Art Educator Sessions
Examples of Developing Narratives
Tricia Fuglestad
“How Ghosts, Aliens, and Flying Fairies Tell a Story about Learning”
Explore a variety of technology-based art lessons where students use iPads to create narratives while applying art concepts and developing art-making methods. See how iPad animation, drawing with layers, and entering artwork via green screen techniques gives students a chance to tell their stories in creative and innovative ways.
Dean Bollendorf
“Stop Motion Animation and “Flipping the Classroom."
In this presentation, we will explore a bit of how the use of iPads and stop motion animation can be an effective way to use narratives and tell stories in the art room. "Change" was the simple but powerful word given to a group of students and some of the animated narratives that the class produced will be examined along with the process. The other focus of this presentation will be "flipping the classroom" and how from the storyboards to the final animations, this process was taken in a new direction for both the instructor and the class.
Bridget Tinney
“Social Justice Art Ed: Empowerment, Media Literacy, and Technology Integration in a Middle School Classroom”
A social justice approach to art education utilizes visual art as a lens through which students can examine themselves and the world around them. This session will explore strategies for implementing a social justice theme into a middle school art curriculum including a unit on media literacy and ideas for integrating technology into the art-making process. This session will also seek to acknowledge misconceptions in the topics involved in a social justice curriculum and the degree of shift and adjustment needed to implement such a theme.
Diane Chisdak
“Collaboration as a Way to Inspire Art Across the Curriculum”
In this presentation, we will look at how the Fleetwood Area High School art program has used collaboration to connect art with other subjects. The most well-known example of this is the district’s commitment to generate a film utilizing the varied talented individuals throughout their school building. Misa’s Fugue involved student writers, musicians, film editors as well as artists to tell the true story of a Holocaust survivor, Frank Grunwald. This award-winning film not only tells his incredible story but emphasizes the capacity of the arts to help one survive such a tragic time in history. In addition to a discussion of the film’s production, there will opportunities to explore Artifact, the school’s award-winning fine art literary magazine and other cross-curricular connections to visual art.
Thomas Dareneau & Domenic Frunzi
"Bringing humanity to digital assignments"
Mr. Dareneau will show students samples and student video responses from his Introduction to Animation course at Boyertown Senior High School. He will show how he asks his students to create narratives while learning the basic skills of Adobe Flash. Mr. Frunzi will share his experiences using Instagram as an introduction to the work of Carrie Mae Weems. Both presenters will share their experiences incorporating video cameras into the classrooms at the bequest of Art21 Educators.
In 2013, Mr. Dareneau and Mr. Frunzi applied to and were accepted in the Art21 Educators program. Since then, Mr. Dareneau and Mr. Frunzi have redesigned their entire curriculum and presented Art21 philosophies and artists at local galleries, Kutztown University, and Penn State University.
Marisa Marlowe
“Art and Place: Using Digital Media to Capture Stories from the Upper Schuylkill River”
This presentation focuses on the role of the Schuylkill River as a thread for weaving together stories that span generations and cultures. It brings together history, biography, local culture, personal significance and a variety of landscapes. The result is a documentary with footage filmed entirely with an iPhone (with the exception of river footage, which was shot using GoPro) and produced in iMovie.