Macy Gallery Weekend Workshops

Making the Inanimate Animate

A one day workshop in toy-making

FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2011

Friday, May 20, 9:30 am - 5 pm

Macy Hall 447

Workshop led by: Timothy Clarke

A FREE WORKSHOP FOR TC COMMUNITY AND ALUMNI

Presented by The Macy Art Gallery and the Program in Art and Art Education at Teachers College

Explore the many ways you can use simple, plain paper, recyclables, cardboard, tape, glue, markers, paint, color pencils, strings and sticks to create flat and three dimensional puppets. Learn how these creations can become performance pieces in the classroom to promote creative thinking in students and supplement learning in other disciplines.

RSVP by email is required to reserve a space - macygallery@tc.edu

TIMOTHY CLARK'S BIO:

Timothy James Clarke studied Art Education at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY and started working for Jim Henson after graduation, making puppets for the Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Dark Crystal, and Fraggle Rock. Since then, he has independently invented and designed toys such as Sectors (Coleco) and Bogglins (Mattel), as well as stationary and cosmetics for EK Success and puppets and toys for Melissa & Doug Toys. Tim has worked with the White Plains, NY and Milford, CT school districts as a visiting artist for their Arts in General Education program.

This workshop coincides with the Macy Gallery exhibitions Game Show NYC,

May 16 - June 3, 2011. For details please see www.tc.edu/macygallery

RSVP by email is required to reserve a space - macygallery@tc.edu

An art teaching portfolio is not only a collection of student work, it is a reflection of a teacher's philosophy and can serve as 
a powerful tool in establishing a strong identity in an increasingly competitive employment market. Creating a teaching 
portfolio facilitates a critical analysis of a teacher's methodology and, over time, documents the evolution of a teacher's 
personal and professional development.

This workshop will provide an intensive training in developing a unique and memorable portfolio via lecture and hands 
on exercises. Areas covered will include selecting student work that serves as to illustrate a teacher's personal sensibility 
and developing a brand identity that will distinguish teaching candidates through font selection, color, and composition. 
Portfolio presentation and book binding techniques will also be demonstrated. Participants should bring printed documentation 
(photographs or computer printouts) of 10 - 20 samples of their students' artwork and their art teaching portfolio if they have one.

This workshop is particularly relevant for pre-service art teachers and in-service teachers working with them, 
as well as teacher educators in general.

This workshop coincides with the Macy Gallery exhibitions In Pursuit of Delight (an installation of photographs and video) and 
Written Spaces (an exhibition of Iranian typography), Jan 17 - Feb 4, 2011. For details please see www.tc.edu/macygallery.

We will consider digital media for the purpose of storytelling in addition to fostering teaching and learning. We will emphasize both acquiring production skills and understanding the theories and specificities of digital media, in order to develop a critical perspective that conveys a teacher's philosophy of teaching through the engagement of digital technologies. Ultimately, the workshop serves as an introductory course to practitioners of art education who would like to create an online presence and to use interactive media for artistic and teaching practices. The workshop is designed for participants with a basic understanding of Apple Mac computers. Participants are expected to bring their Mac laptops to TC on the day of the workshop. Software that will be covered in class will include Photoshop, Garageband, iMovie, Quicktime, Dream Weaver and WordPress.

This workshop coincides with the Macy Gallery exhibition Dialectal Dialect and a series of lectures on Chinese contemporary art hosted by the gallery.

WORKSHOP STRUCTURE:

The workshop will be conducted over one full day 9:30 am - 5:00 pm, and offered on two days to accommodate the maximum number of participants. Due to space restrictions it will be possible to accommodate up to 25 participants on each day.

The first half of the day will be dedicated to digital video. Participants will learn the basic techniques of capturing and editing video. The possibilities of using video for documentation of personal narrative will be explored. Issues of discussion will include subjectivity, gaze, and video as a reflective tool and its effects on the audience.

The second half of the day will focus on how a collaborative learning environment may be orchestrated through blogging, Wiki and podcasting. By integrating image, text, sound and video for online environments, the non-linear and interactive characteristics of digital media that can be employed for diverse approaches of storytelling will be explored.