Art Programs 
Finding your Visual Voice: An Exploration of Representational and
Graduate Credit: ART 3613
PDPs/CEUs: ART 5913
Participants: Art Teachers, grades 5–12
Dates/Times: July 7 - 11, 2008; M 12:00 pm - 8:00 pm; T,TH 9:00 am - 4:00 pm;
W 10:00 am -6:00 pm; F 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Location: Cape Cod National Seashore, Eastham, MA
Cost/Credits: 68 PDPs/6.8 CEUs, $500; 4 q.h. graduate credits, $820
Working in a variety of 2-dimensional materials, participants will embark on an exploration of how to bring a more personal voice and their own feelings to a representational or abstract approach. Regardless of whether the subject comes from outside or inside themselves, the focus will be on developing and individual line of inquiry, a personal authenticity, and maximizing the use of intuition in making art. We will be working outdoors and indoors in a beautiful setting on the Cape Cod seashore. Expect this setting to influence your art, and ultimately our teaching, in unexpected ways.
Participants will create non-representational/abstract art, as well as become more experienced in critiquing and analyzing abstract paintings. The Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks will be referenced throughout the course, and students will design a lesson based on finding a visual voice. This class will have a positive impact on you as an artist as well as an art educator.
Instructors: Arnie Casavant was an Art educator in Easton Public Schools where he served as Department Chair for many years. He has exhibited his work locally, most recently at the Pearl Street Gallery in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
Dawn Nelson is an Art teacher in Weston Public Schools, a participant of the Jamaica Plain Open Studios, and shows her abstract work extensively in the Boston area.
Graduate Credit: ART 3614
PDPs/CEUs: ART 5914
Participants: All Teachers, grades K–12
Dates/Times: July 7 - 11, 2008; 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Northeastern University, Boston, Campus
Cost/Credits: 68 PDPs/6.8 CEUs, $500; 4 q.h. graduate credits, $820
Materials Fee: $12.00
From Grecian urns, Chinese hill jars to Peruvian stirrup bottles, clay artists have been telling the stories of their lives and community events through the 10,000 years of ceramic history. This course will explore historical and contemporary narrative through hand-building and decorative techniques in clay. We will explore the historical objects as inspiration for personal stories
Daily demonstration of hand building techniques are featured. Students will also have access to the professor for technical assistance, critique and discussion. The emphasis is on process, not finishing; therefore no glazing and firing are included.
Instructors: Pam Korte is an Assistant Professor at the College of Mt. St. Joseph in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her studio work is a combination of wheel-thrown and hand-built porcelain. The functional, decorative, and narrative forms are oxidation fired. Her work has been included in regional and national shows for 26 years.
Pastel Painting on Cape Cod
Graduate Credit: ART 3618
Participants: Art Teachers, grades K–12
Dates/Times: July 14 - 18, 2008; M, W 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm; T, TH 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Cape Cod National Seashore, Eastham, MA
Cost/Credits: 68 PDPs/6.8 CEUs, $500; 4 q.h. graduate credits, $820
Overnight accommodations are available at the NEED facility July 13 - 18, $200 per person for the week.
K-12 art educators are encouraged to expand their knowledge and explore painting with pastel. Pastels are a wonderful medium for painting en plein air and Cape Cod has fabulous light in which to paint. Open to both novice as well as experienced pastelists, the focus is on studying light, color and composition while capturing the Cape Cod landscape. Connections will be made to artists who have taught and painted on Cape Cod. Overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, the former U.S. Coast Guard Station provides breathtaking views of beaches, salt marshes and waterways for participants to paint en plein air.
Instructor: Cheryl Wildermuth is certified in both Visual Arts and Elementary Education and teaches Art in the North Adams Public Schools. She is a member of the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod and the Creative Arts Center of Chatham. She has summered on Cape Cod for over forty years.
Graduate Credit: ART 3615
PDPs/CEUs: ART 5915
Participants: Art Teachers, grades 5–12
Dates/Times: July 21 - 25, 2008; M 11:00 am – 7:00 pm; T, Th 9:00 am – 4:00 pm;
W 10:00 am – 6:00 pm; F 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Location: Northeastern University Boston Campus
Cost/Credits: 68 PDPs/6.8 CEUs, $500; 4 q.h. graduate credits, $820
Designed for all levels of painters, this five-day workshop will explore inspiring landscapes and cityscapes in and around the Northeastern University campus through the use of watercolors, water mixable and traditional oil paints. This class will explore atmospheric perspective, as well as one, two, and three point linear perspective.
The course will include daily critiques, demonstrations, and discussions. We will reference the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks in order to make connections to classroom experiences, and students will design a landscape/cityscape painting lesson. Local history pertaining to the locations will also be a daily topic.
Students who successfully complete this course will have a body of work comprised of daily sketches and paintings. We will look at the weeks’ work on the last day and set the tone for students to continue to develop these “on location” paintings into finished ones. Bring your camera!
Instructor: Arnie Casavant was an Art educator in the Easton Public Schools where he served as Department Chair for many years. He has exhibited his work locally, most recently at the Pearl Street Gallery in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
Graduate Credit: ART 3606
PDPs/CEUs: ART 5906
Participants: Art Teachers, grades K–12
Dates/Times: July 28 - August 1, 2008; 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Cape Cod national Seashore, Eastham, MA
Cost/Credits: 68 PDPs/6.8 CEUs, $500 4 q.h. graduate credits, $820
Overnight accommodations are available at the NEED facility $200 per person for the week.
Located in Eastham on cape Cod this course will focus on the creation of art that does not have a negative impact on the environment. Because of the environmental aspects of this course, Science teachers may also find it applicable to their teaching. Films and short slide presentations will enhance the creation of exciting environmental works in two, three, and four-dimensions. Short readings will provide a profound theoretical framework for the activities in class.
Numerous environmental artists such as Andy Goldsworthy, Ana Mendieta, Christo and Jean Claude, Steven Siegel, Robert Smithson, and Nils-Udo will be studied. The area around Coast Guard Beach will provide us with a vast majority of the materials we will need. A list of supplies will be provided. Prior experience in three-dimensional art is not required.
Participants will:
- Create a body of work from natural materials.
- Gain technical knowledge about working with materials in the environment.
- Learn about contemporary artists who work in environmental art.
- prepare lessons and rubrics useful in the classroom.
- Experience documenting ephemeral works.
Instructors: Rob Millard-Mendez specializes in sculpture and is an Assistant Professor of Woodworking and Design at the University of Southern Indiana.
Nancy Raen-Mendez has her MAE from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and currently teaches in the Art Department at the University of Southern Indiana. As an Art educator she specializes in painting, mixed media, and fiber.
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