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Annie Painter's Graduate Art Courses
and Workshops
for Teachers and Children
email Annie at anniepainter@msn.com for more information
Graduate credit can be arranged through Portland State University and offered cooperatively by Annie Painter & Assoc.
and Portland State University.
1. Year round full day Art Break at Annie's studio in Sisters,
Oregon: 4-6 people per session--no more. $100 each includes supplies and handouts.
Color and Design with Cut Paper Creations, Monoprinting, and Drawing with childhood development are favorites for small
group work.
2. Basic Teacher Art Institute: 5 days,
3 graduate credits
This is the course-updated yearly-that launched Annie's Art Institute* work now in its
25th year in Oregon and nationally where Annie consults. More than 2000 teachers and artists who teach use the
engaging lessons and methods tested with thousands of students of all ages in every possible environment.
Combine refreshing personal studio work with the study of childhood development.
Leave with practical, engaging lesson plans, assessment tools and samples (including Annie's book). Use the elements
and principles of design with common media for uncommonly beautiful, child-friendly results. Plan lessons you'll love
to teach, inspired by science, art, cultural studies, literature, imagination.
Includes color and design with new cut paper creations, drawing and painting in
early childhood, and a surprisingly manageable clay curriculum that can be used with or without firing! Includes
exploration, slab sampler, final project, how to create boards, slats, rollers, safety, lesson design. Schools use
with science, social studies and literature (nurse log, Haiku poems, volcanic cross sections, clay home for a story
book character, for example).
Join the more than 2000 teachers for whom this course has changed the way
they understand, value, enjoy and teach the arts in their classrooms.
*Annie founded the Art Institute program when she was an elementary principal in Gresham.
She has a background as an artist, writer and elementary and secondary teacher.
3. Color, Design & Cut Paper Creations for
Teachers, 3 days.
2 graduate credits can be arranged. Sisters, Oregon
Simple easy-to-teach color and design lessons result in dazzling projects for all ages,
creative thinking, lesson design for high achievement, sample projects that link science, social studies,
cultural studies. Make colorful teaching tools and samples for your classroom. See sample photos and view videos on
this website.
Leave with a 25-hour curriculum and understand how to manage color and
design in the classroom with no mess or worry.
4. Practicum graduate credit can be arranged for teachers who
have already completed one of Annie's graduate courses and want the 'next step' or some custom designed work.
5. Abstract Pop Up Paper Sculptures linked to literacy…or
not! ANNIE'S NEW FAVORITE: Abstract pop-ups inspire figures of speech and more. Inspired by the abstract pop-up
engineering of David Carter whose books are in major art museum stores and on Amazon, Annie spent two weeks developing
a brilliantly colored abstract lesson for 3rd grade through adult artists using just 3 design elements. Following
Carter's habit of adding text after design, students embellish with alliteration, metaphor, or even ABC fanciful
word inventions. See photos on home page.
6. VISUAL ART AND LANGUAGE ART-NATURAL LINKS:
Fabulous Face in a Frame that Fits-an imaginative, simple crayon resist and water color lesson that combines Annie's
color and design methods with writing, content knowledge and main idea with supporting details. Tested nationally, a
favorite at all ages. "Drawing predictions" based on text, is also a well-tested art & literacy event.
Combine with #7, below for a full day that links visual thinking with language or content studies.
7. BLOCK METAPHOR & VISUAL THINKING
Use a variety of visual strategies including children's blocks, to help clarify new material, recall learned
concepts, show new ideas, demonstrate understanding of complex stories, facts and relationships in science,
social studies, literature and more. Use art media and hundreds of children's wooden blocks to construct meaning.
8. DRAWING AND CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT:
Learn to create drawing prompts that help children create new ways to show information, relationships,
creative perspectives, social and cultural ideas and much more. Learn to 'read children's art' (non-psychologically)
to find out what the child knows and what has meaning. Also learn how to teach observation drawing skills in child-friendly
ways that maintain personal creative growth while using technical skills and new tools. Handouts. Slides.
9. CLAY AS A THINKING TOOL WITH NO FIRING:
Clay becomes a way to show learning and express new ideas inspired by science, literature and social studies. Annie
brings all tools and supplies. A very popular sequence K-6. Usually a 4-5 hour teacher workshop or a 3- hour children's
lab. Includes clay history told as a story, exploration making 'nothing you can name.' a super slab sampler done with a
partner, a board and a roller, an elaborate often ten foot long construction based on a theme…water features, a park,
geology or an imagined environment, for example. Recycling and safety instructions. Handouts. Slides.
10. COLOR AND DESIGN FOR CHILDREN AND TEACHERS:
Offered as a workshop, a graduate course and a school residency that includes parent and staff workshops, and co-teaching
in each classroom. Children learn simple color theory to create their own beautiful hand-painted papers from which endless
2-D collages and 3-D paper creations emerge based on criteria and a lesson design that assures success. This residency
demonstrates Annie's management, art and assessment methods. Bold Bugs with real insect parts, Masks with Mood inspired
by world cultures, wearable art headdresses inspired by folk arts, entire rain forests, a community of apartments and fruit
stands, an imaginary garden with real flower parts.... what can you imagine in brilliant 3D paper? Annie works with a
teacher team to write benchmark-based criteria and a full lesson designs. Handouts for all ideas. See 14 videos on this
website.
11. THE BASICS-ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN FOR ALL AGES:
Can include Folk Art-inspired Wearable Art. Struggling Artist exploration event, labeling and learning elements and
principles, finding and creating moods in own and artists work, color wheel creations, application in the classroom.
Also includes viewing beautiful art prints and using one or more of a dozen art literacy assignments written to support
Oregon state art standards. Printed handouts for all lessons and , time permitting, one or several beautiful basic design
creations such as folk art inspired headdresses.
What to expect in Annie's courses and workshops:
~Fun, refreshing and useful professional time for you-usually when you need it most!
~Great management techniques, easy to teach methods that result in beautiful work, media tested with thousands, ready for you to improve and link with your goals for students.
~Demonstrations, handouts, Annie's book, supplies for your work, elements, principles, rules, color wheel posters and more, depending on the workshop or course.
~Friendly assessment tools, all work linked to state goals and best practices with authentic links to studies you already teach.
~Lesson design and childhood development seminars and methods tested for twenty years by Annie, her teaching partners and thousands of teachers.
Workshops can be created from any course and offered for no credit (or your district credit)
through Annie Painter & Associates.
Annie Painter, Arts and Education Consultant
P.O. Box 2135
Sisters, Oregon 97759
541-549-9539 (phone/fax)
email: anniepainter@msn.com
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