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Excellence in Teaching Workshop
May 20 - 24, 2008
A special opportunity for artists interested in understanding teaching and learning
and how to become more effective teachers themselves.
As an artist, you have traveled a complex path, specific to your experience in the world and its expression in your work. Teaching your art to someone else invites you to recover the path you have taken as you work to understand how your students approach your craft. Each morning of this workshop, you will work with a master teaching artist. In the afternoons the group will gather to analyze the morning’s shared experience of teaching and learning with an emphasis on how each participant can apply this experience to their own teaching.
The topics we expect to address in our discussions include the following: understanding the novice; dealing with with self-consciousness; the discipline of art and the freedom of self-expression; balancing technique and content; finding entry ways into the work; generative criticism; fostering and aesthetic community.
The workshop begins with orientation on Tuesday evening and concludes with lunch on Saturday.
Cost: $175 (includes materials, housing, and meals)
Limited to 20 participants who will be selected by lottery. Application deadline, April 18.
Application form (PDF). Print and mail or fax to Penland.
If you have questions, contact Natalie Tornatore at communityeducation@penland.org or 828-765-8060.
Workshop Schedule
Tuesday, May 20
Evening: dinner, welcome and introductions, paste painting workshop with Paulus and Meg
Wednesday, May 21
Morning: journal-making workshop with Paulus and Meg
Afternoon: discuss learning experience
Evening: open
Thursday, May 22
Morning: figurative sculpture workshop with Cristina
Afternoon: discuss learning experience
Evening: panel discussion with teaching artists from the community
Friday, May 23
Morning: pinhole photography workshop with Jeff
Afternoon: discuss learning experience
Evening: social event
Saturday, May 24
Morning: discussion of applying methods, etc.
Workshop ends after Saturday lunch.
Facilitator
Madeleine Grumet is a UNC professor who works to encourage the integration of the arts in education.
Teaching Artists
| Paulus Berensohn describes himself as an amateur visual artist, a professional fairy godfather, and a passionate deep ecologist. He is also a beloved workshop teacher, an honorary fellow of the American Craft Council, and the author of Finding One's Way with Clay. |  |
| Cristina Córdova is a studio artist, Penland instructor, and former Penland resident artist. She has received a an American Craft Council Emerging Artist grant and a North Carolina Arts Council fellowship; her work is represented by Ann Nathan Gallery (Chicago) and Pamil Fine Art (Puerto Rico). |  |
| Jeff Goodman is a photographer, videographer, and a teacher of media studies, media production, and science methods in the education department of Appalachian State University. |  |
| Meg Peterson is a Penland instructor and a former Penland resident artist. As Penland's teaching artist in the schools, she has led projects linking art and craft with standard curriculum areas for thousands of children and hundreds of school teachers. |  |
This project received support from friends of Penland and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.