Closing the Gap: Summer Intensive Workshop

Closing the Gap: Summer Intensive Workshop for Educators
July 11, 10-4 PM
FREE for all educators in Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Duplin, New Hanover, Pender, Onslow, and Sampson counties. Registration Required
Reimagine classroom learning through a free, hands-on professional development workshop that brings arts integration into the core K–8 curriculum with practical, creative strategies you can use right away. Work with regional teaching artists Shannon Newby and Medina Demeter to explore engaging ways to bring core subjects to life through making, movement, and cross-curricular connections. Arts integration supports all educators!
Lunch and all materials will be provided. Register with a fellow educator and double the impact at your school.
A snapshot of your workshops:
Join Shannon Newby in an exploration of “Caroline”, CAM’s large outdoor sculpture by NC artist Vollis Simpson. In this hands-on, cross-curricular workshop, you will discover how Simpson’s whirligigs and kinetic sculptures can inspire learning across visual art, design-engineering, writing, and science. Participants will leave with a standards-aligned, adaptable lesson plan and a guided tinkering experience building a mini automaton while exploring motion, simple machines, problem solving, and storytelling.
Inspiration can flow from the most unexpected places: a word, a moment…industrial strength tin foil. Create with teaching artist Medina Demeter to experience using unlikely supplies to design costumes inspired by Andy Warhol’s Silver Clouds. Participants will explore how materials can inform movement and how costumes can interact through space.
Free for all educators in Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Duplin, New Hanover, Pender, Onslow, and Sampson counties. Participating educators will receive a certificate of completion to submit to their respective counties for CEU credit consideration.
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About the artists
Shannon Newby: Shannon Newby has a passion for facilitating playful, creative learning experiences. She has a background in education and studio art, and has taught workshops in both traditional and nontraditional settings, including museums, churches, schools, community centers, festivals, and Etsy headquarters in Brooklyn, NY. Shannon has created large-scale, site-specific installations for Marbles Kids Museum, the city of Raleigh, and the Portland Children’s Museum in Portland, Oregon.