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Arts in EducationArtist in Residence Artists Roster: Visual Artists
Lisa Arnold Jari Chevalier, Visual Art & Literature
Jari Chevalier
Beth Delfs
Laura Heit-Youngbird
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One-hour workshops: Man Ray and his Ray-o-grams Read a Photograph Like you Read a Book Residencies:
This work is gaining international recognition in the field of art education for students with disabilities. Teacher In-Service: Read a Photograph Like You Read a Book; Target Audience: Classroom Teachers grades 4-6, Language Arts specialists, ELL. Description: If a picture is worth a thousand words, how do you "read" it? In reality, most of us already know how to read images. This workshop provides descriptive language for understanding and discussing images. The workshop demonstrates how visual and text-based literacy are related and builds a bridge between visual understanding and abstract thinking. Using a combination of individual and small group activities, and slide presentation, this workshop builds on the writing and reading skills students have already been taught to show them how to understand images more deeply and consciously. Rationale: We are constantly surrounded by visual images – both still and video. Learning to read these images and understand the image maker’s intent is as basic as learning to read text in a book or newspaper. Reinforcing these visual literacy skills reinforces verbal literacy. This is a hands-on, interactive workshop. Teachers should expect to come away with new tools for decoding visual images and concrete tools for teaching these skills to their students. A CD-ROM including images and student hand-outs is included in the attendance fee. Length of Workshop 3 hours
Wendy brings her high energy and enthusiasm into the classroom through the use of multiple mediums, including but not limited to, painting, drawing, sculpting, printmaking, papermaking, and photography. She provides lesson that are student-orientated and age-appropriate. These lesson s are hands-on and mentally stimulating, encouraging students to apply newly learned techniques and skills all while still allowing them to express themselves as an individual artist. Wendy can teach classes that are focused on one medium, one art period, or a complete unit of lessons that are built around National and State Art Standards. Wendy Klug
Ali LaRock’s Residency Goals: Ali’s goal for a residency is to provide the students with an inspiring and comfortable environment to encourage and enhance personal expression, decision-making skills, and self-confidence. Students will learn the basic techniques and concepts of various media and are then challenged to push the projects in their own personal directions. A variety of lessons in the areas of painting, drawing, bookmaking, papermaking, printmaking, sculpture, puppet making, mask making, and collage are available for schools to choose from. Ali is also interested in working with schools to plan residencies to fit the specific needs and interests of their students. Special projects can also be planned to integrate art with the curriculum. Ali LaRock
Robin Reynolds
Brenda Molinaro
Margaret Schemmel
Kathleen Tebelius Monte Yellow Bird Sr. (Black Pinto Horse) & Emily Yellow Bird
Providing educational programs since 2004 with their fine arts and educational company, Black Pinto Horse Fine Arts, this team compliments one another as they share their appreciation of education and art, providing on average, 20 weeks of programs and servicing thousands of students a year. Together, they carry more than 30 years of experience working with children; At- risk students, Native American Reservation &Residential Schools, Public Schools, K-12, Universities, Alternative schools, Job Corps, TRIO and 21st Century programs, Canadian Educational Reserves, Boy’s Town Nebraska, and Home-Based Behavioral Support. Monte is a member of the Arikara and Hidatsa Nation from Fort Berthold Reservation, Whiteshield ND and they live in Great Falls MT where he completed a two year Artist in Residence contract with the Paris Gibson Square Museum and Great Falls Public Schools 2007 and 2008. Black Pinto Horse, as he is best known in the art world, is an internationally recognized and a nationally renowned First Nation artist with a Bachelors of Fine Art Degree (Minot State University), historian and storyteller. A few recent coups include, commission for Vancouver Community College- British Columbia, designed horse sculpture for the Trail of Painted Ponies- AZ, Artist in Residence with the Eiteljorg Museum- IN, recipient of the Artist in Business Leadership Fellowship of the First Peoples Fund- SD and commissioned mural for North Dakota State University. Emily is a practicing artist with a Bachelors of Science in education K-6 (Messiah College) and years of classroom experience; 3rd and 5th grade, Librarian (K-5) and Art Teacher (K-6). A few recent coups include, paintings sold during the Paris Gibson Square, Holter and Yellowstone Museum’s Auctions. Our mission: To provide high quality art education to a wide range of audiences while creating an environment conducive to learning, where individuals feel safe to take and share a historical, personal and visual journey through self expression. Our Goals: 1) Increase the participants' knowledge and understanding of their cultural identity. 2) Focus on creating an awareness and aesthetical appreciation of the arts. 3) Provide an interactive, hands-on, stimulating environment which inspires the individual to explore. 4) Enhance students' imagination and develop self awareness. Black Pinto Horse/Monte Yellow Bird Sr. & Emily Yellow Bird
Mary Wipf Zimmerman
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As an interdisciplinary mosaic artist, I work to empower students by honing their visual, technical, and poetic abilities. I encourage young artists to engage with themselves and the diverse world around them by using their life experiences to create art, and art experiences to create their lives. I give students tools in art interpretation and creation so they can express themselves in positive, productive, and creative ways, both inside and outside the classroom. Often combining mosaics, poetry, storytelling, puppetry, installation and performance art, my residencies are ekphrastic in nature, meaning students use one art form to study another. I love overlapping disparate elements and making them sing! It's exciting, for example, seeing students create mosaics in response to poetry.
