CONWAY, Ark. (April 19, 2016) – Four Hendrix College education students recently attended the two-day ARTful Teaching Conference at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute conference center in Morrilton, Arkansas.
The students included:
- Seaera Carney ’17
- Alundra Dickson, ’17
- Greer Veon ’17
- Jasmine Watkins, ’17
“Now in its fifth year, the ARTful Teaching Conference brings together pre-service teachers and education faculty from colleges and universities across Arkansas each spring to explore the powerful practice of arts integration,” Hung Pham, Director for the Center
for Children & Youth, an endowed initiative of the University of Arkansas College of Education and Health Professions.
Participants learn different strategies for teaching visual and performing arts in tandem with subject area curriculum. Guest presenters include professional artists, in-service teachers, education professors, museum educators, and representatives from educational
non-profits.
The event also gives colleges and universities opportunity to collaborate on ways to continue the work of promoting and developing the next generation of creative and artful teachers at each home institution.
The ARTful Teaching Conference is organized and financially supported by the Brown Chair in English Literacy and the Center for Children & Youth at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
Pictured bottom left to
right: Alundra Dickson ’17; Jasmine Watkins ’17
Pictured top left to right:
Seaera Carney ’17; Greer Veon ’17
About Hendrix College
Hendrix College is a private liberal arts college in Conway, Arkansas. Founded in 1876 and affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1884, Hendrix is featured in Colleges That Change Lives:
40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges and is nationally recognized in numerous college guides, lists, and rankings for academic quality, community, innovation, and value. For more information, visit
www.hendrix.edu.