Dear Artists and Arts Educators,?

The Music Center is proud to again offer its renowned Teaching Artist Training program in 2025. The updated course includes new best practices and is designed to offer in-person sessions with some optional virtual support sessions. Participants will focus on lesson design and gain strategies to facilitate arts learning in schools and community settings, drawing from their own artistic strengths. Guided by Music Center teaching artists Madeleine Dahm (theatre), Andrew Grueschow (music), Lynn Okimura (visual arts & media arts) and Chisa Yamaguchi (dance/movement), this course also features independent study components and individual coaching by a mentor. This 10-week session provides participants with the skills and knowledge to begin or refine their work as teaching artists in K-12 settings as well as various community settings. The program will take place in-person on select Saturdays, starting January 25,?2025,?and will also have optional virtual sessions during the week.?

If you have any questions at all, you can contact me at eruffin@....?

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Thank you,

EBONY RUFFIN?(she/her/hers)