Thursday, March 11, 2010
Free Admission to the Taubman Saturday
Saturday, March 13, is Family Day at the Taubman Museum of Art, between 11 and 3. There will also be entertainment and activities. Check out their website calendar for other upcoming events.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Hollins University Offering a Three-Week Drawing Course in Italy this Summer
Study drawing, learn Italian, visit the studios of Italian artists and a local art restorer, as well as visit Rome, Florence, Arezzo, Perugia and Assisi. Application deadline is March 31. http://www.hollins.edu/grad/mals/italy/italy.htm
Monday, March 1, 2010
ADVOCACY!!!
As you could have guessed, Advocacy was the main topic of the VAEA retreat this past weekend. This is our wakeup call. Advocacy will have to be part of our job for the next five years at least. It doesn't necessarily mean a whole lot more work-"work smarter, not harder"
Here are some ideas: Post a prinout of Elliot Eisner's Ten Lessons the Arts Teach or any other of the advocacy documents suggested by NAEA or that you've come up with on your own, inside your classroom and outside the door of your room. Make copies to handout to parents at art shows (we will do this at the YAM show reception), band concerts, drama or dance productions, PTA meetings, or any meetings you have with the community. Create eye-catching brochures or posters of the list and distribute throughout your community. Use guerrilla marketing tools to spread the ideas, for example, twitter one of the 10 lessons per day, one per day on FaceBook, and ask people to pass it on; create videos to post on YouTube; have your students create works of art that feature advocacy statments and give as gifts to each member of your school board. Use SpreadShirt or Cafe Press to make T-shirts with advocacy statements. Next time a friend or relative is trying to raise money by selling ad space in a printed program, put in an ad for the arts in education.
My school has an electronic "billboard" on the wall when you enter the building. It features any kind of announcement and I'm going to provide something for that. Time slots on Lamar advertising electronic billboards are available for free public service announcements. Just remember to get your idea to them long before you actually want it to show up.
Get together with your local arts council member and see if they can come up with a performance art event that will bring attention to the value of art education or arts in the community. One idea is to ask your local symphony or theater to delay a performance with one minute of complete silence, drawn curtains and low lights to show what a community without the arts would be like (after an announcement explaining what the purpose of the empty minute is.) Ask your local university's arts education students to come up with advocacy ideas.
Visit Americans for the Arts and Virginians for the Arts for more ideas. Encourage your supportive parents to please join Virginians for the Arts.
Please send us photos and stories of anything you do and we will post them. We need to have a constant flow of advocacy ideas and examples.
Here are some ideas: Post a prinout of Elliot Eisner's Ten Lessons the Arts Teach or any other of the advocacy documents suggested by NAEA or that you've come up with on your own, inside your classroom and outside the door of your room. Make copies to handout to parents at art shows (we will do this at the YAM show reception), band concerts, drama or dance productions, PTA meetings, or any meetings you have with the community. Create eye-catching brochures or posters of the list and distribute throughout your community. Use guerrilla marketing tools to spread the ideas, for example, twitter one of the 10 lessons per day, one per day on FaceBook, and ask people to pass it on; create videos to post on YouTube; have your students create works of art that feature advocacy statments and give as gifts to each member of your school board. Use SpreadShirt or Cafe Press to make T-shirts with advocacy statements. Next time a friend or relative is trying to raise money by selling ad space in a printed program, put in an ad for the arts in education.
My school has an electronic "billboard" on the wall when you enter the building. It features any kind of announcement and I'm going to provide something for that. Time slots on Lamar advertising electronic billboards are available for free public service announcements. Just remember to get your idea to them long before you actually want it to show up.
Get together with your local arts council member and see if they can come up with a performance art event that will bring attention to the value of art education or arts in the community. One idea is to ask your local symphony or theater to delay a performance with one minute of complete silence, drawn curtains and low lights to show what a community without the arts would be like (after an announcement explaining what the purpose of the empty minute is.) Ask your local university's arts education students to come up with advocacy ideas.
Visit Americans for the Arts and Virginians for the Arts for more ideas. Encourage your supportive parents to please join Virginians for the Arts.
Please send us photos and stories of anything you do and we will post them. We need to have a constant flow of advocacy ideas and examples.
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