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About Art21 Educators

As a year-long intensive experience, the Art21 Educators program encourages teachers to consider new ways that contemporary art can support teaching and learning both in the arts and when the arts are brought into the classroom to enrich and deepen learning in other disciplines.

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Bringing Contemporary Art into the Classroom with Art21 Educators

Specials

This program provides a unique opportunity for participating educators to develop in the following areas:

Use Art21 and other resources to develop greater knowledge of and expanded perspectives about contemporary art, artists, and themes;
Use Art21 and experiences with contemporary art, artists, and themes to support innovative curriculum development and teaching across disciplines;
Use documentation and reflection practices that capture changes in personal growth, student learning, and classroom culture;
Participate in a professional learning community of supportive and reflective educational practitioners.

More information

Online for 2021–2022

Due to public health considerations, the Summer Institute 2021 will occur online. All sessions will run on Eastern Time, but with considerations for those in Pacific Time. If you live outside of North America, please consider how timing will affect your experience.

Art21 Educators continues during the school year through monthly online meetings that build on the momentum of the Summer Institute. Through these meetings, the program introduces participants to new resources and supports continued curriculum planning and teaching during the school year. A private Google Classroom allows participants to share documentation of their current work (video, photography, and writing) and receive feedback from peers and Art21 Education staff to reflect on and enhance their teaching.

Mentors

If selected to participate in Art21 Educators, you will be paired with a mentor who is an alumni of the Art21 Educators Program for the school year. Your mentor will also attend the Summer Institute, and you will meet with your mentor once a month (both individually and in small groups) from August 2020 through May 2021.

Participants

Each year a select number of educators from across the United States are asked to participate. Participants include a diverse group of teachers who represent rural, urban, and suburban demographics, varied school and student populations, and a range of subject areas and grade levels.

Although the program does not require any specific technology experience or video production skills, teachers must have a willingness to learn about and use video and online networking forums with training provided by Art21.

Participants are expected to participate fully in all aspects of the program, including ongoing documentation of their teaching, peer support through online forums, and program evaluation during over the course of the entire programmatic year.

For more information, please watch our Summer Institute film.

Program Fees

Accepted participants are charged a $100 registration fee to participate in the full year of the program. This fee includes participation in the Summer Institute, webinar forums and social networking applications presented throughout the year.

The online Summer Institute 2021 will be free for alumni to attend.

Scholarship Opportunities

Art21 offers limited scholarships to teachers who would not otherwise be able to attend the annual Summer Institute. For Summer Institute 2021, the registration fee will be waived for scholarship awardees. The travel assistance to NYC will be applied to the following year’s Summer Institute in July 2022. Scholarship awards include housing booked by Art21 for the week at no cost to the awardee and a travel stipend of $500 to cover the cost of getting to and around New York City. Art21 scholarships do not cover food or entertainment costs.

To apply, interested applicants should send a brief essay (no longer than one page) explaining why they are deserving of a scholarship to attend the Institute and how their participation will impact their students and school community. Scholarship Applications must be sent as PDF files to Education [at] Art21 [dot] org by March 31, 2021, 11:59 EST to be considered. Please title the email ‘Scholarship Application’ and include your full name and contact information in the body of the email. Awardees will be notified no later than April 30, 2021.

Academic Credit

Accepted educators are able to receive a total of 6 graduate credits from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design for participation in the full year of the program. Participants are responsible for paying the additional cost for the credits. Once accepted to the program, program participants will receive more information and a registration form. If educators are able to get credit through their local school system, Art21 will supply any necessary paperwork or further information to help the educator.

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