CREATIVE EDUCATORS INSTITUTE
Summer 2016
CREATIVE EDUCATORS INSTITUTE MIAD’s Summer Creative Educators Institute is an intense, immersive and exciting exploration that recharges your creativity, and reminds you what it feels like to be an artist and a student. Network with other educators, develop a professional portfolio, generate curricular ideas for classroom projects, and get the credit you deserve. Earn three undergraduate or two graduate nonmatriculating credits at no extra cost.
Mark Your Calendar! April 1: Early Bird Tuition Ends June 1: Final Payment and Registration Deadline (No refunds after June 1)
Session 1: June 20 - June 24 (Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.)
- Studio Photography: Built Environments - Adobe Photoshop: Basic Design Applications - Teaching Design: See, Think, Make
Session 2: July 25 - July 29 (Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.)
- Adobe Illustrator: Creative and Practical Applications -Printmaking: Advanced Studio
Online Registration: www.miad.edu/educators QUESTIONS: Contact MIAD’s Continuing Education Office phone: 414.847.3330 fax: 414.291.8077 email: conted@miad.edu
Credits Assisting Educators with License Renewal MIAD is approved by the WI Deptartment of Public Instruction to award non-matriculating credits for the purpose of teacher license renewal. MIAD is a 4-year degree granting college accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges (NCAC) and the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). Official transcripts may be requested from MIAD’s Registrar’s Office. Credits are awarded based on NASAD recommended equivalencies. Creative Educators Institute awards 3 non-matriculating undergraduate credits, or 2 non-matriculating graduate credits, for successful completion of the intensive summer studio program.
PDP Professional Development Plan The Creative Educators Institute is specifically designed to clearly connect to all 10 of the WI State Teacher Standards. Most importantly: • Knowledge and skills gained in studios and workshops are easily transferrable to the High School curriculum. • Documentation for Professional Development goals is clearly provided through Educators’ Exchange (an online resource for lesson plans, projects and workshop ideas), professionally applicable social media skills, portfolio development and a body of work that showcases teacher acquisition of skill and conceptual development.
Housing (optional)
MIAD’s new apartment-style residence hall, TWO50TWO, is just across from the college’s main academic building. The progressive-style building with sustainable systems and details is in close proximity to your studios and classrooms in the creative atmosphere of the Historic Third Ward. It features: • Five floors of housing and a ground floor with 5,780 square feet of retail space. • 75 fully furnished two-bedroom suites, each accommodating one CEI student/bedroom, with a living room, kitchen and two bathrooms. • Amenities in each suite include a twin bed, nightstand, threedrawer dresser, desk and chair for each student; flat-screen LED TVs, couch, chair and end tables in the living room; and a refrigerator and microwave. Towels and linens are supplied, and the kitchens are fully equipped. • Student lounges, common study areas and laundry rooms are on all dwelling floors.
Housing (optional) What to Pack • Alarm clock • Cell/prepaid phone (Landlines will not be available) • Hangers • Laundry basket and detergent (Must be high efficiency detergent) • Laundry money (Bills only - machine does not take quarters)
Arriving from the Airport Residents landing at General Mitchell Field will need to arrange their transportation from the airport to TWO50TWO, the MIAD Residence Hall (252 E. Menomonee St.). Although there are many options, including taxicabs, MIAD students frequently make doorto-door reservations through the airport shuttle. For information and reservations, contact 414-769-2444 or visit http://www.goriteway.com Getting Around Residents receive a city bus pass with their student ID that provides free transportation in Milwaukee throughout the duration of the CEI program.
Parking Daytime Parking for Commuters There is limited daytime free parking provided in the surface parking lot at Summerfest Lot P across the street from 590 E. Erie. Availability depends on when you arrive. All vehicles parked in the Summerfest Lot P must have a valid MIAD parking permit, issued at the MIAD front security desk. The parking permit must be displayed on the rear view mirror. Sharing permits is prohibited. If a student drives more than one vehicle, a separate parking permit must be obtained for each vehicle. Any unauthorized vehicle is subject to being ticketed and towed. Parking is prohibited in handicapped parking areas, in aisles, in areas marked “reserved� and in front of the receiving docks. Anyone found to be in violation of the parking rules faces ticketing, towing and may also have future parking privileges revoked. For a complete list of parking lots in the area, contact the Security Office (R45A). MIAD is not responsible for damages to or loss of any vehicle, its contents or accessories. Overnight Parking for Residential Students with Cars A surface lot, which is 5 blocks from MIAD, is available for 24/7 parking.
Destination MKE
Milwaukee is often described in a single breath as a small city and big town. The atmosphere is friendly and down to earth with a subtle Midwestern charm. Numerous summer festivals have Milwaukee coined as “The City of Festivals,” including Summerfest, the world’s largest music festival. Milwaukee was named a 2013 Top 12 ArtPlace in America, and the 6th best college destination for mid-sized metropolitan areas. MIAD’s campus is located in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward; some twenty blocks of renovated warehouses, artists lofts, theaters, businesses, shops and restaurants. A destination for both tourists and residents, the Third Ward possesses a distinct and unique urban flavor.
