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Call for Artists: GREEN SPACE 2021 at TF Green Airport and Block Island Airport – Deadline Dec. 15th.

November 4, 2020November 4, 2020Todd Trebour

The GREEN SPACE Gallery program at T.F. Green Airport and Block Island Airport is accepting art submissions for 2021 exhibitions. The gallery program is a partnership between RISCA and the Rhode Island Airport Corporation that promotes outstanding work by artists living and working in Rhode Island. The spaces will present art to an ever-changing audience of local, national and international travelers.

Works in all media will be considered. Note that GREEN SPACE PVD includes several large walls and open spaces that are particularly suitable for large-scale works.

Eligibility: All participating artists must be RI residents. No students please.

Entry Deadline: December 15, 2021.

Selection: To apply, please submit via this Google Form. Artists will be selected for the 2021 exhibitions by a review panel that will include practicing artists, arts professionals and community members. Artists included in the 2021 exhibitions will receive a $300 stipend for participating in the program.

Artists are encouraged to apply to the gallery, even if they have applied in previous years and not been selected. Artists who have exhibited previously are ineligible for new consideration for a period of two years.

Note that GREEN SPACE selects nine artists to exhibit in three group shows per year. Block Island Airport hosts one artist exhibitions three times per year.

If selected, artists agree to suitably frame, wire or otherwise prepare their artwork for display at their own expense. Artwork is hung at the gallery coordinator’s discretion, and the coordinator reserves the right of final selection of artwork and approval of installation. Artwork is not insured by the galleries during exhibition; artists are encouraged to carry their own insurance. Artwork may be listed for sale if desired, and any sales are direct without commission to the galleries.

To learn more about this opportunity and view photos of the exhibition space, please visit: https://risca.online/resources/airport-galleries/ and the Public Art Archive, https://www.publicartarchive.org/results/?type=keyword&term=TF%20Green%20Airport, search TF Green Airport.

Please address any questions regarding this call to Peter Dickison, Coordinator, at pdickison@gmail.com.

Fall 2020 Teaching Artist Professional Learning Series, November 12 – 30th

November 4, 2020November 17, 2020Todd Trebour

RISCA is pleased to announce the release of a new resource for Teaching Artists. A robust repository of Resources for Teaching Artists during Virtual/Distance Learning. This Google drive folder contains templates, models, research and guidance for all manner of teaching artists. Arranged by artistic discipline and pedagogical approach, the drive can be found here.

To compliment this drive, RISCA will be offering a series of 5 professional learning webinars for RI Teaching Artists and one informal “Coffee Hour” to share experiences with your peers. These webinars will be held throughout November 2020. Check RISCA’s Facebook page for individual event details.

Thursday November 12, 2020.

10 – 10:45 AM: School Based Administrators Panel – Encouraging Teaching Artists to Continue Pursuing Work in Schools – meet.google.com/qix-wynp-dhu

This presentation, as the title suggests is to encourage Teaching Artists not to be scared off my the changes to education during the pandemic and to show participants three admins/coordinators that are still interested in working with artists for the good of their students.

3-5 PM: Analog to Digital: Teaching Artists During Distance Learning – An Introduction – https://zoom.us/j/98701151416

This presentation features teaching artists from a variety of disciplines. Moderated by Tavish Forsyth of Maryland, panelists will talk about how they moved their teaching artist work to be successful during distance learning. After 30 minutes of conversation, we’ll breakout into four smaller groups to dive deeper into specific challenges and methods. RI Teaching Artists on the panel include: Charlene Carpenzano. Ricky Katowicz and Kathleen Pletcher of Firstworks.

Monday November 16, 2020.

3 – 4 PM: Pricing your (digital) work – https://meet.google.com/nff-vjmp-zrt

Join Mollie Flanagan and Maggie Anderson for a discussion about pricing your work and services for digital delivery. After a brief presentation, use this time to ask Mollie and Maggie questions and gather information to move forward with working “in-schools” during the pandemic.

Monday November 23, 2020.

10 – 11 AM: RI Teaching Artist Coffee Hour – https://meet.google.com/tzw-ngox-zju

Come spend an hour with other Rhode Island Teaching artists as we share and support each other. What has the last 9 months meant for your teaching artists practice, what things have worked, what things are still a struggle? This will be a friendly place for sharing everyone’s experiences and questions.

Monday November 30, 2020.

10-10:30 AM: Creative Ground 101 with New England Foundation for the Arts.

10:45 AM – 1 PM: Creative Ground Office Hours, by appointment.

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkcOChpzkuH921tHqAhU9s683tutYOU8i9

Rhode Island State Council on the Arts invites you to join the CreativeGround team from New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) for a webinar on using CreativeGround as a teaching artist.

Join the community for a Zoom call overview of the site: Register for the CreativeGround webinar.

Review and sign up for a 1:1 CreativeGround Office Hour. Our November 19 Office Hours are specifically for Teaching Artists on RISCA’s Rhode Island Education Roster. Teaching artists on the roster can sign up for a half hour 1:1 time slot on Calendly
Explore CreativeGround in advance so you can ask questions.

CreativeGround is NEFA’s regional online directory of artists, cultural nonprofits, and creative businesses. Among many other dynamic features and functions, CreativeGround allows artists to display their designation as a vetted member of various New England State Arts Agency rosters. For example, Rhode Island’s Education Roster* can be found here.

3-5 PM: Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) Introductory Training.

Limited spots available – Registration here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1khNuegMjpJ62NWWcrPLVkAt0eiWG_GWKLmU6tItxSpc/edit

Join certified VTS Trainer, Xenia Walker, from Providence Public Schools for an arts-based strategy that provides discussion facilitators with tools to promote collaborative dialogue and incre ase a sense of community. Participants will examine the environment and elements of VTS and leave the training with tools to manage open-ended image discussions.

PLU Certificates available for most webinars. For more information, contact Maggie Anderson, Arts in Education Director, at maggie.anderson@arts.ri.gov.

Resources for Teaching Artists during Virtual/Distance Learning

October 22, 2020mollieflanagan

The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts is pleased to announce the release of a new resource for Teaching Artists. RISCA enlisted the help of 5 talented RI Teaching Artists to form a committee to research local, regional and national sources to build a robust repository of Resources for Teaching Artists during Virtual/Distance Learning. This Google drive folder contains templates, models, research and guidance for all manner of teaching artists. Arranged by artistic discipline and pedagogical approach, the drive can be found here.

The Teaching Artist committee intends for this resource to continue to grow as the needs of the field change during this school year. If you have a resource that you would like to submit to the committee for consideration to be included in the Resource Drive please use this form

To compliment this drive, RISCA will be offering a series of 5 professional learning webinars for RI Teaching Artists and one informal “Coffee Hour” to share experiences with your peers. Please be on the lookout for dates and times of these sessions in the coming weeks via RISCA’s Social Media.