Center for Spiritual and Ethical Education: Character and Arts Event
Art and The Soul
The Creative Arts as a Tool for Character Development:
A Day at the National Gallery led by Artist and Art Educator Mary Ellen Carsley
Thursday, November 14, 2019
10:00am-3:30pm
Throughout the centuries, Art has been regarded as the soul of humanity. Aristotle defines The Soul as both potentiality and actuality. It is alive and real. Art is that aspect of the human soul which both reflects and defines growth, potential, values, and form in human culture. It both reflects and shapes the soul of a culture.
Spend the day exploring the National Gallery of Art’s permanent collection as you learn strategies to encourage positive character development through the visual arts. In addition to touring highlights of the collection, this will be a hands-on day of discovery and learning how to better foster student engagement in exploring art as both a mirror of and shaper of societal ethical values. These are activities you will be able to take back to your teaching studios to help your students develop critical seeing, thinking, and listening skills, as well as practice in civility and making cross curricular connections. Tips for navigating difficult topics, building cross curricular units, and creative lesson planning using a wide variety of museum resources that are budget and time friendly will also be presented.
1. To encourage Visual Arts teachers to integrate ethical values into their current curriculum into order to foster student engagement, critical thinking, and civility skills, and practice in listening, observing and perceiving.
2. To provide teachers with simple strategies in employing the visual arts into a student driven conversation regarding ethical values as well encouraging cross curricular connections.
3. To introduce teachers to easily accessible resources that they can use to create a new lesson plan, rework an old lesson plan, or introduce a new cross curricular unit in an engaging and logistically feasible way.
The Creative Arts as a Tool for Character Development:
A Day at the National Gallery led by Artist and Art Educator Mary Ellen Carsley
Thursday, November 14, 2019
10:00am-3:30pm
Throughout the centuries, Art has been regarded as the soul of humanity. Aristotle defines The Soul as both potentiality and actuality. It is alive and real. Art is that aspect of the human soul which both reflects and defines growth, potential, values, and form in human culture. It both reflects and shapes the soul of a culture.
Spend the day exploring the National Gallery of Art’s permanent collection as you learn strategies to encourage positive character development through the visual arts. In addition to touring highlights of the collection, this will be a hands-on day of discovery and learning how to better foster student engagement in exploring art as both a mirror of and shaper of societal ethical values. These are activities you will be able to take back to your teaching studios to help your students develop critical seeing, thinking, and listening skills, as well as practice in civility and making cross curricular connections. Tips for navigating difficult topics, building cross curricular units, and creative lesson planning using a wide variety of museum resources that are budget and time friendly will also be presented.
1. To encourage Visual Arts teachers to integrate ethical values into their current curriculum into order to foster student engagement, critical thinking, and civility skills, and practice in listening, observing and perceiving.
2. To provide teachers with simple strategies in employing the visual arts into a student driven conversation regarding ethical values as well encouraging cross curricular connections.
3. To introduce teachers to easily accessible resources that they can use to create a new lesson plan, rework an old lesson plan, or introduce a new cross curricular unit in an engaging and logistically feasible way.
Summer 2019 Workshops and Classes:
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A NEW COURSE!!!
Design, Draw and Paint Your Dream Garden Date: Saturday & Sunday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m, August 10-11 Location: United States Botanic Garden This course is designed for the gardening enthusiast who also enjoys sketching and would like to try their hand at garden design. The course will include an overview of the history of gardens, particularly gardens in America as inspiration. Fundamentals of design drawing, landscape sketching, and garden design strategies will be introduced. Each student will leave with a garden design and “dream’ garden vignette sketch all in color. |
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Upcoming Class: How to Draw and Painting Orchids at US Botanic Gardens DC
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Date: Sunday, January 27, 2019
Time: 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM This course is designed for beginning and intermediate students interested in developing their drawing and painting skills with botanical subjects. In this course, we will focus on orchids, a diverse and beautiful group. The workshop will include a careful study of line, light, shade, shadow, basic color theory, and botanical anatomy. We will cover basic compositional principles, from both Eastern and Western traditions, and an exploration of dry and wet media, including pencil, ink, colored pencil, and basic watercolor. We will also explore how to make media from botanical sources, creating stained papers, and using the media in a field sketching environment. |
St. John's College, Annapolis, MD:
Community Art Exhibition 2019
Two Works on View,
including the completed Sparrows and Doves.
Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD: Two works on view in Art on Paper 2019
Exhibit opens March 28th, 2019
In Annapolis, MD: One work on view in December 2018
Small Wonders
14th annual small works show at the Maryland Federation of Art's Circle Gallery, 18 State Circle.
Over 100 works from artists around the country, Puerto Rico, Canada and Mexico.
Exhibition Dates: December 1-December 22
https://mdfedart.com/
14th annual small works show at the Maryland Federation of Art's Circle Gallery, 18 State Circle.
Over 100 works from artists around the country, Puerto Rico, Canada and Mexico.
Exhibition Dates: December 1-December 22
https://mdfedart.com/
In Elmira, NY: Three works on view November thru December 2018:
Portobello received Honorable Mention!
Small Works 2018
A National Juried Exhibition of Artwork 12 inches or Smaller
Our fifth annual Small Works, juried by Rick Pirozzolo, executive director and curator at the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, NY, is a national juried exhibition of work 12 inches or smaller. The exhibition features the work of 103 artists from 26 states.
Exhibition Dates: November 16 – December 15, 2018
http://www.mainstreetartsgallery.com/
A National Juried Exhibition of Artwork 12 inches or Smaller
Our fifth annual Small Works, juried by Rick Pirozzolo, executive director and curator at the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, NY, is a national juried exhibition of work 12 inches or smaller. The exhibition features the work of 103 artists from 26 states.
Exhibition Dates: November 16 – December 15, 2018
http://www.mainstreetartsgallery.com/
