Teachers - BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

INFORMATION FOR TEACHERS

NEATEN, NE Art Teacher/ Educationalist Network Meeting
Thursday 23 February 16:30 – 18:30

Catch up with colleagues and keep in touch and up to date with what’s going on in visual art and design education.

Primary Teacher Network Meeting
Thursday 8 March 16:30 – 18:30

Join us for BALTIC's new primary teacher network. Take time out to catch up with colleagues and be inspired by practical taster workshops, motivating speakers and a showcase of projects and events.

NEW! Early Years Practitioners Network Meeting
Thursday 15 March 16:30 - 18:30

Come along for a drink and a chat about how we can support you, find out what BALTIC has to offer and take part in hands on art activities giving you lots of ideas to take back to the classroom.

The Network meetings are free but booking is essential, to reserve your place contact Lucy Smith, Schools and Colleges Programmer on lucys2@balticmill.com or call 0191 4404929.

SUMMER SCHOOL for artist teachers
Tuesday 28th August - Thursday 30th August 2012

This three-day intensive course aims to further your enthusiasm for making art. Throughout the course, participants will have the opportunity to consider their own artistic practice and how it might be developed within a supportive and creative environment.

The summer school forms an essential component of the MA Fine Art and Education and is an exciting and innovative collaboration between Northumbria University and BALTIC. The fee for the summer school is paid by Northumbria for those students entering the MA. It is a great taster for those thinking about undertaking the MA in future years.

Presentations will be made by current students of the MA Fine Art and Education as part of the Summer School for all artist teachers wanting to pursue the MA Fine Art and Education.

Course fee: £140
Number of places: 20

For more information or to book your place on the Summer School contact:-
Lucy Smith, Schools and Colleges Programmer BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Quays, South Shore Road, Gateshead NE8 3BA
T: 0191 440 4929
E: lucys2@balticmill.com

MA LEVEL
MA FINE ART AND EDUCATION, two years, part-time

For artist teachers wanting to further or re-establish their artistic practice

Develop your personal and professional artistic practice with this flexible part-time MA course. The course enables artist educators, to further or re-establish their artistic practice within a supportive, innovative and creative environment, with tutorials and taught sessions on evenings and weekends at Northumbria University and at BALTIC. Applications are welcomed from artist educators working in secondary and primary schools, further and higher education, and visual arts education within galleries and museums settings. The MA Fine Art and Education is delivered jointly by Northumbria University’s Fine Art Division and the Division of Postgraduate Education in partnership with BALTIC.

A partial fee subsidy for this course is provided by the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) via NSEAD as part of their Postgraduate Professional Development fund.

To enrol please contact:-
Barry Nicholson, Senior Administrator Northumbria University, Newcastle City Campus West, Lipman Building, Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST
T: 0191 243 7059
E: barry.nicholson@northumbria.ac.uk

You can find out more about other courses and events for teachers at BALTIC and Northumbria University at:-
www.northumbria.ac.uk

You can find out more about other Artist Teacher Scheme courses and events for at:-
www.nsead.org/cpd

For further information, please download the MA Leaflet