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Call for Instructors

The Arts Center of Coastal Carolina’s Education Department seeks talented instructors to teach short classes and workshops for its community education series. The Arts Center offers integrated learning experiences to adults and children that emphasize hands-on learning. Classes can be in the visual or performing arts and can include but are not limited to workshops, lectures and demonstrations in two and three-dimensional art, jewelry, performing and media art, and writing. To see an offering of our current and past classes, click HERE.

Fall quarter runs from December 2011-February 2012. Deadline for workshop proposals is October 15.

Download proposal form HERE, or for more information contact Brucie Holler, Associate Director of Education, at 843-686-3945 x223 or bholler@artshhi.com.

The Arts Center offers a full schedule of workshops, classes and educational events for both children and adults.  Click on an underlined topic for more information.

Educational  Field  Trips provide performances and activities to more than 4000 students each year.2011-12 Field Trip Brochure HERE.
• Matinee Performances
• Gallery Walks
• Visual Art Activities
• Lectures

ArtsReach is an enrichment program offered free to participating public and private schools that provides for professional teaching artists to work directly in the schools.
• ArtsReach/InClass
• ArtsReach/AfterSchool
• ArtsReach/SpecialNeeds

Community Education Series offers integrated learning experiences to adults and children, including ArtStart classes specifically designed for toddlers.
• ArtStart (click for more information)
• Workshops 
• Lectures
• Demonstrations
• Camps
• Art Parties (click for more information)

Professional Development for Educators is provided as the Arts Center’s  commitment to the improvement of education in and through the arts.
• Kennedy Center Partner in Education program has as its primary purpose promoting the professional development of teachers through school/community partnerships..

Pottery Firing Rates -- Whether your work was created at our studio or at your home studio, the Arts Center can fire pottery for you.  Click on the link for firing rates and policies and procedures.
 
Adopt-a-School Partnership -- The Arts Center believes that the effort to include the arts in education can be increased through partnerships.  In 2006 the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina adopted Hilton Head Island School for the Creative Arts with the mutual goal of integrating the arts into the elementary curriculum through expanding services to both students and educators.  These additional services in established educational areas are provided by the Arts Center.

Congratulations to our Adopt-a-school partner! Hilton Head Island School for the Creative Arts efforts to integrate art into academic subjects earned it national recognition and $2,000 this year, the Beaufort County School District announced on September 10. 2010. HHISCA is one of five recipients of the National Schools of Distinction in Arts Education Award. Presented by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, it honors schools that have made the arts an essential part of education.

The School for Creative Arts has been recognized by the program on the state level, but had never won the national award. No Beaufort County school has since the program began in 1999. HHISCA teaches dance, theater, music and visual arts as separate classes and integrates the arts into traditional academic subjects. It has had an arts-focused curriculum since 2004.

"It is like winning an Oscar and Grammy in the same day," said principal Gretchen Keefner. "It's not about the arts happening in art classes and the core content -- reading, math, science and social studies -- happening in the classrooms," she continued. "There's a commitment to understanding each other's disciplines."

Keefner said the staff's commitment to that philosophy, as well as collaboration with community arts organizations, helped the school succeed. She said test scores on state-mandated tests have improved since the school adopted an arts focus.

Teachers say the arts engage students and create memorable lessons to help them better retain information.

Teacher Cora Lugo remembers sitting with her first-grade class last year during the fifth-grade musical about World War II. "My kids were on the edge of their seats the whole time, and first-graders really don't have a strong understanding of that time period," she said. "I had a million questions when we got back to the classroom."

Keefner said she loves seeing tangible evidence of hard work by students and teachers when watching their annual performances.

Last spring, a group of students performed an original work at Charleston's Piccolo Spoleto festival that explored the beginnings of jazz. They performed at the historic Sottile Theatre, which hosted the South Carolina premiere of "Gone With the Wind."

"To see them on that stage, it was breathtaking," Keefner said.

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