Arts Learning
Arts Learning
MacRostie Art Center will partner with Independent School District 318 to deliver an artist residency program to fourth graders in Grand Rapids. Students will connect with the active visual arts community in northern Minnesota and present a public exhibition of their work.
Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Chair of the Nominating Committee, Smithsonian National Board. Trustee, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Uri Camarena: Business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Board chair, Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Officer at-large, Minnesota State Arts Board; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Secretary/Treasurer, 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. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Philip McKenzie, Oboe and English horn player; adjunct oboe faculty, NDSU; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: Executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; coordinator, First Stage Gallery; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund.; Christina Widdess: Arts organization consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.
Maria Argueta: English language learner teacher, Crookston Public Schools; Michael Carlson: Art teacher, art club advisor, and track and field coach at Foley High School; Anastasia Faunce: Program director, University of Minnesota College of Continuing Education and Professional Studies; editor, Open to Interpretation series.; Joelle Fernandez: Competitive dancer and teacher; Arts Board grantee; Molly Gamble: Artist; former arts event planner at Maryland Institute College of Art; David Glenn: Ceramic artist. Former Arts Board member, past executive director of the Minnesota Project; Lauren Hildebrand: Arts and education consultant; cofounder of Trollwood Performing Arts School
ACHF Arts Education
ISD #318 fourth grade students and teachers will develop skills in creating, presenting, and responding to works in new visual arts mediums. Evaluated by pre/post self-assessments of teachers, teacher assessments of students, verbal feedback recorded by teaching artists, and the variety of student works included in the public exhibition. 2: ISD 318 fourth grade students will feel more connected to the broader arts community in northern Minnesota. Pre/post oral surveys of students will assess student knowledge of the local arts community before the project and upon completion. Assessment during field trips will provide further qualitative data.
ISD #318 K-4 students and teachers developed skills in creating, presenting, and responding to works in new visual art mediums. Teachers assessed student learning and reported to teaching artists their own learning. The exhibits of the two major projects displayed a variety of skills including weaving, drawing, and sculpture. 2: ISD #318 K-4 students felt more connected to the broader arts community in northern Minnesota. Through classroom and field trip conversations teaching artists assessed students' knowledge of the local arts community and their understanding of their own work in that context.
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