Partnering Teacher Evaluation

The project that Nadia Korths brought to the eighth grade at Keene Central School has been positive in many ways.  Most generally, it was refreshing to have a new artistic teaching perspective, as the students have just one art teacher throughout their entire school experience at Keene Central School.

 More specifically, this project gave the students an opportunity to work with found and recycled materials, engage with the ELA and science curricula, make art in a spontaneous and stress-free way, and express themselves in a direct and immediate manner.

 The books that the students produced were beautiful.  Nearly all the students and many of their family members attended the culminating experience, a mini-gallery opening with readings and presentations.  Nadia came to school before our annual school art show and set up the gallery so that the finished pieces were on display for the general public.

The students clearly enjoyed this project and were proud of their final products.  Nadia was great to work with, and we all appreciated her energy, enthusiasm, encouragement, and creativity.

Cheryl MacFadden, Art Teacher
Keene Central School

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An allocation in the amount of $2,615 has been awarded to the Goff-Nelson Memorial Library to support the implementation of 8 sessions of the Workshop Print, Prose and Recycle, as part of Creative Aging in New York State Libraries: A Regional Model with National Applicability.

Workshop: Print, Prose and Recycle
Teaching Artist: Nadia Korths
By using recycled materials and eastern-style printmaking techniques, participants will make vibrantly colored prints on paper. Participants will learn a non-toxic, abstract printmaking technique to create prints by hand and create word images from everyday observations. With the theme of time, students will compile their prints and vignettes into an art book, which will be showcased at a culminating event.

Workshop Dates: Thursdays, 9:30am-11:30am.
May 16, 23, 30; June 6, 13, 20, 25 (Tuesday); July 2 (Tuesday), 2013
Culminating Event: Thursdays, July 11th, 2013, 9:30am-11:30am

Workshop location: Goff Nelson Memorial Library, 41 Lake St., Tupper Lake, NY

The class is free for people 55 and older. You are invited to register by calling the library at 518.359.9421.

“This Lifetime Arts Program is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Westchester Library System, AARP Foundation, American Library Association, New York State Council of the Arts, and the Helen Andrus Benedict Foundation.”

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In Honor of Ten Artists and their Great Art Teacher

Ten young people,

moving, with focus.

Creating, one after another,

vibrantly colored

monoprints …

Moving … With focus …

Nadia Korths, 2.7.2013

Paired with Print 2.7.2013
First brayer roll, of each color, once,
after students finished sharing them to create their own works during class
Rice paper

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New York State Council of the Arts via North Country Cultural Center for the Arts
January 2013

In partnership with the Keene Central School I received a 1500$ Arts in Education grant.

Ten 8th grade students from Keene Central School will create handprints made from self gathered human debris using an Eastern, non-toxic, abstract style of printmaking paired with short descriptive prose vignettes of their everyday lives. Each student will pair seven prints with seven word images to create two copies of one art art book; one to gift and one to keep. January through June 2013.

Thank you to Kathy Recchia, grants coordinator at NCCCA, for encouraging my submission.  Thank you to Cheryl MacFadden, art teacher at Keene Central School, for coordinating the proposal submission to the school.

On March 8th, there will be an ceremony for those awarded with the Arts in Education NYSCA grants at the North Country Cultural Center of the Arts. All participants in the Keene Central School Print, Prose and Recycle Project are welcome to attend.

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