In our lives, and from the movies we watch to the books we read, stories are all around us. Craft stories that let others in to what’s on your mind.

Happy Fourth of July!   In celebration of the multiplicity of American identities, this week students will explore what their own cultural and personal identities mean to them.

What makes a city or town your home? What types of monuments do we wish to see in our parks and public spaces? Explore ideas about the communities we live in, our neighborhood identities, and ways our cities are used.

What makes a city or town your home? What types of monuments do we wish to see in our parks and public spaces? Explore ideas about the communities we live in, our neighborhood identities, and ways our cities are used.

Fly off to other planets and discover how alien societies work or dive into miniature fairy lands. Create alternate realities in which the world as we know it is completely unknown.

Can art and making change the ways we see our world? How can they change and shape our perspectives? What do you want to say? This week students will explore how to uplift their voices and speak through their art.

Can art and making change the ways we see our world? How can they change and shape our perspectives? What do you want to say? This week students will explore how to uplift their voices and speak through their art.

Supporting the Processing of Experiences through the Arts during Crisis (SPEAC Professional Development Program for Arts Educators)

SPEAC is a summer intensive designed to prepare teaching artists to guide students through online and in-person arts education that effectively supports students to process and express their lived experiences due to the current health crisis, ongoing racial injustice, and the racial awakening and opposition in society, therefore working toward personal and community transformation.

From the subjects we paint to the materials we use; the natural world is an inextricable part of the artmaking process.

Stories passed around shape how we interact with our surroundings. Oral histories, explanations of natural and unnatural events, stories of the heroic in the ordinary, all of these form part of the thread that stitches our communities together.