Eleven Beaufort County artists complete Kennedy Center seminar
Submitted by: Lisa Annelouise Rentz on May 27, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Tagged with: creative economy, professional development
Source: Arts Council of Beaufort County
Eleven artists complete Kennedy Center seminar in the Arts Council of Beaufort County's Teaching Artist Institute
The Teaching Artist Institute (TAI) is an innovative program organized by the Arts Council of Beaufort County (ACBC) as a part of its role in the Kennedy Center Partners in Education with the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina (ACCC) and the Beaufort County School District (BCSD). The TAI identifies and trains artists to be effective Residency Artists in the schools.
About the artists and the seminar:
Eleven Lowcountry artists, who completed three earlier workshops in the Teaching Artist Institute, were invited to attend the two-day Seminar 'Artists as Educators: Planning Effective Residencies for Students' at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina as part of their preparation to share their artforms in the classrooms.
The eleven artists who participated are: LaShanta Ase, Theater/Spoken Word; Kim Bogan, Visual Arts/Painting; Tracye Faulkner-Stormer, Literary Arts/Fiction; Hank Herring, Visual Arts/Collage & Assemblage; Jane P. Hill, Literary Arts/Fiction; Kami Kinard, Literary Arts/Fiction & Poetry; Louise Miller Cohen, Theater/Storytelling; Diane Mullis-Waddell, Music/Performance & Composition; Jim Schulz, Visual Arts/Clay; Lavon Stevens, Music/Performance; Steve Weeks, Visual Arts/Painting.
The seminar was developed by the Partners in Education program of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC.
About the Kennedy Center artist who presented the seminar:
Sean Layne is the founder of Focus 5 Inc, a national arts education consulting company. He holds a B.F.A. degree in acting and studied acting in London, England. Sean leads residencies for students K-8, presents workshops for teachers, and has designed training seminars for teaching artists nationwide for The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He is also an Arts Coach for the Kennedy Center’s Changing Education Through the Arts program.
For over a decade Sean acted, directed and designed sets for the Interact Story Theatre, a professional theatre company that has served more than 4,000 schools, museums, libraries, and festivals around the world.
He began working with the Wolf Trap Institute Early Learning Through the Arts program in 1989. As a Master Artist, he represented Wolf Trap across the country and internationally, and designed and piloted new residency and workshop models for the Institute.
What the Residency Artists will do next:
The Teaching Artist Institute and The Residency Planning Seminar both prepare Lowcountry artists to help students learn math, science, language arts, social studies, and more, through the arts. As Residency Artists, they will convey the skills and techniques of their artform, and their own creative process for learning and creating as well. Residency Artists will work with classroom teachers to ensure that SC academic curriculum standards and arts standards are meaningfully matched and implemented— Eco-systems through creative writing; history and culture through weaving; fractions through contemporary poetry; action verbs through creative movement; SC history through historic SC dances.
The eleven artists have also applied to the South Carolina Arts Commission's roster of approved artists, and their final session of the Teaching Artist Institute is to work with ACBC staff on residency plans. As part of the Kennedy Center partnership with BCSD, the new Residency Artists will work in three Beaufort County Schools which received a US Department of Education Arts Education Model Development & Dissemination Grant in August 2007.
By completing this first session of the Teaching Artist Institute, the Arts Council of Beaufort County has successfully engineered an innovative program that could influence professional development in the Teaching Artist industry nationwide— watch for colorful and creative examples coming from Beaufort County Schools soon.
For more information, contact JW Rone, executive director of the Arts Council of Beaufort County, at 843-379-2787.
Lisa Annelouise Rentz
Editor, ArtNews magazine, a publication of
The Arts Council of Beaufort County
a not-for-profit service organization
www.beaufortcountyarts.com • (843) 379-ARTS
Lisa Annelouise Rentz
Editor, ArtNews magazine, a publication of
The Arts Council of Beaufort County
a not-for-profit service organization
www.beaufortcountyarts.com • (843) 379-ARTS