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Workshop : 1 |
Using Googlesite |
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Make a simple website for your art class.
Please have some images available and you can
build a site of your own during the workshop! |
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Presenter: Ava
Scott
is an art teacher at Yates Arts in
Education Magnet School in Schenectady.
She has been a magnet school specialist,
a middle and high school art teacher, a
fifth grade classroom teacher and
adjunct faculty in art education at
Syracuse University.
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Explore a method of engaging students in
successful contour line drawing skills
beginning with the 4th grade level! Drawing
is an essential building block of any arts
program, and many of us dread it. Here's a
way to engage your students and help them to
see! |
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Presenter: Natalie
Boburka
has been an art teacher in Schenectady
for the past 19 years. She has developed
programs for different agencies. She is
a co-owner of Boburka Studios located
on Jay Street in Schenectady.
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Workshop : 3 |
Glue-line Printmaking |
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Experiment
with glue-line relief printmaking using
cardboard and basic supplies. This economical
yet creative application can be used with a
variety of age groups. It is appropriate for
portraits, still life genre, landscapes, and
seascapes. Students can use the cardboard
"plate" to make a relief collage at the end. |
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Presenter: Linda
Graf
is
an award-winning retired art teacher of
30 plus years in the Lansingburgh and
Bethlehem school districts. She is past
chairperson of NYSATA section 6 and
currently volunteers and exhibits with
several area arts organizations.
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Workshop : 4 |
Treasures from Trash: Creating Art
from Recycled Materials |
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This workshop will explore the wide array of
possibilities for creating art from found,
salvaged, scavenged, and repurposed
materials. Participants will view a selection
of artworks created from recycled materials
and will learn how to collect, experiment and
create with materials that would otherwise end
up in the landfill. The session will
culminate with a hands-on experience turning
concepts into artistic creation. |
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Presenter: Dr.
Pat Barbanell
has a long history as a writer and
teacher in arts and education. Among
her many activities has been a
life-long study of innovative use of
recycled materials in third world
cultural arts, in museum and gallery
arts, and in the art classroom. Dr.
Barbanell works as a supervisor of
student teachers for SUNY New Paltz. She
is a past president of the NYS Art
Teachers Association (NYSATA) and
currently serves as the group’s State
Advocacy Chair and E-News Editor.
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Workshop : 5 |
The Arts, the Brain and the Mind's Best
Work: Bridging the Ingenuity Gap in the
21st Century |
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Scholar Thomas Homer Dixon describes the
"ingenuity gap" - the space between problems
that arise and our ability to solve them - as
growing today at an alarming rate (in
business, industry, education, the environment
and world affairs). Author Ken Robinson
proclaims we are "Out of Our Minds" in America
to have sidelined creativity and the arts when
every layer of American society from
elementary education to supply-side economics
is starved for more imagination, more original
thinking, more creative intelligence.
Presenter John Cimino takes a look inside the
arts at the habits of mind linked to
creativity, ingenuity and imaginative
insight. He also reviews recent findings in
the field of neuroscience exploring the
brain's unique experience of the arts and the
role of the arts in shaping our most
fundamental habits of mind. Lastly, Cimino
takes us into the realm of big business,
higher education, science and global issues to
experience these habits of mind in action. |
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Presenter: John
Cimino
is founding president of Creative Leaps
International and The Learning Arts.
Educated at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, the Manhattan and Juilliard
Schools of Music, Cimino holds a
uniquely interdisciplinary perspective
and has created innovative educational
initiatives for projects of the White
House, the Center for Creative
Leadership, numerous Fortune 500
companies and universities as well as
international consortia on the arts,
education, business and sustainable
technologies. He is also an award
winning opera singer.
