that and all right well welcome everyone and welcome to expanding opportunities through Innovative Partnerships I'm excited to see you all here today um before we get started with the content I think we've got some housekeeping business to take care of I I will uh turn it over to Samantha Haynes our Arts education assistant hello welcome everyone we're so excited that you all are here thank you for taking time out of your day to attend our webinar um a few housekeeping reminders please remember
to mute your device unless you are speaking to the group although we do want a lot of interaction during this webinar so if you do have a question or a comment feel free to use the raise your hand icon and we will call on you as soon as we see that and it is appropriate time um if you don't feel comfortable unmuting yourself you can also always just drop us a note down in the chat box um make sure you have some paper and pen or however you like to take notes these days uh nearby but don't stress
about writing down everything you see on your screen because we will be recording this meeting and the presentation slides will be shared at an early date um we will be using mint meter for this presentation so if you are accessing this webinar through your laptop you can go ahead and pull out your phone or your tablet and go to mentee.com and it'll take you to a screen that looks very similar to zoom where you'll be asked to put in a code and we'll be providing that code for you in just a few
slides mentimeter is an app where you can get Anonymous feedback and host some Anonymous polls um so we'll be using it for some of our discussion later on in our webinar so if you want to go ahead and pull up mentee.com on your phone or tablet that would be a good idea and then last but not least there will be a designated time or a question and answer and feel free to put those questions in the zoom chat box once you pull up minty and you input the code there will also be an option for you to p
ut questions in mentee but if Zoom is easier for you that's also fine I'll be monitoring the um Zoom chat box and we can answer any questions that arise throughout the presentation um I think that is all I have before we move on are there any questions all right then I am going to hand it over now to Chandra our deputy director and she's gonna do a welcome and overview of Oklahoma Arts Council thanks Chandra thank you Samantha all right good afternoon everyone and welcome I just want to Echo eve
ryone's comments and welcoming you all and being with us here today um I'm Chandra Boyd I'm the deputy director for the Oklahoma Arts Council the official state agency for the support and development of the Arts in Oklahoma I am very proud to work with our team to advance Arts education initiatives across communities Statewide as part of our mission to lead cultivate and amplify the transformative power of the Arts for all Oklahomans and their communities Arts education is critical in expanding
access to the arts for more Oklahomans and we could not fulfill our mission without dedicated folks like you all who have a passion for connecting people and communities through the Arts as teaching artists and presenters of teaching artists you play a vital role in this work and we are so grateful for your attendance today I hope you leave this webinar feeling recharged with new ideas for ways to partner new contacts and new inspiration to continue doing the great work you do year round thank y
ou again for being here with us virtually today and at this time I'm going to turn it over to Erica Wilhite who is our Arts learning and communities director for a quick plug of another upcoming webinar erka thank you Chandra hey everyone I just wanted to invite you to join us again on zoom on April the 21st at 2 pm for a creative aging discussion um about the direct health benefits of movement and dance on the aging process this conversation will be led by um creative aging experts Dr Julie Obe
r Allen who is assistant professor at the Department of Health and exercise clients also the director of the stress and health disparities lab alongside with Erica Patel a teaching artist and a community engagement manager at the Oklahoma City Ballet who has run a long-running program golden swans so if you can join us to learn about the qualitative and quantitative data you can provide to your community to support creative aging programs and you'll also take away some feedback on how to retain
and recruit creative aging participants and of course learn more about the creative aging programs that are happening in your state I hope to see you then handing it back to Jennifer now thank you Erica I hope you guys can join us on the 21st so um for those of you who don't know me I'm Jennifer Allen Barron I'm the Arts education director here at the Oklahoma Arts Council and um the idea for this webinar came about as we noticed an unusual Trend among a few prospective School Grant applicants w
e we had a few new sites come in and gain access to our online Grant system they wanted to host a residency but they were unable to locate a teaching artist ultimately some of these schools decided to withdraw their applications in cases like this I refer sites first to our teaching artist roster but this time a few sites were not successful in finding someone to travel to their communities and I know that there are teaching artists out there working independently or with non-profits and many of
these educators are doing their work somewhat in isolation as a state agency I wondered as a person who works at a state agency I wondered how can we do a better job connecting these teaching artists to other teaching artists to other presenters and then and connecting them with additional resources and potential work we decided that a virtual webinar such as this one would be a great way to start this conversation today we're presenting some of the resources available to you from the Oklahoma
Arts Council a panel featuring four very different models of Arts learning programs to hopefully inspire you to think differently and some time for interaction and feedback so that we can hear from you I'm so happy that you all have made some time and you're scheduled to join us and I'm excited to get started next slide please all right so before getting into the agenda let's look before getting into the content let's look at the agenda we're doing great because we've already covered the welcome
and the webinar overview check check next um Arts education assistant Samantha Haynes is going to introduce um the interactive tool she mentioned mentimeter and some of you may have used that in other webinars and other Zoom types of meetings but it's very exciting and I'm and she's going to tell us all about it um after that I will briefly present a few of our agencies Grant programs and other resources and then after that we will move on to our panel a group I am very excited to present follo
wing that we will have time for a question and answer and discussion are there any questions at this point before we move right ahead all right then I will turn the floor back to Samantha take it away Samantha you may be muted so sorry um I saw that Danny Gordon had raised his hand did he have a question no okay um Danny if you do have a question you can put it in the chat box or raise your hand again um just wanted to say again we are so glad you're hearing that you've taken time out of your da
y to um participate in our webinar so we're going to start things off by learning a little bit about one another using men's meter for practice so here is our first minted meter slide we're gonna move this over so you'll see up at the top of your screen there's a code that you can input so you can go ahead and do that now when you go to mentee.com it should look like this and then you just put in the code and then once you put in the code you'll still will direct you to the question where are yo
u from and I'm just curious to see where all we are attending okay see what up we're all we are attending this webinar from we have Canton Oklahoma fantastic Yukon Tulsa and Pawhuska fantastic Mustang Public Schools is that Pat in Oklahoma we have two participants that have raised a hand now amazing well Alfonso's here hello Alfonso Alfonso you can um unmute yourself if you have a question [Applause] oh yeah sorry yeah yeah attendees cannot unmute themselves all questions will have to go through
the q q a or the chat so just just FYI thank you Scott so they can use the chat though they can both use the chat and the question answer but uh question and answer probably the best place because I'll keep an eye out of that okay perfect thank you Scott there's also an option to unmute you can select somebody if they have their hand raised and then unmute them so um I see that Alfonso has his hand raised um so Alfonso would you like to make a comment to raise a question or not yeah I'm also ge
