Back to Havana: From Collography to Cuban Motion
Participants of this FREE professional development workshop are eligible for 4 SARIC CEUs. Register at Eventbrite.
Join Dr. Paige Vitulli, Ms. Amanda Youngblood, and Mrs. Amanda Solley as they explore printmaking through the exhibition Back to Havana and take part in a Cuban-style Salsa demonstration led by Mrs. Brooke Eubanks & Synergy Dance Company from Dunbar Performing and Creative Arts Magnet School.
8:30 – 9:30 Tour of Back to Havana with Alabama Contemporary Director of Exhibitions & Programs Amanda Solley
9:30 – 11:30 Go Global: Collography and More for K-12 with Ms. Amanda Youngblood & Dr. Paige Vitulli
11:30 -12:30 Make Your Move with Mrs. Brooke Eubanks & Synergy Dance Company from Dunbar Performing and Creative Arts Magnet School
Paige Vitulli, Ph.D. is Interim Chair, Integrative Studies; Associate Professor, Department of Leadership and Teacher Education at The University of South Alabama. “My background influences the integrated approach I take toward teaching and learning. I have taught all subjects at the elementary level and as an associate professor at the University of South Alabama, have taught graduate and undergraduate courses in art education, language arts methods, foundations of reading instruction, action research and
instructional design. I have served as the Technology Liaison for the Mobile Bay Writing Project and Assistant Program Director for the USA Arts in Education grant, am on the board of the Alabama Art Education Association, the Alabama Contemporary Art Center and am the program director for the graduate Art Education Program in the College of Education and Professional Studies at USA.
Brooke Eubanks began dancing at the age of two, studying ballet, pointe, tap, jazz, modern and lyrical at Gale’s Studio of Dance and as a member of Davidson High School’s Kinetics Dance Company. After high school, she attended the University of Southern Mississippi and received a BFA in Dance Education. During her time at USM, she was a member of the Dixie Darlings, Southern Misses Dance Team, and USM Repertory Dance Company. In 2013, she presented with USM dance faculty at the National Dance Education Organization national conference in Miami. While in college Brooke was awarded Outstanding Junior and Outstanding Dance Educator, and was elected co-chair of the NDEO USM student chapter. Her teaching experience includes Dance Dynamics of Hattiesburg, Pre K-5 at Nora Davis Magnet School in Laurel, MS, and currently teaching grades 6-8 at Dunbar Creative and Performing Arts Magnet School in Mobile, AL.
Amanda Youngblood is an artist and creative thinker; she’s been an “artist” since her days of scribbling with a crayon. Amanda graduated from the University of South Alabama in 2013 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and now is currently a graduate student at South working towards an Alternative Masters in Art Education set to graduate this December. “Throughout undergrad and grad school, I have been very active in our local arts community; I have participated twice as an artist in Artworks: The Throwdown, I painted an Oyster on the Oyster Trail, and I am currently planning a large art show showcasing the art of art educators from the Mobile and Baldwin. I’ve also won several awards including: Best of Show at “Emerging Artists” in Orange Beach; and the George Dubina Memorial Award at the “Mobile Art Association Spring 2014 Exhibition” in Mobile. My work has also been published in Mobile Bay Monthly and in several editions of South Alabama’s “Oracle: Fine Arts Review.” I look forward to graduation this December and am thrilled to share my passion for art with students and encourage them to expand their own creative ideas. And I am even more excited to start my position in late November as the 3rd-6th grade art teacher at St. Paul’s Episcopal School.
Image: Back to Havana artist Alejandro Sainz Alfonso’s Condemned, 2015 woodcut, 18.25 x 25 in., Courtesy the artist and Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor