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October 29 –
November 01, 2009 Writing for Children
Carol Hughes
Los Angeles, California
Writing for Children
http://www.carolhughes.us.com
Carol Hughes grew up in England and has a B.A. in fine art painting with honors, which at the time she graduated, was as much use as a chocolate teapot as far as getting a "proper" job was concerned. After a series of dead end jobs, (the clichéd, but nonetheless necessary, prerequisite for being an author,) she moved to San Francisco, where she began writing in earnest. Her books, which include "Toots and the Upside Down House," "Jack Black and the Ship of Thieves," and most recently "The Princess and the Unicorn," have been published in many languages. She is currently working on her new book, a modern fairy story set in London and Paris.
October 29 –
November 01, 2009 Art in the Special Needs Classroom
Isolete De Almeida
Edmond, Oklahoma
Art in the Special Needs Classroom
Dr. Isolete De Almeida is an assistant professor of art and art education coordinator at the University of Central Oklahoma. She has a fine arts degree with emphasis in drawing and painting from a prestigious art school in Caracas, Venezuela. She also holds a BFA in studio art, an MS in industrial arts education, and a doctorate in curriculum and instruction with emphasis in art education from Oklahoma State University. She also holds a K-12 teaching certificate from the state of Oklahoma that allows her to each art and Spanish. She has taught a variety of courses in the last twenty years, including ceramics, art history, art education methods, art for the elementary teacher, classroom management, multicultural education, and foundations of American education at the university level. She also taught elementary and secondary art and Spanish in Oklahoma public schools.
Glen Henry
Yukon, Oklahoma
Art in the Special Needs Calssroom
Glen Henry currently serves as the director of arts in education for the Oklahoma State Department of Education. Henry received his BA in Art from the State University of New York at Oswego, and a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture at Arizona State University. He has spent the past twenty-six years contributing to the development of high quality arts education programs throughout Oklahoma. Henry was recognized for his support of the arts, receiving the Governors Arts Award for community service to the arts in 1989 and a second award for arts education in 1997. Henry currently lives in Yukon, Oklahoma.
Edna McMillan
Cache, Oklahoma
Art in the Special Needs Classroom
Edna McMillan received a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Masters of Fine Arts in painting from Louisiana Tech University and Louisiana Tech Rome, Italy. She has teaching experience in both the university and public schools. Over the past twenty years, McMillan has enjoyed teaching classes in painting, design, drawing, color, crafts, art appreciation, public school art, and art for elementary teachers at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma. McMillan became chair of the art department in 2000 and developed the proposal to add the graphic design concentration to the B.F.A. program. She has been an educational arts consultant for Oklahoma public schools. She has been active in visual arts curriculum development and has presented numerous professional development teacher workshops throughout the state. She has also written multiple grants to fund visiting artists and workshops in the Lawton community and has directed the Creative Expressions summer art youth program for the past ten years.
October 29 –
November 01, 2009 Arts Integration - Orff Schulwerk
Rick Layton & Jacque Schrader
Annapolis, Maryland
Arts Integration - Orff Schulwerk: Music, Movement and Language
Dr. Rick Layton is head of fine and performing arts at the Key School in Annapolis, Maryland, where he teaches eighth grade Orff Schulwerk as well as upper school music theory, chorus and chamber choir. A veteran at the school for nearly thirty years, Layton also teaches undergraduate music majors at the University of Maryland. Jacque Schrader teaches students in first through seventh grades at the Key School in Annapolis, where she has coordinated the Orff Schulwerk program for students aged three through ten for the past fifteen years. Schrader served on the AOSA Board of Trustees from 1995-2000. Layton and Schrader have taught adults in Orff Schulwerk teacher training programs around the U.S. for over twenty years. Together, they teach at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and George Mason University in Virginia. In addition to their work in the U.S., both are internationally in-demand and have taught Orff Schulwerk teacher training courses in Taiwan, China, Australia, Poland, Austria, Slovakia and Canada.
