Workshop Descriptions Please Note: The workshops listed in this issue of the NYSATA News are as of the printing of this publication and are not complete. They are also subject to cancellation or iART change. For more information and current listings, please check our website www.NYSATA.org. Presenters are listed at the end of each workshop description. Using Recycled Cardboard To Build for students to put their best foot forward Painted Silk Sculptures Dreams when preparing for success. Assembled The production and commerce of Learn how to make books, puppets, and presented properly, the art portfolio decorated silk fabrics began thousands castles, and sculptures from corrugated not only demonstrates evidence of of years ago in China. Over the centuries, cardboard. Not only are these budget learning and growth in the arts, it its popularity spread around the globe savers, but they are no-fail, open-ended provides a holistic portrait of student and a variety of cultures created their projects in which students can express preparation that underscores the own distinct processes of weaving and their creativity while learning about professionalism, critical thinking dying this luxurious fabric. Synthetic architecture, rainforest animals, or even abilities, and presentation skills that fibers as substitutions for silk were the abstract relief art of Frank Stella. spell success in both college and career. developed out of necessity during World Lori Amer and Audrey Reich This workshop will cover art direction War II. In this session, you will form a and critical choices in developing a wire shape as a support, stretch a silk- Local Artistic Heritage: The Shakers, versatile portfolio for both fine arts and like fabric over it, and paint the sculpture A Unique Perspective graphic design. The presenters speak with transparent liquid acrylic color. After a week-long immersion through from experience of the effectiveness of Finished pieces are flexible and may be the National Endowment for the portfolio development over standardized heat-set for outdoor display. Humanities, the Shaker Experience in assessments, in support of the NYSATA Brandy Noody and Connie Lavelle America revealed a multitude of Portfolio Project. Best practices will be opportunities to explore early American shared, such as choosing and organizing Block Print Koinobori religious journeys, feminism, social the work for highest impact; and In Japan, Children’s Day is heralded by reform, and artistic development. I will preparing students to speak and write the appearance of flying fish carp- share a concise account of my about content, as well as lessons for the shaped windsocks known as koinobori. participation in this culturally rich classroom. Carla Senecal, Lee Shelton, In this workshop presented by Blick Art program and offer lesson ideas generated and William Deforest Materials, participants block print scales from the unique perspective of an art onto fish-shaped pieces of Smart Fab, educator. Finding Funding With Donors Choose then add details using acrylic paints. Amanda Buhler Need art supplies? Have a dream Final assembly is a breeze! Safe for project? Learn how to write winning outdoor display. Julie Swanson-Davis United’s 2013 Project Guide proposals from a 54-time grant awardee, Come check out 16 new and creative to receive free materials for your art “i” Is For Interdependence--Small ideas from United Art & Education that classroom. Maximize the donorschoose. Works With Big Connections you can take back to your classroom. org website and learn how to attract Explore Interdependence as a big idea We will be making Stained Glass Rose donors to fund your art projects. ripe for formulating big questions with Windows, a Jackson Pollack Cloud Clay Jessica Sinclair multiple solutions. See how students in action painting, and more! grades 5-12 have used the hexagon Mike Gugel, United Art and Education Teaching Drawing To Middle Schoolers format to metaphorically communicate Eradicate the phrase “I can’t draw” from personal ideas about their relationship Stepping Out In Style: Student Portfolios your art classroom. Invigorate your to family, community, culture, and the That Will Knock Their Socks Off students with oodles of project ideas in world. Students work collaboratively or First impressions count a lot! So how this 6th-7th-8th grade spiraling alone in any media. This international much is a student judged by the curriculum, using a broad range of exhibition opportunity provides your presentation of their portfolio? Safe to drawing tools and a variety of genres. students with the chance to more deeply say, their future success depends upon Build confidence and skills in students understand the ways in which the arts it. Wherever they hope to go, it’s critical of all abilities. Natalie Todd can be a vehicle for connecting and 11 NYSATA NEWS, Conference Information Brochure, Fall 2013 Workshop Descriptions constructing meaning. Don’t miss this student products and more ideas to electronics-driven