Where educators and arts providers meet to collaborate.
Saturday, February 4, 2012 | 10am-2pm
Chicago Cultural Center
Want to collaborate with arts providers to complement your classroom curriculum?
Looking for innovative activities or in-school performances and workshops for your students?
Interested in learning more about how to fundraise for your upcoming field trip?
Introducing a new event to connect you with Chicago's arts providers, hundreds of arts education opportunities for lesson planning, and professional development workshops to make it all happen.
Join us for the first annual Arts & Education Exchange Summit, a one-stop resource expo to help you enhance your instruction in the arts and other subjects. Learn side-by-side with arts providers in workshops led by experts in the field on a range of topics from successful partnerships, to fundraising, and tools to assess arts education partnerships on your students.
Don't miss this opportunity to meet with representatives from local arts and cultural organizations, and find out how you can work with them to establish the arts as part of your curriculum. Also, join us on February 4th for the chance to win free education programming with a teaching component or an arts residency with a curriculum packet and other exciting prizes!
TO REGISTER
Admission to the Summit is free and lunch will be provided, however reservations are required. Please RSVP by Wednesday, February 1, 2012. Discounted parking and 2 CPDU credits are available for registered attendees.
RSVP here by Wednesday, February 1, 2012
ABOUT THE SUMMIT
The Arts & Education Exchange Summit is a unique opportunity for Chicago's teachers, principals and education coordinators to learn about the educational programming and services of local arts and cultural organizations. Modeled after Chicago's longest running arts resource fair, Spotlight on Chicago, the Summit is an expo-style event where educators are given the opportunity to meet face-to-face with organizations to learn about their arts residencies, field trip opportunities, and professional development programs.
The Arts & Education Exchange Summit is not a booking conference, but rather an information resource expo and a great opportunity to develop contacts, discover new arts programming, and come away with great ideas for lesson plans. In addition to the expo portion of the event, the Summit also offers professional development workshops to give educators and arts providers the tools to effectively partner to bring arts education to Chicago's students. Educators and arts providers are also invited to learn side-by-side in workshops led by experts in the field on a range of topics from successful partnerships, to fundraising, and tools to assess arts education partnerships.
The Summit is presented by the Chicago Office of Tourism and Culture in partnership with the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Arts Alliance Illinois, Ingenuity Incorporated, and the Chicago Public Schools Office of Arts Education.
AGENDA
9:30am - 10:00am | Registration and Coffee, GAR Rotunda
10:00am - 11:00am | Welcome, Claudia Cassidy Theater
Eva Silverman, Director of Arts & Community Engagement, Chicago Office of Tourism and Culture
Mario Rossero, Director of Arts, Chicago Public Schools Office of Curriculum and Instruction
Paul Sznewajs, Executive Director, Ingenuity Incorporated
Ra Joy, Executive Director, Arts AllianceIllinois
Quick-Fire Showcase
Music Institute of Chicago
Street-Level Youth Media
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Barrel of Monkeys
Young Chicago Authors
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Adventure Stage Chicago
11:00am - 11:50am| Workshops (please see schedule below)
12:00pm - 1:00pm | Expo and Lunch, GAR Hall and Rotunda
1:00pm - 1:50pm | Workshops (please see schedule below)
WORKSHOPS
Educators and arts providers are invited to attend our free professional development workshops led by experts in the field to help you develop strong and lasting partnerships. All workshops start at 11:00am and then are offered again at 1:00pm. If you are a certified Illinois teacher, you can earn 2 CPDU credits for attending the workshops.
Introductory workshops:
Partnerships 101 | 11:00am - 11:50am; 1:00pm - 1:50pm
GAR Annex
This workshop will cover the basics of successful arts partnerships. Experienced educators and arts providers will take you through the key components of a partnership, what you should look for and how to prepare for success. Through exemplary case studies you will learn about how to assess the needs of your school, students or organization and how to find the right partner to meet those needs. Panelists will also provide tips on how to set goals with your partner and how you can work together to achieve those goals.
Panelists:
Dr. Susan A. Lee, Director, Dance Program, MarjorieWardMarshallDanceCenter, Northwestern University
Jill LeCesne Potter, Director of Education, Urban Gateways: Center for Arts Education
Norma Sanders, Southwest Smart Communities Program Manager, Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporation
Moderator: Mary Ellen Messner, Director of Strategic Initiatives, Ingenuity Incorporated
Funding Successful Partnerships | 11:00am - 11:50am; 1:00pm - 1:50pm
Claudia Cassidy Theater
Interested in learning more about how to fundraise for your upcoming field trip? Want to partner with a school but neither of you can afford to cover the costs of the in-school performance? Learn from a representative from the Fry Foundation about how schools and arts providers can work together to fundraise for their partnership. You will hear about how to apply to foundations for support and what they are looking for in a grant proposal. This workshop will also provide ideas and resources for other sources of funding that can help you make your arts education partnership happen. Successful collaborations are also presented as examples of creative and resourceful efforts to fundraise.
