Posted Thursday March 05 2015 at 6:42 pm
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Bonnie's Mission Statement:
I have a true drive to integrate the arts into education. I approach each project with techniques that bring students with different strengths and skills fully into the classroom and engage them with the materials they are studying. I use the arts to allow students to make their own learning discoveries and to explore their subjects on their own terms. I feel very strongly that students need to explore their own creative gifts, make their own mistakes, and achieve their own triumphs through the process of making a performance. Although I am an artist and performer on my own, I come to the classroom as an educator first.
Bonnie's Experience:
I work directly with classroom teachers to plan and implement my residencies. My in-depth knowledge, experience, and curiosity make my residencies very unique. I have a passion for teaching teachers so they can continue incorporating drama, movement, and puppetry into their classroom after my visits. Since 1999, I have worked and performed in over fifty schools, private & public, urban & suburban. My residencies include some of the following elements: dancing the alphabet
; acting out stories, vocabulary words, moments in history; boosting vocabulary
; adapting books into plays and dances
; visualizing text
; becoming characters from a book or social situation; linking reading to personal experience
; making puppets and puppet plays
; building community, trust, and risk taking.
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Posted Tuesday March 03 2015 at 9:31 pm
in News
Visit Boston's Museum of Fine Arts for free! Here's what you have to do:
- Come see us at the Open Door Gallery, 89 South St., Boston.
- Enjoy our current exhibit of Jeffrey Melzack's artwork.
- Ask us for free MFA Access Program passes (limit 2).
- Go to the MFA before the tickets expire March 31, 2015.
First come, first served. Get them while they're hot!
Posted Sunday March 01 2015 at 12:38 pm
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Youth Art Month is an annual observance each March to emphasize the value of art education for all children and to encourage support for quality school art programs. Youth Art Month provides a forum for acknowledging skills that are fostered through experience in the visual arts that are not possible in other subjects offered in the curriculum.
Youth Art Month's purposes are:
- To direct attention to the value of art education which develops divergent and critical thinking; multicultural awareness; and technical, communication, and expressive skills.
- To increase community, business and governmental support for art education.
- To recognize art is a necessity for the full development of better quality life for all people.
- To expand art programs in schools and stimulate new ones.
- To increase community understanding and interest in art and art education through involvement in art exhibits, workshops, and other creative venues.
- To provide additional opportunities for individuals of all ages to participate in creative art learning.
- To encourage commitment to the arts by students, community organizations, and individuals everywhere.
- To recognize art education as a viable component in the total education curricula that develops citizens of a global society.
- To reflect and demonstrate the goals of the National Art Education Association that work toward the improvement of art education at all levels.