October 29 –
November 01, 2009 Mixed Media & Meaning
Kathleen Loe
New Orleans, Louisiana
Mixed Media & Meaning
http://www.kathleenloe.com
Kathleen Loe is a multi-media artist and independent writer currently teaching at Tulane University in New Orleans. She has been a visiting critic at Brown University, Rhode Island School of Design and Louisiana State University. She is the ongoing curatorial consultant for the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado where she was director of painting and critical studies from 1999-2008. Loe writes critical essays for artists' exhibitions and monographs and has taught at the Pont Aven School for Contemporary Art in France, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois Wesleyan University, and Bloomfield College. Her work has been nationally exhibited at galleries in New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Aspen, and New Orleans, as well as the Jersey City Museum, the Aspen Museum, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Laguna Gloria Museum in Austin, Texas. She is represented by Gallery Bienvenu in New Orleans.
November 05 –
08, 2009 Poetry
Lisa Starr
Block Island, Rhode Island
Poetry
Lisa Starr is a two-time recipient of the Rhode Island fellowship for poetry, and a former college instructor, paralegal, freelance writer and publicist. She was recently named Poet Laureate for the state of Rhode Island. In her capacity as Poet Laureate, Starr is generating a statewide poetry pen-pal system which creates and then partners writing circles among student and elderly communities around the state. Her goal as Poet Laureate, in fact, is to develop "an outreach program with workshops in every school, library and senior center in the state." Jennifer Lightly, the writer who nominated Starr, says that Starr "floats with energy. When you are with her, it feels like you are standing on a volcano." Starr has published three full-length collections of poetry: "Mad With Yellow," (2009), "Days of Dogs and Driftwood"(1993), and "This Place Here" (2001). Her poetry has appeared in journals and publications around the country. Starr is the founder and director of the Block Island Poetry Project, a nationally acclaimed writing series.
November 05 –
08, 2009 Arts Integration - Museums & Your Curriculum
Susan Baley
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
Norman, Oklahoma
Arts Integration - Museums & Your Curriculum
http://www.ou.edu/fjjma/home.html
Susan Baley has been involved in museum education and teaching since 1988. She received a BFA in art history from Wichita State University and an MA in art history from the University of Oklahoma with a concentration on contemporary art and a minor in museum studies. As the curator of education at the University of Oklahoma's Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Baley has been integrating object based art experiences with classroom curriculum for over 15 years. She has also taught art history and art appreciation at the high school and college level. Baley is a board member of the Oklahoma Museums Association and secretary of the Mountain-Plains Museums Association's board. She feels passionately about museums as informal learning environments that are distinct from, yet complementary to, the classroom.
Lanette Coppage
Gilcrease Museum
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Arts Integration - Museums & Your Curriculum
http://www.gilcrease.org
Lanette Coppage is a native Tulsan who completed her B.A. in studio arts with an emphasis in photography from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1993. In 1999, she received her M.S. in curriculum and instruction with a specialization in arts and museum education from Oklahoma State University. Coppage served as the education center supervisor for the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma for six years. She is a member of the National Art Education Association, Oklahoma Museums Association, and Oklahoma Museum Educators Association and has served as a board member for several state and local arts and community organizations. She has served as the director of education at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa since February 2005. Coppage is passionate about museum education and introducing children and adults to ideas, cultures, artists, and materials through original works of art.
Sarah Jesse
Philbrook Museum of Art
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Arts Integration - Museums & Your Curriculum
http://www.philbrook.org
Sarah Jesse has been the Bernson Director of Education and Public Programs at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma since April 2008. Prior, she was the assistant director of public programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, where she created arts programming and interpretive materials for adults, families, and children. She received her Masters in Art History from the University of Illinois at Chicago and her Bachelors from Oberlin College in Ohio. In addition, she is currently a program evaluator for the American Association of Museums.
Donna Merkt
Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art
Shawnee, Oklahoma
Arts Integration - Museums & Your Curriculum
http://www.mgmoa.org/
As curator of education at the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art in Shawnee, Oklahoma, Donna Merkts primary mission is to develop and execute programs and media employing the museum's collections to enable a diverse audience to learn about art, with art, and through art. Merkt received a BFA from Cameron University and an MA in art history from the University of Oklahoma. Prior to coming to the Mabee-Gerrer, Merkt served as outreach coordinator at the Old Jail Art Center (Albany, Texas) and as collections intern at the Museum of the Great Plains (Lawton, Oklahoma). She has experience teaching at to students ages three to eighty-three.