Multidisciplinary artist Jari Chevalier, (
Beth’s interest as a fiber artist is teaching students about the many uses of fibers including weaving, Swedish weaving, felting, knitting and spinning. She has experience in teaching all aspects of the fiber world to students from the ages of 8 to 78. She brings an excitement to her art with many different techniques and stories. Beth has a studio where she enjoys showing and teaching others about the fiber arts.
Laura, who has a distinctive American Indian perspective in her work, helps students look for connections, repeated images, colors, textures, and forms to create a body of work composed of a series of images. She also explains basic ideas like the Four Directions, Four Colors, and Four Ages of Mankind.
William Hessian teaches art focusing on creativity and fun, while introducing skill building techniques. William teaches all mediums of art, including printmaking, ceramics and sculpture; and also enjoys teaching themed classes like storytelling, communication with art, comic books, mazes, manga and games. William's classes are high energy and jam packed with multiple projects that take advantage of different styles and personalities in the classroom. During each of William's residencies he complete a public miniature art hunt, in which the community searches for miniature artworks in their local parks. Art is treasure, both creating it, finding it, or experiencing it; that is the focus of William Hessian's teachings.
Jescia Hoffman Hopper is a figurative artist, working with combinations of drawing, painting and print media. Residencies she can offer include portraiture, anatomy, and art history, as well as working with watercolor, colored pencil, acrylics, oil pastels, and printmaking techniques. Students will have the opportunity to learn the fundamental techniques necessary to express themselves visually. Not only will the importance of visual expression be pushed, but the importance of good writing in conjunction with art. Residencies can be tailored to meet the needs of the institution and students of all levels.
At age nine, Barry Kleider didn’t realize he was “studying” photography – he just liked looking at the pictures in his family’s subscription to Life Magazine. In high school, his life just revolved around taking pictures for the school’s newspaper and yearbook. As an adult, Barry worked as a reporter/photographer for seven years and taught adult evening classes in photography before opening his own studio in 1991. He has had numerous exhibits in landscape and fine art portraiture, and his work has been collected by The Oakland Museum of California, among others. In addition to his work with the North Dakota Council on the Arts, Barry is a roster artist with the Minnesota State Arts Board and Young Audiences of Minnesota. He lives in Minneapolis. Samples of his work are available online at 
Wendy Klug is a certified teacher who has 6 years of experience teaching art as a resident artist in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Wendy has studied the fields of photography, graphic design, visual arts, and communication at the University of North Dakota. She also received her teaching degree in elementary education with an emphasis in art. 
Ali LaRock is visual artist living and working in Bismarck, North Dakota. Ali creates art in the areas of painting, drawing, and mixed media. Ali grew up in New Town, North Dakota. She received her B.F.A. in painting from Minnesota State University, Moorhead in 1998. Besides creating art Ali enjoys teaching art to children through various artist in residency opportunities through organizations such as the North Dakota Council on the Arts, Theo Art School, Plains Art Museum, Sleepy Hollow Summer Theatre and Art Camp, and the International Music Camp. During the school year, Ali travels to different schools throughout North Dakota as a visiting artist. When she is not traveling Ali works on her own art, gives private lessons and art birthday parties, and also offers after school classes through Theo Art School in Bismarck. Her summers are also spent traveling and teaching at art camps and art programs through various organizations. 
