The author came to America to learn more, not just about special education, but about the importance of nurturing one's love for the quest of discoveries that constantly lead to other revelations, which eventually give rise to more inquiry questions that bring about reflections generated interpersonally or intrapersonally. In this article, the…

This review presents a rare blend of a scholar's insight into research and a teaching artist's insight into what the implications of that research can and should be for all teaching artists, regardless of their field. The author thoroughly examines Daniel Serig's 2006 research "A Conceptual Structure of Visual Metaphor" (Studies in Art Education,…

As the moniker "teaching artist" embeds itself deeper into the lexicon, it seems time to examine subsets of the appellation and provide finer, subtler definitions. Each of those included in this article has arisen in answer to specific needs or desires of schools, programs, teachers, institutions, and communities. Each has also informally earned a…

The FESNOJIV (the Spanish acronym for the State Foundation for the National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras), more commonly known as "El Sistema," teaches 300,000 of Venezuela's poorest children in the nationwide music learning program. Many begin attending the "nucleo" as early as age two or three, and the vast majority continue well…

This article offers eight recommendations for teaching artist training programs. These recommendations based on the findings of the Ohio State Based Collaborative Initiative report may be useful to arts and education organizations as they design training experiences for teaching artists developing arts-integrated workshops for teachers; they may…

In this article, the author shares her experiences of the universality of art making and artistic experience of being a dancer and teaching artist. She describes her performance at Kohler, a worldwide leader in plumbing products in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where she had an epiphany dancing in a toilet factory--a sudden, intuitive moment of…

What is an artist-teacher (or teaching artist)? Is it someone who practices a dual profession or is it something more, perhaps a philosophy of teaching? George Wallis, a nineteenth-century artist and teacher, introduced the earliest known use of the term when defending his educational practices at the Manchester School of Design in 1845 (Wallis,…

The author has been a theater artist in Chicago and Elgin public schools for over 10 years, and for the last four she has been leading professional development workshops for teaching artists and classroom teachers both in the United States and abroad. Teachers all over the world have asked her the same questions: "How do you get new teachers…

This article presents a study conducted by the author about teaching artists. Ninety-three working teaching artists were surveyed about their working conditions as well as their overall experience of being a teaching artist. In addition to the survey, ten teaching artists were drawn from the surveyed sample and were interviewed at length. Both…

The current focus on professional development for teaching artists is not a new development in the United States. Since the Lincoln Center Institute first coined the term "teaching artist" in the early 1970s, there has been increasing focus on the unique characteristics necessary for artists who choose to work in educational settings. This article…

This article reflects the voices of the authors who are three early childhood tertiary educators and who have presented at the Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Arts Educators Conference held in Wellington in July 2007. The authors revealed many common threads that interwove throughout their individual presentations and made visible an emerging…

This article presents an analysis of Nilaja Sun's one-woman play, "No Child" . . ., that applies the Studio Habits of Mind framework to reveal essential features of great teaching artistry and great teaching. The play conveys much about twenty-first century schools and the policies that control them; about respect, equity, justice, and the lack of…

In this article, the authors describe VSA arts Tennessee's pilot arts in education project and the many good questions that have arisen from it. From VSA's inception in 2002, Lori Kissinger, Executive Director of VSA Tennessee, planned to find a way to partner with the Tennessee Department of Education based on other state models. VSA arts…

In this article, the author relates how she discovered that she was a book and paper artist after she had been kicked out of two high schools, went to art school, had a degree in Political Science and Women's Studies, had another one in Education, and was teaching school full time. After she constructed and stitched her first multisection…

Wayne Strange is a sixth-grade student and Bob Mishlove is an art teacher at Nathan R. Goldblatt Elementary School. Bob is a participant in the Building Community, Curriculum and Leadership initiative of the Chicago Public School's Fine and Performing Arts Magnet Cluster Program for elementary schools. Collaborating with the Chicago Arts…