[2025 International Forum and Workshop on Creative Engagement] Workshops
※The registration deadline is extended to February 9. Don't miss this opportunity! ※Workshop Session 2, "The Public Theater, US – Organic Community Engagement Program Design and Implementation" now offers three-day and two-day options for greater flexibility, with the registration deadline extended to January 30. Join us and be part of the creative engagement! |
Session I: Schools
Teaching Artist Toolkit: Skills and Strategies for Communication, Planning, Implementation, and Feedback
January 11-12, 2025 (Saturday-Sunday) 10:00-16:30
Host: Spica WOBBE (Teaching artist based in New York)
Session II: Communities
The Public Theater, US – Organic Community Engagement Program Design and Implementation
February 5-9, 2025 (Wednesday-Sunday), available as five-day, three-day, and two-day courses.
Host: Laurie WOOLERY (Former Director of Public Works and theater director at the Public Theater)
Session III: Venues
Developing Meaningful and Sustainable Arts Education Programs at the Kennedy Center
February 22, 2025 (Saturday) 14:00-16:30
Host: Jeanette S. MCCUNE (Senior Director, School and Community Programs, Education Department, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, US)
Sessions IV & V: Global Perspectives
Making Change––Tools and Guidance for Unlocking Talent
February 22-23, 2025 (Saturday-Sunday) 10:00-17:00
Host: Eric BOOTH ("the father of the teaching artist profession.," Author of Making Change: Teaching Artists and Their Role in Shaping a Better World)
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Session I: Schools
Teaching Artist Toolkit: Skills and Strategies for Communication, Planning, Implementation, and Feedback
Host: Spica WOBBE (teaching artist based in New York)
Time: January 11-12, 2025 (Saturday-Sunday) 10:00-16:30
Place: Weiwuying Rehearsal Studio
Language: Mandarin
For: Priority given to teaching artists and performing arts instructors/school educators.
Maximum number of participants: 20
Registration: Attendance required for the entirety of both days. The fee of NT$1,500 for both days is to be paid after eligibility is approved. Application on the online system SurveyCake will be available from December 16, 2024, to January 5, 2025. After being notified of acceptance, payment must be completed within seven days. Those who fail to complete payment by the deadline shall lose their spot and be replaced by someone on the waiting list. Registration will continue until all spots are assigned.
What is the purpose of training up teaching artists? How do you gain an understanding of students and guide them in asking questions? How do you provide an open learning environment and manage classes effectively? How do you design student-centered lesson plans? How do you deconstruct your professional knowledge and then reconstruct it to make it learner-friendly?
At this workshop, participants will discuss how teaching artists use a variety of methods, come up with questions, convert creative experiences into instruction, gain an understanding of student needs, and manage the classroom in order to best inspire students' creativity and augment their capacity to understand themselves and the world. In groups, participants will practice using what they have learned to design lessons suited to different schools and cultures. Then, scenario exercises will help them think about the teaching process to boost their instructional effectiveness.
The workshop will not only provide useful skills and strategies but also serve as an opportunity to interact and collaborate so that participants may reinforce their instructional capacity via mutual enrichment and feedback.
Host:
 |
Spica WOBBE (CHENG Shu-yun) is a puppetry artist originally from Taiwan. Her work has been seen worldwide, including Korea, Japan, the Netherlands, Germany, Israel and Austria. Now based in NYC, she works as a puppetry artist and educator since she received her M.A. in Educational Theater from New York University in 2003.
She established Double Image Theater Lab in 2011 which is a two time recipient of the Jim Henson Foundation grant and the resident artist of the PATCH residency at the Carriage House and New Vision Series at the Sandglass Theater. She co-created The Memory Project in 2016, which works with older adults to document their life stories through arts.
She has worked with numerous organizations as a teaching artist, including the New Victory Theater, Flushing Town Hall and Lifetime Arts. She received the Exemplary Teaching Artist Award from New York University in 2014.
Session II: Communities
The Public Theater, US – Organic Community Engagement Program Design and Implementation
Host: Laurie WOOLERY (former Director of Public Works and theater director at the Public Theater)
Time: February 5-9, 2025 (Wednesday-Sunday) 10:00-17:00
Place: Hsin Chya Elementary School, Fengshan District, Kaohsiung (February 5-6); Weiwuying Rehearsal Studio (February 7-9)
Language: English with consecutive Mandarin interpretation
For: Priority given to teaching artists and those working with communities.