tting word too Jen from Brook that the chat is disabled on their end oh I see Leslie has said there we go I think our chat box I think our question and answer just popped up Alfonso saying he needs the code for mentimeter um Alfonso the code for mentimeter should be at the top of your screen and um Leslie it's pronounced Leslie says hi Samantha it is pronounced Payton and it's about 25 minutes southeast of Stroud amazing thank you Leslie we're so glad you're here hi Leslie I do not see that code
at the top of my screen thank you let me see uh Nick has said the code is six three eight eight zero five eight seven and I'll read it one more time in just a second six three eight eight zero five eight seven yeah awesome is there anyone else who's having trouble um accessing the menti code we all good I'm gonna go ahead and close the Q a so I can see so cool awesome well we are gonna go ahead and go to our next slide our next slide we are looking at a little bit of data so you will be asked o
n the mentee you shouldn't have to input another code once you put in the code one time it should be good for the rest of the webinar um you can go on mentee and answer what type of art do you practice and if you practice more than one genre of art you can put in multiple options looks like we've got some Visual and media Dance Arts integration traditional and Folk Music Theater and drama I wonder which one's gonna be the highest looks like visual media is leading the way here amazing fantastic
thank y'all so much oh we have some literary coming in awesome theater and drama but visual media is still winning though so awesome it's so great to see so many different genres of art represented at our webinar all right I'm gonna go ahead and move to the next slide um for this next slide we're gonna be returning to these questions at the end of our presentation but just to start the ball rolling um and before our panel comes to speak we're wondering what is a need that you have in your life a
s a working artist so this could be as a teaching artist working in arts education or also working independently in your genre of art this should be a short answer so you can type in a sentence or just a word or a thought and see what people are thinking what are some needs we have in the community in the community of Oklahoma and all the other communities that we uh listed earlier oh and somebody said in the chat that um they are from Sapulpa who is that Sherry thank you Sherry more time always
thank you awareness I love that collaboration yes that's why we're having this webinar we are wanting more collaboration between artists a supportive community that makes art access a priority I love that places to go practice drum circles ah very specific I love it musical experiences funding funding I love it balance opportunities for residencies during the summer winter break and spring break I feel that sometimes as teaching artists you are tied to that school calendar community building it
feels lonely out here I'm so glad you're at this webinar hopefully that takes away a little bit of the loneliness Partnerships yes funding for supplies that's fantastic we're gonna um talk some more about funding for supplies here in just a little bit then for dance events yes amazing access to more of today's youth to mentor and create into future artists and entrepreneurs awesome awesome a need to express myself with visual awareness amazing thank you all so much for your responses we'll hold
on to this and revisit it a little bit later when we get into our discussion are there any others I think if I do move on to the next slide if you think of something else you should be able to go back and still add to this slide if you want kind of keep things moving along because we have a lot to cover today so our next slide what is a goal you have set for yourself as a working artist so let's see if we can identify before our panel speaks see if we can identify a need that we have but also a
goal that we have set for ourselves this one might feel a little harder oh I love it three residencies this summer in Visual Arts we can hook you up with that I think Regina could too you might want to talk to her after this webinar to have more fun yes absolutely Art Is Fun to get teaching artists to my school and all others in the states yes we want to see teaching artists in every school in Oklahoma to be a light for my students and guide them through a positive art making experience yes to
reach more students to teach art education I love teaching Arts yes we love teaching artists who are passionate about teaching Arts balance non-profit job with teaching artists work I didn't actually write that but I feel about 100. I work in administration I also teach so yeah there's definitely a balance there to create oh so sorry to work on creating a work of art each day ambitious I love it to help shift the social construct that restrict the underprivileged yes so good I'm loving these res
ponses to enjoy the first to enjoy the process and have the students enjoy and appreciate what they can do instead of them saying they can't do oh yes yes I love that kids are so hard on themselves these days they want to give up before they've even started no we can't have them anything else so good thank you so much for all of your responses it's fantastic I think that's my last slide let me double check yes now I'm going to hand back over to Jennifer and she is going to talk a little bit abou
t the grants that Oklahoma Arts Council has thank you Jennifer thank you Samantha it was great to see some of those responses and see kind of where people are at as they as they come into this webinar today so um I think that most people who are familiar with our agency first encounter us through our grant making um then maybe not true all the time but I have a feeling it's true a lot of the time but even long time applicants might not know that we've been developing some new grants in recent ye
ars and some of our other grants we've been revising and continuing to improve those I'm not going to go deep into how to apply for these at this time but I do want to tell you a little bit about each of these grants and how they're used to expand access to Arts learning and arts education so small Grant support for our Arts learning arts education programs we break these into two categories Arts learning in communities those programs are overseen by Erica Wilhite who mentioned our upcoming crea
tive aging and and movement webinar coming up on April 21st Arts learning and communities programs take place outside of the school setting and outside of typical school time they might be after school programs summertime winter break they also serve individuals outside of the the Pre-K to 12 age range so they might serve Early Childhood they might serve adults they might serve older adults and they might serve um students in the in middle school or high school just not not within their school d
ay experience so a variety a wide variety of Arts learning programs fall under the Arts learning and communities umbrella Arts education in schools as the name apply implies refers to programs that take place during the school day and usually in the school building and these can be artists residency types of programs professional development programs and a few other a few other um programs that are strictly related to that in school Hands-On Arts instruction we have a variety of programs for alt
ernative education schools so if you work with an alted school if you know of an all dead school in your district and we have some A specific group of Grants just for all dead schools classroom Supply grants is something that we launched about four years ago schools can apply for this to receive up to five hundred dollars in reimbursement for the costs of consumable art supplies used in Fine Arts classrooms when we say Fine Arts classrooms we mean dance drama theater music Visual Arts any of the
performing any of the Performing or visual arts and media arts Capital art field trip grants this was a grant program that has been very popular but it's been on Hiatus for a few years as the capital has been undergoing some pretty extensive Renovations now the capital is reopened there's beautiful art on the walls and we would love for your students to come and see that firsthand we also have some lessons that tie that artwork to Oklahoma history and some great tour guides that can help your s
tudents learn all about the the story of Oklahoma through the Arts and last but not least our newest grant for schools is the Performing Arts experience grant for alternative education these grants can pay for either an alternative education School group to travel take a field trip to see a perform an art A Fine Arts performance or they can pay for a performer to come to the school and lead a performance so a few different opportunities there um next slide please foreign so through all of these
