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COCA’s Teachable Works
As a complement to COCA’s Outdoor Public Art Directory and Map, we offer specially designed educational resources highlighting our community's public artworks. You’ll find lesson plans that align with state standards in a variety of subject areas including language arts, math, science, social studies, as well as the arts. Click here to explore the materials created for the “Gaines Street Tree Wall.” If you’d like to share a lesson you’ve created that features our local public artwork, please email amanda@TallahasseeArts.org.
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Order the arts license plate and let your support show wherever you go.
Purchasing a State of the Arts license plate is an affordable way to make a direct contribution to arts and culture in Leon County.
COCA gets $20 from the sale of each arts tag in Leon County and those funds support arts education programs in our community.
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Online events are now a category on our
List all your virtual arts classes, workshops, and more in the "Events" category on our site.
All online events will be listed and featured in our weekly Monday Tallahassee Arts Guide "This Week" email that goes to over 13,000 individuals. Anyone in the 100-mile radius around Tallahassee can add listings to the Tallahassee Arts Guide.
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COCA Arts in Education Articles |
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Lincoln senior David Conley intensifies focus on Black history for art portfolio
December 16, 2020
David Conley has been drawing nearly his entire life. “My mom has baby pictures of me with a pen and a sketchbook,” he said. His innate talent has blossomed over the years through a mixture of hard work and expert guidance.
Now a senior at Lincoln High School, his art is not only a passion and method for self-expression, it has also become a coping strategy.
Just after recuperating from two serious injuries that sidelined his high school football career, David found himself in the midst of the pandemic, quarantined at home. “We’d just sit there and watch the clock go by,” he said. “There are a lot of thoughts racing in your head and there’s not much to do but take those thoughts and put them on a sheet of paper. I used that time to draw.”
David chose to see the situation as an opportunity to continue perfecting his craft and experiment with different media. Though graphite pencil and charcoal are his go-to materials, he has pushed himself to try new media including alcohol ink markers which can be used to achieve a painterly effect through layering and blending techniques.
His first attempt with the markers, a self-portrait, has already received critical acclaim.
Read the rest of the story here. Check out our archived articles on the COCA blog.
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Resources for an Online Curriculum |
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Please share these resources with others and if you've found resources that could help other arts teachers, please email them to Amanda Thompson at amanda@tallahasseearts.org.
Click here to visit our Pinterest page for a huge, COCA curated list of creative, educational, and entertaining arts activities in all disciplines. These resources are sure to keep little ones, tweens, and teens learning and growing artistically.
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State Farm ® Teacher Assist (Launches Jan. 11 at 4pm)
Teachers in Florida are invited to submit their innovative teaching ideas. Two hundred submissions will be accepted and 40 will be selected as grant recipients. Each teacher who is selected will receive a $2,500 grant to implement or support their creative projects. The program launches on January 11, 2021 at 4:00 PM (Eastern Time) and concludes when up to 200 submissions are reached or January 15 at 11:59 PM. Teachers can prepare now by going to the website to download the rules and get their answers ready for the entry form.
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Driftwood Press Contests (Deadline: Jan. 15)
The In-House Poem Contest features an award of $400, publication, contributor copies, and a featured interview. Those selected who don’t win the grand prize will be called runner-ups, and they’ll receive $50 per poem, publication, a contributor copy, and an interview!
The In-House Short Story Contest features an award of $400, publication, contributor copies, and a featured interview, with the runner-ups receiving $100, publication, a contributor copy, and an interview!
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Arts4All Florida Young Performers Program (Deadline January 25)
This expanded program will recognize extraordinary performers, ages 14-24 in not only music, but also dance and theatre performance, that have a disability. Two emerging artists from each category will be selected by a panel of judges that are professionals in their specific field of performance. Click here for more information.
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NEA Big Read Grant (Deadline: Jan. 27)
Guidelines are now available for nonprofit organizations interested in applying for a grant to hold an NEA Big Read project between September 2021 and June 2022. Since 2006, more than 1,600 National Endowment for the Arts Big Read programs have taken place throughout the nation, giving communities the opportunity to come together to read, take part in meaningful discussions, and enjoy book-inspired events. NEA Big Read is presented in collaboration with Arts Midwest. Since the program began in 2006, the National Endowment for the Arts has funded more than 1,600 NEA Big Read programs, providing more than $22 million to organizations nationwide. Click here to learn more.
