Teaching Artist Podcast

Jeannie Siegler was my high school art teacher!! We reconnected a few years ago and she’s shown the same generosity she always embodied. She was one of those teachers that made me want to teach and now remains a mentor full of encouragement. I loved getting to know more about her background in this episode! Jeannie began her teaching career through the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, then taught in Washington D.C. public schools including Western High School, which later became Duke Ellington School of the Arts. She spent time teaching on the Rosebud Sioux reservation in South Dakota before settling outside Missoula, Montana where we first met as teacher and student.

She spoke about her experience on the School Support Team for the state of Montana and how seeing the inner workings of many schools and districts along with the political mechanics surrounding them helped her understand the complexity of the issues in education. Jeannie offered advice for teachers and shared her challenges.

We talked about setting up darkrooms in our basements, connections between science and art, and finding time for art-making. I loved getting to chat with Jeannie and share her wisdom and spirit with you!

Blog post with images and links: https://www.teachingartistpodcast.com/episode-63-jeannie-siegler/

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These mini-episodes are a way to share more art by amazing teaching artists as well as some resources and tips, challenges, shout outs, and wisdom from my 5 year old. The goal is to make these weekly, but we'll see how that goes!

FEATURED ARTIST
I’ve been working on more ways to support and highlight teaching artists and one idea that I’m starting right away is a weekly featured artist opportunity. Featured artists will have their work shared on our social media and website as well as mentioned here on these mini-episodes of the podcast! Yay! You can apply here.

RESOURCE / TIP OF THE WEEK: NAMES!
Paula Liz shared an incredible lesson to start the year! Whether you're just starting or are a little way into your school year, this is a great way to learn your students' names and help them get to know each other. I talk about the lesson and the importance of names and pronunciation and my daughter shares her name.

Paula Liz recommends the book Teach Us Your Name: Empowering Children to Teach Others to Pronounce their Names Correctly by Huda Essa.

She created a fantastic bilingual Spanish/English video for this lesson and you can get the lesson on TpT.

Follow her @ms.paulaliz and subscribe to her YouTube channel for more amazing lessons.

Here's another great book to use for this lesson: Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow.

Here are a few articles and books on translanguaging:

• Translanguaging vs. Code-switching
• The Translanguaging Classroom: Leveraging Student Bilingualism for Learning
• Codemeshing in Academic Writing: Identifying Teachable Strategies of Translanguaging
• Translanguaging for Emergent Bilinguals: Inclusive Teaching in the Linguistically Diverse Classroom
• The Translanguaging Classroom: Leveraging Student Bilingualism for Learning

CHALLENGE OF THE WEEK
Online school... My daughter started online kindergarten last week. Whew! Beyond the technology, working through the emotions she's going through right now has been quite a challenge. If you also have a kindergartener, I would love to connect! In this episode, I talk about it a bit and she chimes in.

SHOUT OUTS
Here, I read a review and give a shout out to an amazing listener. I always mention how reviews help get the podcast seen by more people. This is because of the way Apple Podcasts ranks and recommends podcasts... and that’s about all I know about it.

I also just love to hear your thoughts! What do you like about this show? What should I do more of? Leave a review and let me know! Thanks!

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So, I said I wasn’t going to release an episode this week...and I’m not really. This is a mini-episode to share more about our upcoming exhibit. I am so excited to be working with Maria Coit of Curated for Kids on this project.

Contemporary Art For Young Audiences is what we’re calling this collaboration between Teaching Artist Podcast and Curated for Kids.

Our first exhibit is titled See Where It Takes You.

This is an online group exhibition opening July 10, 2020.

During this Great Pause while we are spending more time at home connected through devices, this exhibit brings contemporary artwork and inspiration to children in their homes. This is more than an exhibit - it is also a resource for parents and art teachers.

This exhibit showcases for young audiences the work of nine artists, many of whom are also teachers. The show includes video interviews with artists sharing their creative process, the meanings behind their work, and their advice for aspiring artists.

The title comes from The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. “Just make a mark and see where it takes you.” says Vashti’s teacher in The Dot. This book is a favorite of elementary art teachers and has even inspired International Dot Day celebrations around the world. That first dot Vashti makes leads her on a journey of creating all sorts of dots, exploring color and scale, positive and negative space. Like many contemporary artists, she discovers an interest and digs into it, pushing her work in new directions.

