Creative Link Arts Integration
The Creative Link Arts Integration program brings the worlds of teaching and the arts into collaboration with each other by giving teachers the chance to transform their curriculum with the help of a local teaching artist. Creative Link strives to provide educators with accessible tools that build confidence, engage the creative process, and empower students to develop and express ideas in innovative and meaningful ways. The Studio Habits of Mind (SHoM) are utilized to help students unlock their creative potential, while increasing resilience and problem-solving skills in students.
Creative Link Teaching artists: Each Creative Link Teaching Artist brings a unique set of artistic skills and experiences in the classroom. We have Creative Link artists with experience working in: Alternative High Schools, Life Skills Classrooms, middle school classrooms, Music, Ceramics, Visual Art, Dance, and more!
Creative Link Consultations
Creative Link Consultations provide educators an 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.
Creative Link Collaborations
Creative Link Collaborations pair professional teaching artists with classroom teachers looking to expand or deepen the role the arts play as tools for teaching, learning, and engagement in their classrooms. These collaborations start with a consultation where they envision how the arts can help the teacher reach some of their goals for their classroom. The teaching artist then leads a series of artistic provocations and activities with the classroom with the teacher taking a role of supporter and co-learner. Over the course of the collaboration, 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 in the future. Every Creative Link collaboration is unique based on the goals of the teachers and the artistic background of the teaching artists.
Creative Link Professional 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.
Alex Ever
Alex Ever is a multi-media artist who values and encourages self discovery and self expression through artistic processing. They have been involved with arts and children’s programing in the Pacific Northwest for a number of years. Alex believes that no matter the age, experiences, identities, and background, everyone can be an artist and engage in creative exploration. In the summer of 2021, Alex worked with students throughout the community on a natural dye/water conservation project that culminated in a series of public art installations at the Willamette River Festival. During the 2021-22 school year, Alex led a 25 week Creative Link collaboration with the students and staff of Twin Rivers Charter School.
Chauncey Mauney
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.
Tom Miller
Tom Miller is a visual artist who has taught students from diverse backgrounds since 1988. The power of storytelling is central to his work as a teacher and his personal work, which uses drawing, painting and sculpture to create seductive, narrative experiences for viewers. After teaching as a bilingual (Spanish) classroom teacher in Northern and Southern California, he worked as a teaching artist at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, connecting the museum’s collection with inner-city students, and sharing his curriculum with other teachers at Evenings for Educators events. Having his own K-5 art class for eight years at the Buckley School allowed him to develop dozens of art projects that are rooted in 40,000 years of global art production. Tom is now helping students tell their own stories and build community with artist residencies through Lane Arts.
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