Artists in the Schools
2007-2008 School Arts Programming
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B-Girl Be: Celebrating Women in Hip-Hop
B-Girl Be is an internationally recognized program that celebrates the role of women in hip-hop and the positive contributions of hip-hop to global culture. We offer performers and speakers; writing and dance workshops; and training for teachers, administrators and students around the history and the culture of hip-hop and how it has and can be used for positive change.
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Gallery and Aerosol Art Wall Tours
Bringing students to Intermedia Arts’ galleries this year will be an eye-opening experience into local, community-based art that ties directly into many of the issues relevant to young people today, including immigration, mental health, media literacy, political action and the power that we all have to end violence in our communities. In addition, Intermedia Arts is nationally recognized as one of the only legal graffiti walls in the state of Minnesota. While exploring the history and practice of these aerosol art murals, these tours also discuss how legal alternatives to graffiti can be a positive alternative for young people.
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Media Workshops: Digital Photography and Video/Art & Activism
With Intermedia Arts’ new Digital Media Lab, schools and community members will learn the art of storytelling through digital video and photography. We offer school year residencies with media and new media artists who can work with you to create curriculum suited for your specific class needs. Thematic, topical or technical workshops can be designed for your school or class. Workshops can be held at Intermedia or your school. Our Art & Activism school-based workshops offer unique opportunities for students to interact with professional artists while providing teachers with creative approaches to their curriculum.
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Digital Technology Workshops
Do you need one-on-one assistance with your new media software? Are you looking for free and functional alternatives to expensive commercial software? Would you benefit from learning in a group setting, as you get to know your computer better? Or are you a student simply needing help with a school project that needs photos and videos? We can offer individual or group classes on various software, from PhotoStory for PC-users to iMovie for Mac users. Advanced classes for Final Cut Pro Studio 2 are also available. Great for artists creating demo tapes for grants, teachers needing AV material for classes, or students needing video or photography in their school projects.
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Moving Lives Speakers Bureau: Exploring Immigration and Human Rights
Multidisciplinary artists bring their unique stories and international experiences through their art as they share their life stories and experiences as immigrants, refugees, adoptees, asylees and community members from a global population who now call Minnesota home. Artists engage students, teachers and staff in dialogue and/or interactive art activities, with a focus on selected issues such as immigration and human rights.
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Talking Suitcases: Interactive Storytelling
If you had to leave your home today, what would you take with you? What would you leave behind? Our interactive storytelling workshop teaches students to tell their stories using suitcases filled with handmade art. These workshops address issues of immigration, home and homelessness, feelings of being an outsider, discrimination, loss, identity and language. Moving Lives presentations can be complemented by Talking Suitcases workshops offered by artists Susan Armington and Carla Vogel, providing your group with a truly out-of-of-the-box method of retelling and sharing stories of human trials and tribulations.
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Literary Workshops and Residencies: Creative Writing & Spoken Word
At Intermedia Arts, we believe that everyone can be a writer! Our artists will work with your students to explore literacy through the art of creative writing and/or spoken word performance poetry.
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SASE Wings: One-On-One Creative Writing Mentorships
SASE Wings is an innovative mentoring program designed for avid young writers, ages 8-18. Together, mentors and mentees explore their worlds and develop their writing skills through guided reading, writing and conversation.
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Student Matinees: 7th Annual Political Theatre Festival
Teatro del Pueblo's Political Theatre Festival offers wonderful opportunities for educators to enhance their curriculums with currently relevant subject matter that students can become engaged in. We welcome college, high school, and middle school students to all of our performances, but especially to our educational matinees.
In the true tradition of Latin American theatre, Teatro del Pueblo collaborates with Intermedia Arts and the University of Minnesota to bring six new plays to the stage that take a fresh look at the politics of identity among the Latino community here, in the United States, and abroad. New this year will be a world premiere retrospective art exhibit of the political paintings of Spanish painter Santiago Zarzosa.
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Career Options
Many of our staff members are available to speak to classes about the career options available to students in the arts, specifically in arts administration. These include program management, theater production, marketing and public relations, graphic design, fundraising and gallery curator.
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Self-Designed Residency Opportunities
Do you have an idea for an artist residency based on your curriculum? Are you interested in developing an after-school program, art-based workshops or summer camp activities? We are happy to work with you to design a residency to fit your needs.
The visual arts, dance, literature, theater and media have been used throughout human history to challenge, to celebrate, to heal, to question and to explore. The arts have the power to engage your students in a way that is tactile, engaging and meaningful. Intermedia Arts is Minnesota's premier multicultural, multidisciplinary arts center. We are a gathering place where community members share stories through visual arts, theater, dance, music, media, and literature—from folk arts to hip-hop culture. We want to bring the power of the arts to you.
For more information on these or any of our community arts programs, call (612) 871-4444 or email info@intermediaarts.org.