Teacher workshops to start July 20

The Old Jail Art Center will host three Region 14 teacher workshops for Continuing Professional Education credits during the month of July. 

A fourth workshop, Project Archeology: Investigating Shelter, was planned for this Friday, July 13, but has been cancelled. 

The Art of Reading workshop is scheduled to take place from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Friday, July 20.

“This has been our most popular workshop for seven years in a row,” OJAC education director Erin Whitmore said. “Come again and enjoy new materials and projects that blend language and visual art in fun ways for early learners!”

The art projects are designed for children in kindergarten to third grades, to enhance curriculum taught by instructors of art, reading, and language arts, as well as general classroom teachers.

¡Fiesta! Hispanic Arts and Culture invites teachers of secondary students to enrich their curriculum through an investigation of Latin American art and artifacts, and takes place at the Old Jail from 9:00 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. on Friday, July 27.

The workshop is geared toward fifth through 10th grade instructors of Spanish, language arts, social studies, and/or visual arts classes.

The final workshop for Region 14 teachers hosted by the OJAC this summer, Anxiety-Free Abstract Art Projects, will be held on Tuesday, July 31, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

The workshop will present fun and simple ways for instructors to introduce students to abstract art, and is aimed at instructors of visual art, fine art, social studies, and world history students in grades six through 12.

Participants should contact the Region 14 Education Service Center PitStop website for registration and credit information.