Panelists:
Julie Adrianopoli, Program Officer, The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
Sean Michael Kaplan, Director of Development, Redmoon Theater
Moderator: Ra Joy, Executive Director, Arts AllianceIllinois
Advanced workshops:
The Administrative Perspective | 11:00am - 11:50am; 1:00pm - 1:50pm
4th Floor Conference Room
Chicago Pubic School principals tell the story of what they value most in partnering with arts providers, highlighting some of their most successful connections. Several case studies of their partnerships are presented to explore what worked and what didn’t.
Panelists:
Carol J. Friedman, Principal, FranklinFineArtsCenter
Dr. Corinne Ness, Director of School and Community Partnerships, Music Institute of Chicago
Cynthia Weiss, Associate Director for School Partnerships/Project AIM, Center for Community Arts Partnerships, ColumbiaCollegeChicago
Frances Garcia, Principal, CalmecaAcademy of Fine Arts & Dual Language
Moderator: Mario Rossero, Director of Arts, Chicago Public Schools Office of Curriculum and Instruction
Long Term Partnerships | 11:00am - 11:50am; 1:00pm - 1:50pm
1st Floor Garland
How do you sustain relationships over many years and continue to grow? How do you document and assess this work? This workshop will present successful partnerships and how both partners worked together to meet both short-term and long-term needs and goals.
Panelists:
Joanne Vena, Director of School Partnerships, Center for Community Arts Partnerships, ColumbiaCollegeChicago
Luke Albrecht, CrownCommunityAcademy
Scott Sikkema, Education Director, Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
Vicki Turbov, NorthGrandHigh School
Moderator: Paul Sznewajs, Executive Director, Ingenuity Incorporated
SPEAKER BIOS
Julie Adrianopoli
Program Officer. Lloyd A Fry Foundation
Julie E. Adrianopoli is a Program Officer at the Lloyd A Fry Foundation overseeing the Foundation’s Arts Education program. Julie has 10 years of experience in the arts and arts education sector. For three years she worked as a consultant with the Chicago Arts Learning Initiative (CALI) and the Chicago Arts Education Collaborative. Prior to that she was Policy and Strategic Initiatives Director at Arts Alliance Illinois where she spearheaded a statewide arts education initiative, Illinois Creates. Julie earned her MBA from Case Western Reserve University and her BA from John Carroll University. She continues to teach part-time at DePaul University and is actively involved as a board member in the development of Orange School, a new charter school model focusing on arts practice and experimental education for elementary students in Chicago.
Luke Albrecht
Crown Community Academy
Luke Albrecht has taught at Crown Community Academy in Chicago’s North Lawndale community for the last ten years. He has National Board Certification in middle school mathematics. For the last six years, he has co-taught arts/mathematics integrated units in collaboration with teaching artists through Columbia College’s Arts Integration Mentorship Project (Project AIM). He has also worked on art/mathematics integration with Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE) and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Ra Joy
Executive Director, Arts Alliance Illinois
Ra Joy has more than 15 years of experience as an advocate, community organizer, and coalition builder. As executive director of Arts Alliance Illinois, a statewide arts advocacy network, Ra sets and implements the organization's strategic goals, manages its operations, and serves as a principal spokesperson. By uniquely combining advocacy, communications, and policy-relevant research, the Alliance has become a powerful and effective voice for the arts sector in Illinois and beyond.
Carol J. Friedman
Principal, Franklin Fine Arts Center
Carol Friedman has been the principal at Franklin Fine Arts Center for seven years. Prior to that she was an assistant principal at a school on the northside of Chicago. Carol began her career in education as a special education teacher in California. She continued as a special education teacher in several neighborhood schools around Chicago and has also spent time working in the area of professional development for Chicago Public Schools. Carol’s special education background made her aware of the value of teaching to students’ different learning styles and appreciating the role that the arts play in education. She has continued to incorporate that philosophy into her approach to education. Carol has degrees from Douglass College (Rutgers University), San Francisco State University and University of Illinois at Chicago.
