Imagine Art Studio

Professional Development Workshops and Consultation for Early Childhood Educators and Administrators

Workshops provide hands-on experience with a variety of dynamic materials, discussion, reflection, and slide examples of children exploring materials. CPDU/CEU credit is available.

Consultation provides reflection, planning, group and individual guidance. Specifically tailored for educators and administrators interested in discovering more about designing classroom and center environments that support creativity, children's use of expressive materials, or collecting evidence and creating documentation of children's learning.

Location:
Workshops are conducted at Imagine Art Studio, located in the business district of Hinsdale, IL. Arrangements can be made for off-site workshops. Consultation typcially takes place at your site or center. BNSF train station is two blocks south of studio.

2008 Workshop and Consultation Fees
Workshop rate is $200 per hour plus a $2 per person material fee. Mileage charges apply if workshop is offsite. Consultation rate is $100 per hour plus mileage.

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS:

Friday, August 15, 2008, 9-Noon
Erikson Institute, At Imagine Art Studio, Hinsdale, IL
Outdoor Spaces, Art Experiences , 3CPDUs, 0.3 CEUs
To register, visit http://www.erikson.edu/register or call 312-893-7171

Saturday, October 25, 2008, Time to be announced
DuPage Association for the Education of Young Children, Willowbrook, IL
Making Art Together: Collaborative Art in the Early Childhood Classroom
For more information call 630-942-4891

To Schedule a Workshop for Your Staff or Center

Call Rachel at 630-590-6679 or 773-203-6659 (cell)

Customize a workshop or choose from the following:

Rooms of Wonder: Creating a Classroom Studio
Discover how art materials and the environment work together to support children’s creativity and encourage teacher reflection. Brainstorm exciting and simple ways to enhance your own learning space. Focus on collecting, storing, organizing and using traditional materials in exciting and non-conventional ways.

Exploring Materials: Documenting Learning
Learn how to design, plan and document children’s explorations with a variety of expressive art materials. Develop strategies to facilitate material explorations in your own classroom. Materials discussed will include paper, wire, clay, paint, drawing, natural and recycled materials.

Additional Workshop Topics Include:

Collaborative Art Experiences in Early Childhood Classrooms

Natural Connections: Children, Art, and Nature

Exploring Portraiture with Children

Workshop Format:
Workshops include slide presentation, group discussion, and a hands-on exploration of expressive art materials. Participants will actively engage in discussion and planning to use workshop material in their classroom setting.

"Rachel presented many wonderful ideas with the teachers are excited about trying in their classrooms. Her suggestions for introducing common everyday materials to explore in various curriculum areas inspired us to look differently at some of the junk in our own storage room! Her slides provided teachers with new concepts for displaying children’s artwork and varying the ways they present materials."

Nancy Fineberg, M.Ed., Director, University of Illinois at Chicago Children’s Center

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