Inquiry and Exploration in Art: Strategies for Art and Literacy Classrooms

Posted by on June 9, 2006

INQUIRY & EXPLORATION IN ART: QUESTIONING STRATEGIES FOR THE ART & LITERACY CLASSROOMS
A Four-Day Summer Institute
Tuesday, July 25, through Friday, July 28, 2006
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City

Join educators from around the world for a four-day Summer Institute. This exclusive gathering is designed to provide you with tools and resources to create or enhance artist-in-residence or artsintegration programs.

This Institute is designed for teams of three educators, who work or plan to work together. Special consideration will be given to teams that include:
? An arts administrator or museum educator,
? A teacher or school-based administrator, and
? An art teacher, or teaching artist.

Participants will spend two days focusing on what makes a great artist-in-residence or arts-integration program, and using open-ended inquiry to facilitate conversations around works of art. Small group workshops will offer practical lessons and strategies for the classroom. For example:
? Teaching Artists or art teachers will apply inquiry to reflections on student art.
? Classroom teachers will explore how inquiry with art can be used to cultivate literacy skills.
? Arts program administrators will discuss incorporating inquiry into artist-in-residence programs.

For the following two days join other arts-education practitioners for a conference that will feature keynote speakers Michael Kimmelman, Chief Art Critic of the New York Times and Kieran Egan, Canada Research Chair in Education, Simon Fraser University, along with other renowned panelists speaking on a variety of topics, including:
? The benefits of inquiry for developing literacy and critical-thinking skills
? The relationship between inquiry and art making
? Best practices in artist-in-residence and art-integration programs
? Findings from U.S. Department of Education?sponsored research on the impact of the Guggenheim?s arts-in-education program

This institute is funded by a grant from the United States Department of Education and is a National Art Education Association 2006 Co-Sponsored Academy.

http://www.guggenheim.org/education/ltaconference/