Maximum number of participants: 25
Registration:
Five-Day Pass: Attendance required for the entirety of all five days. The fee of NT$8,500 for all five days is to be paid after eligibility is approved—no refunds for absences.
Three-Day Pass: February 5–7 (Wednesday to Friday). Attendance required for the entirety of all three days. The fee of NT$6,000 for all three days is to be paid after eligibility is approved—no refunds for absences.
Two-Day Pass: February 8–9 (Saturday to Sunday). Attendance required for the entirety of all two days. The fee of NT$4,000 for all two days is to be paid after eligibility is approved—no refunds for absences.
For all three options, application on the online system SurveyCake will be available from December 16, 2024, to February 9, 2025. After being notified of acceptance, payment must be completed within two days. Failure to complete payment by the deadline will require re-registration.
Laurie WOOLERY led a day-long workshop at the first event in 2024 on how to use strategic theater activities to quickly generate community cohesion and induce organic interaction, and during the forum, she shared concepts and practices of how the Public Theater promotes community engagement.
To advocate cultural participation for everyone, Public Works, the Public Theater's large-scale community engagement program initiated in 2013, invites over 100 community partners annually to jointly create a performance that shows at Shakespeare in the Park. As both the director of Public Works and a theater director, Woolery has over 30 years of experience in driving community engagement. In 2025, she will be at Weiwuying for an intensive five-day workshop to impart knowledge on the crucial nuances of bringing art to communities –for example:
- Golden principles for propelling community engagement – listening, longitudinal investment, equity, mutual benefit, artistic ambition, radical inclusion and hospitality.
- How to use effective strategies to understand and respond to community needs – cultivating potential community partnerships, clear project objectives, open communication, discovering mutual benefit, articulated community agreements and building a network of support.
- What kind of promotional planning is required to achieve organic action that turns into community-binding, impactful social practice – sharing the story early and with everyone, clarity on how you talk about your community with others and realistic timelines centering community needs.
Laurie WOOLERY has distilled her 30 years of rich experience in community engagement into key strategies and insights, while also compiling the guiding principles from her community engagement work on the “Public Works” program at the Public Theater into a 116-page handbook titled Public Works-Playbook. During the five-day workshop, she will dedicate the first three days to sharing the crucial principles of bringing art to communities from this handbook. In the final two days, she will carefully select the most inspiring core exercises from it and personally guide participants through immersive experiences, exploring the boundless possibilities of creative engagement.
Host:
 |
Laurie WOOLERY (Director, Playwright, Teaching Artist) is an Obie Award winning director, playwright, community activist, and citizen artist, who works with theaters across the country including The Public Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Yale Repertory Theater, New York City Center/Encores, Trinity Repertory, Goodman Theatre, Kennedy Center, Cornerstone Theater Company, and South Coast Repertory to name a few.
Working at the intersection of community and transformative collaboration, Laurie is the Former Director of Public Works at The Public Theater, where under her leadership she created and codified both the methodology and teaching curriculum for holistic community engagement. This led to her building a national and international network of theaters working deeply with the community. Her musical adaptations of As You Like It and The Tempest had world premieres at the Delacorte Theater and were selected as New York Times Critics Pick. Laurie is a founding member of The Sol Project and a proud recipient of the Fuller Road Fellowship for Women Directors of Color. Laurie is a 2020 United States Artist recipient, 2021 Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities and the 2022 Person of the Year Award for the National Theatre Conference.
Session III: Venues
Developing Meaningful and Sustainable Arts Education Programs at the Kennedy Center
Host: Jeanette S. MCCUNE (Senior Director, School and Community Programs, Education Department, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, US)
Time: February 22, 2025 (Saturday) 14:00-16:30
Place: Weiwuying Rehearsal Studio
Language: English with consecutive Mandarin interpretation
For: Priority given to creative engagement producers and educational program administrators.
Maximum number of participants: 25
Registration: The fee of NT$700 is to be paid after eligibility is approved. Application on the online system SurveyCake will be available from December 16, 2024, to February 9, 2025. After being notified of acceptance, payment must be completed within seven days. Failure to complete payment by the deadline will require re-registration.
The arts are central to building and sustaining joyful, healthy communities. Arts organizations are responsible for not only supporting individuals who identify as artists but also contributing to the opportunity for all members of the community to create art and interact with artists. A significant number of arts organizations and individual artists develop and provide arts education programs for their communities. Designing and implementing programs that respond to the interests and needs of community members and align with an arts organization’s strengths and resources is an important part of creating impactful and meaningful content. The Kennedy Center works with partners throughout the US and internationally to develop, implement, and evaluate programs that are relevant, engaging, and useful for the communities they serve.