Patrick Riley
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Arts Integration - Museums & Your Curriculum
http://okragraphics.com
Patrick Riley is a member of the Oklahoma Arts Council's Artist in Residency Program and serves as a faculty member of the Oklahoma A+ Schools Network. He is currently teaching arts integration and visual art at Wiley Post Elementary School in the Putnam City public schools. During his arts career in Oklahoma, he served as an arts administrator for the Oklahoma City public schools, where he helped bring arts integration curriculum and national arts integration staff development training to Oklahoma teachers. He has presented many arts integration workshops to teachers throughout the United States. He served as chairman of the visual art program of Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, Oklahoma from 1990 - 2004 and taught visual art in many schools in the Oklahoma City public schools from 1964 to 1990. Teaching the arts to Oklahoma children is the focus of his career. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Oklahoma in arts education.
Cindy Williams
Philbrook Museum of Art
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Arts Integration - Museums & Your Curriculum
http://www.philbrook.org
Cindy Williams received a degree in art education from Oklahoma State University and a master of fine arts from University of Tulsa. For twenty years, she taught art in first through twelfth grades and has also worked at TU and Tulsa Community College as an adjunct instructor. Since 2007, Williams has worked as a museum educator in charge of children and family programs at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Amy Young
Oklahoma City Museum of Art
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Arts Integration - Museums & Your Curriculum
http://www.okcmoa.com
Amy Young has been in education in one form or another for eleven years. She is currently the associate curator of education at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, where she has served in that position since January of 2007. Over the 2008-2009 school year, she served as a member of the board for the Oklahoma Alliance for Arts Education, an affiliate of the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network. Previous to working as a museum educator, Young taught music at Lakeview Elementary School in Norman, Oklahoma for eight years and then taught music and art history at Norman High School and Norman North High School during the 2006-2007 school year. She holds bachelor's degrees in music education and art history. She is currently working towards her master's degree in art history, with all degrees being earned at the University of Oklahoma.
November 05 –
08, 2009 Polyester Plate Printmaking
Michael Barnes
DeKalb, Illinois
Polyester Plate Printmaking and Other Low-Tech Alternative Approaches
Michael Barnes is currently an associate professor of art and head of the printmaking program at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, where he has taught since 1998. His work has been exhibited in over 100 competitive group exhibitions, including exhibitions in Wales, Poland, Taiwan, Estonia, Japan, Romania, Finland, and the Republic of Macedonia. Barnes' recent solo exhibitions include Street Level Gallery Highwood, Illinois; the OIA - Gallery 402, New York City; Anchor Graphics in Chicago; Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, Northern Kentucky University, and St. Cloud State University, Minnesota. His work is part of many collections, including the Museum of Fine Art, Boston; The Royal Museum of Art, Antwerp, Belgium; the City of Vaasa, Finland; The Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota; and many university and private collections. Barnes' work is represented by galleries in Iowa, Arizona, Seattle, Minneapolis, and Pagosa Springs, Colorado. He received his BFA from Alma College, Michigan in 1991 and his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1996, both with a focus on printmaking.
Marwin Begaye
Norman, Oklahoma
Printmaking Assistant
Marwin Begaye has been a professional artist since 1990. He is an internationally exhibited printmaker and painter and a nationally recognized graphic designer. He enjoys incorporating satire and realism into images from his childhood and imagination by using a variety of media that communicate his message on many levels. He has had extended exhibitions at SITE Santa Fe, the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City, the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, and Rotorua in New Zealand, among others. In all of his image-making, Begaye strives to maintain accountability to family and community. Begaye will also serve as printmaking assistant for the OFAI workshop taught by Juan Fuentes.
