Anacostia Lantern Walk

Adjoa leading workshop                    Photo by Mike Briscoe

The Lantern Walk was inspired by the story of African American families who built their homes in the historic Barry Farm / Hillsdale neighborhoods in Anacostia by candlelight after returning home from a long day’s work. Presented by the 11th Street Bridge Park and Washington Performing Arts.

More photos of lantern walk

Photo by Matt Campbell

Self-Advocacy & the Arts Training

I had an opportunity to train with Master teaching artists Erica Rooney and Nancy Volante from Everyday Arts in Special Education (NYC). They led teaching artists in training on arts activities that promote self-advocacy skills for high-school students with disabilities. They demonstrated multiple activities in dance, theater, music, and visual arts with a special emphasis on:

• How to extract multiple lessons and value from any given arts activity
• How / why / what makes arts valuable tools for teaching and learning in a special education classroom
• How to create new activities and adapt your own activities with the above in mind

Thanks to Susan Oetgen for organizing this valuable training opportunity!

Connecting Text and Image

Wow! I found this video of me and writer Joy Jones discussing how to connect text with images in books that the National Museum of Women in the Arts did over 7 years ago for their Arts, Books and Creativity (ABC)  a model arts integration curriculum that marries visual art and language arts in bookmaking. 
http://artbookscreativity.org/video/connect-text-and-images/

Step by Step Collage portrait

Before 3rd grade students start their cut-paper collage portraits I show them an exemplar to demonstrate the steps.