Robin’s goal of a residency is to provide the students with clay hand-building skills and to introduce clay as being useful and valued. She enjoys showing the cultural traditions of clay as they pertain to Greece, Japan, and West Africa. Projects may include tiles, carving clay animals, and hut-building. Robin is especially interested in working with North Dakota’s regional clay and is the owner of Dakotah Clayworks in Hebron, North Dakota.
A potter and self-described “art coach,” Brenda focuses on the three”3-D’s” in her residencies: Design principles are taught as essentials to fine art, Defend the creative spirit in others, and Develop art appreciation for life. Encouraging students to work with their own hands, residencies with Brenda focus on the study and production of 3-dimensional art and can include working with plaster, sand-casting, mobiles, soft-sculpture, puppet-making, and clay modeling. As “coach,” Brenda works with students - her “varsity team” - towards at least two finished products.
Margaret, also known as Peg, is a professional freelance artist and teacher. For each residency, she will help the students gain an understanding of the principles and elements of art to find an avenue to develop higher-level thinking skills and as a means to discover that everyone can be artists. She enjoys showing and working with different projects from an assortment of cultures that will introduce our students to the world around us and observe the talents and insights that they demonstrate in their artwork and lives. She will work with each school to develop a program that will meet the particular needs and interests of the students. Residencies may include clay work, paper and textile marbling, handmade books, watercolor painting, printmaking, art history, handmade jewelry, weaving, sculpture, and still-life drawing. Music will also be included in the classes to stimulate other senses.
Steve Stark’s school visits are always entertaining, educational and vibrant. Your students will enjoy his unique Illustrated North Dakota History presentations as well as get engaged during his residency exploring the art of cartooning. They’ll learn basic cartoon drawing techniques and unlock their inner cartoonist with a series of classes that explore the serious fun of creating cartoon characters, expressions, movement, caricature, single and multiple panel cartoons, editorial cartoons and storytelling. Besides being fun; drawing cartoons involves creative thinking, planning, design awareness and coordination of the mind and hands.
Steve Stark
Kathleen Tebelius is a free-lance artist who brings to the classroom a variety of mediums designed to encourage the artist in all students. Exploring new mediums available to students has been a substantial part of Kathy's teaching career. A variety of methods will be used to ensure a meaningful residency. Possible areas of study will include painting, drawing, printmaking, poster development, and murals of all sizes. Kathy's goal in a residency is to work with the school to enhance the students' arts education.
Walk down a trail of color, stories and heritage with husband and wife duo, Emily and Monte Yellow Bird. They will guide your students down this vibrant trail to new discoveries, creativity and self exploration using the springboard of art and culture, weaving together golden threads of history, math and science and trimming it with character building and healthy choices. As you trot down this trail together, they will invite you to share your accomplishment and set new goals as you compose visual art projects such as Mud Ponies, Warrior Shields, Ledger Art and Winter Counts. If you’re going to shine, shine brightly, Mr. Yellow Bird’s coined phrase is just what you will be doing as you exchange gifts while respecting and supporting one another.
Mary has participated in over 400 weeks of residencies in the Dakotas and Canada in over 80 school systems, community libraries, and special needs institutions. Mary's general goal for students in a residency is to bring into existence a broadened and more intense awareness of themselves and the world around them (through each individual's exploration of their own creativity, manipulation of materials, and using the visual vocabulary). Mediums investigated may include printmaking, drawing, painting, paper making and marbling or the creation of a mural.
The general goals for a typical residency are two-fold. First, the student's imaginative powers are exercised with supportive attention to the essential idea that if a child can imagine it, they can do it. Second, the student's technique and ability to manipulate the formal building blocks of visual art are developed sequentially to provide increasingly refined tools for self-expression. When a student learns the ABCs, sentence structure, and grammar of art as a visual language, every student can better tell the visual tales each holds inside. Residencies may include drawing, painting, mural creation/painting, printmaking, sculpture, and art history/appreciation. |