November 05 –
08, 2009 People of Character: Capturing the Soul of Your Subject
Paul Mobley
New York, New York
People of Character: Capturing the Soul of Your Subject (Digital Photography)
http://www.paulmobleystudio.com
Paul Mobley's intimate portraits are an exquisite conveyance of the human spirit. His relentless passion for the work is evident in every wrinkle, every gaze, every smile and squint that grace the faces he's photographed. From the fishing villages of Alaska to the palaces of Croatia, Mobley has traveled the world to capture and celebrate humanity. Mobley has worked with a broad range of corporate, advertising, and editorial clients, including American Express, Sony, Citigroup, Ford, Compaq, Gourmet, Max Factor, Chevrolet, and Microsoft. His book American Farmer: Portraits from the Heartland celebrates the affirming spirit of rural life through the faces and words of the people who sustain and nurture the land. The book won the 2009 Western Heritage award for "best photography book" from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. Mobley studied at Detroit's Center for Creative Studies, and he has apprenticed with photographers Annie Leibovitz, Steve Steigman, and David Langley.
November 05 –
08, 2009 Narrative Painting
Susan Contreras
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Narrative Painting
Artist Susan Contreras focuses her narrative paintings on masked characters in tableaus of her mind's making. It is the fascination of what occurs when a mask is donned and the magic begins that initiates and propels Contreras' process in painting. Transformation, magic, and humor are the themes and explorations in her work. Travels to Mexico, her birthplace, and photographing small tented circuses in the late seventies instigated this interest. Contreras received her education in California, with a BPA from Brooks Institute of Photography and a BFA from the College of Creative Studies, UCSB, and an MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is an alumna of Maine's Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her greatest academic influence came during a workshop with Nathan Oliveira at the Santa Fe Institute of Fine Art. Her paintings are part of many public collections and museums. Susan lives in Santa Fe with her husband and fellow artist Elias Rivera and her extensive collection of masks. She is represented by Parks Gallery in Taos, New Mexico.
November 12 –
15, 2009 Writing Oklahoma: Writing Place
Rilla Askew
Kauneonga Lake, New York
Writing Oklahoma: Writing Place
http://www.rillaaskew.com
Rilla Askew is a fifth generation Oklahoman. She is the recipient of an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her short fiction has been selected for Prize Stories: The O.Henry Awards, and her novels have received the American Book Award, the Western Heritage Award, the Oklahoma Book Award, the Violet Crown Award and the WILLA Award from Women Writing the West. Her novel about the Tulsa Race Riot, "Fire in Beulah," was the Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma selection for 2007. She is married to actor Paul Austin and they divide their time between Oklahoma and the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York.
November 12 –
15, 2009 Arts Integration - Folk & Cultural Dance
Kevin Warner
Rochester, New York
Arts Integration - Folk & Cultural Dance in the Classroom
Kevin S. Warner is a visiting associate professor and director of the Interdisciplinary Arts for Children program at The State University of New York, College at Brockport, where he teaches undergraduate courses in arts integration and dance education to pre-service teachers. He earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in dance from Temple University, and has done post-graduate work in early childhood, elementary and music education. He consults and presents nationally in areas including arts integration and the arts as whole-school reform. Formerly, Warner was the program director of North Carolina's A+ Schools Program, where he led the development and implementation of A+'s nationally recognized teacher professional development model, Teaching Artist Training model, and multiple other projects and initiatives. He is certified in elementary education (K-6) and dance (PreK-12) and has taught both third grade and dance in public schools in North Carolina and New York.
November 12 –
15, 2009 Creating Light: Relief Printmaking
Juan Fuentes
San Francisco, California
Creating Light: Relief Printmaking
http://www.juanrfuentes.com
As a cultural activist/artist and printmaker, Juan Fuentes has dedicated his art to supporting and being part of a global movement for social change. His works have addressed many issues as they relate to social justice and liberation struggles. Fuentes' posters are now part of the historic Chicano Poster Movement. He was the director of Mission Grafica at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, for ten years. He is a member of Consejo Grafico, a Latino collective of Talleres throughout the U.S. Fuentes' studio is called Pajaro Editions and is located in San Francisco. He currently teaches relief printmaking as visiting faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute.
