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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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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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National Young Arts Competition (Deadline: Oct. 16)
YoungArts is now accepting applications from visual, literary and performing artists ages 15-18 or in grades 10-12 through October 16, 2020. YoungArts winners receive cash awards, mentorship by accomplished artists, a lifetime of creative and professional support, a peer network of distinguished artists, nomination for U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and national recognition. Click here for more details.
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The Center for Craft: Craft Futures Fund (Deadline: Oct 31)
The Center for Craft’s Craft Futures Fund will support craft communities throughout the United States and their creative responses to COVID-19. These one-time, unrestricted grants of $5,000 will be disbursed to craft-based education projects that seed resilience, foster community, and amplify impact. Find more details here.
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Call for Writers: Rattle Seeks Submissions By Children (Deadline: November 15)
Rattle Seeks Submissions By Children for their annual Young Poets Anthology-poets must be age 15 or younger. Poems may be submitted by the poet, or by the poet's parent/legal guardian, or teacher. Teachers may select at most five students per year and submit on their behalf. Rattle will be selecting up to 20 poems for their publication. More info here.
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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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Arts4All Florida Virtual Classes
Arts4All Florida offers classes in visual, music, dance and movement and the performing arts to students and adults of all abilities. Headquartered at the University of South Florida in the College of Education, Arts4All Florida provides, supports and champions arts education and cultural experiences for and by people with disabilities. The goals for our community-based programs are to encourage personal development, group participation, and camaraderie while teaching creative expression. Classes are led by professional artists/art teachers, certified instructors, and disability experts. Virtual class options have been added to this list of services to meet the needs of the times. Click here for more information about these classes and the links to register.
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The Mockingbird Foundation Grant Program
The Mockingbird Foundation, Inc. (“Mockingbird”) offers competitive grants to schools and nonprofit organizations that effect improvements in areas of importance to the Phish fan community. Our programmatic focus is music education for children. Learn more about this opportunity here.
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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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AERI Friday Dialogue Series - A Just-In-Time Virtual Symposium
These events are free and open to the public. The roster of events includes the following sessions in October:
October 9, 2020 @ 1:00-2:30 PM (EDT)
“Black Lives Matter Anti-Racism Research in Art Education” with Amelia (Amy) Kraehe, Michelle Bae-Dimitriadis, Dipti Desai, and James Haywood Rolling, JR. Discussant: Kryssi Staikidis
October 23, 2020 @ 2:00-3:30 PM (EDT)
“The Arts and Healthcare” with Aaron Knochel, Christine Ballengee-Morris, William Doan, and Sara Wilson McKay. Discussant: Fiona Blaikie
Session are also scheduled for November. For more information and to register, click here.
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Arts4All Florida Webinars
October: Music for All (Oct. 13, 4-5pm or Oct. 15, 4-5pm)
This webinar will cover tips and tricks on differentiated instruction in the music classroom, alternative assessment for music, and Florida’s access points in music and is designed for elementary and middle-school music teachers who want to become more confident including students with disabilities in their music classes. While most of the subject material in this webinar will be focused on general music classes, ensemble based instruction will be covered as well.
November: Basic Accommodations and Assistive Technology in the Arts (Nov. 9, 4-5:30pm or Nov. 10, 4-5:30pm)
This webinar is perfect for new teaching artists and classroom arts teachers or those looking to brush up on basic accommodations for including students with disabilities in the arts. A variety of types of disabilities and art forms will be included. An overview of available assistive technology for the arts and how you can get the technology for your students will be presented by Florida’s PS/RTI (Problem Solving/Response to Intervention) project. Participants will leave with tips and tools they can use in the classroom as well as a list of resources and a checklist of accommodations. Please note: the focus will primarily be on accommodations for in-person teaching for this webinar.
For more information, to register, or to see recorded webinars, click here.
