Columbia holds free teaching artist workshop next week
From Amplify Columbia:
Teaching artists, also known as artist educators or community artists, are professional artists who teach and integrate their art form, perspectives, and skills into a wide range of settings. Teaching artists work with schools, after school programs, community organizations, and social service agencies to encourage increased public participation in the arts for residents of all ages and cultural backgrounds.
Join us Monday, Aug. 27 from 6-8:30 p.m. (Eau Claire Print Building, 3907 Ensor Ave, Columbia, SC 29203) for a free professional development workshop for teaching artists. Participants will be given structure, guidance, and tools to implement clear goals in their residencies and lessons and to improve their work. For both emerging and master teaching artists, this workshop is open to faculty of midlands universities, classroom teachers, artists, staff working with any area arts organization, museum docents and parks and recreation staff who work directly with young people.
This session is free however preregistration is required. Register by emailing your name and a contact number to hello@amplifycolumbia.com.
About Amplify
Amplify is the capital city’s new long-range cultural plan: a community conversation that identifies opportunities for broadening public participation in arts and cultural activities. The City of Columbia and One Columbia for Arts and History are collaborating to oversee the cultural planning process. Facilitated community conversations involving a broad cross sector of our community will focus on four core areas:
- Economic prosperity for the Columbia region
- Cultural vitality
- Social and cultural equity
- Ways to embed arts and culture across the city’s Comprehensive Plan
AMPLIFY is the name given to the planning process and helps make visible its progress. As the name implies, the planning process will highlight existing arts, cultural and heritage resources of Columbia and recommend ways to strengthen these valuable assets in our community.
The leader or Amplify’s consulting team is Margie Johnson Reese, who served on the SCAC’s panel that reviewed General Operating Support grant applications this past May.
Go here for more information about Amplify.