Art Museums Can Help Me Teach?
NDE Fine Arts, NATA, & Smithsonian American Art Museum
Have you ever heard of, or used, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s (SAAM's) diverse education resources? Join this fast-paced presentation for an orientation to SAAM’s wide-range of live programs and printed resources tied to the National Core Arts Standards (which closely relate to Nebraska's Fine Arts Standards).
Plus how to find primary resources to start digital collections using the Smithsonian's Learning Lab. Best of all? These resources are free!
Art Museums Can Help Me Teach?
This presentation will be held via zoom.
Meeting Link; Meeting ID: 937 5128 1648; Meeting Passcode: 101010
Thursday, Feb 23, 2023, 07:00 PM
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What Will You Gain?
As you explore artworks, artists, and the creative process, you’ll expand your repertoire of how to tell America’s stories through arts-interdisciplinary activities that you can immediately use in your K-12 classrooms. Lesson examples include using art and art strategies to teach visual art, history, science, ELA, and music.
Discover a place-based learning project complete with lessons, video interviews, and examples of the impact on students’ ability to see and care about their community. Materials used for the presentation will be shared with you, so you can adapt its tools for your curricula.
Who's Invited
- Visual Arts Teachers
- Music Teachers
- Theatre Teachers
- Media Arts Teachers
- Dance Teachers
- Any Content Area Teachers
- Arts Organization Staff Members
- Administrators
- ESU Professional Developers
- Anyone looking for ways to incorporate the arts into their teaching!
Your Presenter Peg Koetsch
Peg Koetsch is the REACH Education Specialist (Rural Engagement in Art, Culture, and History) for the Smithsonian American Art Museum. As a former program manager at the National Museum of Natural History, she designed and assessed the museum’s first national outreach education program. Along with teaching art in public schools, Peg has been the education curator at art museums including the Seattle Art Museum in Washington, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Arts in Wisconsin, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in New York.
Peg is also a John F. Kennedy National Teaching Artist with her Museum-in-Progress program. Since MIP’s inception, Peg has co-created more than 250 interactive exhibitions in schools across the country with students in grades pre-K-12.
Mark Your Calendar
This event will be held via zoom on Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 7 PM CT/6 PM MT.
The session materials will be sent via email. The session will be recorded.
Nebraska Department of Education
Mailing: PO Box 94987, Lincoln, NE 68509-4987
Email: cody.talarico@nebraska.gov
Website: https://www.education.ne.gov/finearts/
Phone: 4023147822
Twitter: @NDE_FineArts
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Nebraska Art Teachers Association
Email: memberservicesdirector@gmail.com
Website: https://www.nebraskaarteducators.org/
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Twitter: @NebArtEducators
Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery
Email: KoetschP@si.edu
Website: https://americanart.si.edu/
Location: 750 9th Street Northwest suite 3100, Washington, D.C., USA
Phone: 703.861.6535
Facebook: facebook.com/americanart
Twitter: @americanart
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