Frances Garcia
Principal, Calmeca Academy of Fine Arts & Dual Language
Frances Garcia is the principal at Calmeca Academy of Fine Arts and Dual Language. She obtained a Bachelors degree from the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle and a Masters of Education in Administration and Supervision from the same university. Her work experience ranges from self contained classroom, resource room, Lead Teacher, Assistant Principal and Principal in the Chicago Public Schools. In 2003, she opened McKinley Park School as a new school and in 2010, she moved the successful model into what is now known as Calmeca Academy of Fine Arts & Dual Language.
Sean Michael Kaplan
Director of Development, Redmoon Theater
Sean leads Redmoon’s development strategy to cultivate relationships for: board development, high-level local & national advocacy, institutional & community partnerships, with a focus on fundraising of corporate & private sponsorships, individual major gifts, and the organization’s annual gala-benefit, Spectacle Lunatique. Originally an actor and writer, born and raised in Chicago, Sean studied on a series of performance scholarships at The University of Kansas, later in England at University of Exeter drama school, and afterward in Paris at the famed theater conservatory L'Ecole Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq. He went on to perform on Chicago’s stages as diverse as Congo Square Theater Company to the Lyric Opera. Before that, he was co-founder of the Italian based international theatre company Kiklos Teatro in Padua that toured productions across Europe and had an award-winning theater school. He went on to work with an Italian production company, Holon Productions, where he co-raised investment seed capital for the development of media projects.
Susan A. Lee, Ph.D.
Director, Dance Program, Marjorie Ward Marshall Dance Center, Northwestern University
Susan is the founding director of the Dance Program in the Department of Theatre at Northwestern University and former chair of the Department of Theatre. She is the author of books, articles and chapters on dance and dancers including lead author on dance for the Chicago Guide for Teaching and Learning in the Arts. Susan also co-founded the Jazz Dance World Congress and The First International Argentine Tango Congress. Additionally, she is the founding director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts (CIRA) at Northwestern and a recipient of the Ruth Page Award for Outstanding Contribution to Dance and the Clarence Simon Teaching Award, Northwestern University.
Mary Ellen Messner
Director of Strategic Initiatives, Ingenuity Incorporated
Mary Ellen Messner has dedicated her career to supporting the needs of Chicago’s children, youth and families. She has worked for nearly two decades in Chicago’s public sector designing programs to help young people reach their full potential through workforce, recreation and fine arts opportunities. Most recently, Mary Ellen served as Assistant Commissioner at the Chicago Department of Family & Support Services.
Dr. Corinne Ness
Director of School and Community Partnerships, Music Institute of Chicago
A recognized leader in arts integration, Corinne is responsible for curriculum and assessment for the Music Institute of Chicago’s (MIC) school residency programs, and provides professional development workshops on arts integration. Corinne is also director of music theatre and opera at Carthage College in Kenosha, WI, where she teaches private voice and music theatre-related courses as well as music education courses. She has been a featured presenter for the National Opera Association (2012), the Iowa Music Educator’s Conference (2010), and three NATS National Conventions (2006, 2008, 2012). Corinne began her teaching career as a public school music teacher, and spent a decade teaching choir and general music in urban and rural public schools. Corinne holds a B.M. in Choral Music Education from Northern Illinois University, a M.M. in Vocal Performance from Roosevelt University, and a certificate in contemporary vocal pedagogy. Corinne received her Ph.D. in Cultural and Educational Policy from Loyola University Chicago.
Jill LeCesne Potter
Director of Education, Urban Gateways
Jill LeCesne Potter, Urban Gateways’ Director of Education, has a diverse and demonstrated background in arts management, programming and promotions. Entering her eighth year with Urban Gateways, Jill is responsible for designing, implementing and evaluating artist-in-residence, professional development programs and special projects in schools and communities. Prior to joining the Chicago arts education community, Jill worked as Public Relations & Promotions Director in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She has also led independent projects for the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans Museum of Art and the New Orleans Multicultural Tourism Network. Jill holds a B.A. in Art History from the University of New Orleans. Her professional affiliations include the National Arts Education Association and Americans for the Arts.
Mario Rossero
Director of Arts, Chicago Public Schools Office of Curriculum and Instruction
Mario Rossero has recently returned to Chicago as the Director of Arts within the Office of Curriculum and Instruction at Chicago Public Schools. Most recently Mario was the Senior Program Officer for Arts Education for the Pittsburgh Public Schools where he was charged with providing leadership in the arts in terms of professional development, curriculum writing, assessment, community building, and strategic planning. Between 2004 and 2010 Mario served in a number of roles in Chicago Public Schools, ranging from Director of Magnet Schools and Programs, Interim Director of the Office of Arts Education, Administrator for the Fine and Performing Arts Magnet Cluster Program, to visual art teacher. He also served as an adjunct faculty member at Columbia College Chicago in the Educational Studies department and on numerous advisory boards. In his over ten years of classroom experience Mario led numerous in-school partnerships. Of particular note is his work in building community garden installations. Mario is also a practicing visual artist, primarily focusing on two dimensional mixed media images.
