November felt like a culmination of a lot of hard work. In the two previous posts I talked about the Wandering Wardrobe, but that is only a small part of my job in Onstead. Most of my focus is professional developments and community workshops. On November 8th and 9th we had two sessions that we had been preparing for since the beginning of the semester.
On Friday, November 8th, Keller ISD brought 25 art teachers to UNT for two professional development sessions. They spent the morning in the fabrication lab learning about pixels and the afternoon in the fibers lab working on string as line. They were led by Abby Sherril who brought her knowledge of tech merged with physical making. They stitched, programed and played. It was pretty great.
The next day: Saturday, November 9th, Lauren Lake led a community workshop at Lewisville Community Center. It was a mixed bag of teachers, personal makers and the curious, and made for a very fun day. They made new sketchbooks their own through collage, sketch and alteration.
All three sessions had required weeks of planning, many meetings and lots of purchases, but were over in hours. They all received rave reviews from the participants, gaining the teachers involved valuable professional development hours and hopefully skills that will feed their classrooms. As for the individual makers, I hope they left with a sense of joy and a longing to continue their own art practice.
That sounds like a lot of work. How was it helping these workshops come to fruition?
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