is proud to present five diverse Maine artists:

• Marsha Donahue, Visual Arts, Millinocket. The owner and founder of North Light Gallery, Marsha has degrees in the fine arts from American University and the Maine College of Art and cites as inspirations Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent.
• Nancy Frohlich, Arts Education, Rockport. The founding director of Leaps of Imagination, Nancy has worked in small schools as a Head of School, Director of Studies, and teacher. Her early training was with Sybil Marshall, who believed that a classroom is like a symphony: one subject should flow into and connect with the others, like instruments in an orchestra.
• Salim Salim, Literature, Bowdoin College. Salim speaks five languages and was born and raised in the city of Mosul, Iraq. His family was one of many forced to escape. Salim and his family came to the U.S. in 2010, where he attended Portland’s Deering High School. Salim credits organizations like Seeds of Peace, The Telling Room, and TEDxDirigo for helping him maximize his potential as an immigrant living in America.
• Sarah Sockbeson, Traditional Arts, Lewiston. Sarah creates handcrafted authentic Penobscot ash basketry made from the finest quality brown ash and sweetgrass and woven with traditional Maine Wabanaki techniques. She is a third generation participant in the Maine Arts Commission Traditional Arts Apprenticeship program, having apprenticed with Jennifer Neptune in 2004.
• Daniel Sonenberg, Performing Arts, South Portland. Daniel is a composer and performer best known for his opera, The Summer King, about Negro League baseball legend Josh Gibson. The opera was premiered in concert format in a joint presentation by Portland Ovations and the University of Southern Maine in 2014, with the support of a National Endowments for the Arts grant.  It will receive its staged world premiere by Pittsburgh Opera in 2017.

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.

• Take a peek at the full schedule by CLICKING HERE.

Arts Ed Conference

Hulteen comes to Maine

Cheryl Hulteen presents:

“Teaching Artful Practice/Practice Artful Teaching”

Thursday, 6 October 2016, 11:30am – 4:00pm

Franco American Heritage Center

46 Cedar St, Lewiston, ME

4 contact hours provided

$40 includes lunch (no cost for full time students)

Registration located at http://mica.bpt.me/

DESCRIPTION of CHERYL’S SESSION

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-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.

FOR REGISTRATION CLICK HERE

PRESENTER

Author of “YES YES GOOD, The HeART of Teaching”, Master Teaching Artist Cheryl Hulteen has spent over 20 years providing consulting services for school districts, teachers, administrators, parents and students to foster greater learning and insight through building Creative Classroom Cultures. “YES YES GOOD” works with stakeholders across the educational landscape to build exciting, innovative and positive environments for teaching, learning, and arts integrated curriculum development through motivational workshops, professional development and one-on-one coaching. In addition to founding YES YES GOOD, Cheryl also serves as teaching faculty for Connecticut Higher Order Thinking Schools, an initiative of the Connecticut Office of the Arts, managed in partnership with Wesleyan University’s Green Street Arts Center.  “However we may speak, it is through the voices of our children we will most clearly be heard.”

MICA

Following the Arts Ed conference is the Maine International Conference on the Arts. Thursday night and all day Friday. ARTS EDUCATION TRACK for FRIDAY MICA plus other great sessions being offered at the Lewiston Bates Mill.

FOR REGISTRATION CLICK HERE

Pre-MICA

In the words of Martin Swinger

Martin Swinger

I was encouraged by my agent, Jean Butler, to attend a workshop with Cheryl Hulteen in Hartford, CT a couple years ago. I agreed to make the drive down from Maine only because I trusted Jean. I’ve been thanking her ever since.

Cheryl Hulteen’s her-story Yes, Yes, Good! shares the real-life experience of an arts educator in an inner-city classroom, spinning ‘To Sir, With Love’ into a whole new category about the effectiveness and JOY of real arts integration in an educational setting.

Cheryly Hulteen

She is an inspired teacher who does not fail to plant brilliant ideas and amazing possibilities into the minds of anyone in her presence. Experiencing her workshop is a life-changing event I cannot recommend highly enough to anyone working with children in any educational capacity – especially in the arts!

$40 for lunch and an afternoon with Cheryl Hulteen? TRUST ME on this one – it’ll be the BEST $40 investment in your self in a long time!  I’ll see you there!

Thank you Teaching Artist Martin Swinger for sending me this piece on why others should attend the conference on Thursday, October 6 in Lewiston, 11:30am – 4:00pm, Franco American Heritage Center, Lewiston. 4 contact hours included. For registration please CLICK HERE.

Arts Education Conference

Pre-MICA

TEACHING ARTFUL PRACTICE/PRACTICE ARTFUL TEACHING

Pre-MICA (Maine International Conference on the Arts) – 6 October 2016

MICA – 6 and 7 October

THURSDAY DESCRIPTION – This ones just for you PK-12 arts educators, teaching artists, others interested in arts education!

The Maine Arts Leadership Initiative celebrates teaching and learning through “Teaching Artful Practice/Practice Artful Teaching” featuring Cheryl Hulteen, author of YES YES GOOD: The heART of teaching. 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. Come and celebrate the heART of teaching.

DETAILS

Thursday, 6 October 2016, 11:30am – 4:00pm

Franco American Heritage Center

46 Cedar St, Lewiston, ME

4 contact hours provided

$40 includes lunch (no cost for full time students)

Registration located at http://mica.bpt.me/ (Scroll down on the page)

PRESENTER

Author of “YES YES GOOD, The HeART of Teaching”, Master Teaching Artist Cheryl Hulteen has spent over 20 years providing consulting services for school districts, teachers, administrators, parents and students to foster greater learning and insight through building Creative Classroom Cultures. “YES YES GOOD” works with stakeholders across the educational landscape to build exciting, innovative and positive environments for teaching, learning, and arts integrated curriculum development through motivational workshops, professional development and one-on-one coaching. In addition to founding YES YES GOOD, Cheryl also serves as teaching faculty for Connecticut Higher Order Thinking Schools, an initiative of the Connecticut Office of the Arts, managed in partnership with Wesleyan University’s Green Street Arts Center.  “However we may speak, it is through the voices of our children we will most clearly be heard.”

MICA – Thursday night and all day Friday

ARTS EDUCATION TRACK for FRIDAY MICA plus other great sessions being offered Lewiston Bates Mill

Registration located at http://mica.bpt.me/

Stories and Images of Malawi No one can show you the sun – Dzuwa Salodzelano with Lindsay Pinchbeck and Argy Nestor

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.

STEAMing up in Maine with Kate Cook Whitt, Jonathan Graffius, Malley Weber, and Chuck Carter

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!

Creativity: A Group Inquiry with John Morris

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.

Creative Aging

Details being constructed.

If you have any questions please contact me at argy.nestor@maine.gov.