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Children’s Services Council Applications Sought (Deadline: Jan. 31)
Leon County Government is currently seeking applications from qualified individuals interested in serving on the Children’s Services Council (CSC) of Leon County. In accordance with Florida Statute, the CSC will be comprised of ten members, five of which will be appointed by the Governor from a list of 15 candidates submitted by the Leon County Board of County Commissioners. Learn more and submit an application electronically here.
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Arts for Life Scholarships (Deadline: Feb. 1)
Arts for Life! annually awards $1,000 scholarships to 25 graduating high school seniors in Florida who demonstrate excellence in creative writing, dance, drama, music, or visual art. Students must submit a completed application, a brief essay explaining “How the arts have positively influenced my life” and a portfolio of work. Click here to learn more.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra’s Jane H. Kesson School Concert Program
The Philadelphia Orchestra is offering a Virtual School Concert experience with unique distance learning materials. This virtual experience will be in place of our in-person school concerts that usually take place in the spring, to ensure students (grades 3–5) and teachers can experience the orchestra from the safety of their homes and/or classrooms during these uncertain times. Click here to take advantage of this educational opportunity.
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Black Violin: Intersections
This is a virtual talk and play series focused on the intersection of business, art, and black culture led by creative extremists Kev Marcus and Wil Baptiste of Black Violin. This inclusive course welcomes students from all schools of thought to engage in a more meaningful conversation about race, creativity, and the pursuit of success. Discussions begin with a live performance or demonstration by Black Violin to illustrate the days lesson and to empower students to use their passion and creativity to fuel positive discourse and push social awareness. For more information, contact Corryn Freeman, Vice President of Black Violin Foundation Inc. at 443-538-6615 or corryn@blackviolinfoundation.org. Click here for more.
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Interactive Academy/FAAE Digital Media Room
The Florida Alliance for Arts Education and the Interactive Academy are making digital online platforms available to the arts community in an effort to restore some of the loss of revenue organizations are experiencing during the COVID 19 outbreak. Learners of all ages will be able to take classes that are streamed to the privacy of your personal Digital Media Room (DMR). Instructional aides such as handouts and quizzes will also be available in the DMR. To learn more about enrolling as a student or offering a live stream as a teacher, click here.
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Professional Development & Artistic Planning Grants (Deadline: Rolling)
Grants are available for organizations to support the professional development needs of Southern presenters, programmers, or curators, strengthen program design, and increase organizational capacity. This funding can support staff's travel expenses to conferences, festivals, exhibitions, workshops, and other professional development opportunities, or artists' travel expenses for onsite planning meetings with presenting organizations. Click here to learn more.
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Awesome Tallahassee (Deadline: Rolling)
Each month Awesome Tallahassee awards a $1,000 grant to people doing awesome things in our community. If you have a great idea for the Tallahassee area apply for a grant today! Click here for more details.
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Call for Visual Art Instructors
We work with our instructors to offer varied and engaging programs, as unique and artistic as our instructors themselves.
LeMoyne offers four 8-week studio sessions for adults, teens and children: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall, as well as a myriad of one or two day workshops year round. Some of our instructors teach multiple classes, some teach one at a time, and others teach during one season of the year. All instructors are paid independent contractors, and receive a free one-year Individual Membership to LeMoyne Arts. Click here to learn more.
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New ONLINE content on Tallahassee Arts Guide
Check out all the family-friendly, local, virtual offerings including events, classes, workshops, and lessons. Please visit us at www.TallahasseeArts.org to access our resources and to add your own arts-related listings.
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Sounds of Tallahassee - Call to Musicians
Vibrant and diverse, creative and innovative - Tallahassee's music community has long been one of our greatest assets. "Sounds of Tallahassee" serves as a portal to the unique musical offerings that make the Big Bend region so special. In partnership with Moose Magnificat Radio and Cat Family Records, COCA offers this auditory adventure. We invite you to be part of "Sounds of Tallahassee," an initiative that promotes area musicians and connects them with new audiences. Any musician living in a 100-mile radius of Tallahassee is eligible for this opportunity. More info here.
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The 2020 Winter Festival Youth Art Exhibit Online through Feb. 9, 2021
The Winter Festival Youth Art Exhibition 2020 will showcase youthful talent and imagination through K-12 student artwork. Elementary, middle and high school art teachers submit work on behalf of their students for the show. The entries represent numerous different area public and private schools. The dedication and professionalism of our area art teachers is evident in the quality of the student artwork on display and the exhibition is always stunning. While this show is traditionally on display at the City Hall Gallery, the pandemic has forced the gallery to close temporarily, so these works will be viewed in COCA’s Online Gallery. More info here.
