Teaching for Healing and Transformation through the Arts: An Institute for 4th–8th Grade Teachers
In this free teacher program, you will explore strategies for helping teachers and students use art to process a year of individual and collective trauma. Through speakers, art and poetry workshops, and facilitated discussions we will provide opportunities for reflection and offer tools for cultivating healing, recovery, and transformation through the arts. The first two days of the program will take place online via Zoom, and the third day may take place at the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden on the UCLA campus, pending COVID-19 guidelines.
We are able to provide a $300 stiped for full participation in the program to help offset any childcare, travel, or other necessary expenses while you attend the program.
Speakers
- Dr. Andrea Aebersold, Director, Faculty Instructional Development, University of California, Irvine
Tanya Aguiñiga, artist and activist - Dr. Veronica Alvarez, Wallis Annenberg Director, Community Arts Partnership, California Institute of the Arts
- Dr. Jessica Bianchi, Senior Lecturer of Art Therapy and Art Education, Loyola Marymount University
- Tara Burns, Specialist for Family and K-12 Audiences, Hammer Museum
- Gabriel Cortez, Poet
- Dr. Kevin Kane, Director, Visual and Performing Arts Education Program, UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture
- Amorette Muzingo, Program Coordinator, Visual and Performing Arts Education Program, UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture
- Theresa Sotto, Associate Director of Academic Programs, Hammer Museum
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This teacher professional development program is organized by the Hammer Museum and the Visual and Performing Arts Education Program (VAPAE) in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. The program is designed for generalist and humanities teachers of grades 4–8; priority will be given to teachers in Title I schools in Los Angeles County. To encourage small group discussion and collaborative learning, the program will be limited to 30 attendees.
Participating teachers from Title I schools located within a 15-mile radius of the Hammer Museum are eligible to receive free bus transportation for one field trip to the museum or Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden starting in January 2022.
Academic Programs at the Hammer Museum are supported by City National Bank, the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, and Mary Kitchen and Jonathan Orszag. Additional support is provided by the the Brotman Foundation of California, the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation, the Sydney D. Holland Foundation, and Ellen and Teddy Schwarzman.
