Teaching Artist Handbook, Volume 1: Tools, Techniques, and Ideas to Help and Artist Teach

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"THE TEACHING ARTIST Handbook Series is about presenting ideas, models and experiences that we hope will be useful to you as you create original teaching artist work that flows from your unique expertise, interests, and questions as an artist and as a person. This series is not about presenting a specific approach to, or methodology of, teaching artist work. If teaching artist work is but a dimension of arts practice, then it should be as inventive and idiosyncratic as art-making. Just as art compels us in its combination of what is specific to one artist, or to a group of artists’ experience and vision, and what is common to all humans, so too can your own way of teaching be exciting to you and your students as something specific to you, and also freeing to your students as they make an artistic medium, or many mediums, their own." -Introduction Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Teaching Artist Handbook Series Introduction......Page 12 About This Volume......Page 18 Part I: Tools, Techniques and Ideas......Page 24 1. What Will I Teach?......Page 26 What to Teach: Ideas and Context......Page 27 What to Teach: Concrete Steps......Page 50 2. How Will I Teach?......Page 79 How to Teach: Ideas and Contexts......Page 80 How to Teach: Creative Tensions in Teaching Artist Work......Page 84 How to Teach: Concrete Steps......Page 107 3. Is My Teaching Working?......Page 157 Part II: Context......Page 198 4. Who, What, How, Why and Where (Do We Go from Here?): The Teaching Artist in Context......Page 200 5. A Brief, Broad History of the Teaching Artist......Page 223 References......Page 256 Index......Page 259