This past Saturday, the Kemper Art Museum offered its first Teacher Workshop, "Connecting Contemporary Art to the Classroom." What a great experience -- meeting a range of teachers from across the state and from all grade levels, and really connecting on some core ideas about teaching with contemporary art. Our guest, Denise Gray (Senior Education Program Coord., L.A. Museum of Contemporary Art), was also able to bring some new perspectives to looking at art and teaching in the museum, esp. through other modes of learning (sound, movement, etc.).
I wanted to take this opportunity to use this blog as a new line of communication between those who attended the workshop, as well as anyone else interested in any of these topics. One conclusion of the workshop was definitely that there needs to be more channels of communication and sharing of ideas among teachers and educators. I hope that this blog can help to serve that function, and be at least one place for an open exchange of ideas, strategies, and new questions.
I'm going to be inviting the teachers who attended our recent workshop to post their own ideas and questions to this blog, allowing anyone to respond and continue these great conversations.
