Signs and Symbols: The Community Arts Initiative Artist Project

Posted by admin on July 14th, 2010 and filed under community arts projects | 2 Comments »

For the “Signs and Symbols” project, children from after-school programs and community organizations across Boston looked at how words and characters are paired together to convey messages. Working with Cambridge-based artist and author Caleb Neelon, the children then created signs featuring their own verbal and character-driven messages.

The Community Arts Initiative is generously supported by the Linde Family Foundation.

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Culmination Ceremony Speech-Leah Prunty Dance Arts Grant Recipients

Posted by admin on July 9th, 2010 and filed under community arts grants | No Comments »

Hello! This is a video of the speech Mrs. Leah Prunty gave at the Youth Community Development Council Culmination Ceremony. Branches of the council consisted of high school and junior college students who came together to award worthy organizations a grant to help make positive changes in their communities. The grant supported the LPDA Summer Open Air Concert which took place on Saturday, June 12, 2010. The concert was a vehicle to get the word out about the importance of keeping arts education as a part of students regular learning experience in schools.The concert also raised funds to purchase classroom supplies for the Leah Prunty Dance Arts After School Performing Arts Program.

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The community art gallery-鄉民藝廊-2.mov

Posted by admin on July 9th, 2010 and filed under community art | No Comments »

Art shouldn’t be limited to the cities, and this art gallery in Yongjing demonstrates that, standing as one of Changhua Counties most beautiful exhibition venues. With Yongjing Elementary right across the street, students and teachers are a frequent sight crossing the bridge to visit the gallery. Not only is the gallery a perfect place for art and culture courses, it also provides a stage on which artists from the township and the county can shine.

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Welcome to the Art Institute of Chicago

Posted by admin on July 5th, 2010 and filed under community arts programs | 3 Comments »

This introduction to the Art Institute previews its world-renowned collection, inspiring gallery spaces, and dynamic educational programs. See more related videos at http://artic.edu/education_videos

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Food Service Culinary Arts Texas State Technical College

Posted by admin on July 1st, 2010 and filed under community arts | 2 Comments »

www.tstc.edu
Texas State Technical College offers
a certificate and associate degrees in Food Service and Culinary Arts. As a Food Service / Culinary Arts graduate, you can expect an exciting career filled with flexibility and professional rewards. FSC graduates have responsibilities ranging from menu planning, nutrition, scheduling, sanitation and safety. As a graduate of the program, you may hold titles such as cook, sous chef, kitchen supervisor, production supervisor, assistant manager, manager trainee, food and beverage director or baker.
Food service, the nation’s largest retail employer, accounts for three out of every ten retail workers. Projections for the next eight years also place the food service industry among the occupations with the largest job growth. Those specifics point to outstanding employment opportunities for skilled food service professionals. Add Texas Restaurant Association statistics showing $40,000, including bonuses, as the average salary for restaurant managers and you have the formula for exceptional careers. Additional factors make careers in food service appealing. Americans spend more than fifty percent of their food budgets eating out, and that percentage increases daily. Industry growth … excellent earning potential … future development prospects … all point to exciting and rewarding careers—careers like those you can prepare for in Texas State Technical College’s Food Service / Culinary Arts program!

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Counting the votes / more funding for the arts

Posted by admin on June 21st, 2010 and filed under community arts grants | 1 Comment »

Ryan Janek Wolowski
United States Capitol Building
Washington DC
11/11/2008

Ryan met up with Washington DC residents in front of the Nations Capitol Building in November of 2008 here is a clip of what Will had to say about the disappointment of the George W Bush administration as well as his thoughts on Barack Obama’s future as the 44th President of the United States of America.

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Barack Hussein Obama II born August 4, 1961 is the President-elect of the United States and the first African American to be elected President of the United States. Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from 2005 until he resigned on November 16, 2008, following his election to the Presidency. His term of office as the 44th U.S. president begins January 20, 2009.

He is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review. Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate in January 2003, won a primary victory in March 2004, and was elected to the Senate in November 2004. Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004.

As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, he helped create legislation to control conventional weapons and to promote greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. During the 110th Congress, he helped create legislation regarding lobbying and electoral fraud, climate change, nuclear terrorism, and care for U.S. military personnel returning from combat assignments in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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TEDxDetroit – Chazz Miller – 10/21/09

Posted by admin on June 17th, 2010 and filed under community arts programs | 1 Comment »

“Redefining a City By Changing Its Visual Landscape”

Chazz Miller speaking at TEDxDetroit. Chazz is the founder and muralist at Public Art Workz. Chazz founded Public Art Workz to stimulate community growth, provide a creative outlet for children and instill an appreciation of the arts. PAWZ offers enrichment programs in art and technology and helps to drive academic achievement.

http://www.publicartworkz.org

TEDxDetroit
The area’s leading creators, catalysts, entrepreneurs, artists, technologists, designers, scientists, thinkers and doers gathered on Wednesday, October 21st to share what they are most passionate about — positive ideas for the world from Detroit.

http://www.tedxdetroit.com

About TEDx, x = independently organized event

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

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Young Artists at Work 15th Anniversary Kickstarter Fundraiser

Posted by admin on June 13th, 2010 and filed under community arts program | No Comments »

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ybca/the-anniversary-print

Support a week-long printmaking master class that celebrates 15 years of Young Artists at Work and produces limited edition silkscreens for our backers!