Participating Artists:

Pamella Allen
Stephanie Barenz
Aaron Bos-Wahl
Deane V. Bowers
Nikki Brugnoli
Denise Gasser
Heather Lowe
Deborah Reilly
Alice Stone Collins

While our focus is on sharing artwork in an accessible way, the work will be for sale. 70% of sales will directly support the artists, while 20% will be donated to an incredible organization. We are thrilled to support Amplifier through this exhibit. They offer free programming for educators and have also developed at-home learning toolkits.

“The Education Amplifier program is committed to amplifying the voices of social change movements through art and community engagement by creating meaningful ways for educators and their students to join the conversation. We achieve this by collaborating with social change movements to create and distribute teaching tools such as artwork, lesson plans, art builds, and storytelling opportunities to registered Amplifier educators for their classrooms. We are bridging the gap between education and social change movements to inspire youth around the country to lead social change.”

Join us for our opening online event on Friday, July 10th in instagram live! We’re also planning to do an artist talk event series, so be sure to follow us @teachingartistpodcast and @curatedforkids. I can’t wait!!

You can support this exhibition and podcast in many ways! Find out how at www.teachingartistpodcast.com/support/

Jennifer Love Gironda is such an accomplished art teacher and artist. She shared really helpful tips on grant writing, teaching, and getting your art out there. I love how she approaches art and teaching and life with such a can-do attitude. She is so encouraging of other artists and teachers and committed to her art-making. She has been making a piece every day since January, 2012.

Jennifer Love Gironda is a teaching artist in every sense of the phrase. She studied art at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC where she obtained BFA and MAEd degrees. She has participated in numerous art shows and exhibits.

She says “My goal is to put some whimsy and light out into the world, a little of my heART. “

Jennifer has taught art in various grade levels from K-12 for over fifteen years and is a National Board Certified Teacher. She has written many successful grants for her schools and classrooms over the years. This year, she was recognized as making significant contributions to art and culture with the Liman Excellence in Arts Education Award from the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County.

I love her commitment to both teaching and art-making and how she builds connections. Everything is everything. Thank you, Jennifer!

Go check out her work and the work of the artists she mentioned!

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www.jenniferlovegironda.com

@artbyjlg artist instagram

@studiogironda teacher instagram

Kianga Jinaki - textile artist (@kianga_art)

Jason Fleurant, aka JaFleu (@trealtoonz and @jafleu)

Anthony Burks - (@ampburks)

Edel Rodriguez

John Parra - illustrator of several children's books, including Hey Wall: A Story of Art & Community and Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos

Adam Hillman (@witenry)

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Support this podcast. Subscribe, leave a review, or see more ways to support here.

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Blog post with images and links

I’ve been thinking a lot about how to share the incredible work of more teaching artists and also share some of the amazing resources I’m seeing as well as my own tips and experiences. That’s where these mini-episodes come in. I plan to include a few segments here. First, I’ll share a bit about a featured teaching artist. Then I’ll share tips and resources. Then some challenges, and finally shout-outs.

Featured Artist

I’m so excited to share Maria Coit’s work! She makes beautiful dreamy landscape paintings in oil as well as prints. Maria is a middle school art teacher and founder of Curated for Kids. I’ll be sharing her work on our instagram this week as well as on our blog.

Want to be a featured artist? Apply here!

Maria Coit is a painter and printmaker based in the desert of Southern California. She is a mother of three feisty kids and an art educator in addition to being a practicing artist. She says “Engaging in my own creative practice is vital to my ability to teach art, as well as be an effective parent.”

Maria’s work is intuitive in nature, guided by feelings and memories that are eternally linked in her mind by imagery. She documents moments infused with emotion and memory through photography, translating these through the physical & tactile processes of painting and printmaking. Through the physical act of layering colors and textures, she explores the effects of Time on the memories and emotions captured in her photographs. This work continually confronts the question, “how does Time, as an unrelenting force of change, affect our innermost thoughts and deepest memories?” The intuitive & exploratory processes she engages in highlight the change that Time affects within and outside of herself.

Resource: Printmaking at Home!

I will be sharing 6 Printmaking techniques for at home learning on Be Fun Be Kind later today!! If you miss the live workshop, there will be a replay available.

Challenge of the week

Time! Ah! Where does the time go? Are you feeling an intense lack of time?

Shout Out!

I was beyond excited when I saw Megan Driving Hawk post a photo of herself wearing the Teaching Artist mask and T-Shirt! I have been loving the work she shares and her advocacy. When Megan shares one of her stunning double-exposures, she also shares the indigenous land on which it was created using the Native Land App. Grab the Native Land app in the app store or google play and get a Teaching Artist shirt or mask at our shop.

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Follow: @teachingartistpodcast

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Support this podcast. Subscribe, leave a review, or see more ways to support here.

We also offer opportunities for artists!