This workshop is co-sponsored by
The New
York State Alliance for Arts Education (NYSAAE)
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Workshop : 6 |
How to Use Improvisation in the
Classroom
(canceled) |
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Workshop : 7 |
Arabic and Indian Music for Music
Educators |
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This workshop will introduce teachers to the
musical cultures of the Middle East and
India. Though listening, performing and
lesson planning, teachers will develop a
number of ways to meet the national standards
in music while introducing students to the
music of other cultures. |
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Presenter: David
Gleason
is a pianist and music educator. He
received an M.A. in music from Tufts
University where he studied
ethnomusicology and composition. As an
ethnomusicologist he researched
Caribbean folk and popular music in
Puerto Rico and Cuba. He also studied
music education and jazz studies at the
Crane School of Music and has taught
music in the Schenectady City School
District and at the Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute.
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Workshop : 8 |
String Teacher Music Sight-Reading
Session (open to any string teacher) |
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Materials required: String instrument(s) of
your choice, sheet music (any orchestral
ensemble arrangements you would like to play
through and discuss teaching relevant
strategies) please bring multiple copies of
each part if possible to accommodate each
teacher in the workshop. All levels and
styles of string music are welcome; you may
also bring an audio recording device if you
choose. Goal: Playing through arrangements, we
will discuss teaching strategies for each
piece, musical considerations, technical
trouble spots, etc. By exposing each other to
new repertoire and performing on our primary
(or secondary) instrument we will gain
knowledge of our craft and develop personal
relationships across districts and
buildings. |
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Presenter: Mike
Lawrence
is in his sixth year of teaching string
students in grades 3-8 in the
Schenectady City School District. He
recently received a master's degree in
music education from Boston University. He currently plays both
upright and electric bass as a sideman
with a variety of musicians.
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Workshop : 9 |
Basic Repairs for Brass and
Woodwind Instruments |
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This class will be for those who wish to learn
some of the more common basic repairs on band
instruments. Feel free to bring your
instruments and ask questions. |
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Presenter: Art
Shillito
went to Red Wing Technical College to
learn to repair instruments. Red Wing
is one of the 3 colleges in the country
that has a full time Band Instrument
Repair Program. After college, I worked
for 6 years at Hansen's Music House in
Greenville, Michigan. In 2000, I moved
to New York and opened the Brass and
Woodwind Shop in Burnt Hills.
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Workshop : 10 |
Choral Music Reading Session
(canceled)
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10:30 –
11:15 Lunch
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Keynote Performance: 11:30
- 12:15 ||
Dancing Through The Curriculum
with the
American
Dance Legacy Institute
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Referencing the groundbreaking essay,
“The Artistic Method,” the innovative
book, Dancing Through The Curriculum,
and the revolutionary Repertory Etudes
Collection, members of the American
Dance Legacy Institute team will
present, through lecture and
performance, a blueprint for integrating
the arts into the curriculum both as
method and as content.
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12:30 – 2:30
Afternoon Session
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Workshop : 11 |
American Dance Legacy Institute |
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In this
high energy workshop, participants will
exercise their bodies and minds as they learn
and investigate excerpts from the American
Dance Legacy Institute’s Repertory Etudes
Collection. They will also explore
user-friendly ways to integrate dance into the
school curriculum, particularly language arts
and social studies. Participants will leave
the workshop with practical strategies for
bringing dance to their students and to their
colleagues in other disciplines as well as the
arts. |
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Presenter: Members
of American Dance Legacy Institute team
will lead the sessions. The American
Dance Legacy Institute (ADLI) was
founded in 1994 at Brown University. Led
by Carolyn Adams and Julie Adams
Strandberg, ADLI is dedicated to
enabling all individuals to participate,
as primary collaborators, in the
creation and perpetuation of America’s
dance heritage. ADLI fulfills its
mission by developing interactive
materials, including the unique
Repertory Etudes, short dances based on
signature works of American
choreographers. Repertory Etudes are
available to the public for study,
viewing, and performance on an ongoing
basis with no royalties and minimal
restrictions. ADLI also conducts a range
of access and education programs that
emphasize hands-on experiences and
provide an environment where people can
share common knowledge around ADLI’s
resources and programs.