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Focus 5, Inc. Workshops
Focus 5, Inc. offers a variety of sessions, covering a variety of topics, to help educators at all levels engage and inspire their students. Check out the drama session: Acting Right - Building a Cooperative, Collaborative, Creative Classroom Community Through Drama. For teachers grades k-8, the three hour workshop takes the foundational elements of acting such as concentration, cooperation, and collaboration and creates a structured process, which can become the basis for effective classroom management every day. This engaging, step-by-step approach empowers students to take ownership of and be responsible for their own behavior. Learn how to help students build the skills necessary to establish a sense of self-control, accountability, and team-building in your classroom. This workshop is recommended for any classroom based in active, social, cooperative learning. Click here for more info on this and other workshops.
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FSU Online M.S. in Art Education
Florida State University‘s online degree provides comprehensive knowledge and prepares students to undertake research in the field of art education. It focuses primarily on social justice art education. This masters does not provide certification and is suitable for certified teachers, community or museum art educators, or educators pursuing an alternative track toward certification. The online program is taught by faculty members and provides the rigor of a Florida State University graduate program. Time to a degree takes 6 semesters (sometimes 5 semesters with careful planning). We are here to help ensure that the online coursework fits into your life and schedule. Learn more here.
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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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TYO Fall Concert: Over The Moon (Oct. 18th, 3pm)
Tallahassee Youth Orchestras is thrilled to be live-streaming our Fall Concert from The Moon. TYO’s Intermezzi Strings, Chamber Orchestra, and Symphony Orchestra will all be performing at our first live-streamed concert.This free concert will be live-streamed on the TYO web page. Click here for more.
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TEF Family Series - "A Mini-Midsummer Night's Dream" (Oct. 24, 11am)
A fun, free family-friendly outdoor production of one of Shakespeare’s most beloved plays comes to life under the oak canopy at Thomasville Center for the Arts, featuring the actors of Southern Shakespeare Company.
This performance will feature Tallahassee-based Southern Shakespeare Company in a one-hour abridgment of the fanciful story, complete with mischievous fairies, star-crossed lovers, and comic hijinks set in an enchanted forest, in this case, under Thomasville Center for the Arts’ oak canopy. Click here for more.
A similar production will be held on Oct. 24, 3pm at the Popes Museum in Ochlocknee, GA. Click here for more.
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Musicians' Recorded Feature Series
Performing artists are provided an opportunity to continue working during closures: perform a 25-45 minute set of original music, to be professionally recorded. Only required staff members and band members are present in the building, which includes our: videographer, lighting technician, sound engineer, and marketing director. Bands are interviewed prior to performing, and they receive professionally edited videos and image stills for their own marketing efforts. Tallahassee Live Music Community then markets the feature online, and accepts donations for a two-week period. Donations are split 50-50 to the band and to TLMC to re-invest in marketing performers. The entire feature is provided free of charge to the performers. Click here for more.
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Anhinga Press Offers Free Poetry Titles
Since 1974 the mission of Anhinga Press has been to bring quality poetry to a broad audience by publishing poetry, sponsoring poetry events and educational activities, hosting and participating in writers festivals, working with area colleges, making our books available as textbooks for students, and networking with other arts organizations as a good citizen of the arts community and the community at large. In keeping with our mission, we are offering a diverse selection of our titles for free to educators, students, and community organizers, to help provide poetry to those who may not have easy access due to lack of funds. Click here for more info.
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The Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) Database
The Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) has added a powerful new database to its website. The new database pulls together over 650 materials from across the Center's numerous projects, grants, and contracts, and allows users to search available materials by resource type, project, audience, and age level. 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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(NAHM) is a time for communities to come together in unified celebration of the power of the arts to make a difference and change our lives for the better. In this turbulent year, the arts and humanities have played an important role in getting us through the COVID-19 pandemic and amplifying the need for racial equity.
Whether you’ve participated before or are getting involved for the first time, we invite you to join the #ShowYourArt2020 Instagram challenge and share what you love about the arts with a unique prompt every day in October. These prompts are also a great way to engage students and families in creating and celebrating the arts every day this month!
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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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