connecticut teaching artist
What is a Connecticut Teaching Artist?
The State of Connecticut's Office of the Arts is dedicated to advancing the arts as essential elements of life-long learning. Teaching artists share their work in schools, non-profit institutions, community-based organizations (such as youth-service bureaus), social service agencies, senior centers and other settings that wish to engage their services. The Connecticut Commission of Culture chooses highly qualified artists to represent many disciplines and selects the artists by peer panels for their artistic quality and ability to teach.
The State of Connecticut's Office of the Arts is dedicated to advancing the arts as essential elements of life-long learning. Teaching artists share their work in schools, non-profit institutions, community-based organizations (such as youth-service bureaus), social service agencies, senior centers and other settings that wish to engage their services. The Connecticut Commission of Culture chooses highly qualified artists to represent many disciplines and selects the artists by peer panels for their artistic quality and ability to teach.
I have facilitated poetry therapy and expressive arts groups for women in prison for the past 13 years. Originally bringing poetry therapy to women serving life sentences through
A Sacred Place, my offerings have now extended to bringing expressive arts to the teen and young adult populations within the prison.
A Sacred Place, my offerings have now extended to bringing expressive arts to the teen and young adult populations within the prison.
I have presented three workshops at the National Association for Poetry Therapy Conference as a Connecticut Teaching Artist:
- Tender Seedlings: Nurturing Troubled Children through Empowering Poetry Projects
- Don't Forget the Zinnias: Accessing the Poet Within the Child & Elderly Populations
- The Caged Bird Sings: Empowering Women in Prison through Poetry Therapy
I have offered numerous presentations at the Creative Righting Center in NY, NY for Poetry Therapists in Training:
- Night Fishing: Navigating an Ocean of Tears
- Tender Seedlings: Nurturing Special Needs Children Through Poetry