grants this is our agency's total annual reach to students um over 170 000 students are served by by these programs every year and when we say surf by these programs a lot of the times we're talking about they're served by teaching artists just like you these are students that are receiving Hands-On Arts instruction in a variety of ways in a variety of locations counties all throughout the state so we're really excited and really proud that we have this kind of reach and we can share that with y
ou all next slide please thank you so while um so our grants are open to organizations non-profits schools libraries and a few other types of of organizations individuals cannot apply for Grants however a lot of teaching artists do find work and compensation through Grant funded programs by being listed on the Oklahoma Arts council's teaching artist roster as I mentioned earlier on whenever a school or organization reaches out for an idea for an artist the roster is always the first place I will
refer that school or other organization um the teaching artist roster is an independent resource schools non-profits and others can refer to this resource at as needed as the situation may arise and they can find a teaching artist for their site um we also have a Performing Artist roster I wanted to mention that that's that's a little different that's we have some we have do have a few artists who were listed on both rosters but right now I'm just talking about the teaching artist roster I'm go
ing to focus there artists who are accepted to the roster are not considered employees of the Oklahoma Arts Council and we don't contract with these artists directly to provide Arts Education Services but we do seek ways to publicize their work and connect them with opportunities as much as we can as time has gone on however we have seen fewer and fewer applicants for the roster and every year a few more artists might choose to leave the roster for a variety of reasons but at the same time the n
eed for an interest in teaching artists has remained the same and has even grown we've seen requests come in that are pretty specific requests for artists who live in specific rural areas requests for artists who are bilingual requests for artists who can teach a specific art form or even within Visual Arts requests for artists that might teach a specific kind of visual art like print making or Ceramics increasingly we're unable to find artists to fulfill all of these needs that I hope is where
you come in I'd like to encourage each of you to consider applying for this roster if you can demonstrate experience as an educator and skill and expertise as an artist this may be a great fit for you and there's more to the application process dot dot dot next slide please and you can find more here or by visiting our website at arts.ok.gov often we find that teaching artists are the drivers behind starting relationships with schools or other sites that may last for years we've seen and funded
some projects that have parent and artists with the same site for more than 10 years and other sites which prefer to present a variety of projects they might be regular applicants but bring different kinds of Arts experiences to their students all the time either one of those is great artists on our rosters can and do hold teaching positions elsewhere you can have a listing on their roster and still have ongoing work with one or more organizations and because this is not a direct employment situ
ation we hope that you do we hope that being listed on the roster is just one more tool in your toolbox that can help you establish a sustainable art career in the state if you'd like to know more I'd be happy to answer that my contact information will be provided at the end but that is all I have to say about the roster at the moment um next I would like to bring Samantha back to introduce our panel thank you Jennifer we are so excited for our panel today thank you so much everyone who um has a
greed to be on our panel we are very excited to be hearing from you um first we will hear from Regina Kenton she is the art Tech director at OK State Department of Education next we'll hear from Randy Tinker Smith executive director of dance maker Academy in Pawhuska Oklahoma um next we'll hear from Gregory McPherson II founder and director of poetry and chill OKC and finally we'll be hearing from Nick Cottle the all access Arts director Arts Council OKC first up is Regina a little bit about Reg
ina she is the project manager for the Oklahoma course access art Tech Grant which was awarded to the Oklahoma State Department of Education in October 2020. she previously served 11 years as an orchestra director and instructional coach while also working with organizations like the Oklahoma summer arts institute and Putnam City's silver strings she is a cellist in a local wedding quartet simprey did I say that right same price strings she is grateful to serve in this current role to restore or
expand Fine Arts access to corners of the state to provide a well-rounded education and Empower Oklahoma's youth welcome Regina we're so glad you're here thanks for having me um tell us a little bit more about yourself anything you want to add to that bio and tell us a little bit about your program okay I would love to um I bio pretty much covers it uh so I started as a project manager um under the direction of Tiffany Neal and Levi Patrick now Debbie Enos back in 2020 and so what we've done is
taken the course access which is to provide courses or expand courses to Oklahoma students in the Fine Arts and six states were actually awarded this grant but we are one of two that chose to focus on the Fine Arts and that has actually proven to be really beneficial for us as we're doing something different in providing more than just courses for States we're also providing them a package program which includes our teaching artists and within the first year we realized that teaching artists re
ally are the Crux of what makes this program work and so we've been very fortunate to have a great lineup of teaching artists in the fields of visual art music drama and dance to support schools in sort of a year-round fine arts program where they attend or travel to a school site once or twice a week and offer Fine Arts programs in terms of lessons and then Arts experiences at the end of the month or for a high school group three times a semester so those are one of the things that I really wan
ted to bring to the table into this panel here to maybe talk more about as we have more questions and get a better sense for the Partnerships that we provide and work with especially when it pertains to teaching artists thank you Regina uh Jennifer do you have anything you want to ask here or should we move on to our next speaker let's move on and have all the panelists introduce their work a little bit and then we can dive into the questions okay perfect oh I was also going to say um as our pan
elists are introducing themselves if you do have questions um you can go back to mentee.com and underneath um where it'll say where you can put input information there is a q a button and you can push that button in record a question at any time as they are presenting all right thank you so much Regina we are gonna move on to Randy Tinker Smith at dancemaker Academy um a little bit about Randy in 2012 Randy Tinker Smith produced a brand new ballet depicting the history of the Osage Nation which
was partially funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts the ballet was zazi had its World premiere in Oklahoma and it's gone on to perform at the smithsonian's national museum of the American Indian in Washington DC in March of 2013 and Festival of families in Philadelphia Pennsylvania for the papal visit in 2014 through the prompting of many people in the community dance maker Academy was created to provide ballet training in rural Osage County and to carry on the legacies of r
enowned Osage ballerinas Maria and Marjorie tall Chief welcome Randy Tinker Smith yes Randy I believe you're muted thank you Samantha appreciate being here and and getting to hear all of uh the speakers and learn from you all too and when we I heard some music I was working at the Osage tribal Museum and what our researcher our head researcher brought was writing music called The Journey it was talking about it was music about the Journey of the Osage people from Arkansas Missouri to Kansas to h
ere and with all the treaties that happened and how we ended up here and when I heard it the first thing I thought was that needs to be a ballet why did I think that well my daughter was racing ballet in Atlanta Georgia she went to North Carolina School of the Arts and so Bella and um which is school for interior design so art has always been a part of my life and I had just prayed that I could have an idea to do something in the Arts I wanted to do it it's my life I don't know live in the Arts
