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Dan Kelin: Wondering the World: Experiences with Culture, Performance, and Learning

Teaching artist and Montalvo TA Fellow Dan Kelin writes about the fascinating contrasts and commonalities between doing performance work in India, Samoa, the Marshall Islands and the U.S.: “In the Marshall Islands, programs open with singing. If families or organizations honor each other, or celebrate an auspicious event, speeches, songs and dances are tokens […]

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Getting Simple, Getting Complex, Going Deep: An Art Teacher’s Journey into Arts Integration»

Let’s get introductions out of the way…my name is Joe Mills and I teach art and computers at Murray Language Academy in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. The University of Chicago is nearby and the neighborhood is fairly affluent. It is a magnet school for students PreK to 6th grade. Magnet school just means […]

In The Current Issue

“Multi-dimensional Connectors” - Nick Jaffe/Takeki Ishihara»

This issue we reprint a letter from artist Takeki Ishihara. Ishihara read Spoon Jackson’s article about life as a poet and TA in the California prison system in issue 5(1) . Takeki was moved by Spoon’s refusal to let incarceration stifle his voice as a writer and his work as a teacher. […]

Past Issue

Christa Treichel: Beyond the Residency Model: The Teaching Artist at Work»

Treichel discusses ArtsABLE, an arts integration program in St. Paul, MN, which partners teachers and TA’s with the goal of sustainable arts experience for public school students that goes beyond the short-term residency model.
From “Beyond the Residency Model”
Arts ABLE set about to create a structure that made the most of existing arts programming. The participating […]