Current Arkansas K-12 art teachers are invited to participate in the 2024 Windgate Summer Art Launch for Arkansas Educators, hosted by the Arkansas Tech University Department of Art. This year's workshops will be in-person with some virtual components.
Participants will learn a variety of art techniques during workshops taught by university professors and experienced regional artists. We will host a virtual orientation Sunday evening on June 9th, and our Guest speaker, Friday, June 14, will be virtual. There will be a virtual art exhibition of the artwork created during the week of workshops.
Participants will earn up to 30 hours of professional development from the Arkansas Department of Education. We ask that all participants attend the entire event.
Due to the generous support of the Windgate Foundation, the event is provided at no cost for Arkansas Art Educators
Dr. Lynnette Gilbert
Director, Windgate Art Launch for Arkansas Educators
lgilbert3@atu.edu
Fused Glass Flowers
Summer Bruch, Professor of Art, ATU
Student will explore fused COE 90 glass. We will use stringers, Murrine,frit, and a variety of glass tools to create fused glass flowers
*This workshop is being team taught with Aaron Calvert and will be running concurrently with Ceramics: Hand Building Animal Forms. Registering for this workshop automatically registers you for Ceramics as second choice
Storytelling Collage Quilt
Alice Aida Ayers, Artist and Art Educator
While I call the project quilting it is by no means a traditional method of quiliting. It is akin to creating a mosaic or collage from fabric, using gluing and sewing methods. This project exposes students to the process of creating a basic pattern and using applique, embroidery, and non-traditional techinques.
Ceramics: Hand Built Animal Forms
Aaron Calvert, Artists and Art Educator
*This workshop is being team taught with Summer Bruch and will be running concurrently with Fused Glass Flowers. Registering for this workshop automatically registers you for Fused Glass Flowers as second choice
Cyanotypes:Printing with Light
Margo Duvall, Professor of Art, University of Ozarks
Learn the magic of printing with light! This workshop will teach you how to create photographic images using the Cyanotype process and the power of the sun. We will focus on creating photograms on paper with found objects and make simple contact prints using Elm negatives. This course is hands on, experimental, and a little bit messy (in the best way). This course is perfect for all levels...no photo experience necessary.
Abstract to Realism: Mixed Media Techniques for Portrait/Figurative Painting
Rex DeLoney, Artist and Art Educator (Little Rock Central High School)
This workshop will guide instructors in how to to use mixed media to create colorful abstract backgrounds as surfaces for still life, portraits, and figurative compositions. Participants will learn techniques that will build transparent layers of color and interesting textures that will give life and energy to the final product. An exploration of the color theory, color symbolism, and strategies to develop student's visual voice will also be included.
In this workshop you will explore with found objects to produce a series of one-off prints (monotypes). You will learn how to take both a planned and spontaneous approach to this printing method, working an approach that there is no "right" or "wrong" way to create art through this process. All materials will be provided, though each participant can bring in their own stencils or texture plates. Participants will make choices that influence the outcome of their finished artworks.
Figure Drawing
Ashley Kinsey, Arkansas Art Educator/Adjunct Professor, ATU and University of the Ozarks
In this workshop, participants will beb introduced to drawing the human figure from a live model using a variety of art materials, techniques, and artisitc approaches. The objective of this workshop is to obtain/practice the basic skills of drawing the human figure including anatomy, observation of the human form, and funamental exercises in gesture, contour, and tonal modeling from instructor-led demonstrations. Participants will understand basic anatomical relationships relevant to descriptive drawing of the human form, will understand and be able to depict basic proportional relationships of the model, and will explore rhythms of the body/ natural forms and how they exist in the whole and parts of the figure. All materials will be provided and no previous experience needed.
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Alice Aida Ayers
aliceayers2000@yahoo.com
Alice Aida spent over two decades living and working between the Americas and Africa. She holds a Bachelor of Art, and Masters in Art Education. Her professional career has involved working in America, Europe, Mexico, Tanzania, Kenya and South Africa. She has served as a resident artist in theatre, visual art, art therapy and as an adjunct professor in Kenya, Tanzania and the United States. A teaching artist since 1989, she has performed residencies in over 250 schools, colleges, community centers and libraries.
As an experienced project director and arts educator with over 30 years of experience, Ayers has made significant contributions to classroom teaching, outreach programs, and community collaborations.
