START Workshop (arts infusion strategies for faculty and staff):
Saturday, September 8, 9:00am-3:30pm
Williams Visual Arts Building, 243 North Third Street
A high-energy workshop for staff and faculty, focused on developing course modules that integrate the visual and performing arts into a broad array of classes. Participants receive a $300 stipend to participate and, by the end of the workshop, will be well positioned to apply for funding to further develop their ideas during the spring semester. Participation in the START Workshop requires your registration, and we are now past the deadline to register.
This hands-on workshop will be facilitated by Baba Brinkman, Jan Cohen-Cruz, Jamie Simmonds, and John Weber. The START Project will be providing funding, starting in 2013, to develop modules into courses where students are exposed to using the arts as a way of communicating or examining ideas. In this way, the arts can be used to engage students in the creative process across a wide array of disciplines. The focus of this workshop is on developing such classroom modules and other curricular and co-curricular projects. We expect that many of the workshop participants will apply in November for support to develop their ideas during the Spring term, for implementation in the 2013–14 Academic Year.
The workshop will be held in the WVAB and the schedule for Saturday is:
8:30-9:00 Breakfast
This will be a much better breakfast than the standard Lafayette finger food, so please come and enjoy it and informal conversation.
9:00-9:30 Welcome from Provost Hill and an Opening Discussion
We will talk about Friday’s events and the upcoming day, and beyond.
9:45-11:00 Facilitated Brainstorming
In smaller groups—facilitated by our guests Baba Brinkman, Jan Cohen-Cruz, Jamie Simmonds, and John Weber—we will discuss the ideas that are brought forward for ways to infuse the arts into other disciplines. Thinking big is definitely encouraged.
11:15-12:30 Facilitated Brainstorming
A repeat of the prior session, where everyone will work with a different facilitator and group of colleagues.
12:45-1:00 Recap
We will briefly recap the morning sessions and describe the projects that will be presented in the afternoon.
1:00-2:00 Lunch!
2:00-2:30 Work Time
A short amount of time to collect thoughts for a final presentation of ideas.
2:45-3:30 Presentations & Critiques
Some of the ideas from the morning will be presented and then critiqued (in a friendly and supportive manner) by our four guests.
Please note that we expect the workshop participants to attend as many of the Friday events as is feasible.
Don’t forget to take time to spend time in the Grossman Gallery looking at Possible Realities. Proposals for the Karl Stirner Arts Trail and Stacy Levy’s environmental installation, Bushkill Curtain, under the “Mohican” Building arcoss the street from WVAB.