The Creative Classroom: Collaborative Learning for 21st Century Preparedness |
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David Crowe, composer, and Susan Miville, arts education consultant, will demonstrate and lead participants in the creative process demonstrating its application within a unit of study that involves interdisciplinary learning in music, visual arts, social studies, and language arts. We will begin by showing a video of a multi-media performance piece that will serve as a model for the end result of the creative process in which "community-based" research was employed in its creation. "Mill Village: A Piedmont Rhapsody," commissioned by the Charlotte Symphony, is a work for 12 musicians which combines Crowe’s music with archival film and photography, oral history and poetry to tell the stories of textile workers in the Southeast. We will provide an overview of a unit of study implemented in the eighth grade at Charlotte’s Piedmont Middle School, working in partnership with the school’s instrumental music, choral, dance, drama, visual arts, social studies and language arts teachers. Deconstructing the unit will demonstrate the processes involved in planning, curriculum writing, assessment design, and actual delivery of the program and all of its elements. In small groups, participants will then create short performance pieces, and describe the process they used and how they made their creative decisions. |
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Composer, conductor, teaching artist, and percussionist David Crowe has created an impressive and varied body of work, from short pieces for young musicians to full-scale symphonic works. He specializes in collaborative projects with other musicians and artists in other disciplines. Recent works include, "Psalm 138" for chorus, commissioned to commemorate an exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls, "Dreams of Wisdom," a chamber work inspired by paintings of Russian artist Nicholas Roerich, “The Moses of Her People,” for orchestra and narrator, which incorporates the words of Harriet Tubman and “Totems,” an orchestral dance work. Since 1992 David has been resident composer for the Foundation for Art and Music in Elementary Education in Indiana and he has created several works for educational and arts organizations throughout the country, including performances by the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Charlotte Civic Orchestra, Greensboro Symphony, Syracuse Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Northwest Indiana Symphony, American Dance Therapy Association and others. As a teaching artist he has developed arts integrated lessons for all levels and disciplines and done artist residencies throughout the country. In 2010 David Crowe was awarded an Artist Fellowship by the North Carolina Arts Council. He currently resides in Charlotte, NC where he also teaches tai chi and qigong. |
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Susan Miville is a writer and an educator. She worked as the Director of Education, Outreach and Community Partnership at the Charlotte Symphony from 1996 to 2009. Under her leadership, the Symphony’s education and community engagement programs grew considerably, garnering national acclaim for their innovation in approach and content. Susan has designed, developed and implemented a series of curriculum-based residency programs for grades K-12 that involve integrating music with other disciplines and subject areas. These programs explore connections between music, visual arts, dance, language arts, math and social studies. Susan continues to work in the field of arts education and community engagement, partnering with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and other community and cultural organizations. As a freelance writer, Susan has written for magazines and newspapers about theatre, opera, dance and literature. Susan continues to write poetry, fiction and non-fiction.
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