She has developed and implemented arts education programs, art therapy initiatives, and restorative practices for a wide array of audiences.
Her roles as an arts administrator and director have involved collaborating with government agencies, organizing community events such as health fairs, art camps, mural projects, and cultural educational exchanges.
For the last six years her work has been with incarcerated men and women, and women in recovery/re-entry programs. Art therapy and creative visualization are two methods used in order to help the participants tap into their creative and healing source.
In the studio and lecture hall alike, Alice pushes students to question what is presented to them, their relationships and responses to the information, and how these impressions relate to their world. She believes it is important that we explore education on a universal platform. Exploring how other cultures exist is an essential component to her teaching philosophy.
Her personal work in textile art brings to the forefront traditional practices from her childhood into the world of modern-day artistic interpretations. She uses ethnic, hand dyed and repurposed fabrics, found objects. She is drawn to the art of creating texture, through layering found objects and stitching. Ayers is also the author of the books, “It’s Me I’m Running From”, “Tomorrows Garden”, “Lead with Love”.
Summer Bruch
sbruch@atu.edu
Summer Bruch is a Professor of Fine Art at Arkansas Tech University. She received her Bachelor of Fine Art, with an emphasis in Ceramics from the University of Central Missouri. Ms. Bruch received her Master of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Ceramics from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. She has previously taught at the University of Central Missouri, the University of Texas Pan-America, Henderson State University, and Ouachita Baptist University.
Aaron Calvert
aaroncalvertceramics@gmail.com
Aaron Calvert is an artist known for his ceramic creations. Raised in northern Ohio, Aaron attended Kent State University where he earned his BFA in Crafts. In 2003 he graduated with an MFA in ceramics from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Since 2005 Aaron and his family have called Arkansas home. He remains active in the field of ceramics through teaching, creating art, and maintaining a growing list of exhibitions. In 2021 he was a recipient of the Arkansas Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship and won the 62nd Annual Delta Exhibition Grand Award in 2020.
Margo Duvall
mduvall@ozarks.edu
Margo Duvall is an artist and educator based in Central Arkansas. Her work investigates photography's role in the development of memory and identity through mixed media installations as well as traditional photographic methods. She has received recognition as a photographer with numerous exhibitions including the Arkansas Arts Council's 2017 Small Works on Paper, the Arkansas Art Center's 59th annual Delta Exhibition, and many more.
She earned her MFA from San Jose State University and was head of the photography program at Henderson State University until 2022. She is currently a visiting professor of art at University of the Ozarks.
Rex DeLoney
http://rexdeloney.com/
Rex DeLoney is an Art instructor and Fine Arts Department chairman at Little Rock Central High School, in Little Rock, Arkansas. Mr. DeLoney holds a B.A. in commercial art from the University of Central Arkansas in Conway and an M.Ed from Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington. Mr. DeLoney’s colorful images have garnered many regional and national awards and are prominently displayed in private and public art collections across the United States.
His artwork is focused on storytelling, symbolism, and spirituality. Mr. DeLoney’s goal is to reach the viewer emotionally and spiritually by using vibrant colors to awaken perceptual triggers in the mind. He employs visually thick words, phrases, or quotes to create imagery that symbolize the hopes, dreams, and struggles of the African American Culture. He also employs a technique called abstract realism. First, creating colorful mixed media abstract backgrounds, then paints portraits or figurative works on top of these colorful backgrounds. Rex DeLoney intentionally uses bold colors for portrayal of my subjects rather than realistic colors to heighten the emotional impact. His most recent works have centered on the history of Black athletes using their platform to fight against social injustice.