Norma Sanders
Southwest Smart Communities Program Manager, Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporation
Norma Sanders, an information technology consultant, has dedicated the last five years to working on technology planning and integration in non-profit organizations, as well as project and program management. She currently works at The Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporation as the Smart Communities Program Manager for the Southwest Smart Communities Partners (SSCP). Prior to her consultancy work, she was a senior director for Motorola, Inc. where she spent her 25 years managing global IT teams and as a radio communications engineer for commercial, government and public safety markets. She has a strong background in customer relationship management, vendor and program management, and is a lifetime mentor, with a passion for STEM literacy and art education for youth.
Scott Sikkemma
Education Director, Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
Scott Sikkema is Education Director at Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE), where he oversees program development, implementation, and management in partnering Chicago public schools; professional developments for teachers and artists; and the implementation of documentation and research at CAPE. He oversees all of the U.S. Department of Education Arts In Education program grants awarded CAPE to work with several Chicago schools over multiple years. He has curated numerous exhibitions of student, teacher, and teaching artist work, serves as an advisory board member for the Chicago Arts Educators Forum, and is lead faculty for Teaching Artist Development Studio, cohort II, a project of Columbia College’s Center for Community Arts Partnerships.
Paul Sznewajs
Executive Director, Ingenuity Incorporated
Paul Sznewajs is the founding Executive Director of Ingenuity Incorporated, Chicago's arts learning initiative. The vision of Ingenuity is that all Chicago Public School students have access to sustained, quality arts instruction, from the day they start school until the day they graduate. Before leading Ingenuity, Mr. Sznewajs was the founder and former Executive Director of Snow City Arts, an award-winning organization that uses arts education as a learning conduit for pediatric patients unable to get to the classroom due to illness. Recognized with the prestigious Coming Up Taller Award, Mr. Sznewajs and his programs have been honored by the White House.
Vicki Turbov
North Grand High School
Vicki Turbov currently teaches English at North Grand High School in the west Humboldt Park neighborhood. She has worked in Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE) partnerships in AP Literature, drama, and journalism classes at North Grand. Prior to this, Vicki was a CAPE teacher and liaison at J. C. Orozco Academy in Pilsen, where she worked with teachers to plan an arts integrated social studies program in collaboration with different arts organizations. Vicki Turbov is a graduate of Northwestern University’s MAT program. She did public relations and catering in hotels and restaurants before teaching for CPS.
Joanne Vena
Director of School Partnerships, Center for Community Arts Partnerships, Columbia College Chicago
Since 2001, Joanne Vena has served as the Director of School Partnerships for the Center for Community Arts Partnerships at Columbia College Chicago. She is currently overseeing after school programs and special projects with the college and the Chicago Board of Education in the areas of arts and communication arts that includes an arts integration effort using technology and art practices in five Tech Magnet Schools and a new professional development initiative between the Center and the Office of Arts Education. Joanne was the former Director of Arts Education at the Illinois Arts Council.
Cynthia Weiss
Associate Director for School Partnerships/Project AIM, Center for Community Arts Partnerships CCAP, Columbia College Chicago
Cynthia Weiss directs the Arts Integration Mentorship Project, Project AIM, at the Center for Community Arts Partnerships, Columbia College Chicago. She is an Adjunct Faculty member in Early Childhood Education at Columbia College Chicago, as well as a painter and public artist. Cynthia is co-editor, with Gail Burnaford and Arnold Aprill, of the Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE) book; Renaissance in the Classroom: Arts Integration and Meaningful Learning, (Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates, 2001), and co-editor, with Amanda Lichtenstein, of the book, AIMprint: New Relationships in the Arts and Learning, (Columbia College Chicago 2008).
CPDU CREDITS
Continuing Professional Development Units
Certified Illinois teachers who register and attend the Summit are able to receive 2 Continuing Professional Development Units for their participation. Evidence of Completion (ISBE form 77-21B) and Evaluation (ISBE form 77-21A) Forms are available for pick-up at the check-in desk on the 2nd floor of the Chicago Cultural Center during the Summit.