Session 1: Photography: Built Environments
No single art form has undergone as many drastic changes in our generation as photography. Film cameras and the mystique of the darkroom gave way to SLR digital cameras and Photoshop, and more recently to the quick capture of high resolution images on cell phones that are shared through a variety of social media. This begs the question, “What is photography today?” This class explores that question through non-traditional uses of photography combined with unique studio applications that include painting with light and using colored gels on 3D objects (3D collage), using digital projections as backdrops, exploring the notion of “staging” and more. One-on-one discussions with the instructor and class brainstorming sessions are catalysts for projects that tap the potential of photography as a constructed exercise, while taking into consideration its various contemporary forms and the diverse strategies of representation it incorporates today. Prerequisites: Your own DSLR camera and a basic understanding of its operation.
Instructor:
Corbett Toomsen Originally from Iowa, Toomsen has lived in Wisconsin for the past 20 years. He earned his BFA in Illustration from MIAD in 2004, and an MFA in InterMedia Studio Art at UW-Milwaukee in 2014. He pursues an ongoing appreciation for investigating the relationships between individual identity and shared experiences, with an exploratory approach to new processes and media. His current work investigates the role of photography in forming expectations of travel experiences. Using mass media imagery and built environments in his studio to construct a fictitious journey through the American west, Toomsen borrows from the tradition of vernacular photography to record these experiences as snapshots. Toomsen is a professor in MIAD’s Foundations program.
Session 1: Teaching Design: See, Think, Make
Embark on a journey of inquiry as you work on design challenges that transfer easily to your middle or high school classrooms. With the “See, Think, Make” process to teaching design, you experience how designers make beautiful and functional objects with a minimal use of material, and how this process facilitates the solving of complex problems. Design is a survival skill that we use to manipulate, invent and improve our environment. John Caruso, Professor of Industrial Design, has presented design challenges for the WAEA Visioneers Design Competition since 2006, and will again work with middle and high school students on the newest design challenge, “America’s Promise: Embracing Diversity of All Cultures” this April. He also leads the MIAD + Marquette “EDDi” Engineering Design collaboration incorporating STEAM principles at the university level. Join Professor Caruso this summer in CEI to create and solve your own design challenges that will put the STEAM in your STEM.
Instructor: John Caruso
John Caruso, Professor of Industrial Design at MIAD, is a highly sought after innovation consultant and guest lecturer on design thinking and design issues. Among his recent lectures was “Seeing - Thinking - Making: What Designers Do,” detailing the design process to educators at the Wisconsin Art Education Association [WAEA] annual conference. Throughout Caruso’s teaching career, his students have won numerous national design awards. In the past nine years he has directed student projects winning six Industrial Design Excellence Awards [IDEA], including Gold in 2008-a first for MIAD; four National Housewares Manufacturers Awards, including a First Place in 2003, and two Dyson Competition awards. As of 2007, Caruso was the first professor who directed students from two separate educational institutions winning Gold and Bronze IDEA awards in the same year. He feels the best measure of success is the success of his students.
Session 1: Photoshop Basic Design Applications
Explore the digital tools of Adobe Photoshop through the lens of color theory, composition, and mark-making. Working with digital WACOM tablets, learn about brush panel techniques, advanced selection, layering options, blending modes, masking, and digital output processes. Prerequisite: Basic Computer skills
Session 2: Illustrator Creative Applications
Learn the Adobe Illustrator interface and its creative uses. Working with a variety of tools, you will create, control and modify vector-based images to invent a broad range of eye-catching drawings, paintings and graphic-based designs. Students are supplied with all the necessary learning materials, such as terminology sheets and step-by-step video tutorials to help develop and maintain skills beyond the classroom experience. Prerequisite: Basic Photoshop skills
Instructor: Scott Taylor
MIAD faculty, Scott Taylor, received his BFA from MIAD in Illustration and an MFA from UW-Madison in Painting & Drawing. He contributes digital imagery to an assortment of online galleries and publications, and creates artwork for Steve Roach Music Productions in Tucson, AZ.
Session 2: Printmaking: Advanced Studio
This studio offers a great opportunity for those with experience in silkscreen, intaglio, lithography or relief to access outstanding facilities to continue work on their own print ideas. Combine printmaking techniques or advance your investigation in the printmaking area of your choice. Share your ideas and knowledge with other educators in group critique sessions. Demonstrations on specialty techniques, related equipment and supplies are offered throughout the week. MIAD’s intaglio lab has etching facilities for copper and steel.
Prices and Registration Tuition: $415 ($395 before April 1) Room: $175 (Optional) Overnight Parking is available in a surface lot 5 blocks from MIAD at no extra cost. Enrollment is limited. Register now to get the class you want at
miad.edu/educators
Questions? Call 414-847-3330 or email conted@miad.edu
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design 273 East Erie Street Milwaukee, WI 53202
Where passion finds purpose.
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