The Art of Learning: Teaching Artists |
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Matt Binder is a musician who enjoys taking his guitar and recorder into the classroom to accompany singing and dancing. He likes to share the cultural context of folk songs and dances from many cultures. He can help you design a project that addresses topics in social studies as well as building skills and knowledge in music. He could also create a unit on how the sounds are produced in musical instruments, which is a 3rd grade science benchmark.
Matt is a former science educator who is currently a DOE substitute teacher. He needs to be scheduled by SKEA for 2 hours per day in order to make it financially feasible to give up a day of teaching. Let SKEA know about your project as early as possible so we can try to coordinate another project for him at the same time.
Grade Level Preference: Preschool - 12th
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Anita Broennimann is a visual artist working in many media including watercolor, acrylic, oil pastel, collage, mixed media, print making, and paper-making.
She has many years’ experience working with these media with children and young adults in Kona’s schools, and is on the roster of official Artists-in-the-Schools for the State of Hawaii. Anita is excellent at making connections with curriculum topics in language arts, science, math, and social studies.
Grade Level Preference: 1st-12th
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Ellen Crocker is a multi-media artist who uses techniques of Sumi-e (Japanese ink brush), watercolor, and Japanese Batik (roketsu-zome) to create her paintings and art quilts. Her work has been influenced by the natural beauty of Hawaii as well as her affinity for Japanese culture. Visit her website at www.ellencrocker.com.
Ellen has been teaching art in the Kona public schools since 1983, guiding students in drawing, painting, Sumi-e, fabric painting, print-making, quilting (using various media) and making simple books. She also enjoys working with students in the illustration of their writings.
Ellen is on the roster of official Artists-in-the-Schools for the State of Hawaii and has a lot of experience making connections between the visual arts and other curriculum areas.
Grade Level Preference: Preschool-12th
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Jamilla Hannaford has been in the education field for more than 30 years, and playing music since age 7. Under the name Carla Hannaford, Ph.D. she has authored three books: Smart Moves: Why learning is not all in your head, Awakening the Child Heart, and The Dominance Factor. She has taught in 33 countries about the importance of music for brain development, and explored a wide range of musical styles. She plays violin, piano, guitar, drum, and cello. She enjoys sharing the depth and joy of music with children.
Grade Level Preference: Preschool - 12th
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Heidi Lee Hart is a certified art teacher, dances hula on the cruise ships, and has experience in the theatre arts, including costume and set design as well as acting. Her first love is sharing Hawaiian culture with students. Consider her for projects in Hawaiian Cultural Arts, Visual Arts, Drama, and Dance.
Heidi is currently a DOE substitute teacher, so needs to be scheduled by SKEA for 3 hours per day in order to make it financially feasible to give up a day of teaching. Let SKEA know about your project as early as possible so we can try to coordinate other projects for her at the same time.
Grade Level Preference: 4th-12th; really likes to work with high school
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Etua Lopes is a well-known kumu hula in our community. He has helped the South Kona schools with their May Day hula performances for many years. He has a busy schedule, but when available he enjoys going into classrooms and teaching fabric dyeing with natural dyes, printing on fabric with traditional Hawaiian designs, hula, and chanting.
Grade Level Preference: Preschool – 12th
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Jessica Marcus is a master percussionist who has studied drumming around the globe. She brings her experience with world music to the classroom, sharing the musical and cultural aspects of drumming. Jessica makes strong curriculum connections with both math and social studies for the students she teaches. You can check out her website at www.tigerpawpercussion.com/
Grade Level Preference: Preschool – 12th
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George Place is a visual artist who works in acrylic and watercolor, but in the schools he likes to share his knowledge of the art forms the early Hawaiians used in making items for everyday life. He can guide students in fabric dyeing, making feather kahili, carving, and printing both traditional and original designs.
Grade Level Preference: Grade 4 and up
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Alysia Samaru is a potter who has her studio in the SKEA building. She enjoys introducing students to clay as an artistic medium and can do from simple to complex projects. If your school has access to a kiln, she can guide students through all phases of a pottery project including firing and glazing. Without a kiln, students can simply learn how to work and shape clay or use a type of clay that air dries to have a finished piece at the end of the project. Alysia can make connections to clay as a geologic material and in its cultural uses, as well as a means for artistic expression.
Grade Level Preference: Preschool-12th
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Cherokee Shaner is a multi-talented artist who is a former elementary teacher. She can work with students on ceramics; stitchery, weaving, or yarn crafts; making costumes, props, and scenery; mural projects; or print-making. She is especially happy to participate in campus beautification projects incorporating permanent installations of student art.
You need not have a formal plan to work with Cherokee. If you’d like someone to help with artistic endeavors in your class, she’s happy to come and work alongside you.
Grade Level Preference: Grades 2-6
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Momi Subiono is a former Hawaiian Studies Teacher for the Kupuna Program. She is a cultural practitioner of Hawaiian Ethnobotany, which is the study of native uses of plants. It includes making cloth and medicine, and various arts used in the Hawaiian lifestyle. She has studied under kupuna and world renowned teachers in this field. Over the last ten years, she has taught in Kona’s schools, working with classroom teachers to make connections in science, art, social studies and literature. She considers it a great honor to teach the youth of Hawai’i.
Grade Level Preference: Preschool-12th
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Cory Watson is an actor who moved to the Big Island 4 years ago from Homer, Alaska where she participated in the Pier One Youth Theatre Camps. She was a member of the Shakespeare Santa Cruz ensemble in 2001, a group performing abbreviated versions of Shakespeare plays for youth audiences, and has worked as a teaching artist in schools in both Alaska and California.
She loves introducing students to the theatre arts, leading them through content-related mime, improvisation, tableaux, dialog, and short scenes. Her work with students deepens their understanding of story structure and meaning in language arts or social studies.
Grade Level Preference: K-5
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