At MCAD the health and wellbeing of our students, staff, and faculty is our top priority. We are continuing to closely monitor the global outbreak of COVID-19 ("Coronavirus") and taking proactive measures in an effort to reduce the risk to the community’s health and promote safety throughout the campus.
Classes are postponed through Sunday, March 29. On Monday, March 30, all classes will move to remote instruction.
We will be in contact with our Practicum partner sites with our next steps and options on Monday March 23 via email.
MCAD TEACHING ARTIST MINOR
“A teaching artist is a practicing professional artist or designer with skills of an educator, who can effectively engage a wide range of people in learning experiences in and through the arts.”
The MCAD Teaching Artist Minor provides students the opportunity to develop meaningful connections between their studio art and design practice and teaching artist work in schools and a wide variety of community settings. The hands on coursework engages students in reflective teaching practices, research and application of learning theory, best practices in an arts learning environments and participation in arts education organizations where they gain hands-on experience through guided placements. Students who earn a Teaching Artist Minor are prepared to work as teaching artists in schools, community arts settings, after school programs, museum education, nonprofit arts organizations and more.
TEACHING ARTIST PRACTICUM
After the completion of the Teaching Artist Theory and Methods, students are involved in classroom observation, interaction, and visual arts infused teaching experiences. Collaborating with paired mentors and supervised by the Teaching Artist Minor Coordinator, students participate in two visual art residencies and shadow a teaching artist at work. In addition to on-site observation and teaching, students reflect on teaching experience, create lessons and assessments, budget lessons, and develop presentation packets required for residencies applications. The minor is supported by undergraduate requirements and the minor’s coursework.
For more information and course requirements check the MCAD website.
MCAD TEACHING ARTIST COORDINATOR
Teaching Artist Coordinator
Lynda Monick-Isenberg, Professor of Fine Art
Monick-Isenberg, Professor of Fine Art at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design coordinates the Teaching Artist Minor, teaches drawing and oversees MFA teaching courses and community placements. In addition to teaching and a lively art practice, she participates in the development and implementation of community-based teaching artist residencies throughout Minnesota and more. She has worked as peer coach, consultant and teaching artist for COMPAS, Minnesota State Arts Board, Minnesota Perpich Center for Arts Education, Minneapolis and St. Paul Public Schools, EngAGE Midwest, Washington DC Kennedy Center, Penland School of Craft and Lifetimes Arts from NYC recently receiving grants from the Knight Foundation and Aroha Philanthropy for her community work in drawing and arts and aging. She was a founding member of Form and Content Gallery Collective in downtown Minneapolis, the Jewish Women’s Artist Circle, past board member and mentor for Rimon: The MN Jewish Arts Council, facilitator of the MN Jewish Artists Lab and the cofounder of The Drawing Project,
A Minneapolis based visual artist and educator, Lynda Monick-Isenberg has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions locally and nationally installing large-scale tapestry commissioned work nationwide. Her work is included in Minnesota History Center, Minneapolis Institute of Art, and Weisman Art Museum collections. Drawing is essential and core to her practice and is rooted in inquiry and environmentalism, raising questions of equity, access, action and art and designs’ opportunity to address change. With partner Jay Isenberg she has implemented and curated diverse art and design exhibitions at Form&Content Gallery including Dialogue on the Wall – exploring the Israeli Palestinian conflict, Unbundling the Housing Crisis, Excavation of Zone 5, Found Objects, Beyond Branding, Sketchwork.
TEACHING ARTIST PRACTICUM WEBSITE
This website is managed by the MCAD Teaching Artist Coordinator and the majority of its content provided by the current class of Teaching Artist Practicum students. It contains a class blog with weekly observation journal entries, and lesson plans with images of student work.