Teacher Workshops & "Artist-in-Habitat" Programs
We offer GREEN Workshops for Teachers!
Outside Art's teacher workshops provide educators, and childcare professionals with unique experiential outside activities and lessons that help schools address Maryland Green School standards. Our workshops provide techniques to interweave environmental education along with art standards into the overall curriculum. Maryland's Governor O'Malley's most recent Green School proposal calls on school districts to ensure that environmental literacy is “threaded through” the curriculum. Outside Art Teacher Workshops provide innovative ways to meet Governor O'Malley's standards as well as the certification requirements for Maryand Green School Awards Program, Customized workshops are also available to meet the specific needs of the school or institution.
If you are interested in scheduling a teacher seminar for your faculty or staff please call (410) 212-9320 or email dmalosh@outsideartlessons.com. Seminar pricing is competative, and costs vary, depending on media, length, location, group-size and program intensity. After a consultation determining institutional needs, Outside Art will provide a workshop proposal with pricing for your school or institution.
Outside Art's "Artist in Habitat" Program
Students installing their own tile mosaic in their school yard habitat.
Outside Art offers specialized “artist-in-residence” programming, alternately entitled, the "Artist-in-Habitat" Program. Through this program, Outside Art provides the school community with a resident artist and as well as a School Habitat Beautification Project Manager. This program offers schools an opportunity to provide innovative community-wide environmental education projects, as well as schoolyard habitat beautification. Through the combined creative efforts of the students, the community and our visiting artist, meaningful projects that combine environmental education with artistic creation can be obtained. Some examples of creative outcomes for this programming include community mosaics, murals, decorative benches and stepping-stones for schoolyard habitats. The logistics of this program are determined after an initial meeting which defines the possibilities and needs of the school. Please call our Director, Dawn Malosh, at (410) 212-9320 or email dmalosh@outsideartlessons.com to discuss the possibilities and pricing for this exciting opportunity to meet Green School initiatives and beautify your natural schoolyard in an aesthetic and eco-friendly way.
Young artists painting a mural that shows local animals and plants in AZ.
WE ALSO OFFER RESOURCE BOOKS FOR TEACHERS:
A Teacher's Resource for Connecting Children to Nature Through Art I $15
INCLUDES: - Guidelines to follow when taking children outside
- Reproducible follow-up worksheets, lessons and activities
- Outside art lessons that any teacher can implement inexpensively.
- Critiquing activities to use after drawing outside
- A resource list for art and environmental activities
Don't Miss Our Upcoming Workshops!
Connecting Children to Nature through Art
Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Council
Leadership Training:
Oct. 1-3, 2010, Camp Grove Point
RECENT WORKSHOPS:
The North American Association for Environmental Educators
2009 Conference , Portland, Oregon
Examining Nature through Artistic Expression:
Past Highlights and Present Applications
$112 (off site at the Tualatin Hills Nature Park in Portland)
"Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and
from this to proceed to investigate the reason."
-Leonardo da Vinci
Nature provides an excellent ambiance and sensorial muse by which the elements, principals and expressiveness of art can be exemplified. Art creation is a higher-level, analyzing, synthesizing and evaluative process that augments neural activity and intellectual growth. The study of nature through art allows the "artist" to experience, observe, value, analyze, synthesize and express his/her understanding of, and relationship to, nature and the environment. The examination of nature through artistic processes has been a constant in the development of artists and scientists throughout culture and history. From the ancient painters of the Lascaux caves, to the artists of the Renaissance, to modern day artists, nature has inspired man to create in order to understand, and praise its wonders. As the great painter Francisco Goya explained, "I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt."
This workshop will highlight the nature connection within mankind's cultural arts heritage, and provide examples of interdisciplinary arts partnerships that can be used to enhance environmental education. In addition, this all day workshop offers experiential art activities in nature, such as "plein air" drawing and painting. Arts skills and knowledge and the power of creative expression will be exemplified as tools that any non-artist can use to enhance environmental education, literacy and awareness in this hands-on all day workshop.