and that's when I heard the music was the very next day so I said I want to write a ballet which is crazy because I have never danced belly in my life and one thing I learned during that time was one of the other people working at the Museum he's an artist and he never went full time and it always bothered me why aren't you full-time and get out of here go do your artwork but it takes people it takes Partnerships you can't do it alone and I'm more on the organizational side and whereas my daught
er's the director of dance now and the town asked us to open a school it wasn't a smart business decision in a 3500 population rural reservation town but ultimately I think artists art saves lives and we are all on a certain Mission and and so the longer we've been here now uh March will be 10 years with the school and it we're constantly doing Mission work and through the pandemic I know for a fact that some of our children are still alive today because uh dance and art was here in Pawhuska so
this year one of the goals we have we're going to bring in um for our summer camps which are awesome so much fun uh Specialists are the teachers who can teach different kinds of dance and we're going to have some more coming in Girl Samantha we're going to ask you to come and see some choreography or teach how to write choreography things that little native kids and a little tiny Community well Jenna was in Atlanta and never got a class of choreography until she was at college so it's something
we're offering things here in a little bitty Town that's not available to even the richest you know biggest cities often and that's where we everyone on this call we're partnered on this Mission we're we want people to have art in their lives so thanks for inviting me thank you Randy we're so glad you're here next we're going to be hearing from Gregory Gregory is an Oklahoma native an artist poet business owner and founder of poetry and chill OKC and poetry chill OKC kids poetry and chill was in
spired by Gregory's time in the Los Angeles poetry scene he wanted to bring that world back to his hometown of OKC poetry and chill was created on July 29 2017. poetry and chill kids was created in October 2018 and became a non-profit organization in February 2020. Gregory and his organization lead Hands-On workshops in schools and Community settings across Oklahoma City including one in association with ocpd these workshops feature built-in opportunities for cultural reflection and self-express
ion Via writing and oral performance the goal of the poetry and chill process is to engage encourage and Empower students and their families by connecting them with literacy through performance poetry literary writing and social justice Gregory's work through poetry and chill has been featured widely in local media including okay Gazette News 9 Fox 25 News and news Okay welcome Gregory Gregory you might be muted um okay there we go can you hear me now okay there we go yeah okay sorry about that
on my phone is a lot different in the desktop um thank y'all for having me my name is Gregory seconds uh born and raised in Oklahoma City created poetry and chill in 2017. I always am honest about how I started it um when I was starting quartering too I didn't think it would be where I'm at today I was being very cliche like Netflix and chill I was just trying to have fun I was living in L.A and went to LA film school I was living in La for four years I moved back to Oklahoma City uh when I move
d back here I felt that Oklahoma City per se was a blank canvas it was open for so many ideas so I created poetry and chill when we first created it we was just doing Open Mic nights uh we did it for just really was for me to start off just having a platform for me to perform uh showcase my talents uh we started on the east side of Oklahoma City in the shopping center about chicken uh while we were starting uh the popularity grew really fast so within five to six months we were having probably c
lose to 300 people coming to our events locally um that popularity went to the colleges we went to the University of Oklahoma in 2019. that was the first college that we ever did a show with so when we go to the colleges we bring our band we bring our culture to the campuses up there that sparked the idea to do a college tour so since 2019 we've been to about 70 universities across the country uh every semester we take our band we travel bring the culture here or bring the culture to their campu
ses we work directly with the organizations on campus the Greeks and stuff like that the coolest thing that we've done because we started poetry and chills that that popularity actually helped us help the youth and help our culture and help the society so a lot of high school middle school students were showing up to our events we were doing like open mic night events and uh I was hosting I'm like how old are you and some of them would say 14 16. I was like how did y'all even hear about this so
make a long story very short uh Waylon Cuban he was Lieutenant Cuba at the time he was working with documentary program he reached out to me I went to his event um one time and I was trying to be very discreet and hide out but my I had braids my hair was out and he was like hey who are you why are you trying to hide from me and so he comes up to me he asked me did I want to work with kids now to be honest with you guys in the beginning I just started telling this story this year I was kind of he
sitant to work with kids I was like they're kind of mean and rude I don't know if I want to step into that right now because I'm just an artist I was just having fun I never worked with kids before but they were very drawn to me and our organization so we started working with kids with Waylon Cupid over at the center he walked us into Douglas Northeast we started doing workshops at that time we didn't know we didn't really Target literacy or Target social emotional learning it was we was just do
ing it naturally until we started adding those components in um in the very beginning until coven I didn't teach no kids person me I was just sitting in the back I was just a business guy I would bring teachers on I wouldn't even look up I was like I don't want to engage uh I don't want to do any of that when covet happened it you know obviously people you know was scrambling everything was happening and I had to step in and start teaching I was more nervous to teach 10 students than I was to pe
rform in front of hundreds of thousands of people which I've done before I was like I don't know why I'm so nervous I was nervous I was shaking I was sweating I said why am I nervous but when I did it woke me up and made me realize that you know sometimes when you chase in one dream you find another dream you find your purpose in that and it really helped me uh motivate me to actually invest my time into the youth into the educational system as we know we have one of the worst Educational System
s in the country and if it's to me in my opinion if it's not about sports in Oklahoma they kind of sweep it under the rug so I was very adamant to pushing that um around covet we was working with about 60 students across the city currently right now we work with 11 000. so it grew a lot within three years uh we worked directly with okcps District Middle District uh publicity District uh we work at UH Cassidy Private School uh we work at the youth homeless centers uh pivot sisu I work at the Juve
nile Center in Tecumseh so it's grown a lot we host talent shows for the kids so we still bring our main element the music side the performance side to it but we do focus on literacy we work directly with the ELA teachers in the middle schools and high schools we created a curriculum that fits the ELA academic standards Reading Writing listening uh we focus on the social emotional learning components as well but we give the students an opportunity to express themselves uh we're big on letting th
em tell people how they feel I feel like a lot of people don't have a safe Zone to speak and do any that so we give the students a safe Zone to speak it's grown tremendously I didn't never know students would be engaged in this type of stuff and it's like I feel like low-key we're like tricking them into learning and reading and writing and expressing their feelings we do it through music we do it through poetry and then they still see us travel the country you know one night we'll be at uh in H
ouston at Prairie View a m and then the next morning I'm in a fifth grade class I'm like what are you just there last night so that type of energy and watching us has really helped us over the years and this year more than anything we're just getting better uh we're learning from our mistakes um we're trying to get more teachers and staff so I'm very excited I've been working with Arts Council for I think three years now probably four they've helped with so many grants with us uh just before sch