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Workshop : 12 |
Latin Grooves for Music Educators |
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Are you looking for authentic Latin grooves
for your ensembles or music classes? This
workshop will introduce teachers to the
fundamentals of Latin music including call and
response and the clave. Teachers will explore
musical styles from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil,
and Argentina through listening and
performing. |
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Presenter: David
Gleason
is a pianist and music educator. He
received an M.A. in music from Tufts
University where he studied
ethnomusicology and composition. As an
ethnomusicologist he researched
Caribbean folk and popular music in
Puerto Rico and Cuba. He also studied
music education and jazz studies at the
Crane School of Music and has taught
music in the Schenectady City School
District and at the Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute.
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Workshop : 13 |
String Instrument
Repair |
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This course is for string teachers who would
like to learn some of the basics of string
instrument maintenance and repair. There are
many small jobs that can be done that will
help keep instruments out of the repair shop:
setting sound-posts, making new pegs, lowering
the bridge and upper nut, gluing seams and
cleaning are some of the topics we will cover.
Although this is a "hands-on" course, time
will be spent on theory and general knowledge
of repairs so that are no prerequisites other
than interest patience. Please bring one or
two full size violins or cellos, especially
those that need gluing of seams, and an old
towel to work on. |
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Presenter: Francis
Morris
graduated from the world renowned
violin-making school in Mittenwald,
Germany. After employment with the shop
of Fritz Baumgartner and Sons of Basel,
Switzerland where he did restoration
work, he worked with two of this
country’s foremost shops: Hans Weisshaar
and Son, and Robert Cauer in Los
Angeles. Mr. Morris was accepted as a
full member in the American Federation
of Violin and Bow Makers and won an
Award for Violin Tone during the Violin
Society of America’s 2002 International
Competition. He currently restores
instruments and makes violins in his
shop near Tanglewood in the Berkshires
Hills of Massachusetts.
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Workshop : 14 |
Composing in the Elementary Music Classroom |
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Composing in the elementary classroom is a
noisy endevour but it's necessary to allow our
students to demonstrate--through actual
making music--what they really know about
music. Since not everyone has a keyboard lab
to go to, composing will be discussed in the
context of a general music classroom with
typical classroom instruments
(xylophones, tambourines, etc.). Come get
ideas and lesson plans for composition
projects that will cover all the elements of
music in a fun and musically expressive way! |
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Presenter: Lisa
Longe
received her bachelors and masters
degrees in music education from SUNY
Potsdam. Her graduate studies and
thesis focused on qualitative research
of elementary-aged children’s
compositions. She has been teaching
music in Schenectady for six years.
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Workshop : 15 |
Step by Step - Choreographing a Musical |
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A look at how to make choreographing a musical
accessible, fun and successful for the
teacher. Taught by NYSTI 's Sue Caputo. Learn
the techniques and the tools in this hands- (
and feet) on workshop. |
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Presenter: Sue
Caputo
is a member of the staff of the New York
State Theatre Institute.
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Workshop : 16 |
Teaching Exhibits and
Kids as Curators |
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Teaching Exhibits involve hands on or at least
brains on for your students. More than just a
way to show off good work, the teaching
exhibit asks the viewer to think and engage.
Consider creating an exhibit that asks
students to identify objects or skills. For
example, sentences with missing punctuation
that can be fixed from a choice of pre made
cards with punctuation marks. Another example
is each child recording the solution to a
problem on the exhibit as part of teaching
data collection. Exhibits with questions and
lift panels for answers engage the viewer and
their minds. Use neutral colors (black, white,
grey or faded pastels) to show work off to its
greatest advantage. Include text to explain
the exhibit.
Kids as Curators
allows students to take collections and decide
how to display them.
