By combining story, magic and puppetry in performances, touring artist Glenda Bonin has earned a solid reputation for pleasing student and family audiences around the country. Teachers and librarians cite Glenda's energy, enthusiasm and willingness to develop programs about specific topics as reasons for inviting her back. An active in-school resident artist for grades K-8 in several states, Glenda looks forward to bringing her programs to North Dakota. Her personal stories include memories of her grandmother who homesteaded in Danzig many years ago.
B.J. Buckley is a poet and a writer who has been working in arts-in-schools programs throughout the Rocky Mountain west, the Dakotas, and Alaska for almost twenty years. Her residencies all emphasize the process of writing. She frequently incorporates other art forms, such as bookmaking, painting, and origami; and she makes an effort to introduce her students to the best work of writers in their region and in other cultures. She has extensive experience working with senior citizens, American Indian students, students whose first language is not English, and students with special needs.
T.J. believes that the preservation of western and cowboy culture is very important and, as such, uses the art of cowboy poetry to pass along the same strong morals and values that he was raised with. His belief that children need to learn that they are a very significant link of preserving our western American heritage is a lesson that T.J. mixes with teaching cowboy poetry. "I believe in our roots and heritage," says T.J., "I've got a story to tell. We all need to stand up and protect the traditions and legacies we've inherited. I want to be an image for kids to look up to, and hopefully instill in them this same love of country and customs I know and respect. Without our heritage, our children lose focus. Without our children's focus, we lose our world." With this in mind, T.J.'s main objective is to utilize the natural talent and imaginations of students and give them confidence to believe in themselves while learning how to express themselves through cowboy poetry.
Multidisciplinary artist Jari Chevalier, (www.jariart.com), is founder of the Jariscope method (http://jariscope.com), which offers reliable, holistic creative processes to cultivate, strengthen and engender trust in our capacities for discovery, empathy, and meaning-making. Jari leads students into a state of flow, where they are both energized and relaxed, and from which they can write, draw, choreograph gestures, compose tunes/rhythms or otherwise create original expressive compositions. Students share their compositions with each other in class and Jari teaches “body-listening,” attention to one’s genuine bodily responses to the work, and then guides students in effectively and empathically articulating these feelings. The program raises awareness of our common ground in feeling and brings greater respect and enjoyment of each other, art and life. Longer residencies can include the organization of student shows, publications, readings. Recommended for ages 9 and older.
Ceil Anne Clement has a Masters degree in Storytelling from East Tennessee State University. She involves children in the storytelling experience by telling stories from many genres: folk, literary, tall tales, and legends as well as personal and historical stories. Children evolve from story listeners who use active listening skills that require creative and predictive thinking to storytellers through a series of activities that emphasize the tools of the teller: voice and body language. She also uses oral communication as a way to improve language skills such as vocabulary, comprehension, sequencing, and story recall. Ceil Anne brings more than 30 years of classroom teaching, 15 of which have been spent telling and teaching stories to children of all ages.
Ceil Anne Clement
Hettinger, North Dakota
(701) 567-4218
Deborah is a published poet and educator whose residency will show students - through art, music and literature - that poetry isn't something that just sits on the page. Her workshops with students from grades 5-12 focus on playing with words, poetry as oral expression (complete with music), and using popular media to create fun and interesting poems and to reflect on meaning in contemporary poems. Longer residencies will involve creating a "Poetry Zone," a space that reflects the interconnectedness of the fine arts - music, art and poetry (writing).
Funny, fun, and full of life! Award-winning children’s author, Diane Z. Shore, puts the "awe" in author with her lively, ultra-energized, inspirational (shh! it’s also educational) performances. She writes picture books, chapter books, early readers, poetry, and nonfiction. Known for her hilarious How to Drive Your Sister Crazy I–Can-Read series with HarperCollins, Diane is also a nonfiction contributor to Highlights for Children magazine. Her first book, Bus-A-Saurus Bop, a rollicking and rhyming read-aloud, won a 2004 "Children's Choice Award." Diane says her favorite thing about being an author is visiting schools and inspiring kids to read and write! Check out her website at www.dianezshore.com.
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By combining story, magic and puppetry in performances, touring artist Glenda Bonin has earned a solid reputation for pleasing student and family audiences around the country. Teachers and librarians cite Glenda's energy, enthusiasm and willingness to develop programs about specific topics as reasons for inviting her back. An active in-school resident artist for grades K-8 in several states, Glenda looks forward to bringing her programs to North Dakota. Her personal stories include memories of her grandmother who homesteaded in Danzig many years ago.
B.J. Buckley is a poet and a writer who has been working in arts-in-schools programs throughout the Rocky Mountain west, the Dakotas, and Alaska for almost twenty years. Her residencies all emphasize the process of writing. She frequently incorporates other art forms, such as bookmaking, painting, and origami; and she makes an effort to introduce her students to the best work of writers in their region and in other cultures. She has extensive experience working with senior citizens, American Indian students, students whose first language is not English, and students with special needs.
T.J. believes that the preservation of western and cowboy culture is very important and, as such, uses the art of cowboy poetry to pass along the same strong morals and values that he was raised with. His belief that children need to learn that they are a very significant link of preserving our western American heritage is a lesson that T.J. mixes with teaching cowboy poetry. "I believe in our roots and heritage," says T.J., "I've got a story to tell. We all need to stand up and protect the traditions and legacies we've inherited. I want to be an image for kids to look up to, and hopefully instill in them this same love of country and customs I know and respect. Without our heritage, our children lose focus. Without our children's focus, we lose our world." With this in mind, T.J.'s main objective is to utilize the natural talent and imaginations of students and give them confidence to believe in themselves while learning how to express themselves through cowboy poetry.
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Ceil Anne Clement has a Masters degree in Storytelling from East Tennessee State University. She involves children in the storytelling experience by telling stories from many genres: folk, literary, tall tales, and legends as well as personal and historical stories. Children evolve from story listeners who use active listening skills that require creative and predictive thinking to storytellers through a series of activities that emphasize the tools of the teller: voice and body language. She also uses oral communication as a way to improve language skills such as vocabulary, comprehension, sequencing, and story recall. Ceil Anne brings more than 30 years of classroom teaching, 15 of which have been spent telling and teaching stories to children of all ages.
Deborah is a published poet and educator whose residency will show students - through art, music and literature - that poetry isn't something that just sits on the page. Her workshops with students from grades 5-12 focus on playing with words, poetry as oral expression (complete with music), and using popular media to create fun and interesting poems and to reflect on meaning in contemporary poems. Longer residencies will involve creating a "Poetry Zone," a space that reflects the interconnectedness of the fine arts - music, art and poetry (writing).
Funny, fun, and full of life! Award-winning children’s author, Diane Z. Shore, puts the "awe" in author with her lively, ultra-energized, inspirational (shh! it’s also educational) performances. She writes picture books, chapter books, early readers, poetry, and nonfiction. Known for her hilarious How to Drive Your Sister Crazy I–Can-Read series with HarperCollins, Diane is also a nonfiction contributor to Highlights for Children magazine. Her first book, Bus-A-Saurus Bop, a rollicking and rhyming read-aloud, won a 2004 "Children's Choice Award." Diane says her favorite thing about being an author is visiting schools and inspiring kids to read and write! Check out her website at