Professional+Development

Professional Development websites

[|National Endowment for the Humanities] Summer workshops and institutes of a scholarly nature. There are a few that feature art/artists. The one of the lives of Saint Francis is in Sienna, Italy for 6 weeks. There is another one on John James Audobon. Many others on vaior humanities topics. You do not need to be a tecaher in that discipline to apply for the course. These are very high quality seminars taught by scholars in their fileds in lcoations that offer enrichment in subject.

[|Art Institute of Chicago] This site lists the diffrent programs SAIC offers to teachers during the summer.

[|SCAD Art Educators Forum]

[|Snow Farm, New England Craft Program]

[|National Gallery of Art Teacher Institute] The focus this summer is on cross currents in American art in the 18th and 19th century.

[|Qualities-of-Quality-Understanding-Excellence-Arts-Education.pdf]