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Opening Nights Presents: Black Violin’s Virtual Student Project
Black Violin enters the student virtual space with an all-new, high-energy, performance that takes their unique blend of classical music, hip-hop, jazz, and pop to new heights. Recorded at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, this engaging, high-definition multi-camera video covers themes of perseverance, exploration, and unity with songs like Rise, Unbreakable, Believer, Dreamer and Impossible is Possible. Embedded in the performance is a message for students and educators about challenging stereotypes and status quo conventions, and that pathways to success require commitment, practice, and unwavering dedication.
Please contact Calla MacNamara at Opening Nights at FSU to receive access to this opportunity at cmacnamara@fsu.edu
Thank you Centennial Bank for supporting arts education!
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Viral Voices: Sharing Your Pandemic Experience
The Viral Voices: Sharing Your Pandemic Story project empowers Leon County citizens in grades K-12 to share their personal narratives about life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Make your voice heard; we’re looking for your stories, poems, letters, photographs, artwork, spoken word, music and short videos. Share your experience, whether it is inspirational, funny, sad or frustrated. Your stories are part of our County’s history. Click here to learn how to participate.
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Auditions: The Bardlings Spring 2021 (Zoom auditions Jan. 23)
This semester, The Bardlings will write and rehearse their 5th edition of ShakespeaREtold, with a focus on scenes that will inspire social change – to be performed at the 2021 Southern Shakespeare Festival this May.
For the first time in Bardlings history, students will have the opportunity to choose between two groups: a Virtual Group who will participate in rehearsals via the Zoom app, and an In-Person group who will participate in face-to-face rehearsals which will follow strict Covid safety standards. Click here for more details.
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Cat Family Records call for Art Interns and Volunteers (Deadline: Jan. 31)
Cat Family is searching for skilled and passionate individuals to collaborate in the Art Department and on Cat Family TV. There are open positions for illustrators, videographers/editors, graphic designers, interviewers, and more! College credit available. Click here for more info.
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Call for Arts Mentors at Raa Middle School
In partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Big Bend and Raa Middle School, COCA seeks local visual artists, musicians, dancers, and theater professionals to provide mentoring to middle school arts students in Raa's Magnet Program. These students know they want a life filled with arts experiences and you can show them how. If the arts have been an important part of your life and you want to pass that on, this is the perfect opportunity for you. The commitment is very low, just one hour per week, and Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Big Bend takes care of all the rest at no cost to you. Support these students by helping them develop communication and social skills, positive relationships with adults, as well as a life-long love of the arts. If you are interested or want more details, here or contact Raa's Magnet Coordinator, William Sahely at sahelyw@leonschools.net. Visit bigbendmentoring.org to sign up to be a mentor.
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The Northeast Leon Society for Arts & Culture released awards for its 2020 Student Online Short Film Contest. The contest was developed by NELSAC for Leon County school students to demonstrate their filmmaking skills, while coping with the COVID-19 pandemic.
The contest’s best film is a documentary, "The Selma Voting Rights Movement," by filmmaker Ananda Chatterjee, who attends Rickards High School.
The 2nd place best film "What You Wish For," a comedy, was produced by Chole Watson of Montford Middle School.
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Choir singers not only harmonize their voices, they also synchronize their heartbeats, a study suggests. Researchers in Sweden monitored the heart rates of singers as they performed a variety of choral works. They found that as the members sang in unison, their pulses began to speed up and slow down at the same rate. Scientists believe the synchrony occurs because the singers coordinate their breathing.
Click here to read this BBC article by Rebecca Morelle.
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About the Arts in Education Newsletter |
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Amanda Karioth Thompson
Assistant Director
Education & Exhibitions Manager
Council on Culture & Arts
850-224-2500
amanda@tallahasseearts.org
To submit listings for COCA's Arts in Education Monthly Newsletter, send a description of 50 words or less to Amanda Karioth Thompson at amanda@tallahasseearts.org. COCA reserves the right to include or exclude any listing at its discretion and to determine the content and placement of all listings. Deadline for submission is 5:00pm on the fourth Monday of the month.
COCA does not endorse any artists, organizations, or programs listed herein, nor imply stature through their inclusion in this newsletter. While we have made every effort to ensure that this information is correct, we cannot guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of the information.
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