Every day at aTi, participants take part in two workshops: a major workshop in the morning from 9am-12noon and a minor workshop in the afternoon from 1-3pm. These workshops will develop your creative talents as you learn strategies to integrate your chosen art forms into the classroom, enhancing learning for all students. Each workshop enrolls a maximum of 12-15 participants for individualized attention.
SESSION 1: JULY 12 - 23, 2010
Mondays - Fridays 9am - 3pm
William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ Select a Major and Minor Workshop:
THEATRE: PLAYWRITING FROM PAGE TO STAGE Instructor: Dominique Cieri A comprehensive safe and nurturing hands-on playwriting workshop, exploring creative writing exercises, established and alternative writing forms and dramatic texts, to gain a deeper understanding of dramatic structure, plotting and character development, and how plays impact stage space. Exercises, including improvisation to locate setting, character and conflict, will focus on writing dialogue, mastering story structure and developing your authentic voice. Returning and more advanced participants will develop full-lengths: new or works already in progress. The developmental process continues through a guest artist master class, rehearsals and performance of selected scenes in the final day of sharing. This workshop is offered as a major only.
HOLD THE APPLAUSE: THEATRE GAMES AND IMPROV Instructor: Dominique Cieri If you want to act or just be a better teacher in front of the class, learn games to help with storytelling and writing through this low-pressure class. This safe, fun, foundational workshop will set your imagination in motion with techniques to help you and your students overcome stage fright and self-consciousness. Discover the applications of comedy of drama in the classroom by learning theatre games, beginning improvisation and script work. This workshop is offered as a minor only. WHAT A RELIEF: PRINTMAKING METHODS AND TECHNIQUES
Instructor: Eileen Foti Learn simple, low-tech printmaking techniques for use with and without a press to create innovative and sophisticated prints. Methods can be used in K-12 classrooms. Explore collagraphy, monotype, embossing, relief methods, and chine colle. Use polyester plate lithography to combine handmade marks with laser printer or copy machine images. Water-based and oil-based inks, adhesives and paper will be thoroughly discussed. Supply sources and a reading list will be provided. View prints made by international artists. This workshop is offered as both a major and minor workshop. Lab Fee: $35 DANCE: TRYING ON THE MODERNS
Instructor Claire Porter
Discover the expressive power, meaning and language of modern dance by drawing inspiration from legends such as Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham and Pina Bausch. Explore the creative process that shaped their unique contributions and performances. Using each choreographer’s methods and style, participants will learn how to interpret, choreograph and present through the language of dance. This workshop is offered as a major workshop. CREATIVE MOVEMENT: POTENT PORTABLES
Instructor: Claire Porter
Create your own “portable”, a creative movement monologue that combines dance, text, comedy, wit and group interaction. With inspiration from school subjects and other ideas, participants will explore how to translate their subject areas into a performance piece that integrates art, science, math, language and movement. This workshop is offered as a minor workshop.
MUSIC: THE ART OF PLAYING TOGETHER
Instructor: Hector Morales
Experience the whole music making process (from creating your own musical instruments, to composing, performing and recording your own CD) while exploring a variety of simple techniques that will allow you to replicate this musical experience in your own classroom (K-12). Turn found objects into the perfect set of instruments for the whole classroom, use a variety of engaging world music styles as the perfect frame-work to develop composition, and learn to use the accessible music software Garage Band to record your musical creations and open the door to an endless number of sonic possibilities to enrich your teaching. This workshop is offered as both a major and minor workshop.
PROMPTING YOUR INNER POET
Instructor: Catherine Doty
Write, revise and perform your poems in an atmosphere of energetic acceptance. Learn ways to draw out resistant writers and to light the fire of poetry in your classroom. Discover techniques that turn a poem you love into a writing prompt that works. Additional topics include publication possibilities, sources of teacher support, and where to find poems you can use in the classroom. This workshop is offered as a major workshop only. MEMOIR: WRITING WITH HEART AND CRAFT
Instructor: Catherine Doty What to do with the stories only you can tell? In this workshop, you will use a wide variety of evocative exercises to capture the stories you were born to give the world (or your immediate family). Expand your language skills, polish your craft, and capture Uncle Harold (or some version of him)--on your artistic and ethical terms. This workshop is offered as a minor workshop only.
