Setting the Table: The State of Teaching Artistry in Southern Arizona – By...
The joy of being a Teaching Artist is that we get to work with so many amazing people. In Southern Arizona, perhaps out of necessity, students, parents, neighborhood leaders, businesses, schools,...
View ArticleDrawing Meaning by Shaqe Kalaj
He draws lines on his paper that chisels the wrinkles of the woman’s face. He doesn’t stop, because he can’t. He’s found something in drawing this woman that he hasn’t found in his life, including his...
View ArticleEngaging Diverse Learners with Diverse Art Forms by Richard Jenkins
Teaching Artists are finding themselves in classrooms with an ever-growing diversity of students; students with different cultural and linguistic backgrounds, students with various learning styles, and...
View ArticleCross Discipline Collaboration and Education: “The Series!”– Tom Berich
Over the years I have had the wonderful opportunity to work in a number of vastly different artistic disciplines. Theatre, Film, Recording, Dance, Visual, etc., and, having had that opportunity, I have...
View ArticleREFLECTIONS FROM A NEW SISTEMA: Learning to build community through music
by Paloma Udovic Ramos On a street that acts as a border between gangs, in a neighborhood with a changing racial demographic, 200 low-income kids attend free group instrumental lessons and orchestra...
View ArticleThe Big Picture: Child trafficking TV project gives teens an opportunity to...
by Billy Miller On a rainy Saturday in Caldera’s Teen Center, we’re talking with twelve high schoolers about child trafficking — a subject difficult for adults to discuss, let alone the young people...
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