Author: Bliss, Mary Louise; Ambler, Nancy Morison; and Strong, Barbara R.

Publication Year: 1979

Media Type: Report

Summary:

Artists are working daily alongside classroom teachers, art specialists, and volunteer assistants in a growing number of schools across the country. These practicing artists - professional and amateur - are collaborating with students and teachers, sharing their own particular vibrance and vision. In this monograph, we will examine some of those creative collaboration - their raison d'etre, their organizational structures; their duration and support systems.

Abstract:

Artists are working daily alongside classroom teachers, art specialists, and volunteer assistants in a growing number of schools across the country. These practicing artists - professional and amateur - are collaborating with students and teachers, sharing their own particular vibrance and vision. In this monograph, we will examine some of those creative collaboration - their raison d'etre, their organizational structures; their duration and support systems. By extrapolation, we will attempt to provide some guidelines which readers may wish to utilize in forging such an alliance of their own.

The reasons for fostering collaborations are many and varied. They range from the pragmatic (i.e. to offset current school program limitations resulting from lack of funding) to the ideal (i.e. to help teachers and students become better world citizens through a firsthand understanding of other races and cultures (p. 5)

CONTENTS
Across the country: artists, teachers and students.
Artists and schools: coming together.
Artists from the community.
Artists from out-of-town.
Artists as part of a national program.
Collaborations: reading the maximum potential.
Paving the way: determining your goal and objectives.
Reinforcing the collaboration: cementing the partnership.

Arts & Intersections:

Categories: Arts Education