CRAFTING A JOURNEY THROUGH BOOK ARTS
Instructor: Miriam Schaer Books are perfect packages for all sorts of information, ideas and activities. Challenge and expand your notions about what books are, can be, and how they work. In this workshop, you will create many different book structures, from traditional to experimental, and explore how to use them in the classroom. Develop your own personal projects and study an array of remarkable book structures, from ancient eras to the work of recent and contemporary artists. This workshop is offered as both a major and minor workshop. Lab Fee: $35
OIL PAINTING: A BRUSH WITH CREATIVITY
Instructor: Kit Sailer See the world through the eyes of an artist in this workshop designed for all levels to develop skills and unleash creativity. Learn the basics of color mixing, brush techniques, development of form and composition. Sessions will begin with easy to understand exercises designed to focus on a particular aspect of painting. Discussion will include the selection of subject matter, reference materials, style, abstraction, and the development of a personal iconography. Instruction will be given on an individual and group basis. Participants are encouraged to bring in their own reference materials/photos to work from. This workshop is offered as both a major and minor workshop. Lab Fee: $35
SESSION 2:
AUGUST 2 - 13, 2010
Mondays - Fridays 9am-3pm
Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey MASTER CLASS
THE PAINTED WINDOW: THE ART AND CRAFT OF GLASS PAINTING Instructor: J. Kenneth Leap This Master Class gives participants an intensive, in-depth experience in one art form every day over the course of 2 weeks. Participants do not select a minor workshop. Glass painting is a centuries old technique of applying vitreous pigments to glass. Historically this process was developed to produce imagery for the great stained glass windows of medieval Europe. The technique is experiencing a resurgence of interest as a new generation of glass artists seeks to incorporate painted elements into their work. This workshop will explore the art of mixing, applying and firing, glass-based paints, enamels and stains. While the primary focus of the class will be painting on the two-dimensional surface as it relates to stained glass, students will also learn fusing and engraving techniques which can be adapted to glass tile making, jewelry and mosaic projects. Prior glass experience is not required. Two full-day field trips are planned. Please note this Master Class takes place every day, all day from 9am-12pm and from 1-3pm. Lab Fee: $75. You do not choose a minor in addition to a Master Class. INSTALLATION ART
Instructor Barbara Bullock Participants will explore this exciting contemporary art form and new way of displaying art. Participants will use research, discovery and imagination to reinterpret found objects. They will choose 3 objects to paint, construct and embellish to create a meaningful installation that speaks about the creative imagination and secret energy of their lost and found objects as art. This workshop is offered as both a major and minor workshop. Lab Fee: $35
FINDING YOUR AUTHENTIC VOICE: INTRODUCTION TO POETRY WRITING Instructor: Peter Murphy Using a variety of contemporary poems as models and inspiration, participants will trigger the imagination and strengthen language skills to compose drafts of original poems that are meaningful, satisfying and “true”. Gain the experience of "workshopping" your poems through supportive individual and group critique. Learn strategies for developing, interpreting and revising poems that bring the creative writing process to life for all students. This workshop is offered as a minor workshop only. REVISE, REVISE, REVISE: ADVANCED POETRY Instructor: Peter Murphy Participants who have had both poetry writing and workshop experience will write more and more freely while practicing advanced revision techniques to improve the “sound and sense” of their poems. The level of critiquing, while supportive, will be more intense. Participants will learn how and where to submit their work for publication. This workshop is offered as a major workshop only. THE DANCER WITHIN: LATIN RHYTHMS
Instructor: Marck "Flaco" Best
Discover the joy and benefits of social dancing through the popular Latin rhythms of Salsa, Merengue, Bachata, Cha-Cha-Cha, Cumbia and Tango. In this fun and exciting workshop, participants will learn the rhythms of Latin America and experience success in a supportive and encouraging environment. Each workshop will focus on one or two dance forms, determined by the group’s response to each. This workshop is offered as both a major and minor workshop. THE LANGUAGE OF MUSIC
Instructor: Josh Robinson
Participants create and compose rhythms or short songs using "say it-play it" techniques. Exercises will incorporate body percussion and movement as well as non-verbal communication skills. Engage in a lively variety of musical dynamics and community building through drumming. This workshop is offered as a major workshop only DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER: INTRODUCTION TO BOOK ARTS Instructor: Mary Phelan Discover the power of working with “the book” as a creative medium by developing relationships between book structure, writing and imagery. This class will encourage experimentation as it expands your concepts and the boundaries of the traditional book. You will work with simple printmaking processes, study the uses of language and learn to create both traditional and experimental book structures while producing models for your own use or for classroom teaching activities. This workshop is offered as a minor workshop only. Lab Fee: $35 CREATING COMPLEX STRUCTURES: ADVANCED BOOK ARTS Instructor: Mary Phelan This course is intended for those with intermediate or advanced book arts experience. In addition to learning three to four new book structures, participants will be given more complex projects and variations of structures learned previously. More emphasis will be given to craftsmanship and creativity in completed projects. This workshop is offered as a major workshop only. Lab Fee $35 MEMOIR: WRITING WITH HEART AND CRAFT Instructor: Anndee Hochman Learn to write powerful prose about actual experience. Through guided reflection and writing exercises, find the personal stories – whether long-ago or more recent – that you yearn to tell. Then practice ways to write those stories with muscle, integrity and grace. You’ll learn elements of literary craft including showing vs. telling, sensory detail, structure and voice. We’ll also discuss some of the ethical issues that arise when writing about living people and actual events. This workshop is offered as a major workshop only. POETRY OUT LOUD: FROM PAGE TO STAGE Instructors: Anndee Hochman and Lamont Dixon In this team-taught workshop based on the popular Poetry Out Loud program in U.S. high schools, we will locate meaningful published poems, learn them by heart and give them life through performance. We’ll practice close-reading techniques, examining sound, rhythm, structure and figurative language; we’ll also use theater games to work on tone, gesture and expression. Participants will have a chance to write their own poems designed for performance and learn drama exercises they can use across the curriculum, with students of all ages. This workshop is offered as a minor workshop only. aTi offers all persons equal access and opportunities to participate in its programs and activities. If any individual needs special assistance or assistive technology, please call as far in advance of the programs as possible to make the necessary arrangements.
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