Teaching Artist Journal

Welcome to ALT/space, the portal to Teaching Artist Journal and varied voices of professional teaching artists who fill our artist-learner-teacher spaces from Alaska to Oklahoma, crisscrossing the United States and describing terrain that is bumpy, poetic, and inventive.

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ALT/space 9(1) in the January Teaching Artist Journal introduces you to the twenty teaching artist “field reporters” who will bring companion narratives on-line and on-paper to you.

ALT/space 9(2) in the April Teaching Artist Journal poses questions about indigenous creativity with Ryan Conarro, up and down on the ivory tower with Emma Bolden, digital natives with Alison Kotin, abilities without the “dis” with Jaehn Clare, blurring lines between art-teacher-self as artist-as-teacher-self with Steve Willis, 21st century dynamics with Linda Bruning,consistency in the teaching artist job description with Michael López-Sáenz, in- and out-of- school worlds with Linda Machado, and drama in gender identity with Evan Hastings.

But that is not all, it is only the beginning. Here, you will learn from with Michael B. Schwartz who tackles the gritty issues of exclusion in Arizona, Richard Jenkins who questions the qualities of diversity, Shaqe Kalaj draws on expression, Joan Weber advocates with artists, Tom Berich samples disciplines, Paloma Udovic Ramos constructs community through music, and Billy Miller fights fear with art. There are also a few old-style newsbreak items and some student reflections on teaching artists. Most importantly, you, our readers, are able to fill the gaps with your own voices to expand the spaces that we have begun to inhabit.