What is the Creative Educators Institute?

It is a Summer Intensive that includes immersion in:

• Studio work
• Workshops on best practices for teachers
• Lesson plan development
• Creating work for a professional portfolio
• Regular group and individual critiques to foster analytical thinking about work produced
• Visits to galleries and collections that provide important visual resources

INTEGRATED STUDIO ARTS: REDEFINING CREATIVITY
Instructor: Professor James Barany
As defined by MIAD, the purpose of Integrated Studio Arts (ISA) is to introduce both studio and conceptual integration at a level that reflects the skill-sets and development of the participant, thus expanding the studio practice to meet the artist's conceptual needs.

During the one-week intensive course, students take stock of their personal creative inventory in order to merge and integrate these elements within their studio work. Research, readings, discussions, critiques and daily blogging serve to focus the participants' abilities and knowledge while encouraging the expansion of their conceptual boundaries. Participants have access to a wide variety of facility resources that include photography, printmaking, time-based media, video and 3-D. Exploring these cross-disciplinary opportunities yields work, which is inherently ambitious, experimental and innovative, and causes us to rethink the boundaries of traditional modes of creation.

This course provides a unique introduction and primer to ISA and is accepting of any level and variety of visual skill-sets. The "the lessons learned" in this course are easily transferable to high school art/design curriculum. To view examples of work from MIAD students majoring in ISA go to: http://www.miad.edu/programs-majors/integrated-studio-arts/student-work.

Please call Jill Kunsmann, Director of Pre-College and Adult Learning with questions at 414-847-3335 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it