Summer Institute 2021

Summer Institute 2021 is a three-day intensive virtual workshop series for teaching artists of all disciplines. This year we will focus on art as activism or “artivism”. This past year, our students have experienced extreme societal upheaval and social injustices amidst a pandemic. We believe it is our job as teaching artists to help them navigate these events, their emotions, and their response to the world through art-making. During this three day intensive, teaching artists across the country will work with Teaching Artist Project staff to develop skills, lessons, and activities that will help support their students and bring activism through art into the classroom. Join us this summer to expand your ability to bring art and activism to the classroom, deepen your teaching with experiential, inquiry and reflection processes, connect with teaching artists from around the country, and build new strategies for creating a positive classroom culture.

• Expand your impact in teaching for social justice
• Deepen your teaching with experiential, inquiry and reflection processes
• Connect with Teaching Artists from around the country
• Explore creative processes and critical thinking
• Investigate techniques for project-based arts integration
• Build new strategies for building a positive classroom culture

Summer Institute’s training curriculum is based on Community-Word Project’s “creative process” exploration methods, teaching practices and arts-in-education philosophy developed over 23 years. We recommend that teaching artists have at least some classroom experience (1-2 years) before applying.

Please see our FAQs page for answers to frequent questions: https://www.teachingartistproject.org/frequently-asked-questions

Application Instructions

The complete application and guidelines can be found at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1_jZp-eMulHbqgLsQdv-4zjE23KG2USN1qucntPr9yC6gbQ/viewform. The deadline to apply is June 15th. There is an early bird deadline of May 15th as well. Those applicants who apply early will receive $100 off their tuition if accepted.