Tag Archives: Arts in Education Program

Think Big: Shawn LaVoie, AIE’13

By Marin Jorgensen 05/10/2013 09:28 am | 3 Comments

To Shawn LaVoie, art is inevitable. And he urges future students in the Arts in Education Program to engage and partner with students in other cohorts to find new and creative ways to educate across disciplines. Read More…

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PZ’s Artists-in-Residence Present Work

By Jill Anderson 04/26/2013 03:32 pm | 1 Comment

The Project Zero Artist-in-Residence initiative piloted this year offers Arts in Education master’s students a chance to spend a year engaged in a Project Zero idea, theme, question, or research project through the creation of an artwork. Read More…

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Clowning Around, With Purpose

By Jennifer Doody 06/12/2012 09:29 am | Add a Comment

Recent graduate Laura Ricci, Ed.M.’12, has combined her love of theater and children in her work as a professional therapeutic clown. (From the “Harvard Gazette.” Photo by Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer.) Read More…

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Question & Answer: Jessica Delforge, AIE’12

By newseditor 05/09/2012 08:00 am | Add a Comment

Jessica Delforge was looking for some answers. That’s why she chose to take a break from her teaching job at a charter school and enroll in the Arts in Education Program at HGSE. Read More…

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Models of Excellence

By Jill Anderson 12/02/2011 02:43 pm | 3 Comments

Years ago, Ron Berger, Ed.M.’90, began collecting superior samples of student project work with the hope of sharing it as a model for educators of what good work looks like. Photo: Ron Berger (right) with Lecturer Steve Seidel. Read More…

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Art, Architecture, and Activism at Askwith Forum

By Jill Anderson 10/28/2011 02:37 pm | 5 Comments

At last week’s Askwith Forum, key players in the development – Ellen Baxter of Broadway Housing Communities; artist, writer, and educator Faith Ringgold; and architect David Adjaye – spoke about integral components in designing the Sugar Hill Project. Read More…

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All That Jazz: Eric Oberstein

By Katy Kroll 08/10/2011 11:15 am | Add a Comment

As executive director of the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance, the New York–based nonprofit that supports the work of the Grammy award-winning Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Eric Oberstein, Ed.M.’10, oversees the performance, education, and preservation efforts of big band Latin jazz. Read More…

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Anna West, AIE’11: A Passion for Spoken Word Poetry

By Newseditor 05/16/2011 04:29 pm | 7 Comments

Anna West, 2011 AIE Intellectual Contribution/Faculty Tribute Award winner, came to the Arts in Education Program in order to step back, gain perspective, and “sharpen my writing pencil,” she says. Read More…

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Creative Thinking: Katrina Sarson, Ed.M.’03

By Katy Kroll 01/21/2011 03:18 pm | Add a Comment

When Katrina Sarson decided to go back to school, she already had a decade of experience under her belt as a TV producer. But what she really wanted to do was merge this experience with her other interest: arts in education. Read More…

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Music to Their Ears: Rhoda Bernard, Ed.M.’99, Ed.D.’04

By Jill Anderson 12/22/2010 06:21 pm | 3 Comments

As chair of the music education department at Boston Conservatory, Rhoda Bernard equips the next generation of music teachers with tools for educating all children equally as part of the school’s Students on the Autism Spectrum program. (Photo by Max Wagenblass/2010) Read More…

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