In this session, participants will review, refine, and receive critiques about their own existing programs or develop new program ideas. Jeanette McCune, Senior Director of School and Community Programs at the Kennedy Center, will share important research, design framework, and evaluation tools from the Kennedy Center’s Any Given Child national arts education equity collective impact program as a model of community arts education programs. The session will also include sharing lessons that have been learned and improvements made over the course of this 15-year program.
Host:
 |
Jeanette provides strategic leadership and vision for Kennedy Center's local and national arts education partnerships with schools and community-based organizations. School and Community Programs include D.C. School and Community Initiatives, Changing Education Through the Arts, Turnaround Arts, Ensuring the Arts for Any Given Child, and Partners in Education. Prior to her appointment as the lead for School and Community programs in 2017, Jeanette served as lead for local school and community initiatives from 2001 to 2017. Jeanette is the chair of the Boris L. Henson Foundation board of directors, immediate past president and current treasurer of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts Project (DESAP) board of directors, and additionally serves on the board of directors of MINDPOP.
Jeanette earned a BA in Music/Minor in Business and an MBA from Drake University, Des Moines, IA.
Sessions IV & V: Global Perspectives
Making Change––Tools and Guidance for Unlocking Talent
Host: Eric BOOTH ("father of American teaching artists," Author of Making Change: Teaching Artists and Their Role in Shaping a Better World)
Time:
Session IV: February 22, 2025 (Saturday) 10:00-17:00
Session V: February 23, 2025 (Sunday) 10:00-17:00
Place: Weiwuying Rehearsal Studio
Language: English with consecutive Mandarin interpretation
For:
Session IV: Priority given to teaching artists, art/ culture instructors, performing arts instructors/school educators, and those working with communities.Session V: Priority given to creative engagement producers, educational program administrators.
Maximum number of participants: 25 per session
Registration: The fee of NT$1,600 is to be paid after eligibility is approved. Application on the online system SurveyCake will be available from December 16, 2024, to February 9, 2025. After being notified of acceptance, payment must be completed within seven days. Failure to complete payment by the deadline will require re-registration.
Teaching artists are artists, so teaching art is an extension of art and not some independent set of instructional skills. What teaching artists do is create an intriguing, beautiful world through the medium of art while inviting others to explore the richness within. Their first objective is to awaken people’s inherent creativity and guide them toward taking worthwhile action. Teaching artists boost the ability to appreciate art so as to inspire in people a passion for it and the desire to actively and creatively respond to challenges in their communities and society at large.
Nonetheless, the teaching artist profession is still quite underdeveloped and is often unseen. There is a lack of clear identity and growth support infrastructure for teaching artists, such as in the aspects of skill development, employment opportunity, and resources for continual improvement.
In Session IV, we will learn about why teaching artists are so influential in the art and social realms. Through hands-on exercises, we will explore the tools and skills teaching artists need and how these are to be used effectively, probe what it means to teach art, and give each participant the opportunity to use the tools in their own work and also think about how to enhance their artistic expression and careers by teaching art.
Session V will give participants a greater understanding of how teaching artists around the globe take part in different projects, serve as a chance to collectively consider how to incorporate teaching into their work, and facilitate a discussion and evaluation of challenges faced by teaching artists.
Both sessions introduce the tools and techniques of teaching artistry, with some overlapping content. However, Session 4 focuses on how teaching artists (as individuals) can use these tools to expand their artistic practice and inspire others' creativity. Session 5, on the other hand, shares global case studies to help administrators understand how to collaborate with teaching artists to achieve organizational goals, address social needs, and enhance the impact and effectiveness of their programs.
Host:
 |
Workshop leader Eric Booth is often called "the father of the teaching artist profession." With 45 years of experience building up the field, he has worked with teaching artists in more than 30 countries, and he received America's highest award for arts education—the only artist ever to receive that award. He has created teaching artist programs at places like Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and the Kennedy Center. He has worked in 30 countries and co-founded the International Teaching Artist Collaborative. He is excited to bring the latest thinking about the field and best practices of teaching artistry to his colleagues in Taiwan. The workshop expands ideas in his new book Making Change, which has recently been translated into Chinese thanks to the hosts of this workshop.
