January
2013
January 2, 2013
North Dakota's Icelandic Exchange
North Dakota’s Icelandic Exchange
The North Dakota Council on the Arts (NDCA) recently sponsored a youth photography exchange between rural communities in North Dakota and Iceland. Many families of Icelandic heritage reside in northeastern North Dakota, creating one of the largest Icelandic communities outside of Iceland. NDCA supports international residency programs that encourage intercultural understanding through arts learning, with a particular focus on youth and schools. In this year’s program, K-12 students in Cavalier, North Dakota, and Laugalandsskoli, Iceland, used photography and drawing to create artworks documenting important features of their homes and communities. The works were exhibited at schools in both North Dakota and Iceland. In classroom learning units organized around the exhibits, students explored similarities and differences in their family events, food traditions, clothing and other features of daily life. Activities took place under the guidance of a professional photographer and artist-in-residence who traveled to both sites. This exchange was the latest activity in NDCA’s ongoing International Artist in Schools Exchange program, a 10-year collaboration with the Icelandic Communities Association. In April 2013, a teacher and artist from Verkmenntaskólinn á Akureyri Comprehensive College in Iceland will travel to Cavalier to conduct a residency with students. For more information, contact NDCA Arts in Education Director Rebecca Engelman.
In this Issue
State to State
- Nebraska: Arts Education Advantage
- South Carolina: On-line Arts Hub
- North Dakota: Icelandic Exchange
Legislative Update
More Notes from NASAA
Executive Director's Column
Research on Demand
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