Experience the connection to the universality of the creative process in nature’s systems and humanity’s participation through the global expression of the arts and living. Workshops as well as choice/s of Art Studios may be integrated into your personal contact hours and experience.
Nantucket Island School of Design and the Arts is affiliated and grants credit through the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston. Professional Development Points are awarded through approval of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
30 hours, schedule varied by personal selection.
Course may be scheduled for July only if 2 Studio Classes are taken.
Study for 1.5 graduate or undergraduate credits, 30 Professional Development Points or the enjoyment alone.
The thrust of this multidisciplinary experience is to explore natural phenomena, including ourselves, our own memories, cultural rituals, myths, and beliefs as well as the inspiration for creativity to be found in nature’s order, energy, design, structure, pattern, environmental sounds, movement and space. Memory workshop will bring to consciousness lifelong symbols and experiences within a larger framework. Surface and symbols in arts and societies, fine art; environmental arts as well as in world cultures will be explored. We will maximize art making potential garnering new perceptions gleaned from nature and our inner/outer landscapes. Ideas and the creative process will be explored through nature drawing and design, to gain inspiration and interdisciplinary approaches to studio and site works. Artist mentor dialogue, critiques and lectures will further discovery. You will interweave your chosen studio classes and art workshops with experiences at distinctive landscape sites. Works will be realized in Art Studios as well as at landscape sites. Final site installation and studio critiques.
Excellent for teachers designing interdisciplinary arts, science, math and sustainability projects.
INSTRUCTOR: Kathy Kelm, Former Faculty, Rhode Island School of Design, Assistant Professor, Kellogg Foundation National Leadership Fellow VI
with NISDA Studio Faculty + Lecturers
Study for 1.5 graduate or undergraduate credits, 30 Professional Development Points or for the enjoyment alone!
Experience Teaching as a Creative Act…
In this energetic intensive you will design educational experiences that celebrate multicultural understanding in relation to world cultures and environments while engaging the interdisciplinary subjects, math, science, biology, history, language and special subjects, art, music, physical education pre-existing in your classroom school community. Create “parachute” projects or daily classroom educational experiences that are multicultural and interdisciplinary, life-giving and exciting, nurturing and fun, that carry the “DNA” of understanding and universal values and community. We will look at cultural and natural environments and patterns, decorative surfaces, arts, crafts, symbols, and belief systems in our own communities and around the world. You will gather fiber and design techniques, common to many cultures, to bring back through hands-on textile and design art workshops from resist techniques – Africa to Japan – to direct painting and/or other studio classes of your selection... clay, nature study towards the integration of the arts, crafts and design to enhance learning. Our seminar consists of “hands-on” exercises, class presentations, and shared dialogue on evolving curriculum and “parachute” Project Designs. Return to your teaching re-energized with new ideas... projects, plans and interdisciplinary curriculum for your classroom and community.
Course Preparation Package
Please gather your ideas, clippings, favorite resources and bring school information i.e. your frame work guidelines, Arts, Special Subjects, resources, ESL/student demographics, community artists, professional resources, museums, music, science, dance, history, cultural organizations.
INSTRUCTOR: Kathy Kelm, Former Faculty, Rhode Island School of Design, Assistant Professor, Kellogg Foundation National Leadership Fellow VI
with Katherine Oddleitson Robinson,
Stanford University MAE, Oberlin BA Art History + Studio Art, University of Michigan EDUC Instructor
Studio Classes, Workshops, College Courses Application + Tuition list 2012
General Information and Requirements for College Credit
