[Members] VSA Institute

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Arts Institute
February 25-27, 2010
MacMullen Conference Center, Roscommon, MI
Higgins Lake

You can join a community of teachers and artists working to create  
engaging lessons and environments that meet the diverse learning needs  
of all students!
The VSA arts Institute is a series of professional development  
workshops that focus on designing and delivering arts learning  
experiences that reach students with disabilities. Through discussion  
and hands-on arts activities, participants in our workshops gain an  
understanding of the foundations of arts learning and inclusive  
education, and how to use inclusive practices in their work.
National experts Alana Barter, Linda Boston, Jaehn Clare, Dr. Mindy  
Fried, Gordon Sasaki, and Deborah Stuart will conduct exercises in  
inclusion, evaluation and assessment, partnerships, and curriculum  
building.
The VSA arts Institute is designed for arts education specialists,  
classroom teachers, teaching artists, and arts administrators. The  
lessons learned at the institute are applicable to all fields of study  
by using the arts as a tool for learning in any discipline.
The VSA arts Institute is hosted by VSA arts of Michigan in  
partnership with VSA arts in Washington, DC and the U.S. Department of  
Education.
February 25
Session 1
Arts & Inclusive Learning
Focus on designing and delivering arts learning experiences that reach  
students of all abilities. Gain understanding of the foundations of  
inclusive education and arts-based learning, discuss theories and  
methods for teaching in inclusive environments, and engage in hands-on  
techniques that ensure progress for all students.
February 26
Session 2
Keeping What Works & Learning from the Rest
Examine the practices and benefits of documenting student learning in  
inclusive classrooms and evaluating program success. Explore different  
methods of evaluation and consider the use of evaluation data in  
planning for success.
February 27
Session 3A
Winning Partnerships: Schools & Communities
Focus on the benefits of partnering and ways to create successful  
partnerships among schools, educators, artists, and community  
organizations. Learn approaches to problem solving, explore the  
benefits of partnering programs, and how to build successful  
collaborations.
Session 3B
Curriculum Integration
Put collaboration into practice by working with artists and educators  
to develop arts curricula that meets learners’ artistic, behavioral,  
and social needs. Learn how to integrate the arts into the academic  
curricula of English Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies.
Conference Pricing
The three day conference is $225 per person. If an individual is  
unable to commit to all three days, a rate of $90/day will be charged.
Deadline for Registration
VSA arts of Michigan will accept registrations until February 12.
Payment
Registrations are not considered complete until all fees are paid in  
full. Payments must be received by February 12.
Cancellation and Refund Policy
All requests for refunds must be made in writing to VSA arts of  
Michigan. Full refunds will be issued to requests made by Monday,  
February 1. Requests made between February 2 - February 20 will be  
issued a refund minus a $50 administrative fee. No refunds will be  
granted after February 21.
Confirmation
All attendees will receive confirmation of accepted registration via  
email. If you have not received a confirmation notice within two weeks  
of submitting your registration please contact jessica at vsami.org.
Accomodations
Your registration includes accomodations and meals at the MacMullen  
Conference Center. You will share a room with one other attendee. If  
you know of others coming to the conference, you may request your  
rooming preference by contacting jessica at vsami.org.
Accessibility
All locations used for the purposes of the VSA arts Institute are ADA  
accessible. In an attempt to best meet the needs of our attendees,  
please let us know of special accomodations you require.
Applications may be mailed, emailed, or faxed to:
Jessica Guzmán
VSA arts of Michigan
PO Box 02805
Detroit, MI 48202
jessica at vsami.org
fax: 313.832.3387
PO Box 02805 - 100 W. Alexandrine - Detroit, MI - 48202 - 313.832.3303  
- www.vsami.org
The Experts
Arts & Inclusive Learning
Jaehn Clare
(pronounced “Jane”) is a trained professional theater artist, with  
more than thirty years experience as an actor, director, producer,  
playwright, touring artist, teaching artist and arts administrator.  
She holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts from the University of Minnesota, and  
an M.A. in Dramatic Literature from the University of Essex. Ms.  
Clare’s first original one-act play, Belle’s on Wheels, was written as  
her Master’s dissertation project and is an autobiographical piece  
depicting her survival of a 1980 spinal cord injury. Tail Tell Tale,  
her second original stage play, premiered in 2002. Ms. Clare has  
written for Melpomene magazine, and her essay “I Wasn’t Born a  
Mermaid” is included in From There to Here, an anthology of essays  
written by individuals who have survived spinal cord injury. Since  
1986, Ms. Clare has been active as a disability awarenesseducator and  
trainer, offering disability awareness and inclusion workshops  
throughout the country. Ms. Clare was awarded a 2006 VSA arts’  
Teaching Artist Fellows, and has performed at three International VSA  
arts Festivals (Brussels 1994; Los Angeles 1999; Washington, D.C.  
2004). Ms. Clare also works with the Tony© Award winning Alliance  
Theatre, as a teaching artist with the Georgia Wolf Trap Program, and  
performs with the Educational Theatre Programs of Kaiser Permanente of  
Georgia. Ms. Clare has been a staff member of VSA arts of Georgia  
since 2000, and currently serves as director of artistic development.
Deborah Stuart
is a teaching artist whose discipline is children’s traditional music  
and folklore. She has worked with students and educators in schools  
across the United States, Central andSouth America, and Europe, both  
as a residency artist and as a teacher trainer. Her training has  
primarily focused on the integration of music into the classroom  
withparticular emphasis on meeting the needs of all learners through  
