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MCAD students Springbreak extends to March 29, 2020 after which the faculty is currently working on designing alternate forms for providing the curriculum. Any hours the sites cancel will be counted towards the students Practicum hours and alternate forms of Teaching Artist study will be instituted. In addition, any student who feels unsafe or willing to participate in one of the few ongoing site placements may make that decision.
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 Minneapolis College of Art and Design Teaching Artist minor provides MCAD students the opportunity to develop meaningful connections between their studio art and design practice and teaching artist work in educational and community settings. 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. MCAD 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 much more.
TEACHING ARTIST PRACTICUM
After the completion of the Teaching Artist Theory and Methods, students are involved in classroom observation, interaction, and visual arts 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 in a teaching residency. 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 required coursework which include: a Nonwestern Art History, Introduction to Psychology, Art in Community, Teaching Artist Theory and Methods, Teaching Artist Practicum and an Internship or an elective outside of their major.
For course descriptions and requirements see the MCAD website.
Teaching Artist Coordinator
Lynda Monick-Isenberg, Professor
Lynda Monick-Isenberg, Professor of Fine Art at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design coordinates the Teaching Artist minor, teaches Foundation Drawing and MFA teaching courses and placements. In addition to teaching and a lively art practice, she participates in the development and implementation of community-based teaching artist residencies. 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, CommonBond Affordable Housing, The Kennedy Center, Penland School of Craft and NYC Lifetimes Arts recently receiving grants from the Knight Foundation and Aroha Philanthropy for her community work in drawing and arts and aging. She is a founding member of Form&Content Gallery Collective, the Jewish Women’s Artist Circle, facilitator of the MN Jewish Artists Lab, cofounder of The Drawing Project, and a former board member and mentor for Rimon: The MN Jewish Arts Council.
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 and 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.