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[2025 International Forum and Workshop on Creative Engagement] Workshops
※The registration deadline is extended to February 9. Don't miss this opportunity! ※Workshop Session 2, "The Public Theater, US – Organic Community Engagement Program Design and Implementation" now offers three-day and two-day options for greater flexibility, with the registration deadline extended to January 30. Join us and be part of the creative engagement! |
Session I: Schools
Teaching Artist Toolkit: Skills and Strategies for Communication, Planning, Implementation, and Feedback
January 11-12, 2025 (Saturday-Sunday) 10:00-16:30
Host: Spica WOBBE (Teaching artist based in New York)
Session II: Communities
The Public Theater, US – Organic Community Engagement Program Design and Implementation
February 5-9, 2025 (Wednesday-Sunday), available as five-day, three-day, and two-day courses.
Host: Laurie WOOLERY (Former Director of Public Works and theater director at the Public Theater)
Session III: Venues
Developing Meaningful and Sustainable Arts Education Programs at the Kennedy Center
February 22, 2025 (Saturday) 14:00-16:30
Host: Jeanette S. MCCUNE (Senior Director, School and Community Programs, Education Department, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, US)
Sessions IV & V: Global Perspectives
Making Change––Tools and Guidance for Unlocking Talent
February 22-23, 2025 (Saturday-Sunday) 10:00-17:00
Host: Eric BOOTH ("the father of the teaching artist profession.," Author of Making Change: Teaching Artists and Their Role in Shaping a Better World)
More about
Session I: Schools
Teaching Artist Toolkit: Skills and Strategies for Communication, Planning, Implementation, and Feedback
Host: Spica WOBBE (teaching artist based in New York)
Time: January 11-12, 2025 (Saturday-Sunday) 10:00-16:30
Place: Weiwuying Rehearsal Studio
Language: Mandarin
For: Priority given to teaching artists and performing arts instructors/school educators.
Maximum number of participants: 20
Registration: Attendance required for the entirety of both days. The fee of NT$1,500 for both days is to be paid after eligibility is approved. Application on the online system SurveyCake will be available from December 16, 2024, to January 5, 2025. After being notified of acceptance, payment must be completed within seven days. Those who fail to complete payment by the deadline shall lose their spot and be replaced by someone on the waiting list. Registration will continue until all spots are assigned.
What is the purpose of training up teaching artists? How do you gain an understanding of students and guide them in asking questions? How do you provide an open learning environment and manage classes effectively? How do you design student-centered lesson plans? How do you deconstruct your professional knowledge and then reconstruct it to make it learner-friendly?
At this workshop, participants will discuss how teaching artists use a variety of methods, come up with questions, convert creative experiences into instruction, gain an understanding of student needs, and manage the classroom in order to best inspire students' creativity and augment their capacity to understand themselves and the world. In groups, participants will practice using what they have learned to design lessons suited to different schools and cultures. Then, scenario exercises will help them think about the teaching process to boost their instructional effectiveness.
The workshop will not only provide useful skills and strategies but also serve as an opportunity to interact and collaborate so that participants may reinforce their instructional capacity via mutual enrichment and feedback.
Host:
|
Spica WOBBE (CHENG Shu-yun) is a puppetry artist originally from Taiwan. Her work has been seen worldwide, including Korea, Japan, the Netherlands, Germany, Israel and Austria. Now based in NYC, she works as a puppetry artist and educator since she received her M.A. in Educational Theater from New York University in 2003.
She established Double Image Theater Lab in 2011 which is a two time recipient of the Jim Henson Foundation grant and the resident artist of the PATCH residency at the Carriage House and New Vision Series at the Sandglass Theater. She co-created The Memory Project in 2016, which works with older adults to document their life stories through arts.
She has worked with numerous organizations as a teaching artist, including the New Victory Theater, Flushing Town Hall and Lifetime Arts. She received the Exemplary Teaching Artist Award from New York University in 2014.
Session II: Communities
The Public Theater, US – Organic Community Engagement Program Design and Implementation
Host: Laurie WOOLERY (former Director of Public Works and theater director at the Public Theater)
Time: February 5-9, 2025 (Wednesday-Sunday) 10:00-17:00
Place: Hsin Chya Elementary School, Fengshan District, Kaohsiung (February 5-6); Weiwuying Rehearsal Studio (February 7-9)
Language: English with consecutive Mandarin interpretation
For: Priority given to teaching artists and those working with communities.