world, it’s more opportunity for your students’ small inspire literacy in art will be shared. important than ever to provide students works to become a part of something Stacey Van Waldick and Christine Walsh with rich, tactile experiences in the art really BIG! class, no matter the parameters of the Cindy Henry The New Art Student: How Digital workspace. Learn practical tips for Technology And Assessment-Driven managing the mess with paints, papier- What’s Cooking? A Recipe For Graphic Education Is Changing Today’s Art maché, and more, and leave with some Design Success Students great lesson ideas that use messy It’s not about computers. It’s about Most K-12 and college level art students materials! creativity. It’s about mixing the elements today are digital natives with near- Phyllis Brown and principles of the visual language constant access to technologies that into delicious socially relevant messages. have tremendous potentiality for making Put Some STEAM In Your School! Presenters from the Design Program at art. Yet developmental and aesthetic 21st century relies on the importance of Bryant & Stratton College will consequences come with exposure to Art & Design in STEM Technologies. demonstrate how art skills & projects screen culture and assessment-driven Why should education be any different? are transferable to the graphic design school environments. Research findings If this is not in your district, learn what experience, and lead hands-on will be discussed with suggestions for STEAM is, how to collaborate with other workshops using exciting “recipes” to best practices. subject teachers, and make a proposal incorporate graphic design in the art Judith Mohns to your Superintendent. A list of classroom, in support of NYS standard important resources is also covered. #2: “Students will be aware of vocational Boinx iStop Motion iPad Animation Kathleen Hallam-Bushek options available in the visual Participants will be shown a arts.”Adaptable to K-12; ideas include demonstration of how the application Technology In The Elementary Art brainstorming, sketching, writing for works, then work in small groups to Room design, layouts using an underlying create a brief script and film a stop How do you integrate computers, iPads, grid, cropping images for effect, styling motion movie. Next take the raw or Smartboards into your curriculum? with type, and possibilities for footage and edit it with iMovie to add Technology is another media with its collaborating across curricula or beyond title and credit slides, and set it to own set of tools, just like paint or the classroom. music. Experience for yourself how this ceramics, that helps kids express their Lelia Shelton, William Deforest, and easy program works. This can be a great ideas, creativity, and knowledge. Learn Carla Senecal addition to almost any unit and can be about my experiences with electronic utilized with an entire class using just media and how to include its use in the Academic Language In The Art one iPad! Come see my Art & Elementary Art room. Bring your iPad Classroom interdisciplinary uses, then help me with you to experience some terrific Attending to academic language in brainstorm a list of new ideas we can all Apps! Need some ideas on how to get teaching means supporting students’ share. Finished movies will be burned to an iPad for you classroom? Fundraising acquisition of language skills to a disk for you for $1, or bring your own ideas shared as well. Reach those 21st understand what you want them to flashdrive. (Files are too large for email.) Century learners with a tool that they learn, and read, talk, and write about Jennifer Armbruster can’t help but love! their art learning in increasingly Jennifer Matott sophisticated ways. This presentation Creative Ways To Teach Students With provides information on building Multiple Disabilities Powerful Art Educators, Inspired academic language skills in the P-12 art Learn our approaches to working with Collaborations classroom. Beth Thomas students with multiple disabilities. Learn They say, “You never stop learning,” but how to adapt materials, choose the best what happens when the art educator The Moral Of The Story: Shifting To An supplies, and modify assessment to needs inspiration? Find out how Art/Literacy Classroom create the best experience for the teachers, artists, and professionals Art educators will learn about a rich art/ students and the teacher. Many lesson integrate art in creative ways. Acquire literacy project that evolved after ideas will be presented as well as a new knowledge about professional professional development on APPR and hands-on opportunity to try adapting learning communities within the arts the six ELA Shifts. Using sketchbooks, materials. that strengthen teachers, curricula, and students responded to writings/artwork Mary Beth Aldous and Maya Trawinski student learning. Be inspired to create of a contemporary author/illustrator in a your own art to make a new connection. variety of literary ways.