The skills needed are: Measurement and
fractions (how much space and how many
things do we have); Finding the mean
(art is hung at the average viewer’s eye
level, they would find the mean);
Descriptive writing (the exhibit needs
text to explain the work to the viewer);
Higher order thinking skills (why did we
choose the work we did, why did we hang it the
way we did – is it chronological like a
timeline? Is it alphabetical by the artists’
name? Did you hang it up using some other
method of grouping the work? – students should
be able to discuss and support their
decisions); Socialization and public
speaking (before the show, the students
discuss how to put it together. After the show
is hung, the students have an opening and take
visitors through the work, acting as docents).
Consider allowing the students to take one
board in your room to do a monthly exhibit.
It can be done independently as a center with
older students. Use their work, postcards,
calendar pictures etc. |
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Presenter: Ava
Scott
is an art teacher at Yates Arts in
Education Magnet School in Schenectady.
She has been a magnet school specialist,
a middle and high school art teacher, a
fifth grade classroom teacher and
adjunct faculty in art education at
Syracuse University.
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Workshop : 17 |
Art
Lessons for Pre-K - 1st Grade |
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Stuck on ideas? You will create teacher
products and receive instructions for several
projects, including projects to help you with
assessment. This is a hands on class
exploring several media so, be prepared to
immerse yourself! |
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Presenter: Natalie
Boburka
has been an art teacher in Schenectady
for the past 19 years. She has developed
programs for different agencies. She is
a co-owner of Boburka Studios located
on Jay Street in Schenectady.
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Workshop : 18 |
Hudson River Gyotaku |
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Offered in conjunction with the Albany
Institute's special exhibition, Hudson River
Panorama: 400 Years of History, Art and
Culture, participants in this hands-on
workshop will create Gyotaku and learn how to
integrate this printing process into science
and social studies curricula. Gyotaku (gyo=fish,
taku=rubbing) was invented in the early 1800's
in Japan by fishermen to document the size and
types of fish they caught. Prints were brought
back and displayed in the homes of the
fishermen either on walls or in journals.
Using rubber casts of fish native to the
Hudson Valley participants will learn how
successfully create their own Gyotaku and
relate this art making experience to the study
of the Hudson River including tides and
estuary habitats, fish anatomy and
environmental stewardship. |
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Presenter: Erika
Sanger
is Director of Education at the Albany
Institute of History & Art. Her 22 years
of experience working in the arts
includes Curator of Education at the
Asheville Art Museum and Director of
Development at Penland School of Crafts
in NC. She has held positions of
increasing responsibility in the
education departments of the
International Center of Photography, The
Jewish Museum, The New-York Historical
Society, and The Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Erika received a BFA from Clark
University, Worcester, MA and an MA from
New York University's Department of Art
and Art Professions.
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Workshop : 19 |
Preparing and Using
Digital Portfolios with Students |
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For students, learning to organize artwork in
a dynamically effective and efficient way is
essential in their preparation of a portfolio
for art school or as a supplement to their
application for college. Using iPhoto you will
learn how students can develop their portfolio
digitally and maintain and add to it as part
of the art learning process. Learn how you and
your students will be able to access their
work immediately for print or CD and webpage
presentations. You will also discover how this
digital “cataloging” method can be used to
simplify the grading process and the selection
of artwork for district level and regional art
shows. |
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Presenter: Scott
Walroth
is currently the Director of Art for the
Niskayuna Central School District. He is
responsible for the K-12 art curriculum
and teaches two sections of Advanced
Studio Art Honors. Mr. Walroth attended
Suny Potsdam, St. Lawrence University,
received an MFA with honors in
papermaking/printmaking from Syracuse
University and holds an S.A.S from the
college of St. Rose. Mr. Walroth has
been an advocate for the use of
technology in Art since 1986 and has
developed and offered numerous workshops
combining the two. He continues to
pursue his own work as an artist in a
variety of mediums.
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