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

Register for ‘Creating Lesson Plans’ – AM

B: Teaching THROUGH Your Art Form

2:00 – 5:00 pm
Facilitator/Instructor: Mary Jo Thompson
Guest Artist: Rhonda Lund

Register for ‘Creating Lesson Plans’ – PM

Register for ALL SIX workshops – $120


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?

Register for ‘Communication Makes it or Breaks it’



Or attend ALL SIX WORKSHOPS for only $120 — more than a 50% discount!



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.