Contemporary
Community Curriculum Timeline:
*CCC Teacher Artist Workshops
February through June 2000.
Beginning in February 2000 year, 25 urban and suburban teachers participated
in a semester-long workshop series at University of Illinois at Chicago
studios and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Professor
Olivia Gude, along with artists-in-residence Heather McAdams, Mary
Patten, and Bernard Williams introduced curriculum and project ideas
that challenged many of the unconsidered and unseen boundaries of
conventional art education. The teachers and artists worked collaboratively
to explore ways in which teachers could make significant connections
between their own experiences as learners and artmakers and their
students’ parallel experiences of learning and artmaking.
The CCC teachers developed and implemented curriculum that uses contemporary
artistic practices as the means of interdisciplinary investigations
of vital themes in students’ lives and communities.
CCC Workshop
Teachers Thoughts on How Introducing Contemporary Art Practices Changes
Art Education
*Contemporary Contexts
in Art Education
a CCC symposium for teachers at the Museum
of Contemporary Art in Chicago
March 31,2000.
For
more information on the CCAE Symposium
*Contemporary Community Curriculum Show
an exhibition of 21st-century art projects
for middle school and high school
Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago
June 16 through July 15, 2000.
For pictures
of the Contemporary Community Curriculum show.
*CCC Evaluation & Vision Meeting
June 29, 2000
Teachers, artists-in-residence, high school student representatives,
art education professors, and funders met at the CCC Curriculum
Show for a day-long discussion to consider the significance of the
curriculum generated by the project and the effect of CCC on the
pedagogical practices of participating teachers. The event included
brainstorming sessions on the kind of information a CCC website
should include and on possible structures and goals for future CCC
projects.
For excerpts
from reports by CCC evaluators.
*Contemporary Community Curriculum exhibitions
at the Museum of Contemporary Art
Robert B. and Beatrice C. Mayer Education Center
Gallery
Fall 2000.
MCA Exhibition 1
Memory Museum, an installation
by art teacher Mathias Schergen and the students of Jenner Elementary
School
Contemporary ABCs project by art teacher Ruth Felton and the students
of Haven Middle School
MCA Exhibition 2
Power of Advertising project
by art teacher Tracy Van Duinen and the students of Austin Community
Academy
MCA Exhibition 3
Life’s Deal: Deck of Cards
project by art teacher Lisa Wax and the students of Whitney Young
High School
Video as Installation projects
by art teacher Robert Moriarty and the students of Morton West High
School
Moment in Time Video project
by art teacher Kim Fitzer and the students of
Hinsdale Central High School.
Hair Today project by art
teacher Sandra Campbell in collaboration with students of Oak Park
and River Forest High School
* Shape-Shifting: Curriculum
Change in the Postmodern Era
lecture by Kerry Freedman and invitational
student art show based on CCC paradigms
University of Illinois at Chicago, October 30, 2001
Professor Kerry Freedman of Northern Illinois University is one
of the most significant thinkers in contemporary art education.
Her books, Culture Curriculum,
and Art Education: International Perspectives (with F. Hernandez)
and Postmodern Art Education: an
Approach to Curriculum (with P. Stuhr and A. Efland) are
important explorations of the roles of art education in a multi-cultural,
postmodern world. In a recent article in Studies
in Art Education, "Social Perspectives of Art Education
in the U.S.: Teaching Visual Culture in a Democracy," Freedman
contributes significant concepts to the emerging debate about expanding
the content and aims of art education. Professor Freedman has taught
and consulted in over twenty countries. She is a member of the national
Council for Policy on Art Education. In 2000, Kerry Freedman was
elected a Distinguished Fellow of the National Art Education Association.
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