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Summer Teacher Institute: Finding Your Flow Through Art & Activism

Summer Teacher Institute: Finding Your Flow Through Art & Activism

Every day from Tuesday, July 19, 2022 to Thursday, July 21, 2022 from 8:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.

The goal of the Summer Teacher Institute is to empower teachers to try new concepts, as well as to recharge their creative energy before the new school year begins. By attending this program, teachers will be emailed a CEU certificate for 18 contact hours. 1 graduate credit is available through Ashland University for an additional fee. The program is from Tuesday July 19th- Thursday July 21st 8:30 am-3:30 pm EST at the Cincinnati Art Museum. All registered teachers will receive an email with the agenda for each day. (Please provide an email you check during the summer.)

Summer Teacher Institute 2022 Theme: Finding Your Flow through Art & Activism

If you are not familiar with Corita Kent, she was an artist, an activist, nun, educator and a pioneer. Working primarily as a print-maker, she taught elementary and college in Los Angeles for 20 years. “Consider everything an experiment,” was one of her guiding principles. Not only did she produce her own work, but she also collaborated on large scale works with her students. Her artwork was a reflection of the times. Inspired by billboards, advertisements, spiritual texts, current events, and newspapers she created colorful, multi-layered pieces with deep meaning. Kent encouraged and embodied experimentation, close-looking and social justice throughout her career and in her life. 

Kent used a series of 10 Rules in her classroom. Each day of the Summer Teacher Institute, we will focus on one of the following rules as a theme for that day’s activities:

Rule 4: Consider everything an experiment.

Rule 6: Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.

Rule 8: Don’t try to create and analyze at the same time. They’re different processes. 

In addition to learning more about the life and art of Corita Kent, you will enjoy a variety of art-making sessions, workshops, docent guided tours and presentations.

Teachers of all grade levels and disciplines, homeschool teachers, art advocates, art appreciation volunteers, pre-service education majors and teaching artists, as well as community and museum educators, are encouraged to attend. The program will investigate diverse teaching strategies for object-based learning as well as STREAM (Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Art, Math) connections for the Pre-K through the 12th-grade classroom. 

Registration is closed.

For more information, please call (513) 639-2974 or email [email protected]

Registration for 1 graduate credit through Ashland University:  Summer Teacher Institute


Image credit: Mary Corita Kent (American, b.1918, d.1986), printmaker, For Eleanor, 1964, color screen print, mage 22 3/16 x 29 1/16 in., Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. Solway in memory of Alfred J. Friedlander, 1966.1120

If you need accessibility accommodations for this program or event, please email [email protected]. Please contact us at least two weeks in advance to ensure accommodations can be made.

 

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