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1998-1999 AIE Lecture Series

Fall 1998

The Pleasures of Writing and Reading Poetry
Kenneth Koch
Prize-winning poet, educator, and playwright; author of classic works on teaching poetry: Wishes, Lies, and Dreams and Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? Most recent books include: Making your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry and Straits: A Book of Poems.

When We Were Young:
Children's Art from a Critic's Point of View
Jonathan Fineberg
Professor of Art History and University Scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; recipient of the Pulitzer Fellowship in Critical Writing and the National Endowment for the Arts Art Critic's Fellowship. Recent books include: Discovering Child Art : Essays on Childhood, Primitivism and Modernism and The Innocent Eye : Children's Art and the Modern Artist.

The Role of Teaching in the Lives of Artists
Robert Freeman
Pianist, musicologist, and administrator; President of the New England Conservatory and, for 25 years, Director of the Eastman School of Music. Leadership positions include: American Musicological Society, College Music Society, National Association of Schools of Music, and the Center for Black Music Research in Chicago.

The Art of Making Art
Deborah Putnoi
A hands-on art-making workshop led by Deb Putnoi: professional artist, educator, researcher; highly acclaimed visual artist whose nationally exhibited paintings and collages are noted for their narrative and expressive content.

Discipline-Based Art Education:
Connecting Art to Education
Stephen Mark Dobbs
Visiting Scholar at Stanford University School of Education and at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; former President and CEO of the Marin Community Foundation and Senior Program Officer for the Getty Education Institute for the Arts. Most recent publication: Learning in and through Art (1998).

The Art of Teaching and Learning Dance at
The Artists Collective
Students and instructors from this nationally recognized urban community art center in Hartford, CT, founded by Jackie McLean, will demonstrate the process and products of their intensive dance training, including their work in YABOO (rites of passage ceremony conceived and choreographed by Aca Lee Thompson, master choreographer since 1976). The Collective's dance director is Cheryl Smith, and its executive director is Dollie McLean.

Spring 1999

Black Self White Self:
An Artist and a Teacher Making Curriculum and Art
Wendy Ewald & Robert Hunter
Photographer Wendy Ewald and artist and teacher Robert Hunter discussed the photography/writing program, Black Self/White Self, designed by Ewald to explore racial stereotypes and implemented in Hunter's classroom in Durham, North Carolina. Students in this program are asked to represent themselves as if they were of another race and to consider the differences. Ewald and Hunter gave us insight into the workings of a strong relationship between visiting artist and classroom teacher.

Boulevard Arts Center:
Developing Community through the Arts
Patricia Devine-Reed
Boulevard Arts Center is celebrating its fifteenth year of service to the Englewood community of Chicago. Director Patricia Devine-Reed described Boulevard's struggle and survival as well as this art education center's approach to entrepreneurship and the arts.

Visible Knowledge
Rika Burnham
Rika Burnham, museum educator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and author of If You Don't Stop, You Don't See Anything, discussed her pedagogical approach to looking and learning in the setting of the art museum.

Building Institutions and Communities
through Partnerships in the Arts
Mitchell Korn
Mitchell Korn, President of Artsvision, has designed educational collaboratives (such as Chicago Arts Partners in Education/CAPE) among schools and arts institutions in cities throughout the United States (including Pittsburgh and Hartford). He discussed strategies for and impact of this innovative work, which necessarily transforms both the level of arts education and the structure of participating institutions.

The Sounds of Blue Guitars: The Arts and Aesthetics in the Learning Community
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Maxine Greene
Professor of Philosophy and Education (Emerita) and Director of the Center for Social Imagination at Columbia University, Maxine Greene is a luminary in the field of aesthetic education. She will share her vision of the power of the arts in education to transform student indifference to a state of wide-awakeness.