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Artists and Creative Thinkers Convene to Examine Creativity in Society
Final report. Moderator Sammy Hoi, president of the Maryland College of Art, higher education leader and advocate for creative professionals as drivers of social, economic, and cultural advancement Agnes Chavez, New media artist, educator, and founder of STEMarts Lab.com Suzy Delvalle, President and Executive Director of Creative Capital Shirlette Ammons, musician, poet Thank you National Endowment…
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PROJECTING PARTICLES
A youth workshop/performance that explores particle physics through projection art Through a partnership with ATLAS Experiment at CERN, home of the Large Hadron Collider, students travel virtually to the ATLAS control center or experience face-to-face visits with physicists to learn first hand about particle physics. They explore projection art and cutting edge interactive installations and discover…
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Origination Point: Art, science, technology and nature converge
“Origination Point”. Interactive sound responsive projection installation. Collaborating Team: Agnes Chavez (artist/concept), Marcel Schwittlick (visual artist/coder), Robert Schirmer (interactive sound) Origination Point is a generative interactive projection installation originally exhibited at the 12th Havana Biennial in Havana, Cuba as part of the collective exhibit Entre, Dentro, Fuera/Between, Inside, Outside and at The Harwood Museum, Taos, New Mexico.…
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STEAM Lab@TISA Soaring from the Lakota Cosmology Meets Particle Physics Launch
Taos NM, April 2017. The STEAM Lab at Taos Integrated School of the Arts (TISA) kicked off the new Lakota Cosmology Meets Particle Physics: Exploring Dark Matter workshop. Through a unique collaboration with lead teachers Megan Avina Bowers and Linda Seto, TISA Middle school students participated in three day workshop to explore the mystery of…
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How Standing Rock inspired a new STEAM youth curriculum
A visit to the Oceti Sakowin Camp at Standing Rock has inspired a new STEAM curriculum for youth. Through a multicultural collaboration with indigenous educators, artists and particle physicists students will explore the correlations of indigenous cosmology to modern science through art and social practice. The curriculum will focus on our human connection to nature,…
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Building Capacity for STEAM: Americorps Project expands into 2017
Two years ago I joined artist Andrea Polli and the Social Media Workgroup (SMW) as an Americorps VISTA. “Did you know that President Kennedy introduced the idea of VISTA to Congress in 1963? Or that many of the best-known anti-poverty programs, including Head Start and Credit Unions, were expanded by VISTA members? VISTA has been…
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Projecting Particles: Lakota Cosmology Meets Particle Physics
MARCH 2017 A Spring 2017 workshop called Particle Physics Meets Lakota Cosmology is currently being designed for students at Taos Integrated School for the Arts (TISA) and we plan to take the workshop to multiple schools in New Mexico. Through a collaboration with Lakota Cultural Specialist, Steve Tamayo and CERN physicist Dr. Steven Goldfarb, students will…
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ARTAOS + TISA: Augmented Reality Mural at Ziggy’s Frozen Yogurt Shop
As part of TISA’s new STEAM Lab, Amber McCabe’s 8th grade class participated in an Augmented Reality (AR) Mural Work/Study Project providing real-world community focused learning of STEAM skills. AR is a live direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented (or supplemented) by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video,…
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Launch of STEAM Innovation Lab at Local Taos School
We are excited to announce that the launch of a STEAM Innovation Lab at the Taos Integrated School of the Arts in Taos, New Mexico is underway. STEMarts Lab founder, Agnes Chavez, is working with Richard Greywolf and Megan Avina Bowers to design a STEAM Lab that will launch TISA students and teachers into the…
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TISA Kids Support Standing Rock Kids through Art
Students from TISA’s 5-8th grade classrooms participated in the Water is Life: Standing Rock project this November. Through art and social engagement they learned about the growing movement in Standing Rock North Dakota working to protect our water resources and sacred lands threatened by the construction of the Dakota Pipeline. Students received a special…
