Arts Learning
Arts Learning
Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts' One Heart/Many Voices! brings eight teaching artists, eight coteaching artists with disabilities, and the Mississippi Creative Arts School together to create poetry, original music, puppets, and theater through three weeks of learning, and two performance celebrations.
Ardell Brede: Mayor of Rochester, elected 2002.; Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Member of the Smithsonian National Board. Former chair of the board, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Uri Camarena: Business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Board chair, Minneapolis College of Art and Design.; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Officer-at-large, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Rebecca Davis-Lee: Touring pianist, piano and music theory teacher. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Sean Dowse, Mayor of Red Wing, elected 2016. Former executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Citizens for the Arts. Secretary/Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Thomas Moss: Consultant to nonprofits and government agencies.; Janice Sivertson: Gallery owner and visual artist; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund; Christina Widdess: Arts organization consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.
Annelise Eckelaert: Freelance artist, children's theater; Laura Helle: Executive director, Austin Area Commission for the Arts; Amanda Kaler: Development director, Minnesota Center for Book Arts; Jonell Pacyga: Adjunct professor of ESL, and ESL and world languages education coordinator, Univeristy of Northwestern; Kelly Pratt: Business and life coach for people in creative industries; Gregory Siems: Director, Vision 2020 in Austin; Ping Wang: Professor of English and creative writing; founder and director of Kinship of Rivers
ACHF Arts Education
Students acquire skills, collaborate, experience diversity working with mentors with disabilities, and create a cohesive new work. Teaching artists and classroom teachers meet weekly and at project-end to assess student satisfaction, grasp of new skills, and progress on generating ideas and material for final performance. 2: Students, teaching artists, and classroom teachers create a play and perform it for the entire school, their families, and their community. Interact, classroom teachers, school leadership, parents evaluate impact of the play - did students learn and enjoy the experience? Did families and community find value? What perceptions changed?
Students acquired skills, collaborated, experienced diversity working with mentors with disabilities, and created a cohesive new work. Teaching artists and classroom teachers met weekly and at project-end to assess student satisfaction, grasp of new skills, and progress on generating ideas and material for final performance. 2: Students, Teaching Artists, and Classroom Teachers created a play and performed it for entire school, their families, and their community. Interact, classroom teachers, school leadership, parents evaluated impact of the play - did students learn and enjoy the experience? Did families and community find value? What perceptions changed?
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