Arts in Education News & Events

AIE Fall 2009 Events

Gutman Gallery

October 5 – October 16, 2009
Gutman Library Reading Room

HGSE Arts In Education program students display visual art and documentation of arts-education work in Gutman Library, including textiles by Sarah Pfohl, photographs by Bridget Ganske and Jen Lehe, assemblages by Melissa Duphily,, puppets by Gemma Cooper-Novack, drawings by Apriil Lee and Julia Wolinsky, pottery by Beth Dalal, paintings by Lisa Gutting, Lindsay Grant, J.G. Boccella, and Ji Lim, and documentation by Rory Michelle Sullivan and Whitney Elliot.

Conroy Cabaret

October 15, 2009, 7-9pm
Conroy Commons, Longfellow Hall

Arts In Education student performances include flash fiction by Catherine Con, musical theater by Simone Zamore, poetry and jazz saxophone by Eric Oberstein, poetry by Gemma Cooper-Novack, Shakespearean monologue by Rachel Chapman, nonfiction by Steve Jordan, violin solo by Masha Wasilewsky, and voice by Susan Evans.

Silk Road Connect: Inspiring Passion-Driven Learning

October 22, 2009, 5:30 – 7:30pm
Memorial Church, Harvard University

Members of the Silk Road Project, led by artistic director Yo-Yo Ma, conclude a three-day workshop visit at HGSE—including discussion of Silk Road Connect, a multi-year public service initiative targeting middle schools in underserved communities in New York City—with an Askwith Education Forum performance by the Silk Road Ensemble and the presentation of the first Harvard Graduate School of Education Thelma E. Goldberg Arts in Education Award.

Continuing the Conversation: Building Community

October 30 - November 1, 2009
Gutman Conference Center (and elsewhere on the HGSE campus)

AIE alumni, current AIE students, and guests working in the arts-in-education field gather for the program's first full professional-development conference. Presenters include alumni from the Heinz Foundation in Pittsburgh, the Progressive Arts Alliance of Cleveland, the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., the Roundabout Theatre in New York, the Dallas Museum of Art, and elsewhere—with keynote speeches and plenary presentations by department founder Jessica Hoffmann Davis, Project Zero director Shari Tishman, and AIE director Steve Seidel. View an article about this event.

Michael Armstrong

November 18, 2009, noon-2pm
Gutman Library 305

The author of Closely Observed Children pays his annual visit to Steve Seidel's core AIE course to share his research on children's visual art and writings.

AIE Studio Nights

Conroy Commons, Longfellow Hall

AIE faculty director Steve Seidel opens the floor to AIE students who would like to share tricks of the trade from their experiences in the arts education field—theater games, songwriting exercises, drawing workshops, and the like. Meets every other Monday or Wednesday evening.

Career Services Workshops

Resume & CV and Alumni Networking Reception: October 26 4-6pm

Interviews and Negotiation, Alumni Panel: November 11, 4-6pm

Val Sutton, director of the HGSE Career Services Office, provides one resume and cover-letter workshop and one interviewing and negotiating workshop for AIE students.

HGSE Creativity Discussion Group

AIE '07 graduate, current HGSE doctoral student, and AIE teaching fellow Edward Clapp hosts informal but scholarly discussions of the elusive concept of creativity. Meetings are held every two weeks.

Harvard University Arts Coalition

Wednesday, October 28, 6pm

The inaugural meeting of a new student group dedicated to bringing together students from across the university to contribute to a draft public policy plan that would create greater access to the arts for all children.

Civic & Moral Education Initiative

2009-2010 Colloquium Series on Civic and Moral Education and the Arts

This year the CMEI, in a colloquium series that includes expert panels, student seminars, video presentations, visiting scholars, and new-research discussions, turns its focus to the arts and how learning in and through the arts intersects with the complicated world of civic and moral education.

Allston Brighton Arts Bridge

ABAB is a new community-based arts organization created by AIE'09 alumni Vicki Hayes, Kim Dawson, and Angélica Allende Brisk, with AIE master's candidate Maura Gattuso. This fall, in conjunction with the Honan-Allston Library and Brighton High School, they begin a new youth program in support of young people who want to tell compelling stories about their community through traditional artistic expression and new technology.

AIE 2008-09 Events

Object Lessons

The Sackler Museum
Harvard University
April 28, 2008

View Object Lessons: What We can Learn About Learning by Looking at Art (2.4MB pdf) to see highlights of the event, co-sponsored by HGSE and the Harvard Art Museum, that explored ideas about learning through the lens of the art museum.

AIE Events - Spring 2009 Events

With the exception of Gutman Gallery and Conroy Cabaret, the following events are open only to students enrolled in the HGSE Arts in Education program, except with special permission.

Emily Funkhouser, AIE’07 graduate, preschool educator, Google

Friday, January 30, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Longfellow
Hall 208

Emily Funkhouser, a preschool teacher at Google's "childhood center" in California, visits the current AIE cohort to discuss up-to-date educational research and the Reggio Emilia-based work she’s doing.

Emily Mello, AIE’03 graduate, director of education, Rose Art Museum

Thursday, February 5, 4:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Longfellow Hall 225

Emily Mello visits Roger Dell’s spring-semester course, S310F: Schools, Museums and Artists: Collaborative Endeavors, to discuss the university’s controversial recent decision to close the museum for reasons related to the financial crisis.

