What is Creative Link?
The Creative Link Arts Integration program gives teachers the chance to transform their curriculum with the help of a local teaching artist who will use The Eight Studio Habits of Mind (SHoM) to help students learn artistic dispositions that are transferable to all academic subjects.
Who is Creative Link for?
Teachers looking to add creative learning and problem solving solutions to any academic subject and curriculum.
Development Workshops
Creative Link Professional Development Workshops offer schools the opportunity to engage their educators in exploring creative instruction, arts-integration, and supporting student/educator wellness through the arts. Meant for groups of teachers outside of the classroom.
Consultations
Creative Link Consultations provide a teacher the opportunity to dialogue directly with an experienced teaching artist to envision new possibilities or creative solutions to challenges they are facing with their curriculum and classroom. These can be one-time consultations, or set up as a series of conversations over a period of time.
Collaborations
Collaborations pair professional teaching artists with classroom teachers looking to deepen the role the arts play as tools for teaching, learning, and engagement in their classrooms. Every Collaboration is unique to the classroom and teacher. The teaching artist leads a series of activities with the classroom over the course of multiple sessions, with the teacher taking on a support role. The artist and teacher remain in dialogue about what they are learning and where to go next. Through this process, the educator gains strategies and artistic practices they can incorporate into their teaching.
Alex Ever
(they/them)
Alex Ever is a multi-media artist who values and encourages self-discovery and self-expression through artistic processes.
Grades: 6th-12th
Subject Areas: Science & Social Science
Experience: Alex has been a teaching artist for 10 years and has experience working in multiple alternative high schools.
Art Forms: fiber arts, observational drawing, graphic design
Available Languages: English
Tom Miller
(he/him)
Tom Miller aspires to create a safe space for all students to tell their own stories with materials that excited them, while forging personal connections with 40,000 years of global art history, making their own meaning out of a complex world, and enriching their lives with beauty and creative problem-solving.
Grades: Kindergarten-12th
Subject Areas: Language, Math, Science, & Social Science
Experience: Tom has over 30 years of experience as a classroom teacher, specialist art teacher, and teaching artist
Art Forms: Drawing, Painting, Collage, Sculpture
Available Languages: English, Spanish, French
Air Taylor
(she/her)
Think of Air as ‘The Fairy Godmother of Classroom Creativity’, working with teachers to empower the creative force within them to rise up and take charge. Confidential one-on-one Creative Link sessions with her can provide practical and personalized creative solutions to the teacher’s everyday life and lessons as well as overall classroom management and environment.
Grades: 3rd-12th
Subject Areas: Language, Math, Science, & Social Science
Experience: Air is a former teacher of the year who taught middle school language arts, creative writing, and history. She has been a professional exhibiting artist for 17 years.
Art Forms: Creative make over for the classroom environment, Social Emotional Learning (SEL) through Art (primarily through found objects mixed media/painted sculpture), Working with modest means to create beauty and fun, Working through personal blocks to creative identity and confidence, Creative thinking and solutions navigating challenging circumstances
Available Languages: English
Chauncey Mauney
(he/him)
Chauncey Mauney is a performing and devising artist specializing in theatre, music, and storytelling. His work with children and young adults has spanned two decades, four states (not including tours), and includes credits with Chicago Children’s Theatre and Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Chauncey has a particular knack and affinity for working with people with disabilities, making access and inclusion cornerstones in his engagements. The insights gained through his time as a teaching artist have made it clear that learning and expression happen collaboratively, rather than through instruction. Chauncey is currently leading a 10-week Creative Link collaboration with the students and staff in the life skills classroom at Willamette High School.
To explore how Creative Link can help expand the role of the arts in your curriculum, contact Lane Arts Council’s Arts Education Manager, Ben Minnis, at 541-485-2278, artsed@lanearts.org