Are you in or is you out? / Collaboration with Lezlie Silverstein, Mike Pagano, Sumner alumni and art students (2005)

During the springs of 2004 and 2005, I team taught for the first time in residency with STL public schools through Craft Alliance. Emerson funded a program that set teams of artist in dialogue with the school art teacher to facilitate the student-led design and production of  a permanent ceramic tile mural.  I loved the richness of collaboration in the classroom – - allowing for more one-on-one attention, to let teaching and creating styles naturally attract different kinds of learners.  Robert Longyear, the Outreach Coordinator at Craft Alliance, made the program rich with his sound-off freestyling and instantanous rapport with children.