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Review of Into the Desperate Country

John Guzlowski reviews and recommends Jeff Vande Zande’s novel Into the Desperate Country

From the first page I was reading not because I had to be reading but because what was happening was fresh and engaging. Jeff’s created a novel with a hero, Stan Carter, who blends the kind of plausible motivation and implausible action that you see in the really best novels. Stan’s lost his wife and daughter in a car accident, and in his mourning he’s gone up to the vacation cabin he shared with them in Northern Michigan. Up there, while he’s trying to pull himself together, trying to make sense of what happened, he discovers that he hasn’t been making payments on either his cabin or his house, and both are to be repossessed…

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Schools of Distinction in Arts Education – nominations due

Know a New York School that Goes Above and Beyond in Arts Education? Nominate them for the Schools of Distinction in Arts Education Award!

Deadline: Friday, March 27, 2009.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Schools of Distinction in Arts Education awards program provides an important outlet for expanding recognition of the role individual schools play in providing a creative learning environment for outstanding student achievement.

This award provides a great opportunity for the New York State Alliance for Arts Education to highlight a New York school that has developed exemplary arts education programs. State winners are submitted for consideration at the national level, where they receive an honorarium, a plaque for display, and the opportunity to perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.

To be considered for the State level of this award, your school’s arts education program should have most of the following characteristics:

  • Your school should teach all the arts (music, dance, visual arts, and theatre) as specific disciplines as well as integrated into other subject areas.
  • Your program should use creative approaches to learning, provide appropriate learning environments for teaching the arts, and recognize that the arts are critical and essential to education.
  • Your program should provide opportunities for parental involvement in the educational lives of their children.
  • Your program should provide students various opportunities for learning about other cultures through the arts, enabling them to explore differences in ways that are devoid of cultural bias.
  • Your program should provide community connections that build value and respect for the community by offering students diverse experiences beyond the classroom.

To learn more about this award, and to download an application, please go to the NYSAAE projects website.

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Breathing Is Free 12,756.3 at the ASU Art Museum

The Arizona State University Art Museum presents the U.S. Premier of Breathing Is Free 12,756.3: a new work by Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, January 24 —“ April 26, 2009. Reception: February 20: 7-9 p.m.

Japanese-American-Vietnamese artist, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, is well known on the international art circuit for his striking video installations. This exhibition presents new work, and examines his abiding interest in globalization and the balance between tradition and change as we forge our future. Co-organized with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, each venue will host the on-going piece, Breathing is Free, in which the artist is running the diameter of the earth (12,756.3) in cities of the world at different times. Breathing is Free is a virtual earth drawing, exhibited as an installation, illustrating the movement of populations around the world. The ASU Art Museum exhibition is the U.S. premiere of the Breathing is Free performance and installation.

Jun will be arriving in Phoenix the week of January 19 to install the exhibition and scout locations for the run, which will take place Spring 2009. The artist’s physical runs, when mapped out, create a pattern that fits with his feeling and thinking about the physical location. The run is therefore very strategically planned and requires much forethought. The exhibition inside the Museum will include footage of both his films and previous runs as well as photography, maps and other projects.

Breathing is Free: New Work by Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba is an ASU Art Museum Moving Targets initiative.

Breathing is Free: 12,756.3; New Work by Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba is co-curated by Heather Sealy Lineberry, Senior Curator and Interim Director at the ASU Art Museum, and Dr. Nora Taylor, Alsdorf Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Museum hours:

Tuesday: 11am —“ 8pm
Wednesday —“ Saturday: 11am —“ 5pm
Sunday and Monday: Closed

Arizona State University Art Museum
Tenth Street and Mill Avenue
Tempe, AZ 85287-2911
Telephone: 480-965-2787

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Funny things

We’ve had a lot of nasty weather in New York’s Capital Region. I was watching the TV the other day, following the school and business closings, when I came across a parish that listed the following:

St. What-was-his-name’s. — There will be no reconciliation.

Seems like a rather harsh place. And here we thought the early Church was tough on penitents…

From Brad Abare who sent out the following tweet while traveling to see family for Christmas:

Made it to Atlanta and dashed like reindeer to connecting flight… only to be delayed again. So glad Jesus won’t be coming back on a plane.

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Dr. Felipe Korzenny joins the Captura Group

From Lee Vann the Founder and CEO of the Captura Group in regard to Dr. Felipe Korzenny, who I admire for his insight into culture, business’ response to culture and ethnicity, and with whom I have corresponded in the past:

When a 30 year veteran of Hispanic marketing joins forces with the leading provider of Hispanic online solutions, the result is added value for companies looking to reach Hispanics online.

I am excited to announce that Captura Group, the leading provider of Hispanic in-language and in-culture online solutions, has named Hispanic marketing expert Felipe Korzenny, Ph. D., Senior Strategy Consultant to the company. The collaboration between Dr. Korzenny and Captura Group will expand on Captura Group’s strategic Hispanic online solutions by providing marketers with actionable insights to inform Hispanic online strategies.

You can also check out their blog, Hispanic Online Marketing.

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International Art Exchange

OneWorld Classrooms welcomes teachers and parents to register their classes or schools to participate in the K-12 International Art Exchange. Participating students share their culture as they learn about cultures around the world —“ by sharing their artwork. Each participating class/school submits 30 pieces of student artwork which, in turn, are sent to a variety of schools around the world. Each participating class/school also receives a package of 30 pieces of student artwork created by students from a variety of schools around the world.

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Arts For All: Differentiated Instruction and the Arts

The NYS Alliance for Arts Education (NYSAAE) is pleased offer “Arts For All: Differentiated Instruction and the Arts,” a workshop for teaching artists and educators with speaker Russel Granet. This workshop will focus on the practices and theories of arts education as it applies to working with elementary/secondary students with special needs.

This workshop is provided as required professional development for those participating in the Side by Side – NY Program BUT is also open to all those interested in attending.

Presented at three different locations, this workshop is appropriate for sequential arts and general classroom teachers interested in learning new ways of enhancing their instruction through arts integration.

TIMES:

Monday, January 5, 2009 10am – 4pm: East Greenbush Public Library, East Greenbush N.Y.
Thursday, January 8, 2009 10am – 4pm: ARC of Monroe County, Rochester N.Y.
Thursday, January 16, 2009 10am – 4pm: The Center for Arts Education, NYC

For more information, please contact Sharon Scarlata or call (518) 486-7328.

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