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Here are some of the teacher projects and ideas that we talked about tonight. PROJECT SHARED: IDENTITY ARTIFACTS (Jenny Drake) Jenny’s students investigate time and cultural artifacts. She first brought “a bunch of junk” from home and told the student

We had a great night sharing projects, student work, resources, and asking questions.   PROJECTS  Accordion Book about The Secret Life of Trees, 5th grade, Christy Loher What do trees mean to you? What secrets do trees have? Notebook Paper

Thanks to all who came to Carlos Fresquez’s artist talk. It was amazing to hear about his role in the Chicano Rights Movement, punk scene, and his continuing musical, social, and visual art collaborations. He has mentored many artists and activists in our city and is

Come to a performance/workshop by Kate Thomas, puppeteer, cantastorian, lover of teachers, disrupter of hegemony! February 7 at 5:30 Kate Thomas is a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Her doctoral research focuses on a

This week we moved our focus on Creative Placemaking from the greater community to school communities. We asked members of TLP to teach us about ways that they are engaging in creative placemaking in their schools. We heard 5 great

Thank you to our wonderful panel of visitors Libby Barbee, Lisa Gedguadas, Libby Barbee, Brian Corrigan and Thomas Evans (Detour). Libby opened our year-long investigation of  Creative Placemaking by suggesting a grounding definition: The discussion that followed highlighted personal definitions

VASD MSU Denver’s Visiting Artist Scholar Designer series brings two extraordinary socially engaged artists. These two exemplify many of the ideas illustrated in The Interventionists. A few highlights of the evening include hearing about a tiny receipt printer used to