The Story
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco developed a youth arts program fifteen years ago to give arts education opportunities to talented teen artists from underserved and disadvantaged communities. The program, called Young Artists at Work (YAAW), offers youth a hands-on experience in curating, art-making and media activism. The basic idea is simple: identify public schools where the arts programs have suffered the most, find students/budding artists at these schools who would benefit from the program, provide support and skills training to encourage the inner artist to flourish, and connect them to their immediate artistic community with a summer internship. Since the programs inception, over 300 young artists have participated in this program and they, in turn, have expanded the impact of the program to provided peer education to over 7,500 youth.

The Project
To commemorate the 15th anniversary of the youth arts program, we would like to create a limited edition silkscreen print as part of a week-long master printmaking class for current and past YAAW students who have shown promise in the medium. These 15 students will use the state-of-the-art facilities at Kala Art Institute (www.kala.org) to further their design and printing skills. Each student will produce one 15×18 self-designed silkscreen as part of the class in addition to a limited edition 15×18 anniversary silkscreen in collaboration with artist and teacher, Josefina Jacquin (http://josefinajacquin.com/). Our goal is to raise $7,000 to pay for the artist and studio time, as well as the materials used in the printmaking process, transportation costs and shipping fees.

About Our Collaborators: Kala Art Institute and Josefina Jacquin
Kala Art Institute, founded in 1974 by Archana Horsting and Yuzo Nakano as an international workshop and forum for ideas, provides exceptional facilities to professional artists working in all forms of printmaking, digital media, photography, and book arts. Located in the former Heinz ketchup factory in West Berkeley since 1979, Kalas 8,500 square foot facility houses an extensive array of artmaking equipment, as well as a public exhibition gallery, an art library and an extensive print archive.

A native of Santa Marta, Colombia, Josefina Jacquin obtained her BA at San Francisco State University (1995), and her M.F.A. at The San Francisco Art Institute (1997). Josefina has consistently exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions in the San Francisco Bay Area, specifically at The de Young Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Museum of the Legion of Honor and in numerous institutions both in the United States and overseas. Her work has also been included in permanent collections of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco and The Museum of Modern Art in Cartagena, Colombia.

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Ceramic and Pottery Art by Lakeside Pottery, Stamford, CT

Posted by admin on June 1st, 2010 and filed under community arts programs | 2 Comments »

For more about us: http://lakesidepottery.com

Lakeside Pottery is a ceramic art and craft educational resource for the community focusing on clay art. We seek to inspire creativity, foster self-discovery, and nurture an appreciation to learn about art through our pottery programs, special events and access to our studio, clay center and gallery.

IN OUR FACILITY ….
Learn the art of pottery through our ceramic art classes, using the potters wheel and ceramic sculpting, in a professional, spacious and well lit studio centrally located in Stamford, CT.

Instruction activities for children, adults and seniors include group classes (beginners and advanced), private lessons, after school art for kids programs and summer camp. Open Studio time can be purchased for independent work. Teachers professional development, corporate team building workshops, custom programs, birthday party events for children or adults and gift certificates are also offered. Our gallery include diverse handmade pottery work made by our instructors.

We service all of Southern CT, Fairfield, Westchester and Rockland County and Stamford, Darien, New Canaan, Greenwich, Westport, Cos Cob, Norwalk, Fairfield and Pound Ridge, NY

Lakeside Pottery
543 Newfield Avenue
Stamford, CT 06905
203-323-2222
www.lakesidepottery.com

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The Concordia University Theatre Department

Posted by admin on June 1st, 2010 and filed under community arts theater | 1 Comment »

Greetings from the Concordia University Theatre Department!
The Mission of the Concordia University Department of Theatre is to provide exciting and challenging educational experiences for students as well as high quality theatrical experiences for audiences. We will provide a rich blend of traditional classroom and hands on laboratory/performance opportunities that will prepare students for entry into professional careers in Theatre, graduate study in Theatre or to support and strengthen students in other fields such as education, business or ministry. We will provide a challenging variety of theatrical experiences that enrich the artistic, intellectual, cultural and spiritual life of the community in which we live.
For more information contact: Dr. Jim Seemann at seemann@csp.edu, 651-641-8896
For details on CSP Theatre faculty, scholarships, productions, courses, camps and more visit www.csp.edu/Theatre

The following narrators appear in this film: Mark Rosenwinkel, Dr. Jim Seemann, Becky Erickson, Andrew Eckhardt
This video was created by Concordia-St. Paul and Concordia Television Productions (CTP) under the direction of Andy Wyss

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