Pac Rim 2008 Info
Visual Art & Culture: the Power of “Voice”: What it looks like in the Classroom and Beyond
By Meleanna Meyer, Anna Sumida and Miki Maeshiro (Kamehameha Schools)
Monday, April 14th, 2008: 2:45 pm – 5:00 pm in the Maui Ballroom, on the topic of Culturally Responsive Education
Culture and the arts are vital vehicles for not only communal and personal expression, but are also critical to developing the well-being and self-image of any group of people, because positive, concrete, physical representation can reflect the goals, aspirations and visions of those communities and groups.
This is a hands on workshop that will help participants get to know themselves a bit better through the medium of drawing. We’ll be able to learn how culture shapes who we are and how transforming the educational process, would lead us to developing a deeper understanding of the potential within each and every one of us uniquely, and collectively.
Biographies
Meleanna Meyer is a successful practicing artist, filmmaker and designer of curriculum that focuses on issues of culture. A honors graduate of Stanford University, she received a B.A. along with the prestigious Borelli Art Prize. She studied architecture and the arts in Italy. While receiving her masters in Education from UH Manoa, she was a recipient of an East-West Center Fellowship.
Anna Sumida is a Reading & Math Resource Teacher at Kamehameha Elementary School and is a doctoral students at UH Manoa. She is co-author of Elevating Expectations (Heinemann, 2001) and has published articles in journals such as The New Advocate, Educational Perspectives, Language Arts, and School Talk. She also produced two educational films for parents that won the International Reading Association Broadcast Media Award for Television (Adult Program Category) and the Aurora Media Gold Award.
Miki Maeshiro has taught preschool at Punana Leo o Honolulu, a Hawaiian Language Immersion preschool; Kamehameha Elementary School and is currently an Art & Writing Resource Teacher for the Kamehameha Schools Community Education unit. She collaborated with colleagues on a book, Elevating Expectations (Heinmann, 2001), which shares their work with student-involved assessment and progress folios.