ool started giving us funding they were the ones helping us uh to get into the schools and I didn't know anything about it the teachers told me about it they would fill out the application so if it wasn't for them opening that door to us we wouldn't be able to get funding through the schools because the schools wouldn't be able to see what we're about so um that's just the kind of rundown of what we do I'm very excited to be here and if I have any questions I'll be here to answer those thank you
thank you Gregory all right we have one more speaker for our panel that we're gonna hear from and that is Nick Cottle Nick Cottle is the all-access Arts director at Arts Council OKC the all access arts program runs five initiatives providing Arts education and arts experiences to over 8 000 individuals at 40 plus sites around the Oklahoma City metro area throughout the year before joining Arts Council OKC in 2017 he worked as a non-profit consultant for a variety of organizations focused on bui
lding standard operating procedures CRM systems training and website management prior to his non-profit work he was operations coordinator for a locally owned and operated running store where he shared his passion for running with the OKC community and helped a new business establish best practices and policies and procedure he received his ba in anthropology from Oklahoma State University in 2010. welcome Nick I appreciate you guys having me um I figured every good panel has to have a nerd on i
t so I'm hoping that I can do my job filling that role today um so I am the uh aux's Arts director at Arts Council Oklahoma City um I'd like to think that what the state uh organization um does you know stay wide um we can try to emulate here on a local level in Oklahoma City um our big thing with Alexis Arts is we provide uh Visual and Performing Arts experiences and education opportunities to underscore underserved schools libraries parks and Community agencies throughout the metro area um rea
l quick I'll just go over the five programs uh trying to get my notes together for this trying to write it all out I realized it was probably going to take a long time so I'm just going to kind of hit some of the high points um our uh probably our uh most important program is going to be our arts and schools program um we um provide teaching artists opportunities and 10 to 12 sites every school year employing eight to ten teaching artists um and reaching anywhere between 700 to 1000 students her
e in the Oklahoma City metro area um depending on the year it could be all okcbs schools it could be a combination of Okay CBS Charter Schools we consider our relationship with boys and girls club part of our schools program as well so just kind of a variety of sites there our next biggest initiative is the creative aging program our creative aging program focuses on not just the age demographic of you know 55 60 plus we actually focus on different types of assisted living facilities uh Memory C
are um you know again Assisted Living um and then even a few retirement communities as well so we tried to make sure that we're reaching um with our creative aging program that the the ones are the the most vulnerable um that tend to be you know those older individuals without uh family um things like that we try and uh kind of keep the focus there in addition to that we run a teen Arts Council which is comprised of 10 to 15 kids each year from high schools throughout the metro area and througho
ut Oklahoma County with the teen Arts Council their big job throughout the year is essentially just to connect to the city in terms of the Arts community so we provide 10 to 12 Arts education slash Arts experiences throughout the year at a variety of locations um you know and with different artists just kind of depending on the year um in addition to those three initiatives we've got two more uh we run with in partnership with the Metropolitan Library System we run the neighborhood arts program
a big shout out to uh Gregory with poetry and Trill uh we had them um as part of uh as one of the Performing groups um Greg you might correct me if I'm wrong it was two or three summers ago I feel like that coveted time frame was just kind of a big blur um but you know we've worked um you know with a variety of performers around the city and in partnership with the library um it's really helped us kind of expand our reach and have access to not only different sites but a wider variety of Perform
ing artists um the last initiative that we do every year is the Arts and park program I'm in connection with Oklahoma City Parks and Rec um we yeah about three years ago yeah um we work at about eight to ten uh recreation centers throughout the city over the Sun summer just providing a variety of Arts based experiences and educational programming every year is a little different just kind of depending on each individual rec center and their schedule and all the other things they have going um so
yeah last thing real quick thank you to everyone involved I'm in this webinar the organizers the participants sometimes I feel like pursuing Arts education and forwarding yourself into Arts education in Oklahoma can be a trying kind of interesting experience and we're all doing good work here so I appreciate everyone and that's it for me thank you so much Nick and thank you to all of our panelists we're so glad we were able to hear from you I think next oh we can move on to questions for our pa
nel if you have any questions you can go ahead and put them in mentimeter now and Jennifer did you have a couple questions while we are waiting for those to start coming in yes thank you thank you Samantha and thank you to all of our panelists Regina Randy Gregory and Nick thank you guys so much for being here um I love that each of you were able to speak to a different model of Arts education and um kind of a different process for getting involved um even though the types of programming that ea
ch of you presented are very different from each other they do share some things in common I mean of course we're focus our Focus here is Arts education also um each of these Pro projects and programs have grown and developed through some strategic Partnerships which I think is a really exciting way for growing your your own practice so while the questions are coming in and and you can ask questions there's the Q a box here on Zoom there's also the Q a function on your mentimeter screen so you c
an add your questions in need either way um while those are happening uh I'll just open this up to all of you whoever would like to speak first um what advice would you offer to a teaching artist who is listening today and wants to know either how they can get more involved with your work or how they can do and start similar work within their own community I can start if you want that it took us a few years to get rounded out because like I said we're going into our 10th year with the school and
then ballet has been this is our 12th 11th year with the valley but we made we started making relationships in the community we started out going to kiwan's club and the Elks club and the uh the business people's club and sharing with them about our school but one of the best connections we made was when we made friends with our superintendent assistant superintendent of schools because that's there's so much need and we could literally be there year-round in every single brand but we don't hav
e enough teachers in Pawhuska and so they're so thankful for us even though we only go like to the third grade for a whole year and that's all we get we don't have enough teachers to do all the grades but so don't get overwhelmed with that because you're one person or you're one group uh but start out with the superintendent or assistant who's really opened the door for us to work and bring these teachers into the school system and we've seen huge results and I'll just give you a cute one I mean
kids showing up at our school the first year no the parents didn't know what address rehearsal was the kids didn't even know what ballet shoes were the next year because we've been in the school system they came in doing little pirouettes and almost it was emotional to see that we had brought to this little town of 3 500 people uh by going into the school system they need you thank you Randy thank you very much anyone else have anything to to say about this Regina would you like to talk about a
nything that may be happening with our Tech yes um I'll go ahead and answer your question and also answer the question on the screen so for our grants it's a five-year Grant to work with schools that are expanding or have no Fine Arts access so we've been able to work with 14 districts 15 sites this year to provide Fine Arts programs in the four disciplines of visual art drama dance and music and so what we did is we we actually hire teaching artists as part-time employees of the State Departmen
