Just sat in on a web symposium at the Seattle Art Museum, sponsored by the Dana Foundation and facilitated by Russell Granet. There were 600 people listening in from across the country!
Topics included: What is the role of the teaching artist in public education? How can schools maximize a partnership with an outside artist? What is the artist role in the classroom, in the art room, in the school? How can artists help build a culture in a school where creativity, innovation, and imagination are at the core of teaching and learning?
These were the panelists:
• Lisa Fitzhugh, Founder, Former Executive Director, Arts Corps.
• Sarah Johnson, Director, Weill Music Institute, Carnegie Hall.
• Nick Rabkin, Researcher, Teaching Artist Research Project, University of Chicago
• Naho Shioya. Teaching Artist.
They are going to archive the webcast on the Association of Teaching Artist’s website. Look for it.
It is helpful to be given the opportunity to reflective about our practice and to constantly think about how we can do things better individually and systemically. And as most of our work is done for the school year and we’re winding into summer, dreaming about next year and what’s to come. Thanks, Dana Foundation.
carla ching 
Are those your flickr photos on the sidebar? I really like them, in any case. Perhaps there can be a program for artists to come into schools and help organize school-wide projects, or something similar. Perhaps a mock-museum project, where students create their own version of famous paintings under the supervision of artists?