Maximum number of participants: 25
Registration:
Five-Day Pass: Attendance required for the entirety of all five days. The fee of NT$8,500 for all five days is to be paid after eligibility is approved—no refunds for absences.
Three-Day Pass: February 5–7 (Wednesday to Friday). Attendance required for the entirety of all three days. The fee of NT$6,000 for all three days is to be paid after eligibility is approved—no refunds for absences.
Two-Day Pass: February 8–9 (Saturday to Sunday). Attendance required for the entirety of all two days. The fee of NT$4,000 for all two days is to be paid after eligibility is approved—no refunds for absences.
For all three options, application on the online system SurveyCake will be available from December 16, 2024, to February 9, 2025. After being notified of acceptance, payment must be completed within two days. Failure to complete payment by the deadline will require re-registration.
Laurie WOOLERY led a day-long workshop at the first event in 2024 on how to use strategic theater activities to quickly generate community cohesion and induce organic interaction, and during the forum, she shared concepts and practices of how the Public Theater promotes community engagement.
To advocate cultural participation for everyone, Public Works, the Public Theater's large-scale community engagement program initiated in 2013, invites over 100 community partners annually to jointly create a performance that shows at Shakespeare in the Park. As both the director of Public Works and a theater director, Woolery has over 30 years of experience in driving community engagement. In 2025, she will be at Weiwuying for an intensive five-day workshop to impart knowledge on the crucial nuances of bringing art to communities –for example:
- Golden principles for propelling community engagement – listening, longitudinal investment, equity, mutual benefit, artistic ambition, radical inclusion and hospitality.
- How to use effective strategies to understand and respond to community needs – cultivating potential community partnerships, clear project objectives, open communication, discovering mutual benefit, articulated community agreements and building a network of support.
- What kind of promotional planning is required to achieve organic action that turns into community-binding, impactful social practice – sharing the story early and with everyone, clarity on how you talk about your community with others and realistic timelines centering community needs.
Laurie WOOLERY has distilled her 30 years of rich experience in community engagement into key strategies and insights, while also compiling the guiding principles from her community engagement work on the “Public Works” program at the Public Theater into a 116-page handbook titled Public Works-Playbook. During the five-day workshop, she will dedicate the first three days to sharing the crucial principles of bringing art to communities from this handbook. In the final two days, she will carefully select the most inspiring core exercises from it and personally guide participants through immersive experiences, exploring the boundless possibilities of creative engagement.
Host:
|
Laurie WOOLERY (Director, Playwright, Teaching Artist) is an Obie Award winning director, playwright, community activist, and citizen artist, who works with theaters across the country including The Public Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Yale Repertory Theater, New York City Center/Encores, Trinity Repertory, Goodman Theatre, Kennedy Center, Cornerstone Theater Company, and South Coast Repertory to name a few.
Working at the intersection of community and transformative collaboration, Laurie is the Former Director of Public Works at The Public Theater, where under her leadership she created and codified both the methodology and teaching curriculum for holistic community engagement. This led to her building a national and international network of theaters working deeply with the community. Her musical adaptations of As You Like It and The Tempest had world premieres at the Delacorte Theater and were selected as New York Times Critics Pick. Laurie is a founding member of The Sol Project and a proud recipient of the Fuller Road Fellowship for Women Directors of Color. Laurie is a 2020 United States Artist recipient, 2021 Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities and the 2022 Person of the Year Award for the National Theatre Conference.
Session III: Venues
Developing Meaningful and Sustainable Arts Education Programs at the Kennedy Center
Host: Jeanette S. MCCUNE (Senior Director, School and Community Programs, Education Department, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, US)
Time: February 22, 2025 (Saturday) 14:00-16:30
Place: Weiwuying Rehearsal Studio
Language: English with consecutive Mandarin interpretation
For: Priority given to creative engagement producers and educational program administrators.
Maximum number of participants: 25
Registration: The fee of NT$700 is to be paid after eligibility is approved. Application on the online system SurveyCake will be available from December 16, 2024, to February 9, 2025. After being notified of acceptance, payment must be completed within seven days. Failure to complete payment by the deadline will require re-registration.
The arts are central to building and sustaining joyful, healthy communities. Arts organizations are responsible for not only supporting individuals who identify as artists but also contributing to the opportunity for all members of the community to create art and interact with artists. A significant number of arts organizations and individual artists develop and provide arts education programs for their communities. Designing and implementing programs that respond to the interests and needs of community members and align with an arts organization’s strengths and resources is an important part of creating impactful and meaningful content. The Kennedy Center works with partners throughout the US and internationally to develop, implement, and evaluate programs that are relevant, engaging, and useful for the communities they serve.