t of Education and we train them and can connect them with schools while trying to sort of build capacity so that when the end of the grant comes along schools have found a way to maintain those Finance programs that we sort of help them structure and scaffold and build so we have about 13 14 teaching artists um looking for more we actually have a flyer that I'm going to try to share here if you can share out to the attendees we are looking for more teaching artists um for specific schools or fo
r for specific areas um but what we do is we train teaching artists and work with them throughout the year our art specialist for gab who I believe is also joining us as an attendee she supports our teaching artists um uh throughout the year and we provide curriculum that was developed by Oklahoma Fine Arts Educators we have sort of a pk-8 program and a high school course offering um so we were hoping to sort of sustain that and the way we do that is right now we have the funding through the gra
nt through usde but over time schools also have access to their title um four-part a funding or Title 1 funding sources to maintain and keep these programs going uh so that's one of the things that we sort of really focus on is building school capacity while teaching artists are developing their programs maybe hopping in on rosters through the Arts Council and other Arts organizations and learning how to leverage their dollars their federal dollars to hold a fine arts program we've heard from ma
ny schools that it's uh it's expensive to fund or it's hard to find as Randy was saying we did not foresee the teaching shortage to really sort of become um so catastrophic but it is and where we know we're not replacing a fine arts educator we are still fulfilling a need for our fine arts program in schools where there aren't Educators available um so to sort of answer also your question um to give advice for teaching artists um we definitely recommend that they continue to join all of the rost
ers um look for events like these we find that sometimes the word of mouth can feel sort of like an exclusive practice or yeah an exclusive practice but it's it's nice if we continue to have these sort of events where we're getting more out to the public so teaching artists can find ways to connect and learn more about you know how would I have a conversation with a superintendent or what she'd be my first step that's one of the things that we sort of uh help teaching artists through we do a lot
of that work connecting and making Partnerships with the schools we also work with other Partnerships like Chickasaw Nation Osage Nation University of Central Oklahoma's LX Studio helped us design the curriculum in our lessons that in a couple years will be open and accessible for anyone but we work with our Partnerships to make sure that where you know we might need to help other people connect we can do that and make those connections last so that teaching artists have opportunities schools g
et access to Fine Arts and students benefit from that well-rounded education great thank you I put a link in the chat to the the art Tech homepage on the State Department of Education you can find a call for teaching artists there so um hop on it folks I'm going to try to add my my flyer to if someone can get that across the way to the attendees that would be great all right we'll try to do that if we if we aren't able to through this we'll definitely send it out with the follow-up materials so
wonderful um let's see anyone else I do see some questions are coming in um so let's see I have been teaching art for the last six years and wondering what is the best way to establish more collaborations with more schools and organizations that's a great question with yeah I think that would be uh relevant to all all for the panelists does anyone want to speak maybe uh Nick or Gregory you haven't answered a question yet yeah I'd be happy to jump in on this one um so uh honestly um try everythin
g possible um I found that a lot of times in the Oklahoma City Public School District um just you know again with the nature of Education in the state and the district in general um sometimes um principals and administrators aren't necessarily uh really gung-ho about um you know working with your own communication planning scheduling Arrangements cost sharing all that sort of stuff um so we've actually made it um part of our consistent procedures to always reach out to all all of the art teacher
s at the locations as well and tried to find any Avenue that we could we've even had a couple of uh families that are involved in some of our other activities mention us and bring us to a PTA meeting um so really um you know the the best thing you can do is try all avenues um uh you know by no means am I trying to uh speak for the panel here but I feel like a lot of Arts organizations and arts educators are always going to be willing to take a look and and listen to what you have to say if they
can't act on it um you know they're they're still going to do their best to try and get the word out there for you um yeah don't don't ever shy away from contacting anyone and everyone um and then the second thing would be um always come into the conversation um with some qualitative anecdotes about what you do as an Arts educator and an artist and also come in with some quantitative information too um I I really like to work in that gray area between left and right brain stuff uh you know creat
ive and systematic um so being able to make an argument for uh what you're offering um in both you know kids you can serve hours of availability um all that sort of stuff you know have that stuff on hand so when they ask us questions you have your answers ready yes and uh piggyback off of what Nick said I do agree with that um definitely trying everything I was at a point where I would just principals um a lot of teachers would kind of reach out to me and some of the principals would not write b
ack on emails I wouldn't return my calls so I was the type in the very beginning to just go in the school very early in the morning and sit and wait for them to be available to speak to me now I know everyone doesn't have the time to do that at that time I did so I would just sit there and kind of like you know you're gonna speak to me today um and when they did speak to me one thing that a lot of them would do we would speak about it we would come up with all the ideas and then they would disap
pear and kind of ghost me when it came to funding um one thing that I advice that I have is that have a plan about funding like Arts Council uh when I started having information like hey we can apply for this grant we can do stuff like that it kind of took the weight off of a lot of principles back because they're like okay we are we don't have funding for this so if you already have funding or have a way to get funding then I would definitely present that to them and find someone that can advoc
ate for your program in that school uh whoever it is the teacher if it's a counselor if it's an art teacher whoever it is find someone that can advocate for you and have those conversations that you can't have but you don't see those principles administrators every day so those are the things I think is uh definitely going above and beyond doing what you need to do but at the same time when you do get that conversation with the principal or whoever you're speaking to when it comes to funding and
they don't have it I would definitely have an option like Arts Council and then the last thing I almost slipped my mind it was a lot of times that I did sample workshops for free so I would just say just let me come show you what I can do and then the prince I will have them sit in with me and then they will sit in a counselor a teacher or Lead Teacher and they will be blown away like oh my God we do need this so sometimes I always feel like we have to be willing as artists we do everything but
we do a lot of things for free already so it's not like this is new to us but doing something for free and giving them opportunity to showcase or to Showcase your talent and your gifts will be a great opportunity for you so don't steer away from I need to get paid think about okay if I do this free workshop for an hour how would this benefit me if it does work so that's kind of my opinion on that thanks those are some great ideas from both of you thank you so much um all right looks like we've
still got more questions thank you guys keep those questions coming in that chat excuse me um so what qualities do you look for in a teaching artist and I'm not sure if this question was directed to maybe Regina and Nick who are um kind of operating programs that they use multiple teaching artists or or what but I think I'll I'll direct this to the to you Nick Jr go first yeah I'll go I'll go first okay so uh well we actually um hire part-time so we have um in the flyer that you'll receive we ha