Tiziana Filippini, pedagogista, Reggio Emilia, Italy

Monday, January 12, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Larsen Hall G-08

Tiziana Filippini, from Reggio Emilia, Italy–home to one of the most outstanding early childhood education systems in the world and a rapidly diversifying population, presents ”When We Don't Agree: Moving Toward Productive Dialogue about Best Practices in Education.” Moderated by Steve Seidel, HGSE Arts in Education program director, and sponsored by the Making Learning Visible Project at Project Zero.

Ron Berger, director of instruction, Expeditionary Learning Schools

Friday, January 30, 4:15 p.m.
Larsen Hall G-08

Ron Berger, director of instruction for the Expeditionary Learning Schools and former classroom teacher in Western Massachusetts, shares his knowledge and expertise about project-based work in urban classrooms, as well as his experiences opening experiential learning schools – small, college-oriented public high schools in urban centers. Co-sponsored with the HGSE Teacher Education Program.

Cassius Johnson, policy analyst, Jobs for the Future

Wednesday, February 11, 10:00 a.m.
Gutman 303

Cassius Johnson, of Jobs for the Future, a Boston-based policy and advocacy organization, offers an insider’s insights into the relationship between policy and practice, particularly as it relates to the role of the federal government in educational policy and public schooling.

Jack Megan, director, Harvard Office for the Arts

Wednesday, February 18, 10:00 a.m.
Gutman 303

Jack Megan, director of the Harvard University Office for the Arts and member of the AIE Advisory Council, discusses the effort of the Harvard Task Force on the Arts to further legitimize the creative work of students in the arts at Harvard.

Arts and Creativity Research Colloquium Series

Tuesdays, 6:00- 8:00 p.m., throughout the spring semester

In response to the recommendations of the Harvard Task Force on the Arts, the HGSE Creativity
Discussion Group has launched the Arts and Creativity Research Colloquium series to develop a common platform for arts- and creativity-focused graduate students throughout the diverse Harvard faculties and surrounding academic community. The HGSE “CrDG” invites all Harvard graduate students to join in this scholarly dialogue and to propose ideas for upcoming presentations.

Conroy Cabaret

Thursday, February 26, 7:30-9:00 p.m.
Conroy Common, Longfellow Hall

Student performances include poetry readings, videos, dramatic Shakespeare monologues, and performances of a cappella, classical Chinese, and American folk music. Light refreshments are served, and joyful noises are made.

Eric Booth, founding editor, Teaching Artist Journal

Monday, March 2, 10:00 a.m.
Gutman 303

Eric Booth, founding editor of the Teaching Artist Journal and author of The Music Teaching Artist’s Bible, recalls his change of career from stage actor to arts educator—and shares his story of taking part in the ensuing, eventually successful struggle to legitimize the “teaching artist” profession.

The Quality of Qualities: Excellence in Arts Education and How to Achieve It

Monday, March 9, 10 a.m.
Gutman 303

Shari Tishman, the newly named director of Harvard Project Zero, Jen Ryan, PZ researcher (and AIE’07 grad), and Edward Clapp, HGSE doctoral student, AIE ore-course teaching fellow, and former PZ research assistant (when he was an AIE student), discuss the work that went into the PZ research study of The Qualities of Quality: Excellence in Arts Education and How to Achieve It with AIE director Steve Seidel’s class.

HGSE Arts in Education ParticipARTy

Thursday, March 12, 7:00 p.m.
Gutman Conference Center

As part of the HGSE Office of Student Affairs “program mixer” series, AIE students engage fellow HGSE students from other programs in arts-learning activities—making a collaborative mural, doing “contact improv,” playing theater games, and learning to sing harmonious a cappella.

HGSE Student Research Conference

Friday, March 13, all day
HGSE campus

Students participating in the annual SRC include Elena Belle White (“It’s Our Studio: The Nature of Mentorship at New Urban Arts”) and Sasha Heer (“Interaction As Improvisation: An Example of Infant-Teacher Relations Through Art”), as well as AIE teaching fellow and HGSE doctoral student Paul Kuttner (“Art and Organizing, Art as Organizing”).

Dick Deasy, founding former director, Arts Education Partnership

Monday, April 6, 10:00 a.m.
Gutman 303

Dick Deasy, founding former director of the Arts Education Partnership, discusses the AEP research findings on arts education policy that have appeared in such publications as Champions of Change: The Impact of the Arts on Learning, Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development, and Third Space: When Learning Matters.

Lois Hetland and Ellen Winner, senior researchers, Harvard Project Zero

Wednesday, April 8, 10:00 a.m.
Gutman 303

Lois Hetland and Ellen Winner, senior researchers at Project Zero and coauthors (with Shirley Veenema) of Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education, delineate the diverse roles for research in relation to policy, advocacy, and practice.

Maggie Jacobstein and Nick Appelbaum, AIE’08 graduates, museum exhibition
researchers, Ralph Appelbaum Associates

Thursday, April 9
Location TBA

Maggie Jacobstein and Nick Appelbaum, AIE’08 classmates last year and now colleagues at the museum exhibition-design firm founded by Nick’s father, come up from New York to discuss their first year of post-AIE work life.

Gutman Gallery

April 19–25
Gutman Library Reading Room

AIE students display their photographs, paintings, videos, three-dimensional art works, and various visual representations of their educational use of the arts in the annual spring-semester exhibition.

Audio for Audience Development at the Harvard Art Museums

Thursday, April 23, 4 p.m.
Sackler Museum

Harvard Project Zero director Shari Tishman and Harvard Art Museums education director Ray Williams lead alumni, current students, and advisors of the AIE program in museum-learning activities at the Sackler Museum.