November 12 –
15, 2009 Basic Digital Photography
Konrad Eek
Norman, Oklahoma
Basic Digital Photography Assistant
Konrad Eek owns and operates Maxwell Eek Design Photography, a commercial photography studio specializing in product and advertising photography. He serves a diverse client base, ranging from Carlisle Food Service Products to the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. In addition to his commercial photographic work, Eek is very involved in arts education. He has served as an adjunct professor of photography for Oklahoma City Community College for over a decade. He teaches classes in photo lighting, advanced darkroom techniques, and alternative photographic processes. He also serves on the curriculum development committee for the college. For the last 20 years, Eek has served the Oklahoma Arts Institute in a variety of roles. He has both taught and assisted at workshops and served on the Institute's board of directors. Eek currently sits on the executive board and serves as the chair of the advisory panels for the Institute.
Ben Long
San Francisco, California
Basic Digital Photography
http://www.completedigitalphotography.com/
Ben Long is a San Francisco-based photographer and writer. The author of over a dozen books on digital photography and digital video, he has been a longtime contributor or contributing editor to many magazines including MacWeek, MacUser, Macworld UK, and others. He currently writes for Macworld magazine, and is a senior editor at CreativePro.com. His photography clients include 20th Century Fox, Blue Note Records, Global Business Network, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, the Pickle Family Circus, and Grammy-nominated jazz musicians Don Byron and Dafnis Prieto. He has taught and lectured on photography around the world, and currently leads a "photo university" inside Apple, Inc., where he teaches photography to Apple's imaging engineers. In 1985, he was a student at the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, where he studied acting with Ed Sherin. In addition to teaching the OFAI Basic Digital Photography workshop, Long will serve as photography assistant for the OFAI workshops taught by Amy Stein and Paul Mobley.
November 12 –
15, 2009 Portrait Painting
Juliette Aristides
Seattle, Washington
Portrait Painting
Juliette Aristides is an extraordinary artist with a deep and well-rounded education in and a solid commitment to the atelier movement. She studied at the National Academy of Design in New York, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia, and was a founding member of Water Street Atelier in New York. She is now the instructor of the Aristides Classical Atelier at the Gage Academy of Art in Seattle. In 2003, she was awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant. Aristides has had numerous solo and group exhibitions across the country, garnering a national base of collectors. Her work can be seen at the John Pence Gallery in San Francisco and the Art Renewal Center Living Masters Gallery, www.ArtRenewal.org. Her books, Classical Drawing Atelier and Classical Painting Atelier, were published in 2006 and in 2008 through New York publishers Watson-Guptill. Aristides was a columnist for The Artist's Magazine and her work has been featured in many publications including Southwest Arts magazine and Gulf Connoisseur.
Katherine Liontas-Warren
Lawton, Oklahoma
Portrait Painting Assistant
Katherine Liontas-Warren is professor of art at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma, where she teaches drawing and printmaking. For the past 26 years, she has exhibited in 18 solo shows and over 200 national and regional juried competitive exhibitions throughout the United States, and has received numerous purchase and juried awards. In February of 2008, Liontas-Warren was inducted into Cameron University's Faculty Hall of Fame for outstanding teaching and professional activities. Her works are frequently included in print exchanges and invitationals, including Color Print USA, Cultural Landscape Print Exchange (between North America and Northern Ireland artists), and "Kathryn, a Printmaker," organized by Melanie Yazzie. Her recent exhibitions include JRB Art gallery and Midwestern State University. Two of her drawings are published in the second edition of Drawing from Observation by Brian Curtis.
November 12 –
15, 2009 Seeing in Color
Amy Stein
New York, New York
Seeing in Color (Digital Photography)
http://www.amysteinphoto.com
Amy Stein is a photographer and teacher based in New York City. Her work explores our evolving isolation from community, culture and the environment. She has been widely exhibited nationally and internationally, and her work is featured in many private and public collections, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Scottsdale Museum of Art. In 2007, she was named one of the top fifteen emerging photographers in the world by American Photo magazine and she won the Critical Mass Book Award. Stein's first book, Domesticated, was released in fall 2008. It won the best book award at the 2008 New York Photo Festival. Stein holds an MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She teaches photography at Parsons The New School for Design and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Stein is represented by Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco and Pool Gallery in Berlin.
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