ve the job posting that talks about sort of the things that we do in the day-to-day Monthly our summer schedule versus our school schedule um but in in general I think that schools are really looking for folks that understand their communities um hopefully folks that are close to their communities um and are interested in really being a part of of their school we do um things that connect to family engagement as part of our grant we try to add events like showcases um establish field trips and v
isiting artists again this is all funded through our grant sources but schools are really looking for students to really just have access and I know when we first started they said they'd take anything but they would give us sort of a preference and now we find that schools are really leaning into either the discipline they have or they are finding folks more locally so I think really looking for schools in your area really helps with community building and establishing a stronger partnership bu
t then also you know we're we're able to work with schools um everywhere so um really establishing Partnerships uh wherever we are but that's something that I think that schools kind of sort of look to when they're looking for a teaching artist uh experience with students work with like summer camps flexibility I'm thinking of specific teaching artists in mind that really have a good sense of being able to build lessons around students and regardless of the ages or the students in the room being
able to sort of flex to the needs of the learner yeah the uh essentially uh everything Regina said um so uh one of the things that that we really look for since we um one of our main goals at the Arts Council is not just to meet the Arts education in arts experience needs of our community we also try and do our best to support artists um so a lot of times we get inquiries about just being a teaching artist and then we go through a series of like after school quality standards um uh uh curriculu
m building um those sorts of things so you know a lot of the things that we look for are just a um you know a strong interest in the teaching aspect as well as promoting your artwork um sample lesson plans lycogenus had some experience with the community like we have a long time creative aging teaching artist who was kind of a kind of a perfect situation for us had both you know an artistic background as an artist and as a hospice care worker so her experience in that environment has been tremen
dous for our program she's been a great source of training for other teaching artists that are interested in in working with that particular group of community members but maybe doesn't have that sort of a background so yeah just a willingness to learn some sample lesson plans I've got I always give out I don't know if we can get this on there Oklahoma quality standards after school quality standards always come in you know again with being able to talk about how how you operate as an artist and
then also how you operate as a teacher and we really kind of look at both things and then see what we can do to the artist wherever they're the best fit thank you thank you both and you know I'll add to that as a from our point of view with the teaching artist roster um I think that the two top things that we're looking for are experience I mean just to kind of echo what's been said here um experience as a teaching artist or as a teacher like experience on the educational side um both of you ki
nd of mentioned that and then also artistic expertise we love to see strength on both the art side and the education side and so you know um I think I don't remember which of you said this but it it doesn't necessarily need to be a teaching certification although that's wonderful it could be a a strong history of leading education programs where we can um kind of we we see that you're working in a lot of different ways and the flexibility that's something we're always looking for you know part o
f our mission is expanding access to more Oklahomans so we're another thing we're looking for is teaching artists that are willing to travel or to work with new audiences that they've never worked with before so um great great stuff from you all on that all right if there are there any other before we move on to the discussion time are there any more questions that we didn't answer or that you have burning um on your mind now all right let's uh let's go ahead and move back move ahead go back to
the future to the discussion time slide and I think this is the point in time that um please pull up your menti meter on your phone again yes now we're going to circle back to some of the questions that were answered at the beginning of this discussion um and see what uh what new thoughts maybe have um risen up through this discussion um so the next question on our multimeter is what do you want people to know about working as a teaching artist and this can be Um this can come through mint meter
you can answer it through multimeter or our panelists if you want to answer out loud that's also fine yes it's a very fulfilling experience I have to agree it has been a great learning experience good lessons and flexibility and submitting one to it your art has value to your community for sure it's so unique probably one of the most unique jobs I've ever worked for schools teaching artists can become the heart of the school really quickly so reliability is also a highly desired traits for scho
ols so I can definitely definitely testify to that sometimes that first year if you're at a new site really it's just about building that report with the administration with the students and then you showing them like that you're showing up week after week um that's when we really start to get to see some growth and some connections awesome thank you all so much it takes a lot of patience to keep control and fun in a room full of students the teacher isn't always capable of helping get some idea
s of callbacks and discipline games yeah for sure that's a really interesting point would whoever entered that last comment about the discipline games would you mind uh raising your hand so I can unmute you to say a word or two about that hey it's old Trey hi okay so I've had several teaching artists come to my classroom I teach elementary Fine Arts here at tishmingo and the I I Patrick Riley is the one that my first one and he came and he had some really interesting games to to have the kids be
the quietest in a group or um to there were just so many uh like callbacks and we used callbacks all the time in our schools so it's like the clapping games or something they have to call back to you and uh butt up up um I'm loving it things like that the kids say back and forth it's it's always good to have those little things that calm the kids down or um or just do some breathing deep breathing things and that really helps to just like breathe in through your nose hold it in your head for a
second and then do that several times let it out slowly and there's just a whole bunch of stuff that really helps to keep the maintain your calmness and the kids calmness thank you so much um Trey for for adding that um let's see Lori you've had your hand up for a while would you like did you have a question would you like to make a comment or a question Lori cook I believe I've enabled your speaking ability maybe not all right we'll just keep moving on there's a few more a few more responses in
the mentimeter thing here I love this one about um students that didn't see themselves as artists but then at the end of the program feel like they've become an artist it's beautiful yeah and this last one teaching can be challenging but it can also be a source of inspiration for your personal artwork they feed each other in a positive way great person agree with that right shall we move on to the next we shall see next question how can sites or presenters best support your work as an artist so
kind of the flip of what we were talking about earlier about like how do we as teaching artists form the connections with the schools what are things that you as teaching artists would like to see the schools doing or or any side doesn't have to be a school if you're working with creative aging um or another Community how can those communities better support you as an artist foreign agree anything else here I know you guys have have got some thoughts about this we'd love to know maybe not yeah
I was just gonna say I've got one thing I could uh I could add on this while other people are maybe uh typing their stuff out um one one thing that we kind of um really make an effort with um with our relationships with sites and teaching artists is that if um we have a particular situation where a teaching artist um might um express interest in working with us but is a little bit hesitant of of a classroom and may have just enough experience to be a good fit but it may still be a little bit ner
