Art as a Tool for Community Building audio

Greetings friends,
I was a panelist at this conference representing our DMUUC Green Sanctuary Committee. I was the “and many more”. We were asked to speak about art as a tool for community building around greening our church community. Here is an audio of my presentation.

Collaboration

Within each residency, students achieve success as individual artists as well as in collaboration with fellow students.

Charles Drew ES Character Banners 2009

2009 Character Banner Project, Charles Drew ES in Silver Spring MD

Baltimore Ceramic Mask Making Residency

This is definately an exciting opportunity. I am working with an awesome art teacher and students to create "self portrait" masks. I have 4 days with the students, day 1 we worked with clay to cast faces, day two we shared a cool presentation on mask history and current uses from all over the world. We then created unique surface designs for our masks. Here are some pics from the first two of four workshops.

Day of the Dead Workshop Registration Deadline November 4!

Pathways Ancestor Mask Project

Kudos to the Montgomery County Skilled Craftspeople!

A great crew of four craftspeople from Montgomery County's Department of Education installed the banners at Rosemary Hill. What a great experience to have their support on the project. Thank you!

Rosemary Hill Banner Project Dedication

Miranda Bradley, Art Specialist, RHES

Art that's good for the heart

http://www.gazette.net/stories/03252009/silvnew184240_32481.shtml

Greetings Art Ed Spot fans! I want to share with you this article about my most recent MSAC AIE project. It was an awesome experience working with the Rosemary Hills school community. Kudos to the PTA and their amazing corps of volunteers. Thanks to all 2nd grade faculty and students for all their creativity and cooperation.
Pics to follow shortly.

MSAC Arts in Education Selection Conference 2009

Today I attended the annual MSAC Arts in Education Selection Conference. This year it was held again at the Howard County Arts Council in Ellicott City. The conference is held to give schools and artists a chance to network and plan for the upcoming AIE grant cycle.

I was surprised to see handful of schools that were represented. In fact the whole event was pretty well empty in relationship to past year's events. Usually I have 15-20 new contacts when I leave the place and today, 5 new folks!

It was also good to meet the new MSAC AIE program director, a writer whose name is Christina Stewart. Thanks for the pic Chris! After she welcomed everyone to the conference, she announced that there have been a few changes to the program for next year. Most amazing, is the fact that all artists now MUST have a certificate of insurance on file at the MSAC office proving that we carry liability coverage of 1 million dollars.

I love these unfunded mandates. I remember when the Bush administration passed nclb and the schools were crying about this sort of thing. Now they are doing the same to the artists who offer residencies in the communities.