The 2011 Art Education Festival, May 2–6, exhibits the art work of PK-12 public school students created under the guidance of MAT students during their full-time student teaching internships in the Tufts/SMFA Art Education program. Join us for the opening reception on May 4, 4–7 pm.

The festival showcases the results generated by these artist-teachers within academic and art-making communities; it also aims to advance the discourse about art education, focusing on what it means to be an emerging art teacher in the context of:

-our multicultural society and art worlds
-Postmodernism's influence on art making
-the role of visual culture in the life of PK-12 art students
-the daily realities of developing, designing, implementing and evaluating curriculum in the PK-12 public school classroom

Gallery talk presentations by student teaching interns are scheduled every 25 minutes on May 2–4 from 9 am–2 pm. The Art Education Festival is free and open to the public. All faculty, staff, students, families and community members of SMFA, Tufts and our partner PK-12 schools are welcome to attend.

Location:
Mission Hill Building, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
160 St. Alphonsus Street
Roxbury Crossing, MA 02120

For more information, contact Patty Bode, director of Art Education, at patty.bode@tufts.edu or 617-369-3613.