Summer Program 2008 now online!
NISDA's affiliation with the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, offers a unique opportunity to design an individual program from NISDA's spectrum of courses.



CORE COURES FOR COLLEGE CREDIT, PDPs
OR THE ENJOYMENT ALONE!



CREATIVITY AND DESIGN:
PERCEPTIONS OF LANDSCAPE
aka Art-In-Environment + Studios
NISDA / Mass Art Sc303
July and August Session, Tues. 1:00 – 4:00 pm,
Creativity Think Tank 4:30 – 6:00
Wed. Evening Lecture 8 pm with Arts Studio/s of your choice

You may enroll for the experience or choose to earn 2 college credits thru NISDA’s affiliation with Massachusetts College of Art, Boston or earn Educators Professional Development Points, 40 PDP’s July Session I, 80 PDP’s August Session II.

The thrust of this multidisciplinary course is to thoroughly 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 sound, movement and space. Memory pattern workshop will bring to consciousness our individual lifelong symbols and experiences within a larger framework. The history of the surface and symbols in contemporary arts and society, fine art, theatre and environmental arts as well as pattern and “decorative” surfaces in world cultures will be explored and studied revealing powerful ritual, myth and tradition.

Course objective is to maximize artmaking potential combining new perceptions gleaned from nature and the landscape with inventive new ways to see and work. Ideas and the creative process will be explored through experiences in nature drawing, design, sculpture and movement, to gain inspiration for conceptual design and interdisciplinary approaches to site works and to be applied in clay, textiles, fiberarts, photography, sculpture, painting and drawing studios. Artist mentor dialogue critique and lectures will further enrich discovery, with final projects and review in studio and in landscape. Course will interweave class and workshops at NISDA Barn with experiences at distinctive landscape site destinations. Works will be realized in areas of specialization in Art Studios as well as site specific installations/works. Kathy Kelm with guest artist Tony Thompson and other artists.




CREATIVITY THINK TANK AND CRITIQUES
Session I July
Session II August, Tuesdays 4:30 – 6:00 pm

A time for artists, thinkers and creators to consider compelling ideas, exercises, images, realities, networks as well as participate in critiques of site works concept drawings, and actual installations, Textiles, Clay, Photography, Paintings and Jewelry will be critiques in Studio. We will explore Art as change agent, perceptive path, educator, communicator, personal, cultural and community Celebrator. Explore art for art’s sake and largely latent arts stewardship’s powerful potential.




CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS:
INTERDISCIPLINARY CURRICULUM
MULTICULTURAL AND CULTURAL INTERDISCIPLINARY WITH ART STUDIOS
NISDA / Mass Art 306x

Embracing Global Cultures and Mandated Curriculum
Program Daily: 25 PDP’s in Summer or
40 PDP’s with additional Arts Studios

August 3 - 10
First Meeting: Monday, 7:00-9:00 pm
Last Meeting: Friday, ends at 6:00 pm

In this energetic intensive you will design educational experience that celebrates multicultural understanding in relation to world cultures and environments. Create parachute projects or daily classroom educational experience that are multi-cultural and interdisciplinary, life-giving and exciting, nurturing and fun, that carry the “DNA” of values and community service. We will look at cultural and natural environments, decorative surfaces, arts, crafts, patterns, 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 studios in stamping, stenciling, direct paint for later integration of garment making, crafts and folklore projects. Leave with ideas for project plans and curriculum for your classroom and community. Refresh yourself… explore creative education. Return to teaching or your community with “parachute project” or curriculum ready to go.

Gather and bring school information i.e. Arts, Special Subject, resources, ESL, student demographics, community artists, professional resources, museums, etc. Your one-week intensive consists of presentations, design workshops, ongoing group dialogue, individual mentoring, Creativity Think Tank and Critique as well as Textile Hands-on arts studio/s to inform development of actual curriculum with projects to take back to classroom or community.

Kathy Kelm, Artist / Educator, Kellogg National Leadership Fellow VI, Former RISD Faculty, Assistant Professor, NISDA Founder / Director, with Betsy Sibley Fiberartist and NISDA faculty

For Artists & Educators: Classroom
Special Education, E.S.L. Teachers K-12, Administrators, Parents, Community and Nonprofit Organization Teams.

Application Form Adult Courses 2008


Requirements for obtaining College Credit & PDPs


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