Guiding Question: How do the arts give us tools that help us behave intelligently when we don’t know the answer?
Tuesday, September 8 – Plains Art Museum Due to flight schedules to Fargo, new managers are encouraged to arrive in Fargo by Monday evening.The Plains Arts Museum is a six-block walk from the Radisson Hotel. A Shuttle will depart at 4:45 p.m. for those people needing transportation to the museum. The hotel can also help with a taxi. |
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12:30 – 1:30 p.m. | New Managers Lunch with Dr. Sarah Bainter Cunningham, NEA Director of Arts Education For new managers and Dr. Cunningham only |
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1:30 – 3:30 p.m. | New Managers Orientation (this orientation includes mentors) | |
5:00 – 6:00 p.m. | Reception/Group Art Project, “Seed Reliquaries” Action Required – Please read the information at the link |
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6:00 – 6:30 p.m. | Welcome Circle of Nations drum group performs Linda Ehreth and Jan Webb, Executive Director, North Dakota Arts Council Dr. Sarah Bainter Cunningham – PDI Welcome Action Required – Please read the information at the link |
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6:30 – 8:30 p.m. | Dinner provided | |
Wednesday, September 9 – Fargo Theatre/Trollwood Performing Arts School | ||
7:00 – 8:00 a.m. | Continental breakfast provided at Radisson Hotel | |
8:00 – 8:30 a.m. | Walk to Fargo Theatre (three blocks from Radisson Hotel) | |
8:30 – 10:30 a.m. | Fargo Theatre Welcome 2008 Chattanooga PDI video Opening Address – Dr. Sarah Bainter Cunningham |
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10:30 – 11:00 a.m. | Bus travel to Trollwood Performing Arts School | |
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Artist-led Welcome and Warm-up by Spirit | |
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. |
Lunch provided | |
1:00 – 4:45 p.m. | Artist to Artist: Artist Lessons and Reflective Practice Action Required – Please read the information at the link With: Barbara Cox, Bettine Hermanson, Lori Brink Two artist groups |
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5:00 – 5:30 p.m. | Bus pick-up and travel back to hotel | |
6:00 – 7:30 p.m. | Dinner on your own | |
7:30 p.m. | Studio crawl in downtown Fargo | |
Thursday, September 10 – Plains Art Museum | ||
8:00 a.m. | Meet in Radisson Hotel lobby to walk to Plains Art Museum | |
8:30 a.m. | Continental breakfast provided at Plains Art Museum | |
8:40 – 10:40 a.m. | Applying a Tuning Protocol Through Collaborative Review of a Work in Progress: Poetry Out Loud (Iowa Arts Council) | |
10:40 – 10:45 a.m. | Break | |
10:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Education Leadership Institutes (ELI) – Pecha Kucha Presentations | |
12:30 – 2:00 p.m. | Lunch on your own/Regional meetings/Browse museum | |
2:00 – 4:00 p.m. | Book Club Discussion – based on the article “Practitioners Respond to Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education” (from Teaching Artist Journal) Action Required – Please read the information at the link |
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4:00 – 4:15 p.m. | Break | |
4:15 – 5:00 p.m. | Closing |