Teaching Artist Resources
Teaching Artists Career Day at Columbia College Chicago
Photo credit: Crystal Griffith and Joel Wanek.
Teaching Artists Career Day
October 7th 10:30 – 6pm
Columbia College Chicago
Conaway Center, 1104 South Wabash, Ground Floor
“A teaching artist (artist educator) is a practicing professional artist with the complementary skills and sensibilities of an educator, who engages people in learning experiences in, through, and about the arts.” -- Eric Booth source: http://www.teachingartists.com/whatisaTA.htm
Your body of work can engage a child, a life, a community…
Columbia College Chicago students, faculty and alumni are invited to join community arts professionals to learn about the field of Teaching Artists. Faculty are also encouraged to bring their classes.
Students will have the chance to learn about resources at the college and in the community that can support their interest in becoming a teaching artist.
Highlights include:
10:30am Keynote: Eric Booth, nationally renowned teaching artist, founder of the Teaching Artist Journal, and author of the recently published The Music Teaching Artist’s Bible: Becoming a Virtuoso Educator.
12pm The Gaze: Looking Closely at the Role of Teaching Artists in Education, the Arts and Youth Development: What is a Teaching Artist? How do they work in schools and other community settings?
Bringing together the varied voices and perspectives of veteran professional artists, Columbia faculty and students, this panel will look at and discuss actual examples of teaching artists working in the field and examine the impact of teaching artist work as both professional artists and educators.
Moderated by Nick Jaffe, Office of Academic Research and Editor of the Teaching Artist Journal, with Cynthia Weiss, Director of Project AIM, Center for Community Arts Partnerships (CCAP) of Columbia College Chicago, and and Corinne Rose of the Museum of Contemporary Photography. The panel will feature CCC faculty and photographer Dawoud Bey, filmmaker and CCC alumni John Lyons, poet and arts educator Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein of Urban Gateways and CCAP, and Michael Johnson, a current CCC Theater major.
Other panels include:
2pm “Voices from the field – Artists and Youth”: Presented in two parts, presenters and audience will examine arts-based service learning for college students, how this work can be connected to the college's Critical Encounters initiative, and look at teaching artists' work in the field. Presenters include Paul Teruel of Columbia College’s Center for Community Arts Partnerships and Dia Penning of the College’s Center for Teaching Excellence. Guest speakers will be Hope Daniels of the College’s Radio Department and Eric Scholl of the College Television Department. In the second hour, hosted by Dan Godston of Chicago Teaching Artists Collective, the audience will have a chance to hear from youth working with teaching artists from several community based organizations from across the country.
4pm “Balancing a Teaching Artist Career and Your Art Making Practice”: Moderated by Caroline Juhlin of the Portfolio Center at Columbia College Chicago. This networking panel and reception will include Columbia College Chicago alumni and faculty – photographer Cecil McDonald Jr., visual artist Carol Ng-He of the Chicago Teaching Artist Collective, Lindsay Obermeyer of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and performance artist Dennis Wise – discussing strategies they have developed to make this career choice work for them.
Please note that panel times are subject to change.
Ongoing:
12:00 noon to 6PM: Teaching Artists Community and College Resource Fair: Throughout the day, representatives from Columbia College’s Office of Academic Research, Teaching Artists Journal, the Center for Community Arts Partnerships, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the College Portfolio Center, ShopColumbia, the Office of Alumni Relations, and several Chicago based Community Organizations will be available to discuss what they do and share their experiences of being and working with teaching artists.
Students can learn about the resources that are available for them, begin to network for possible job options and connect to student organizations that support their interests.
Community Organizations that employ teaching artists are welcome to send their teaching artists to attend the full day or part of their day.
Organizations can also send resource materials to:
Columbia College Chicago
Attn: CCAP, Joanne Vena
600 South Michigan Ave.
Chicago IL 60605
Any community organizations that would like to host a table should contact Joanne Vena directly at 312/369-8854 or jvena@colum.edu.
Refreshments will be provided.
The Teaching Artist Career Day is sponsored by Columbia College Chicago’s Center for Community Arts Partnerships and Office of Academic Research, in collaboration with the Teaching Artists Journal; Columbia College’s Office of Alumni Relations and Center for Teaching Excellence; the College Portfolio Center; the Museum of Contemporary Photography; Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs; the Art, Entertainment and Media Management Dept., Arts, Youth and Community Development Graduate Program at Columbia College Chicago; and the Chicago Teaching Artists Collectve. Special thanks to the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation for their generous support.
