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Missed the Gallery's Brush Works Exhibit?  Audio Description, Transcript Available

Posted Tuesday August 05 2014 at 7:40 pm in Open Door Gallery

If you missed the Open Door Gallery's "Brush Works" exhibit of paintings by Lauren Geraghty and Emily Malin, you can still experience the show by listening to the audio description and/or reading the transcript!

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VSA MA Seeks Teaching Artists for 2014-15 School Year

Posted Friday August 01 2014 at 11:03 pm in Education

VSA Massachusetts is seeking teaching artists who are interested in creating arts-integrated learning experiences for students of all abilities.

We currently have opportunities in Boston for the 2014-15 school year.

High school - Teaching artists in Visual Arts, Drama or Media Arts with the following qualifications:

• Experience and joy teaching high school students (ages 14-22)
• Experience and joy teaching students with cognitive, learning, autism spectrum and other developmental disabilities in ways that offer multiple options for participation and success and build on student strengths
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement a quality arts-integrated curriculum
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills; comfortable interacting with school teachers and administrators
• Ability to lead a residency-related teacher workshop
• Committed to on-going professional development as an arts practitioner and educator

Elementary (2nd Grade) - Teaching artists in music or visual arts

• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement an arts-integrated curriculum that supports English Language Arts content and skills
• Experience or demonstrated ability to teach students with cognitive, developmental and emotional/behavioral disabilities in ways that offer multiple options for participation and success and build on student strengths
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with teachers; knowledge of school structures and culture desired
• Demonstrated knowledge and ability to offer culturally responsive content that celebrates the diversity of BPS students
• Committed to on-going professional development as an arts practitioner and educator

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The Open Door Gallery Presents Sidewalk Sam - "Out My Window"

Posted Friday August 01 2014 at 06:15 am in Open Door Gallery

Sidewalk Sam, the popular artist dedicated to creating art at the feet of pedestrians to inspire, promote spirit, enrich daily life, and address social issues.  Sidewalk Sam has been called the "Johnny Appleseed of Art" and a "Pavement Picasso".  He has been featured on the "Today Show", "Good Morning America", "Evening Magazine" and "Real People" and in hundreds of newspaper articles from coast to coast.  He takes arts to the streets with charm and expertise that has thrilled millions of people for nearly forty years.

But this exhibit is a very different view of Sidewalk Sam's work - the personal side as seen through his sketches drawn at home while peering "Out My Window".

Artist's Statement

Glimpses and insights appear at moments that seem of little importance to anyone.  Nonetheless, they impart a logic of their own, hidden truths that may (to quote Wordsworth) "teach you more of man, of moral evil and of good, than all the sages can."

What: Sidewalk Sam - "Out My Window"
Where: Open Door Gallery
When: Now Through November 3, 2014
Reception: October 2, 2014 at 4pm

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