Ashley Kinsey
bkinsey2@atu.edu
Ashley was born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1982, grew up in Nebraska and Texas, and now calls Arkansas her home after moving back to attend high school in 1996. She is a 2004 graduate of Arkansas Tech University with a BA degree in Graphic Design and Art Education. She is currently furthering her education at AOEU in Iowa, where she is finishing her MA in Art Education. She is an adjunct professor at Arkansas Tech University where she teaches drawing, color design, and graphic design courses. Her fine art concentration focuses on the anatomy of the human figure in charcoal and graphite, and also uses watercolor and fiber art to create mixed-media works. Along with her passion for art education and the fine arts, Ashley holds art advocacy to a very high level of importance in her personal, professional, and academic life. She has served on the Arkansas Art Educators Association board as Elementary Division Director and as Western Regional Art Show Director for several years. She also works with her community to teach summer youth art camps; the majority of her work with these community programs are voluntary as a result of her community-driven passion for integrating as much art as possible into her Russellville hometown. She has also worked with the River Valley Art Center, several Windgate Foundation ATU artist-in-residences, and with several local artists to create murals on multiple school campuses and in the city of Russellville. Whether teaching art to young children or to college students, her focus is not solely on the finished art product, but on the creative process and understanding the purposes and the importance of why we are creating. She believes that engaging in art at any age encourages critical and creative problem-solving skills and encourages perceptual awareness and self-expression, as art readily relates to all ages and life experiences.
Theresa Burgess
TheresaMBurgess@katyisd.org
Theresa Burgess has a Master of Art Education in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Houston and a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a Studio Painting focus. She has been an art instructor at the secondary level for 14 years. Theresa is currently teaching in Katy, Texas at Cinco Ranch HS. Over her teaching career, she has taught a variety of mediums and levels of students with diverse backgrounds. Her experiences range from teaching painting, drawing, ceramics, and sculpture. She has designed intro art courses for the beginner to developing advanced AP Studio courses. She has three years of experience as an AP Reader for College Board. She has also been the Regional Director for the Texas Art Education Association (TAEA) 4W Visual Art Scholastic Event (Vase) for 8 years. Art Education is a passion for Theresa. Building a curriculum that impacts students in a positive way and has lasting experiences past the classroom is her everyday aim.
This year campus housing will not be provided, so participants will be responsible for their own accommodations. We recommend the following hotels in Russellville:
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Chambers Dinning Hall
In the Dining Hall you have options such as the freshly prepared salad bar, deli,
Mongolian Wok, stone oven baked pizza, the grill, fantastic desserts, home cooked
yumminess, and so much more.
Due to Covid 19 at this time, all of our food is in take out containers but still gives you the freshness and all you can eat experience. Please get a new cup each time you need to refill your drink.
OPEN HOURS:
Monday-Friday 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Baz Tech
Baswell Techionary offers specialty sandwiches from Which Wich, pizza in a variety
of flavors from Bona Dea, chicken strips & salads from Slim Chickens, the best burgers
from Jerry's Diner and a variety of drinks from Starbucks "We Proudly Serve".
OPEN HOURS: (All food concepts will be closed by 11:00pm)
Monday-Friday 7 a.m. - 12 a.m.
Food Concepts Available in Baz Tech:
Bona Dea offers a variety of our pizzas and salads for your taste buds. Each are made fresh daily. Can't get into Baz Tech but want pizza, don't worry you can also find them at our C-Store located in Doc Bryan.
Jerry's Diner is our southern concept that offers a variety of breakfast sandwiches & burritos along with the best cheeseburgers & fries combo in town. They also serve grilled cheese, patty melts, BLT's, grilled chicken sandwiches and much more.
Slim Chickens brings southern hospitality to fast, casual dining with fresh hand-breaded chicken tenders, Buffalo wings, and handmade dipping sauces. Its menu offers a variety of choices of delicious products that can fit into a balanced, healthy diet.
Starbucks Every coffee we create has a rich story behind it—from the origin of the beans and our rigorous selection process to our blending and roasting artistry. Whether you’re sipping our hearty Starbucks Gold Coast Blend or getting reacquainted with our seasonal Starbucks Tribute Blend, you’ll taste our coffee passion in every cup. Starbucks Food Service is the leading provider of specialty coffee brands, dedicated to serving the unique needs of business-to-business venues including food service and office coffee operators, who in turn serve the consumer.
Which Wich® is a fresh, innovative concept featuring superior sandwiches served in an edgy, magnetic environment. In addition to more than 50 customizable “wiches”, including the signature Wicked® loaded with five meats and three cheeses, Which Wich is known for its revolutionary ordering system.
Registration Closed!
Each participant will be able to attend 4 of the 6 workshops. You will receive an e-mail confirming whether your application was accepted or if you were placed on the waiting list. This workshop is only available for current Arkansas K-12 art teachers at this time
All activities will be held in the Norman Art Building on the Arkansas Tech University Campus in Russellville. The map below provides directions to Norman Hall.
