Teaching artist

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Teaching Artists, artist / educators, community artists are professional artists who teach and integrate their art form, perspectives, and skills into a wide range of settings. Teaching Artists work with schools, after school programs, community agencies, prisons, jails, and social service agencies.The Arts In Education movement grew from the work of Teaching Artists in schools.

Eric Booth has defined a Teaching Artist: “A teaching artist is a practicing professional artist with the complementary skills, curiosities and sensibilities of an educator, who can effectively engage a wide range of people in learning experiences in, through, and about the arts.”

Additional thoughts on What Is A Teaching Artist may be found on http://www.teachingartists.com/whatisaTA.htm

In Chapter Three of the book "Artist-Teacher" G. James Daichendt (Artist-Teacher, A Philosophy for Creating and Teaching) writes:

"'Artist-teacher' (or teaching artist) is a powerful and prevalently used term in the field of art and art education. In fact, 'artist-teacher' rivals the traditional title of 'art teacher' or 'art instructor' used by many working in the fields related to the visual arts. The largest museums and the smallest community art centers advocate its use to describe employees who are both artists and teachers. Graduate programs use it to attract potential students, whereas teachers from grade school to university campuses adapt its use for identity purposes. The term 'artist' (in all of these contexts) becomes a commodity to heighten standing and represent knowledge distinguishing oneself as a true combination of artist and teacher. Since the 19th century, many other artists and teachers have referred to themselves as artist-teachers. Most recently a series of conferences and a journal use a variation of the term 'artist-teacher' to differentiate themselves from other art education programs. Despite the wide use of the term, I purport a much different understanding. Artist-teacher, when used properly, is actually a philosophy for teaching. It does not presuppose an artistic lifestyle but uses the individual talents and learned skills or techniques of the artist and circumvents them into the teaching profession."

This term applies to professional artists in all artistic fields,

Teaching Artists have worked in schools and in communities for many decades. http://nysaae.org/docs/The_History_of_Teaching_Artistry_By_Eric_Booth.pdf. Philip Lopate. Journal of a Living Experiment, a documentary history of Teachers & Writers Collaborative and the writers-in-the-schools movement. New York: Virgil Press, 1979. Jane Remer. "A Brief History of Artists in K-12 American Schooling." Teaching Artists Journal, Volume I, Number 2, 2003. Michael Wakeford. "A Short Look At A Long Past." Putting The Arts In The Picture: Reframing Education in the 21st Century, Edited by Nick Rabkin and Robin Redmond. Center for Arts Policy at Columbia College Chicago, 2004.

On April 16, 2011 Th Association of Teaching Artists http://www.teachingartists.com/ convened the First National Teaching Artists Forum. The Forum was held at the Center for Arts Education, in New York. Leaders in the Teaching Artist field such as Eric Booth, Nick Rabkin, Dale Davis,Jane Remer along with the Association of Teaching Artist Board and the Center for Arts Education staff brought together and led a group of nearly fifty participants to help advance the work of Teaching Artists http://www.teachingartists.com/TAforum.htm.

References

http://nysaae.org/docs/The_History_of_Teaching_Artistry_By_Eric_Booth.pd

G. James Daichendt (Artist-Teacher, A Philosophy for Creating and Teaching. University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Philip Lopate. Journal of a Living Experiment, a documentary history of Teachers & Writers Collaborative and the writers-in-the-schools movement. New York: Virgil Press, 1979.

Jane Remer. "A Brief History of Artists in K-12 American Schooling." Teaching Artists Journal, Volume I, Number 2, 2003.

Michael Wakeford. "A Short Look At A Long Past." Putting The Arts In The Picture: Reframing Education in the 21st Century, Edited by Nick Rabkin and Robin Redmond. Center for Arts Policy at Columbia College Chicago, 2004.

== External links

• The Association of Teaching Artists
• The New England Consortium of Artist Educator Professionals
• The Chicago Teaching Artists Collective
• Teaching Artists Organized, San Francisco
• The Teaching Artist Journal Website
• The Center for Arts Education [1]