Discover how to engage your students through the arts and increase their critical thinking, creativity and communication skills
Featured Presenters:
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Philip Yenawine, Visual Arts Educator
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Margot Greenlee, Choreographer/Educator
Following the success of the 2004 Eric Booth workshops, the Arts Education Directors of Greater Cincinnati (of which CAA is a member) are pleased to present the 2008 Arts Integration Workshop: Making Connections. This daylong workshop will be engaging, highly interactive, and will help participants understand how to connect visual art and dance with academic content standards.
- Qualified participants will receive CEU credit for this workshop.
- Will take place centrally and conveniently in a Greater Cincinnati venue.
More details and RSVP instructions will be available this summer!
About the Presenters
Philip Yenawine is co-founder of Visual Understanding in Education (www.vue.org), a non-profit educational research organization that develops and studies ways of teaching visual literacy and of using art to teach critical thinking and communication skills. VUE’s curriculum, Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), is in use in schools across the U.S. as well as in seven countries of the former Soviet Union. Yenawine is the recipient of the National Art Education Association Award for Distinguished Service, 1993; National Art Education Association Museum Educator of the Year, 1991; New York State Governor's Award for Visual AIDS and A Day Without Art, 1990; New York State Governor's Award for The Museum of Modern Art's program for people with hearing disabilities, 1984.
Margot Greenlee, Teaching Artist and Choreographer, completed her MFA at The Ohio State University and began conducting dance residencies for the Ohio Arts Council’s Arts in Education program in 1996. She was a company member with the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange (www.danceexchange.org) from 1999-2007. There she worked as a performer, arts educator, choreographer, and project director. Currently, she is an Adjunct Artist for the Dance Exchange and serves on the arts faculty at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C.
