VISUAL ART WORKSHOPS & RESIDENCIES
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Unpacking & Applying Visual Art Standards |
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| K-12 visual art educators, teaching artists |
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Take apart the language of state and national standards in the visual arts and apply them to the development and revision of visual art programs for individual schools. |
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| single or consecutive workshops – 3 hour minimum | $100 per hour * |
| Writing with Pictures, Painting with Words: Visual Art and Writing |
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| K-12 educators, administrators, teaching artists |
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Artists and writers work to communicate their thoughts, feelings, and experiences to others through the media they have selected. The processes each engage in are similar and each discipline influences the practice of the other. In this series of workshops, you will explore how expression in words and images can be developed through shared instructional experiences. |
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| single or consecutive workshops – 3 hour minimum | $100 per hour * |
| Visual Art in an Integrated Curriculum |
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| K-12 art educators and administrators |
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What is the place of art when a school is interested in arts integration? What is the balance of isolated instruction in the art form and collaboration with other disciplines? You will explore these questions in light of SCEA’s concept-based arts integration model. Curriculum in the art form will be examined to find where and when integrated instruction is a good fit, and when it isn’t. |
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| single or consecutive workshops – 3 hour minimum | $100 per hour * |
| Art with Young Children |
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| Early childhood (birth to age 8) educators and caregivers |
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Explore developmentally appropriate instruction in the visual arts for young children. Topics include facilitating conversations about images with children, appropriate materials, construction of a learning space, providing opportunities to make art, and the exhibition of child art. |
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| single or consecutive workshops – 3 hour minimum | $100 per hour * |
| Curriculum & Instruction: Assessing Student Learning in the Visual Arts |
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| K-12 art educators and administrators |
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Explore strategies for effectively assessing student learning in the visual arts. Attention is given to portfolios and process folios, performance task assessments, and exhibit as an instructional process. |
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| single or consecutive workshops – 3 hour minimum | $100 per hour * |
| Comics: Visual Storytelling |
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| K-12 educators, administrators, and teaching artists |
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Explore the medium of comics and its power for building narrative. Instruction may include the creation of characters and character model sheets, the conventions of the medium, the composition of effective frames and page layouts, and/or different means of creating images and text by hand and with available technology. |
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| single or consecutive workshops – 3 hour minimum | $100 per hour * |
* plus materials, mileage/airfare, per diem, lodging as applicable |
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| Cameras and Composition |
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| grades 3-12, higher ed, adult groups |
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Students explore the basic use of digital cameras to compose images. They learn about the ways that artists create emphasis in an image and develop a series of photographs that demonstrate this principle. The young artists select one image to develop further into a large drawing, using color to extend and enhance their application of emphasis in the image. Each student receives printed copies of their photographs and their completed artwork (medium to be determined with the teacher or organization). |
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| length and frequency based on the needs of students and programs | $100 per hour |
| Memory from my Youth: Getting Ideas Started |
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| grades 3-5 |
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One of the scariest things in the world for an artist or a writer is a blank piece of paper. In this work, students are guided to explore personal experiences as rich sources of material. The instructor guides them to interact with works by Marc Chagall, and facilitates a pre-writing/pre-painting process. The medium for the artwork and the criteria for student writing are based on grade level and worked out with the classroom teacher in advance. The resulting work can make a fantastic student exhibit. |
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| length and frequency based on the needs of students and programs | $100 per hour + materials * |
| Picture Books: Making Words and Pictures Talk Together |
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| grades 3-8 |
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Students develop 32-page picture books from their own writing. Classes are guided through the construction of handmade books and learn about how the physical properties of books impact the work of writers and illustrators. They are encouraged to become hard working lazy people. They are introduced to a process for developing illustrated texts from breaking text apart to fit the available spreads, developing thumbnails, and composing drawings to extend and enhance the reader’s experience. |
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| length and frequency based on the needs of students and programs | $100 per hour + materials * |
| Action Figures |
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| grade 4 – adult |
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Students capture the human figure in action, beginning with gesture drawings, students explore ways to make the figure move and act. Their drawings are developed into three-dimensional figures in wire and paper mache. |
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| length and frequency based on the needs of students and programs | $100 per hour + materials * |
| Revealing and Concealing: Masks that Communicate Character |
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| grade 5 – adult |
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Students explore the representation and exaggeration of the human face in masks from cultures around the world. They develop a mask of their own to communicate an essential quality of a chosen character from literature, myth, or life. Masks may be created to be worn, but may also be developed as objects purely for display. |
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| length and frequency of based on the needs of students and programs | $100 per hour + materials * |
* plus materials, mileage/airfare, per diem, lodging as applicable |
Joel Baxley |
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