Friday, February 26, 2010

Petroglyph expert & Workshop

On April 10th, Dorothy Graden, an expert on petroglyphs, who has presented in Moscow and Cork, Ireland, will inform us about southwest petroglyphs. Patricia Cummings will tell about mideast glyphs a teach about ez-cut while we carve petroglyphs for notecards. This workshop will take place from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., at Northview Elementary school in Valparaiso. Cost will be $10 for members and $15 for non-members. If you are interested in signing up please contact us at jsayers@tricreek.k12.in.us .

Dinner, & Convention Share

A tradition of District one is to have a dinner where we can all get together and share what we learned at the Conventions and to network during a dinner. We will have the Spring Dinner in Valparaiso sometime in late April/early May. For more details, check out the District 1 website at http://www.district1art.com/

Chicago Road Trip!!!

Look Out Chicago!! We will take a road trip to Chicago, in June, to visit the Art Institute of Chicago's Teacher Education center. Afterwards, we'll grab lunch and then go on an art tour of the city. For more information, or if you are interested in attending, please contact jsayers@tricreek.k12.in.us

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Crayola DreamMakers Workshop

We will be presenting a Crayola DreamMakers Workshop. In this workshop attendees will learn a couple of art projects that can be linked to regular curriculum. These workshops will occur at a regular basis so that we can touch on different core subject areas. The first workshop will highlight the Language Arts. For more information, please contact jsayers@tricreek.k12.in.us . This workshop will be held in September/October 2010 at Lake Prairie Elementary.