Arts in the Schools
Arts in the Schools
Envisioning Creativity in the Community through Media Arts
John White: writer, photographer, retired journalist; Georgette Jones: literature teacher, theatre actor/director/teacher; Marilee Strom: musician, former art teacher, business owner; Kathy Fransen: musician, theatre, Rhythm of the River coordinator; Janet Olney: visual artist, Willmar Area Arts Council coordinator; Joyce Meyer: photographer, retired art teacher, Canby Arts Council; Pam Blake: retired art educator, visual artist, Tyler Arts Council, Lincoln County Art Fair, South Dakota Arts Educators Association, Southwest Minnesota Weaver's Guild; Michele Knife Sterner: theatre actor, Southwest Minnesota State University Associate Director for Access Opportunity Success program; Tom Wirt: artist, owner of Clay Coyote Gallery, Hutchinson Center for the Arts, past member of Hutchinson Public Arts Commission; Joyce Aakre: visual arts, writing, Discover Dassel committee, Board member for Litchfield Community Education, Exhibit committee for Dassel Area Historical Society; Kelly Muldoon: graphic artist, Prairie Music Association, Prairie Oasis Players; Dan Wahl: writer, visual artist, director, adjunct English instructor at Southwest Minnesota State University; Anne O'Keefe-Jackson: human resources director, bead and quill work; Cindy Reverts: visual artist, Rock County Fine Arts Association treasurer, Council for Arts in Humanities in Rock County; Brett Lehman: Worthington International Festival, Worthington City Band, Worthington Concert Association; Reggie Gorter: vocalist, theatre, voice and dance teacher; Dana Johnson: producer/filmmaker; Claire Swanson: visual arts, arts teacher, Meander Art Crawl Committee.
Mary Kay Frisvold: music; Cheryl Jeska: Music, education; Anne O'Keefe-Jackson: Southwest Minnesota Arts Council Board, human resources director, bead and quill work; Kelly Pochardt: Visual art, education; John Sterner: Visual art, education; John White: Southwest Minnesota Arts Council Board, writer, photographer, retired journalist.
ACHF Arts Education
The goals of this residency include: 1) To encourage and enhance relationships between generations and each other. 2) For students to experience the creative process guided by a professional artist and enhance their ability to think creatively. 3) To instill the arts into the community and public life in our region. 4) To support high-quality, age-appropriate arts education for residents of all ages to develop knowledge, skills, and understanding of the arts. The hope is to provide experiences that enhance the students' ability to think more broadly about their world, to offer learning opportunities that allow students to think creatively and to explore relationships with each other and members of the community. Evaluation forms will be completed by each participant in the core groups including the community members interviewed and anecdotal comments will be sought at the community event by using a guest book format to document audience thoughts and responses. Attendance at the community event gathered also. Participant numbers will be documented through attendance for both core groups and elementary classes. Teachers in each elementary class will gather student comments and feedback through a group discussion and documented on an evaluation form.
Core group students worked with the artist and teaching staff to learn how to work as a team, develop consensus regarding the interview questions, and to think creatively during the filming and editing process. The broader community witnessed the end results of this creative process at the presentation of the completed video and the "photo quilt." Elementary students also worked as a team to choose a theme for their scavenger hunt and to choose what to photograph. Each child was able to learn how to use the camera and to take photographs.
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