In this session, participants will review, refine, and receive critiques about their own existing programs or develop new program ideas. Jeanette McCune, Senior Director of School and Community Programs at the Kennedy Center, will share important research, design framework, and evaluation tools from the Kennedy Center’s Any Given Child national arts education equity collective impact program as a model of community arts education programs. The session will also include sharing lessons that have been learned and improvements made over the course of this 15-year program.
Host:
|
Jeanette provides strategic leadership and vision for Kennedy Center's local and national arts education partnerships with schools and community-based organizations. School and Community Programs include D.C. School and Community Initiatives, Changing Education Through the Arts, Turnaround Arts, Ensuring the Arts for Any Given Child, and Partners in Education. Prior to her appointment as the lead for School and Community programs in 2017, Jeanette served as lead for local school and community initiatives from 2001 to 2017. Jeanette is the chair of the Boris L. Henson Foundation board of directors, immediate past president and current treasurer of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts Project (DESAP) board of directors, and additionally serves on the board of directors of MINDPOP.
Jeanette earned a BA in Music/Minor in Business and an MBA from Drake University, Des Moines, IA.
Sessions IV & V: Global Perspectives
Making Change––Tools and Guidance for Unlocking Talent
Host: Eric BOOTH ("father of American teaching artists," Author of Making Change: Teaching Artists and Their Role in Shaping a Better World)
Time:
Session IV: February 22, 2025 (Saturday) 10:00-17:00
Session V: February 23, 2025 (Sunday) 10:00-17:00
Place: Weiwuying Rehearsal Studio
Language: English with consecutive Mandarin interpretation
For:
Session IV: Priority given to teaching artists, art/ culture instructors, performing arts instructors/school educators, and those working with communities.Session V: Priority given to creative engagement producers, educational program administrators.
Maximum number of participants: 25 per session
Registration: The fee of NT$1,600 is to be paid after eligibility is approved. Application on the online system SurveyCake will be available from December 16, 2024, to February 9, 2025. After being notified of acceptance, payment must be completed within seven days. Failure to complete payment by the deadline will require re-registration.
Teaching artists are artists, so teaching art is an extension of art and not some independent set of instructional skills. What teaching artists do is create an intriguing, beautiful world through the medium of art while inviting others to explore the richness within. Their first objective is to awaken people’s inherent creativity and guide them toward taking worthwhile action. Teaching artists boost the ability to appreciate art so as to inspire in people a passion for it and the desire to actively and creatively respond to challenges in their communities and society at large.
Nonetheless, the teaching artist profession is still quite underdeveloped and is often unseen. There is a lack of clear identity and growth support infrastructure for teaching artists, such as in the aspects of skill development, employment opportunity, and resources for continual improvement.
In Session IV, we will learn about why teaching artists are so influential in the art and social realms. Through hands-on exercises, we will explore the tools and skills teaching artists need and how these are to be used effectively, probe what it means to teach art, and give each participant the opportunity to use the tools in their own work and also think about how to enhance their artistic expression and careers by teaching art.
Session V will give participants a greater understanding of how teaching artists around the globe take part in different projects, serve as a chance to collectively consider how to incorporate teaching into their work, and facilitate a discussion and evaluation of challenges faced by teaching artists.
Both sessions introduce the tools and techniques of teaching artistry, with some overlapping content. However, Session 4 focuses on how teaching artists (as individuals) can use these tools to expand their artistic practice and inspire others' creativity. Session 5, on the other hand, shares global case studies to help administrators understand how to collaborate with teaching artists to achieve organizational goals, address social needs, and enhance the impact and effectiveness of their programs.
Host:
|
Workshop leader Eric Booth is often called "the father of the teaching artist profession." With 45 years of experience building up the field, he has worked with teaching artists in more than 30 countries, and he received America's highest award for arts education—the only artist ever to receive that award. He has created teaching artist programs at places like Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and the Kennedy Center. He has worked in 30 countries and co-founded the International Teaching Artist Collaborative. He is excited to bring the latest thinking about the field and best practices of teaching artistry to his colleagues in Taiwan. The workshop expands ideas in his new book Making Change, which has recently been translated into Chinese thanks to the hosts of this workshop.
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