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1997-1998 AIE Lecture Series

Fall 1997

The Art of Improvisation
Gary Burton
Three-time Grammy Award Winning Vibraphonist; Member of the Percussion Hall of Fame; Executive Vice President of the Berklee College of Music

Multiplicity and a Common Language: A Call to the Arts
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Maxine Greene
William F. Russell Professor Emerita in the Foundations of Education Teachers College, Columbia University

Expressing Diversity Through Performance:
Autobiographies of Learning
The HGSE Arts in Education Performance Workshop
under the direction of
Gretchen Berg
of the modern dance company "Berg, Jones & Sarvis;" teacher of theatre, dance, and performance art at Bowdoin College and as an artist-in-residence throughout New England.

The Art of Thought
Todd Siler
Artist, scientist, inventor, and educator. Author of Breaking the "Artist-of-the-Year" Award from the New York City Teachers Association and United Federation of Teachers.

Integrating the Visual Arts with Mathematics
and Literature in Early Childhood
Stuart J. Murphy
Author of the MathStart series of children's books (published by Harper Collins) as well as coauthor/designer of math programs for elementary and high school students.

The Art of Hollywood: Where Byron Meets Brando
Jeremy Leven
Novelist, film writer and director, television producer, and psychologist. Leven's novels include: Creator (Putnam, also a film for Universal Studios) and Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J.S.P.S. (Knopf). Past and current film writing and directing projects include: Don Juan deMarco; Legend of Bagger Vance; The Double; The Gambler; and Lovers, Liars, and Thieves.

Encore Performance by
The Artists Collective, Hartford, CT
Student dancers and musicians, led by their artist instructors,will present the approach to teaching and learning employed by this nationally recognized community arts program, including the Yaboo ceremony of Rite of Passage.

Myth, Mask, Legend, and Life Story
Suzanne Benton
Internationally acclaimed sculptor, printmaker, mask performer, and educator.

Spring 1998

Actors in the Classroom: The Challenge of Incorporation
Dale Byam
Director, Educator, Founder and Coordinator of Actors in the Classroom at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU

Art and the Cultures of Communities
Judith F. Baca
Artistic Director of the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) in Venice, CA. Baca's educational community mural programs have resulted in the production of over 70 murals in almost every ethnic community in Los Angeles, including the internationally known Great Wall of Los Angeles.

Talking Pictures:
Education & Interpretation in Museums at the Millennium
Ronne Hartfield
Women's Board Endowed Executive Director of Museum Education at the Art Institute of Chicago

Arts Education in the Lives of the Underserved
A.B. Spellman
National public arts official, poet, and writer on jazz

Philanthropy and the Arts
Joan Shigekawa
Associate Director, Arts and Humanities at the Rockefeller Foundation

Dance Lecture/Demonstration, including excerpts from Gershwin's An American in Paris
The Bronx Dance Theatre
Presented by Neil Goldstein, Executive Director, along with educators and students from this 25 year old after school community arts center and the public school that emerged from its work.