PRIZES
Join us on Saturday, February 4 for the chance to win free education programming with a teaching component or an arts residency with a curriculum packet and other exciting prizes! Arts providers like Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, Goodman Theatre, Oriental Institute Museum, and Street-level Youth Media are donating free arts residencies, workshops, performances and professional development opportunities to help educators enhance their instruction in the arts and other subjects. Visit the check-in tables to enter your name in the prize drawing!
Donating vendors:
About Face Theatre
Chicago Jazz Philharmonic
Global Explorers Kids
Goodman Theatre
Hyde Park Suzuki Institute, Inc.
Ignite One
The Jazz Institute of Chicago
Kuumba Lynx
Lookingglass Theatre Company
Music Institute of Chicago
Oriental Institute Museum, The University of Chicago
Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
Street-Level Youth Media
TimeLine Theatre Company
HISTORY
For more than 15 years, the Chicago Office of Tourism and Culture and the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events presented Spotlight on Chicago, an annual two-day expo that showcases the city's rich array of arts and cultural organizations to local educators and professionals in the tourism, hospitality, and media industries. Due to declining attendance, the education portion of Spotlight on Chicago was discontinued in 2011.
After collecting important feedback from you, we created a new event that exclusively works to connect Chicago's educators with arts providers. The Summit is now more focused to meet your needs and includes new components, creating a more valuable experience for participants and attendees. Through our partnership with Arts Alliance Illinois, Ingenuity Incorporated, and Chicago Public Schools Office of Arts Education we've added new features including:
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dynamic presentations by arts providers demonstrating their programs and services
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interactive Arts & Education Exchange training demos to help arts providers and educators connect
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presentations of replicable examples of successful partnerships between providers and educators
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face-to-face networking opportunities for arts providers and educators
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professional development opportunities for both educators and arts providers related to topics such as funding, assessment, alignment with learning standards, and strategies for creating successful partnerships
ABOUT THE NEW EXCHANGE WEBSITE
Recently, Arts Alliance Illinois launched the Arts & Education Exchange. The Exchange is a free, easy-to-use online service where Illinois educators and arts providers meet to collaborate. The website was launched in October 2011 and is quickly growing in popularity.
The Summit and the Exchange work together to help you develop relationships with Chicago's arts providers by providing you with an opportunity to make face-to-face contact with potential partners and a dynamic online forum to maintain contact throughout the year.
As an educator you can tap into this user-friendly Exchange to search for arts programming to help you encourage your students' success. On the Exchange you can also post specific arts requests for your classroom. Arts providers can search the requests for projects and respond to educators to craft ideal programs.
What can the Arts & Education Exchange do? Here are a few examples:
To join the website or to learn more about how the Exchange, click here.
ARTS & EDUCATION EXCHANGE SUMMIT 2012 VENDORS
DIRECTIONS AND PARKING REBATE
Discounted parking is available at InterPark. On the day of the Summit, you can pick up a parking validation ticket at the registration table when you check in.
Garage: Wabash Randolph Self Park, operated by InterPark
Location: 20 E. Randolph across the street from Macy's. Garage entrances are located on Randolph between Wabash and State or on Wabash between Lake and Randolph.
Phone: 312.986.6863
Cost: 0-8 hours (anytime) = $12 (longer than 8 hours - normal rates apply)
When you return to the garage insert into the pay-station the parking ticket you received when you parked, then immediately insert the rebate validation ticket. The price will automatically be reduced to $12. This rate is valued for up to 8 hours of parking. The rate reverts to the normal rate for any amount of time over 8 hours. If you experience any difficulty, ask the garage staff for assistance.
Directions to InterPark Parking Garage:
From the South (Dan Ryan) - Take the Dan Ryan to the Washington exit. Head east to State and turn left. Head north to Lake St. and turn right. Head east and turn right on Wabash. The entrance to the garage will be on the right-hand side of the street.
From the North (Kennedy Expressway) - Take the Kennedy Expressway to the Washington exit. Head east to State and turn left. Head north and turn right on Lake St then head east to Wabash and turn right. The entrance to the garage will be on the right-hand side of the street.
From the West (Eisenhower Expressway) - Take the Eisenhower Expressway (becomes Congress Pkwy) and exit at Franklin St. Take Franklin to Washington and turn right. Head east to State St. and turn left then turn right on Lake St. Head east to Wabash and turn right. The garage entrance will be on the right-hand side of the street.
Lake Shore Drive (North or South) - Take Lake Shore Drive to Randolph. Head west and cross over Wabash and the garage entrance will be on the right-hand side of the street.
CONTACT US
For more information about the Summit, the new Exchange forum, or how to participate, please contact Maureen Burns at 312.742.1761 or by email at Maureen.burns@explorechicago.org. |
