Calling All Teaching Artists!
Teaching Artist Workshop Series
Six workshops over four Saturdays.
JULY 23 * JULY 30 * AUGUST 20 * AUGUST 27
Take one or take them all!
$40 – one workshop
$30 – Northstar members, students/seniors and all MN-based roster artists,
$120 – full series of six workshops – save 50%
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Workshop Descriptions and Schedule
Facilitators and Artists
General Info
Schedule of Workshops
To register for individual workshops, click ‘Add to Cart’ — or save more than 50% by registering for all six!
NEEDS OF THE TEACHING ARTIST
completed – Saturday, July 23, 2:00 – 5:00 pm
NEEDS OF THE CLASSROOM TEACHER
completed – Saturday, July 30, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
NEEDS OF THE CHILD
completed – Saturday, July 30, 2:00 – 5:00 pm
CREATING LESSON PLANS
Saturday, August 20, 9:30 am – 5:00 pm
How do I use planning backward to create lessons plans that make my teaching more effective and purposeful — both for teaching ABOUT my art form and for teaching other subjects THROUGH my art form?
A: Teaching ABOUT Your Art Form
9:30 – 12:30
Facilitator/Instructor: Mary Jo Thompson
Guest Artist: Nancy Donoval
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B: Teaching THROUGH Your Art Form
2:00 – 5:00 pm
Facilitator/Instructor: Mary Jo Thompson
Guest Artist: Rhonda Lund
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COMMUNICATION MAKES IT OR BREAKS IT
Saturday, August 27, 2:00 – 5:00 pm
Facilitator/Instructor: Mary Jo Thompson
Guest Artist: Beverly Cottman
What are the logistical and communication considerations of collaboration between teaching artist, classroom teacher and school setting?
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Workshop Facilitators & Demo Artists
Mary Jo Thompson
(Lead Facilitator)
Poet, Teacher, Coach, Facilitator
Lead Author of of the ARTFUL Teaching and Learning Handbook
Becca Barniskis
Poet, Arts Education Consultant, Founding Member of Artist-to-Artist
Editor, Teaching Artist Journal/Resource Roundup
Steve Busa
Co-founder/Artistic Director of Red Eye Theater
Arts-infused Curriculum Design and Collaborative Creation Expert
Beverly Cottman
Interdisciplinary Artist, Visual and Performance Art, Storyteller
VocalEssence WITNESS Program, Givens Foundation
Nancy Donoval
Storyteller, Story Coach, National Story Slam Champion Minnesota and Illinois State Arts Board Arts-in-Education Rosters
Anton Jones
Interdisciplinary Theatre Artist, Recipient of the Playwright’s Center/Jerome Foundation Many Voices Residency
Latisha “Tish” Jones
Spoken Word Artist, Slam Poet, Activist, Educator, Organizer
Artistic Director of TruArtSpeaks, City Pages “Artist of the Year”
Rhonda Lund
Storyteller, Mask Maker, Actor, Director
Artistic Director, Theater Nest Children’s Theater Company
Nadja Ruebenova
Arts Education Coach and Facilitator
Arts for Academic Achievement (Minneapolis Public Schools)
Linda Siverson-Hall
FAIR School Downtown, 3rd Grade Teacher
General Info
All the workshops take place in the Festaal Room of the Black Forest Inn
1 East 26th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55404
While these workshops are designed around the narrative arts – storytelling, spoken word, poetry, theater arts, etc. – the content applies across other disciplines and all artists are welcome.
For accessibility purposes, please refrain from wearing perfume, cologne and other scented products.
Northstar Storytelling League’s Teaching Artist Workshop Series Pilot Program is supported by the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council with funds appropriated by the Minnesota Legislature. This activity is funded, in part, by the Minnesota arts and cultural heritage fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the Legacy Amendment vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.