PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
FOR TEACHERS

The Longwood Center for the Visual Arts is pleased to offer professional development workshops for teachers throughout the academic year. These Standards of Learning based workshops are designed for both the generalist and the specialist teaching kindergarten through grade 12. These workshops help teachers earn re-certification points, but more importantly the workshops help them learn methods of integrating art into their curriculum. The day-long workshops are generally held on Fridays, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

2007-2008 Workshops
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2007 - 2008 Workshops

What a Relief:  The Art of Printmaking
Friday 18 January 2008
8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
LCVA Lower Level
$35 includes all materials and lunch

Printmaking – both as developed in history and as a manageable art activity in today’s classrooms – will be the focus of this professional development workshop for teachers.  Art historian Dr. Donald Schrader will present an overview of the history and variety of printmaking techniques, followed by Longwood’s Kelly Nelson, who will offer tips about incorporating the skill in classrooms.  After a break for lunch (included in the price of the workshop), teachers will have the opportunity to mat and prepare their students’ art for exhibition in the Annual Area Youth Art Exhibition opening at the LCVA in February.  Teachers will leave the workshop with enlightenment, a resource packet including lesson plans, and five recertification points.

Middle Eastern Art:  Then and Now
Friday 18 April 2008
8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
LCVA Lower Level
$35 includes all materials and lunch
Registration deadline Friday 11 April

In this professional development workshop, teachers will explore both the rich traditions of art from Iraq and Iran and its still-vibrant practices today.  Hampden-Sydney College’s Mary Prevo will lecture on Mesopotamian art, while Longwood’s Erin Devine will introduce the work of New-York based Shirin Neshat, a photographer and filmmaker whose images of women in her native Iran have become internationally recognized and celebrated.  After the lunch break, the LCVA’s curator of education, Emily Gresham, will lead participants in an art activity designed for their own use in classrooms.  Like the printmaking workshop, this event conveys a resource packet with lesson plans and five recertification points.

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Art and Cultures: The Riches of China
A Horse of Course: The Equine Image in Art

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Art and Culture: The Riches of China

Re-Certification Points
5

Date
Friday,February 25, 2005, 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Description
Teachers will learn more about China to enhance classroom studies as they travel to the other side of the world through the LCVA’s art collection, TheRowe Collection of Chinese Art.  LCVA’s collection comprises works from 4,000 B.C.E. to the twentieth century and chronicles China’s numerous contributions that have impacted world history. The workshop begins with an informative slide lecture about China, a vast and diverse land of extraordinary innovation and beauty.

After an interactive gallery activity focusing on traditional customs and cultural practices, teachers will be given a guided tour of The Rowe Collection of Chinese Art, during which they will examine tomb figurines, bronze vessels, jade, pottery, and porcelain. After lunch at a local Chinese restaurant, participants will experience several hands-on activities to enrich lessons on China. A lecture exploring the differences between educational practices in China and the U.S. will engage participants. Each teacher will receive a resource folder filled with slides, color reproductions, and lesson plans.

Speakers
Dr. John Peale, Professor Emeritus of Longwood University, and Lydia Peale, retired educator from Prince Edward County High School, will speak on their extensive travels to China and their study of Chinese culture.

Dr. Stephen Keith, Assistant Professor of Education at Longwood University, will speak on his research regarding the differences between teaching methodology in China and in the U.S.

A Horse of Course: The Equine Image in Art

Re-Certification Points
5

Date
Friday, November 17, 2006, 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Description

Jeffrey Allison, Paul Mellon Collection Educator at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, will lead this workshop about the enduring images of horses in art history, tracing the ways in which artists have used the horse as subject matter over the millennia. Of the thousands of examples of rock art found at Lascaux, at Niaux, at Vallon-Pont-d’arc and other sites across France and Spain, nearly a third of the figures represent horses. No animal has been more important to us, or figured more prominently in our art, than the horse. From the moment our partnership was forged, horses have provided distraction and entertainment as well as power to build cities, roads, and pyramids and to feed the human race. For all these reasons, horses as subject matter have provided artists with shorthand to both meaning and commemoration.

This program was organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide Partnerships and is supported by the Paul Mellon Endowment.