TREC+Event

Hello!

Whew, what a year! We've had some amazing residencies and grown so much in our practice and educational capacity for arts infusion. It's been a crazy one with changes across the board that we've been through together as well as in our own spaces. In the midst of everything hectic and the hustle of the daily, we can count on one thing as Art in Action participants- the change we see in the children and the opportunities they are exposed to with arts in education.

With that in mind, who's up for one last hurrah this year? Art in Action has a great training and networking event planned in collaboration with the Tom Ridge Environmental Center **// Thursday, June 6th, 2013 from 4:30pm - 8 pm at the Rotary Pavilion at the ever beautiful font of inspiration and our region's place for being connected to nature- Presque Isle State Park. //**

Come on out after school and join other teachers and artists from Art in Action for dinner and an interpretive trip on foot around the peninsula where the infusion of art and environmental science will be demonstrated as you participate in the following activities:

**Ephemeral, Transient and Contemporary**- With visual art specialist Camille Dempsey, experience the avant garde art of making art wherever you are, whenever you are, no matter what the material- balance stones on stones, align leaves, pour water on sand. As long as your response to nature is authentically your own, it is art. Bring your camera, or borrow one of ours, for a permanent record of your "Transient, Ephemeral Creation".

**Earth Journaling**- Stephanie, arts in education assistant from ArtsErie, will lead you in the art of creating a rubbing from found natural objects to create a permanent record of the texture of leaves, bark, stones and other varietals from the environment with charcoal on paper. Explore the textures of found objects in an historical, detail oriented and possibly surreal way, and learn how to make a rubbing, suitable for framing.

**Sand Cast Plaster Sculpture**- Create a plaster bas relief sculpture with sculptor Kathe Umlauf in sand, using found natural objects. This traditional approach to sculpture will result in a permanent plaster wall sculpture that involves your personal response to found objects.

**The Evidence Demands an Explanation**- Learn to tell a story from a natural or found object, with Brian Gula and John Laskos, Presque Isle Park Rangers and education specialists. Brian and John, a consummate story tellers, will lead you in the art of making a story out of an found thing. The oral tradition may have subsided in the classroom, but it is alive and well at Presque Isle!-You may want to bring your own video recording device or camera to capture the spontaneity of speaking out loud to an audience.


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