TEACHER PROGRAMS
TEACHING WITH ART
2007-2008
Teaching with Art is an interactive professional development opportunity for Virginia Beach City Public School teachers. This program is part of VBCPS PDP course offerings. Using the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia’s (CAC) art exhibitions as a point of departure, Teaching with Art instructors lead participants through educational activities geared to enhance their pedagogic practices.
Teachers will:
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view contemporary art
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work collectively with other teachers
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develop critical thinking skills
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participate in writing and/or hands-on activities
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discuss ways to link visual art to other disciplines
Teaching with Art program dates:
Wednesday, November 7, 2007 (Instructor: Sharon Clohessy)
Tuesday, December 11, 2007 (Instructors: Amy Walton and Ragan Cole-Cunningham)
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 (Instructors: Amy Walton and Ragan Cole-Cunningham)
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 (Instructors: Amy Walton and Ragan Cole-Cunningham)
All Sessions 4-6:30pm at the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia
(4-4:30pm review CAC exhibitions, mingle with peers; 4:30-6:30pm TWA course.)
Exhibitions on view at CAC for the 2007-2008 academic year are as follows:
October 4-December 30, 2007
Peter Eudenbach: Pneumatic Lens
Eudenbach uses ordinary objects and places to create sculptures, videos, and installations. His pieces evoke humor through witty combinations of materials and attention to detail. Eudenbach delivers an absurd functionality where both mechanical application and fetishized aesthetic collide. His sense of serious play reflects an interest in artists such as Duchamp or Magritte, while the work’s functionality evokes experimental tenets of someone like Thomas Edison. Unlike Duchamp, Eudenbach’s works are retinal, both metonymically and metaphorically posed. The lens, the video, and the fixed view exhibit a new sense of innovation to the 21st century readymade. Eudenbach’s intuition, coupled with rational choices, brings about the everyday world in a way we haven’t seen. There is a utopian quality to Eudenbach’s work. He turns something common and germane into something funny, magnificent, and magical. To learn more about the artist visit petereudenbach.com.
Aimee Helen Koch: Grave Gardens
Aimee Helen Koch's photographs of Paris grave sites capture the flora and fauna-- both natural and artificial -- that adorn tombs in a cemetery. Ceramic bouquets and silk flowers intermingle with lichen grasses and decrepit roses where the viewer of the photograph starts to question what is real and what is artifice. Through lush perspectives and color, the combination of materials, and the photographers’ sense of subject, the photos act as a metaphor for life and death.
October 26-December 30, 2007
Stephen Vitiello: Slow Planes Fast Trees (sound works and documents)
Slow Planes, Fast Trees (sound works and documents), a solo exhibition by Stephen Vitiello is the first time CAC has exhibited a body of work by a sound and media artist. Opening on October 26, 2007, Vitiello will debut “Slow Planes,” a site-specific work based on field recordings of airplanes and jets from inside and outside of CAC. He will be showing a series of visual and sound works that relate to the experience of the Virginia environment. Originally from New York, the artist is now an Assistant Professor of Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and Archivist for The Kitchen, NYC. The work comes to CAC courtesy of The Project gallery and the artist. Please visit Stephen’s website to learn more! ww.stephenvitiello.com
January 10-March 23, 2008
Adia Millett
Adia Millet uses found materials and constructs places “that you can walk through and others that you can only peer into with voyeuristic intent.” Millet’s doll size/full size apartment buildings furnished with miniature bassinets and bedside pistols imply that the American dream and disaster, home and the world, are separated by the thinnest of walls. For this exhibition, her new work will continue to explore spaces and cast-off materials of today’s world.
January 17-March 23, 2008
Edgar Arceneaux: The Agitation of Expansion
Edgar Arceneaux continuously works on the themes of forms manifested in language and how knowledge is derived from them. In his drawings, objects and film installations, personal as well as collective memories, both consciously and unconsciously, branch out and cross over through a combination of elements which often appear conflictive.
Forms are revealed through repetition, the accumulation of experiences, and often even in the poetic redundancies of language itself. This exhibition, a collection of material strategies realized through objects, drawings, film, and slide projections examines the significance of the inquiry into scale and meaning and uses structuralist film maker, Morgan Fisher’s, 1976 Peugeot 504 as an anchor point.
TRANSFORMATIONS: Creating Authentic Connections Through Writing and Art
A national summer institute for educators
August 11-13, 9am-4pm daily
Presented by: Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach City Public Schools and Virginia Commonwealth University.
For all visual and language arts teachers in grades 1-12.
Participants will:
- Focus on concept/theme-based curriculum.
- Explore authentic connections between visual arts and language arts.
- Utilize contemporary art and artists at the leading contemporary art museum in Virginia.
- Deepen understanding of major international artists featured in the Transformed exhibition including Felix Gonzales-Torres,
Tara Donovan, Tom Friedman, and many more.
- Strengthen visual literacy skills and inquiry-based strategies.
- Increase knowledge of art history, art criticism, art production and aesthetics.
- Participate in engaging lectures, group activities, gallery explorations, meet artists and writers.
- Receive curriculum materials and museum resources.
- Work with nationally recognized art, language arts and museum educators.
- Faculty: Sharon Clohessy, Vicki Daiello, Marilyn Stewart, PhD, Sydney Walker, PhD, Robin Hoffman, Fran Sharer
- Co-Directors: Ragan Cole-Cunningham and Anne Wolcott, PhD
Tuition:
- 10% discount for current NAEA members!
- $100 for those desiring 60-recertification points through public school systems.
Please inquire with your respective school district to ensure recertification points. - $478 for 2-hour graduate credit through Virginia Commonwealth University (includes $100 for materials fee payable to CAC upon registration).
Registration Deadline: July 11, 2008
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia
2200 Parks Avenue
Virginia Beach, VA 23451
www.cacv.org
Contact
Alison Byrne, CAC Associate Curator of Education
757.425.0000 x.29 or email at alison@cacv.org.
