Imagine being a detail on a building: the doorway, window hood, or rooftop, perhaps. What poem would you write about being that detail? How would you draw that detail?
That was the assignment that Louise Sturgess, Executive Director of PHLF, gave to 23 teachers on July 10 and then to 39 students on July 11, during workshops offered through the Western Pennsylvania Writing Project (WPWP).
A site of the National Writing Project, the WPWP is co-sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh School of Education. It aims to improve literacy teaching and learning pre-K through college, across all subjects. Each year the site hosts a four-week Summer Institute for teachers, where teachers engage in intensive writing, inquiry, and leadership work. This summer, the site also sponsored five Young Writers Institutes in the region; PHLF engaged with the Westmoreland Young Writers.
The poems and artwork created during PHLF’s workshops were compiled and published in one book for the teachers and in two E-books for the students (grades 4-6; grades 7-9), thanks to funding support from the McSwigan Family Foundation and Alfred M. Oppenheimer Memorial Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation.
“We have published more than 40 Poetry and Art books since 2003, ” said Louise, “and, in the process, have helped people understand how the built environment can be a source for inspiration and creativity. As people learn about (and draw and write about) historic places, they naturally develop a desire to further explore and possibly even care for those places.”
Print This Post
You might also like
Summer Activities Programs Workshops Events for Kids Teens ...
Tyler Pre-College Summer Workshop - Painting
بدر حياتي + احمد الحواج summer art workshop
Zen Awakning Festival
by ZenAwakeningFest Zen Awakening Festival June 20th, 21st, 22nd 2014 in Orlando Florida on the Summer Solstice will be a transformational, spiritual, music and performance art gathering. Featuring Celebrity DJ's, Bands, Yoga, Meditation, Spiritual Teachers, Holistic Teachers, Cirque Performers, Flow Dancers, Drum Circle, Group Chants, Fire Performers, Central Fire, Healing Sanctuary, Workshops, Theme Campsites, Permaculture, Kirtan, Camping, Organic Food Vendors and Art Installations.
Zen Awakening Festival community is open to all seekers in search of spirituality, personal transformation, raising consciousness and selfless service to humankind
|
Writing Today
Book (Longman)
|
Event to highlight fashion designers — Bellevue Reporter
Seneca & Spruce will showcase emerging fashion designers from the Pacific Northwest as part of the official launch party Aug. 15. The company, founded in 2013, is a online magazine and retailer based in Seattle.
House's history dug up — The Columbian
She is a graduate of Vancouver School of Arts and Academics, where her focus was literary arts. And she sees something of that in archaeology. "It's discovering ..
Experiential considerations in the design of the built-environment: Class notes, Arch 451G, Fall term, 1976
Book (School of Architecture and Allied Arts, University of Oregon)
|
Ugandans may be quiet, but they are not dumb — The Observer
We talk of hundreds killed during the Amin error and thousands in the Luweero triangle war, and millions in the war in the north with no deep feelings. We seem not to take hard lessons and ensure it never happens again. Instead some ..
|
Classroom Instruction That Works with English Language Learners
Book (Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve)
- Used Book in Good Condition
|
|
One Fifth Avenue
Book (Hyperion)
|
|
Freak The Mighty
Book (Scholastic Paperbacks)
|
Boston-area to do list — Boston Globe
Native to the Northwest Coast.
Popular Q&A
What is the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute?
The Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute takes place at Quartz Mountain Resort from June 13-28th. !