vous about it one thing we work into our independent contractor agreements with the schools and the scope of work is that there's some sort of additional support from the school whether it be um you know just an extra person in the classroom full-time during those class art lessons if it's you know a teacher that's assigned as a liaison that they can immediately you know go to for jumping in to help out with uh you know disciplinary issues you know things like that that will come up um you know
don't don't hesitate from um from getting involved with this sort of stuff because each site is always going to be a little bit different each principle and each School situation is going to approach it differently so you can get uh worked in a lot of the actual classroom support and that's something that we try as much as we can to provide I like to piggyback off of that we we try to do that as well um with our grant uh during sort of summer training and then we have like an art specialist chec
k-in um each month when we can't do sort of like a a monthly check-in one-on-one and we have on what we call like on-site leads at the school site and those teachers uh in theory and we hope also in practice are sort of like their liaison to help um sometimes we'll have because we have sort of like a school year or a school uh a year-long program uh students that have um uh exceptional needs or need accommodations and modifications so I highly recommend where Arts organizations and and groups li
ke ours can provide that sort of liaison assistance to make sure that we're able to support all students to the best of our ability thank you Regina and Nick um whoever shared the Callback video on mentimeter could you also share it in the um Zoom chat so that we can uh save that link thank you um I'll read a couple more comments here provide discipline uh networking more opportunities to collaborate encourage on-site teachers to give feedback and even participate and I love that um schedule ful
ly uh whoever answered was whoever gave that answer could you elaborate a little bit more do you mean like um like just more classes in a day or are you like finding yourself driving to a site and only teaching like one class and then you're done and you'd rather teach multiple classes that's my guess at what schedule fully means if you want to elaborate further you can do it in mentimeter or raise your hand ah Trey Hayes it's me again I just I've had so much success with these residencies here
in my school that I've learned a lot from each one of them and how to you know they need a like and also I'm providing helping other schools or my area get uh residencies and they are um the resident artists I'm bringing one in from Georgia actually um he they need they have to provide a schedule that is fully prepared for them to be in there and uh or else it just kind of goes awry and I think that's that's one of the biggest parts of of having these people here is to provide that full-time wha
t what they're going to get the kids and everything just to have it ahead of time so that's all it means awesome thank you Trey okay we are coming down to the wire with our time so I'm going to go ahead and jump ahead anything else on our minds I'll just give you just a few seconds here for this one then we'll start wrapping things up but anything that we haven't discussed yet today that um has been burning a hole in your pocket yeah just to follow up on what uh Trey mentioned about the teaching
artists coming in with maybe not a a fully prepared schedule and lesson plan laid out as part of our teaching teaching artist contract agreements uh we uh definitely require all of those lesson plans and all of that information um and we you know routinely review it on a monthly basis so it's not so much that you know we're going in there with a hard critique of every lesson that they put forward um it's just we're trying to um you know build up that teaching artist you know as a teaching artis
t so we just kind of talk about at the end of each month uh just kind of go through the you know the lesson plans I mean if there's anything that we have any issues or concerns about we address them or you know they could be like uh like Sam's uh lesson plans and they're just perfect and heavily detailed every time and it's never an issue oh my gosh I'm blushing um I learned to write really good lesson plans through Arts Council y'all had a really good like format of base for me to jump off of s
o thank you for that I have muted myself sorry anything else before we wrap up all right oh I see one thing in the chat oh thank you Trey Hayes you posted the um YouTube link for the call back the call and response thank you for that all right let's start wrapping up uh we could touch on this we just have a few minutes but um where do you see just curious where do you see Arts education in Oklahoma heading in five years um and this can be just like one word describing where do you think Arts edu
cation is headed do you think it's going to expand do you think it's going to maybe not expand I think it'll stabilize do you think it'll start to move more towards in person do you think virtual will still be a big component of Arts education in five years maybe more or less just throw out some words real quick I'll just give you maybe 60 seconds for this one forward love it innovating okay steadfast more available oh I love that media arts yes I definitely see that legislative funding here for
it evolving more available it depends sustained I love it thank you all all right we're gonna keep moving last slide what is one let's end on the high note people what is one new resource or idea that has inspired you today in your Arts education practice this can be a speaker you heard from an idea that was discussed anything just throw it out there what are some things that we've learned today that have been inspiring and you can take as you're moving forward in your Arts education practice N
ick Arts Council OKC I will be contacting him you know more than you think you know love the quote about finding a dream while chasing a different one oh yes yes that was from Gregory Chase the Dream yeah Chase the Dream in the first place and then be flexible when it maybe takes you down a different path you don't have to know everything at first you learn by doing absolutely very good anything else we had a couple shout outs too hold on I'm gonna see if I can get in the chat we had a couple sh
out outs in the um chat your art has value to your community yes oh yeah there it is I'm an engineer too I love that educational experience does not necessarily mean classroom teaching experience because we've seen today there are many different models willingness to learn flexibility try everything possible don't get oh this was from Randy Tinker Smith I'm still reading from the chat sorry I'll jump back to the minute meter in a second um Randy Tinker Smith said don't get overwhelmed if you can
't do everything start where you can and then here's the direct quote from Gregory sometimes when you're chasing one dream you find another I love it love it all Regina looking forward to connecting and learning more about opportunities think outside the bubble yes all right well we are right at time so I'm gonna go ahead and start wrapping it up thank you all so much for coming uh we'll have a recording of this meeting and presentation slides will be shared soon and we also asked when you were
registering if it would be all right to share your contact information with other webinar attendees and our goal with that is just to create more connections more networking so anyone that you have heard from today you'll have their contact information as well as other attendees so feel free to reach out to each other so we can have those collaborations that we talked about let's see I want to Echo those thanks from Samantha thank you so much to our our four panelists for presenting everything y
ou've learned being so generous with your time your experience um really appreciate it I know the attendees um got a lot out of what you had to say and thank you to the attendees thank you for making the time to be here um I hope that some of you are making connections making plans based on some of the things that we've heard and um I will be sharing out panelists and OAC staff contact information along with the attendee information whenever that recording of the webinar is available so be on th
e lookout for that in the meantime here's some of our staff members who who spoke today um you remember Chandra our deputy director who offered a welcome at the outset uh me who's been talking um Erica who is in charge of our Arts learning and communities programs including creative aging arts in the military she's got that webinar coming up on April 21st and of course Samantha Haynes Arts education assistant extraordinaire thank you all for being here I look forward to connecting with you in th
e field and have a great day thank you thank you
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