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Comment by Author Collective on March 21, 2012 at 6:50am

The 2012 Michigan Spring Art and Book Festival is now looking for artists and authors to sell and display their works.  We have rented the entire Laurel Park Place Mall in Livonia April 13th through 15th and will have lots of space for artisans, crafts people and visual arts talent.  Throughout the common areas of the center will be 6' tables for writers and 10' x 10' booth space for artists.  Author tables start at $90 per day and the artists booths are only $295 for the three day weekend. What better place to sell and show your artistic talents than a shopping mall?

 

The weekend is free to the public and will have lots of no cost professional development for creative people. Lectures, discussions and workshops by Monica Marie Jones, Elizabeth Atkins, Sylvia Hubbard, Zahra Huber, eBooks2Go and others will give insight into the worlds of art, broadcast journalism, publishing and eBook conversion. Friday and Saturday evenings at 6:00 p.m. we will have our "Gentle to All Ears" poetry sessions and family friendly open mic poetry recitals. Our "Celebrity Read Out Loud" places students with local celebrities and mentors as they read books every thirty minutes. Join Southfield Mayor, Brenda Lawrence, Channel 955 on air personalities "Bg" and "Ace" plus Tony Trupiano from the "Tony Show" and many more for these free readings. 

 

Our R2Books program will donate 1,000 brand new books to students from the area.  Fifty schools, churches and civic organizations will be selected to receive 20 book certificates each.  These book certificates may be redeemed by students, kindergarten through twelfth grade, for any age appropriate book, no cost or obligation. Don't forget to bring the children and those who are young at heart to this free family friendly festival.

 

Applications for each event are now on line at:

 

www.MichiganSpringBookFestival.com   |   www.MichiganSpringArtFestival.com 

 

Log on now to reserve your table or call (313) 446-2262 for additional details. Looking to travel or living away from the Detroit Area?  Check out our festivals in Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Nashville.  These websites will have more details.

 

www.IFOTA.us   |   www.InternationalBookExpo.com  

 

 

Looking forward to working with you.

Comment by Steven Yager on March 21, 2012 at 6:43am

Where should you be March 31? The New York Photo Show at the Lighthouse 111 East 59th Street. Vendors will have photographs from daguerreotypes to digital, B&W to alternative, 19th - 21st cent.

Comment by Turtel Onli on March 1, 2012 at 6:32am

Here is a high school student of mine presenting a poster he designed after doing research on the Milestone Media Company.

Comment by Turtel Onli on March 1, 2012 at 6:30am

Comment by Steven Yager on February 1, 2012 at 5:46pm

The New York Photo Show March 31 at The Lighthouse 111 E. 59th St.  Between Lexington and Park Avenues would like to encourage students and teachers to attend the show.  We are encouraging students and teachers to attend by offering 1/2 price admission ($5) from noon to close of show.  We will have images from Africa and by and of Black Americans for sale.  Come see images by James Vanderzee and JP Ball.  Purchase images of Muhammad Ali, Madame CJ Walker, Daddy Grace, Louis Armstrong, and others for $79.95.  Autographed books from the Augustus Washington exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery for $5. Come enjoy the fun and excitement of affordable art.  Some dealers will sell images from $1.  If you would like to participate a few spaces are still available. For more information go to www.usphotoshows.com 

Comment by Najee Dorsey on January 29, 2012 at 5:27pm

Lisa, I'd like to see more of the work of that 6th grader. I remember those years and I was not at that level in the sixth grade I can assure you. Give my best to your class.

Comment by Jessica L. Parker Coleman on January 29, 2012 at 4:40pm

I agree 100% with you, Lisa.  I also believe the devaluation of art as a subject area by budget makers would lead opinion leaders ( and those outside the actual classroom) to think of the program as crafting where everyone follows the teacher's example.  Standards based education has limited the time available to include art.  But as a first grade teacher, I do fit it in!

I host the K-2 Art Club with our Art teacher who leads the 3rd-5th graders.  We have small afterschool groups.  We had a waiting list.

I explain to the children that to be an "artist" is a calling to create original pieces.  Given more resources and "handpower", we could give the opportunity to more students. 

Comment by Lisa Whittington on January 29, 2012 at 3:02pm

That is a work of art from one of my students in the 6th grade.

Comment by Najee Dorsey on January 22, 2012 at 4:44pm

Lisa well stated, whos work it that below?

Comment by Lisa Whittington on January 22, 2012 at 4:04pm

Ken Robinson is wrong when he says schools kill creativity.  He is speaking from an elitist point of view and in looking at his credentials, he lacks experience working in environments that challenge creativity.  Its amazing to me how some people get their titles...   I'll give him a little credit--some schools do kill creativity when the teacher forces the hand of the student instead of directing and guiding the  creative mind of the student.  When everything comes out looking the same or too much like the teacher's example, creativity died.  Creativity is also killed when we train students to think only think of "high art" as art (or the art found in museums.)

Art comes in all forms and is not always wrapped up in a gold frame and hung on a wall in a museum. Unfortunately, that is how many art educators are trained and that mindset translates into the classroom.  In inner city schools and urban schools, all we can be is creative because we have very little to work with and a lot of work to do. Creativity has no choice but to come forth.  Also in urban schools where the majority of the student population is minority, art educators have to deliberately set out to find the work of  black  and hispanic artists to discuss in class because  these artists and the types of art they create are overlooked in training because these artists are not "mainstream" as I was told while I was in school, in addition, (and probably most importantly) those professors educating students lack experience in diverse environments and teach on what they know and their preference.

 I know that I am training the next crop of black and hispanic artist for the next century.  The seeds have been planted because they took art in school with me, their art teacher who gave them an environment  to nurture creativity and introduced them and exposed them  to black and hispanic artist.  And even for the students who do not become artist, they will know how to utilize creativity in their everyday lives because what they learned in school.  They will always be able to reflect back on art class and think themselves out of any box because their creative skills were sharpened in school by a teacher who knew what she was doing.  Creativity is alive and well in school Mr. Robinson.

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