Writing Help Available

writing-toolspurple.jpgDo you need help preparing for the writing section of the MTEL or any other writing project?

The Writing Center at MassArt
is now open for consultations with writing tutors. It is located on the fifth floor of the Tower Building.
Consult the sign-up book near the Learning Center for open appointment times.

The service is free and open to all matriculated MassArt students. For more information contact Catherine Fabio   catherine.fabio@massart.edu   617-879-7958

Take an MTEL Pilot Test

If you are interested in taking an MTEL Pilot Test (Communication and Literacy and/or Visual Art) Saturday September 26, click here.  Why would you want to do this?  (1) for practice before taking the actual MTEL  (2) you can earn a $35  voucher toward your future MTEL test fee or $30 in Barnes & Noble gift cards for each pilot test you take.

See Jen Hall's Brain Waves!

Jen Hall’s  brain waves (performance evidence) entitled "Epileptiforms: 5 Rem" can be viewed next week in a group show at EMPAC in Troy NY, a combo music, performance, and exhibit space.

Slow Wave: Seeing Sleep
Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 5:00pm – Sunday, September 27, 2009 at 5:00pm
110 8th Street Troy, NY
empacboxoffice@rpi.edu
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Sleep is among the most mysterious of human behaviors, both difficult to portray and resistant to narration. "Slow Wave" presents works that employ both poetic and empirical channels in order to give form to the amorphousness of sleep and examines the particular techniques through which sleep is understood.

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The TAB Book

Our own  John Crowe wrote the Preface  for this eagerly awaited book on Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB).   John Giordano also appears in the book in regard to the application of TAB to after school programs.

This dynamic resource details the philosophy, rationale, and implementation of choice-based authentic art education in elementary and middle schools. To do the work of artists, children need opportunities to behave, think, and perform as artists. The heart of this curriculum is to facilitate independent learning in studio centers designed to support student choices in subject matter and media. The authors address theory, instruction, assessment, and advocacy in a user-friendly format that includes color photos of classroom set-ups and student work, sample demonstrations, and reflections on activities.

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