Important: If you plan to student teach or do your community/museum internship in the Spring 2013 semester, you must attend the informational meeting Monday Sept. 17th 3:30-4:30 in the Art Education conference room (in the Art Education office, South 106). Continue reading
Category Archives: Announcements
Recent Publications
Two members of our Art Education community, faculty member Laura Reeder and alumna Kate Jellinghaus, have articles in the current issue of The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education (JSTAE). This journal serves as an alternative voice for the field of art education through the promotion of scholarly research that addresses social issues, action, and transformation as well as creative methods of research and writing. The JSTAE is the official journal of the Caucus on Social Theory & Art Education which is an Issues Group of the National Art Education Association.
Laura Reeder, our new full-time faculty member who begins at MassArt in September, confronts “either/or” professional identities in arts education in “Hyphenated Artists: A Body of Potential”:
“Multi-faceted artist/scholar/educator/learner/advocate personas are “unfenced” in order to navigate spaces of artistic, educational, and cultural productions without having to pause for identification at borders. In this form, pedagogies for inventive social change emerge.” [from the abstract] Continue reading
New Chair of Art Education
Dan Serig is on sabbatical for the fall semester.
Lois Hetland is now department chair for the summer and fall. Her office will be in South 107 B.
In the spring 2013 semester Lois will go on sabbatical, and Dan will return as chair.
Teaching in the Art Museum Program at Harvard April 19
Teaching in the Art Museum: An Evening with the Authors
Rika Burnham, Head of Education, The Frick Collection
Elliott Kai-Kee, Education Specialist, J. Paul Getty Museum
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA Continue reading
VSA: COOL Workshops
Very Special Arts, the Massachusetts Organization on Arts and Disability, will be offering free COOL (Creative Outlook on Learning) workshops in May. Teachers will learn to implement arts integration strategies to support a wide variety of learners. The workshops highlight how the arts offer multiple ways for students to make sense of and express their understandings and engage in authentic learning experiences.
More information: VSAM Cool workshops
Majors Registration Day is March 28
Majors registration for Fall 2012 takes place on Wednesday March 28 in South 109. You don’t need an appointment; just come and sign up on your advisor’s list according to the following schedule:
9:00-10:00 Rising seniors and super seniors
10:00-11:00 Rising juniors
11:00-12:00 Rising sophomores