arts-based approaches. She was interim president and CEO of VSA arts,  
and editor of their early childhood resource Start with the Arts. Ms.  
Stuart has been a roster artist for the New Hampshire State Council on  
the Arts for 24 years.
Keeping What Works & Learning from the Rest
Mindy Fried, M.S.W., Ph.D.
is a sociologist with over twenty years of experience conducting  
research, teaching and doing policy analysis on social and economic  
issues affecting individuals, families and organizations. Dr. Fried  
has consulted with numerous organizations – including educational  
institutions, non-profits and foundations – designing and conducting  
evaluation research and policy assessments, as well as providing  
technical assistance on research design issues. Dr. Fried has  
evaluated arts education initiatives, leadership training, public  
health programs and more. She believes that evaluation can be a  
powerful tool to help organizations achieve their goals. Dr. Fried  
enjoys teaching evaluation, and was on the faculty of VSA arts  
Institutes in New York and Texas. Her current clients include the  
Center for the Child Care Workforce, Strategies for Children and  
EducationDevelopment Center.
Gordon M. Sasaki
is a New York City-based artist whose work blends unconventional  
techniques with contemporary ideas of identity and culture. His mixed  
and multimedia works purposefully cross traditional categorical  
boundaries to create possibilities of inclusion. His work is exhibited  
internationally and is held in many corporate and private collections.  
A wheelchair user due to an automobile accident, Mr. Sasaki brings a  
unique combination of personal insight and academic training to his  
teaching and work. Emphasizing thecreative process in both his art and  
teaching, he uses the inherent universal qualities of the arts to  
adapt lesson plans to include all people. Mr. Sasaki is a dedicated  
proponent for the inclusion of the arts and the creative process as a  
life tool, invaluable to everyone and relevant to all aspects of daily  
life, implementing his ideas through his work in a variety of  
educational and professional institutions. He has conducted  
presentations and workshops for the New York City Department of  
Education, New York State Alliance for Arts Education, Metropolitan  
Museum of Art, Museum of Arts and Design, International Center for  
Tolerance in Education, and Museum of Modern Art.
Winning Partnerships: Schools & Communities
Gordon M. Sasaki
Curriculum Integration
Alana Barter
is the founder of Arts Quest: Long Distance Dances, and has been a  
free-lance performer, choreographer and teacher of traditional, modern  
and theater dance styles. She has served on the dance faculties of the  
University of Michigan, Wayne State University, Eastern Michigan  
University, Marygrove College, Oakland Community College. Shehas  
taught, choreographed and performed in Greece and Italy as a faculty  
member of the University of Detroit’s/Athens Center’s, Classical  
Theater Program. Ms. Barter has also conducted extensive dance  
research in West Africa, North Africa, South America and Europe.
She has designed and conducted arts-infused teacher workshops and  
taught arts-centered classes for children, youth and adults throughout  
Michigan. For 18 years, she served as coordinator of the Sacred Hearty  
Enrichment Program.
Currently, Ms. Barter serves as Associate Director of VSA arts of  
Michigan as well as Coordinator of VSAMI’s artsJAM Detroit Gallery &  
Studio and artsJAM Detroit WAY. In this position, she has implemented  
Artist-In-Residence Programs in Highland Park Community High School  
and various Detroit Public Schools. In 2009, she received the Detroit- 
area Learning for Life, Community Service Award. In addition to the  
Michigan Dance Association’s Dance Teacher of the Year Award, she has  
received the University Musical Society’s 2007 Teacher of the Year  
Award.
Linda Boston
is herald as the “Great Voice of the Great Lakes”, and is a recipient  
of the Spirit of Detroit award and a PM Magazine winner for Best  
Jingle. Boston has received numerous awards including recognition from  
the Detroit Free Press for the one-woman show Moms Mabley: The Naked  
Truth, her portrayal of Ella Fitzgerald in How High the Moon:Sarah,  
Ella and Pops, principal performer (Power Woman) for Menopause the  
Musical, and as opening soloist for the 2006 Detroit Mayoral  
Inauguration at The Fox Theatre. Her work includes distinguished  
venues like: The Music Hall, Masonic Temple, Orchestra Hall,  
Millennium, Purple Rose, Boarshead, Calumet, Detroit Repertory, and  
Plowshares theaters, as well as T.J. Hemphill, and Buku production  
companies.
Ms. Boston is also the founder of PEER Incorporated (Portable  
Educational and Entertainment Repertoire), a non-profit organization  
whose mission is to bond ‘multi-cultural and generational’ groups  
together by enriching their lives within their communities and/or  
institutions, via the performing and visual arts. Her ‘edutainment’  
company provides workshops for the young and significantly older  
novice and experienced artists. Her efforts to reach the community  
have led her to additionally become an arts educator for selected area  
Michigan Schools, the Arts League of Michigan, NCSI Skillman  
Leadership Scholars Program, story teller for the Detroit Historical  
Society and arts educator for the nationally acclaimed Galef Institute  
in Los Angeles, California, as well as an artist and consultant for  
the Walk and Squawk Performance and South African Artist Exchange  
Project.
Ms. Boston is also the coordinator for VSA arts of Michigan’s artsJAM  
Osborn, an after-school, multi-arts program for youth ages 14-26.

Registration
1. Contact Information
Name Address	Phone City Email State Zip Dietary Needs Other  
Accomodations 2. Attendance What day(s) will you attend?
ALL THREE (3) DAYS	 $225 Thursday, February 25	 $90
Friday, February 26	 $90
Saturday, February 27	 $90
3. Affiliation I am a(n):
Art Educator	Classroom Teacher
Teaching Arist	Curriculum Coordinator
Arts Administrator
4. I seek Continuing Education Units (CEU’s)
Yes
No
5. Payment Information
Check - Ck #
Credit Card (CC)
Name on CC Business Name on CC Credit Card # CC Expiration CVV CC  
Billing Address
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