Teaching Artists Announced

ARTS INTEGRATION MENOMONIE (A.I.M) ANNOUNCES TEACHING ARTISTS FOR THE 2015-2016 ACADEMIC SCHOOL YEAR

AUGUST 18TH, 2015
ARTICLE BY: DUNN COUNTY NEWS

Arts Integration Menomonie's (A.I.M.) C.I.T.A. program displays a partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Stout and the School District of the Menomonie Area (SDMA). School District of the Menomonie Area teachers and UW-Stout pre-service teachers collaborate in arts integration teaching practice by having their own resident artist in their own classrooms. Interviews were held and seven teaching artists have been selected.

Pilot program kick starts Arts Integration Menomonie

ARTS INTEGRATION MENOMONIE (A.I.M) colaborates with local elementary schools in Spring Pilot program

JUly 9TH, 2015
ARTICLE BY: DUNN COUNTY NEWS

In the spring, Arts Integration Menomonie (A.I.M.) partnered with two Menomonie elementary schools to focus on new teacher retention. A.I.M. strives to achieve teacher retention through arts integration by focusing on elementary teachers new in their profession. As part of this spring's pilot program, A.I.M. partnered with teachers at Oaklawn Elementary and River Heights Elementary.

Grant Makes Pioneer Play Possible

MINI GRANT PROVIDED BY ARTS INTEGRATION MENOMONIE (A.I.M) ALLOWED STUDENTS TO EXPERIENCE PIONEER LIFE

JUNE 29TH, 2015
ARTICLE BY: DUNN COUNTY NEWS

Rachel Kelm's second graders researched American pioneer life in the mid 1800's as a part of a Social Studies unit at River Heights Elementary. After visiting the Dunn County Historical Society the students used their learned historical facts to work in small groups to create dialog and develop characters. With the assistance of Kris Winter, the owner of the Paper Cow Theater, they also learned storytelling and drama skills.

Arts integration

Project takes AIM at teacher support and retention through the arts

JUNE 7TH, 2015
ARTICLE BY: Stout Quest 2014-2015

During the next two years, UW-Stout will launch Arts Integration Menomonie to support teacher candidates and retain early career teachers in the Menomonie school district. AIM is focused on expanding the arts via city kindergarten through third-grade teachers and in the art education and early childhood education teacher programs at UW-Stout.

Holocaust Survivor Leaves Powerful Impression

Eva schloss's Visit and Arts Integration menomonie

JUne 7th, 2015
Article by: The DUNN COUNTY NEWS

This spring Arts Integration Menomonie (A.I.M.) presented the biographical Holocaust play “And Then They Came for Me” at the Mabel Tainter Center for the Arts. 

These performances featured the Eva Schloss herself, the play's Holocaust survivor, who traveled to Wisconsin from her home in England. "And Then They Came for Me" and Eva Schloss's visit was coordinated by A.I.M. as an announcement and celebration of the formal partnership between UW-Stout, the School District of the Menomonie Area, and the Mabel Tainter Center for the Arts.

Play Features Interviews from Holocaust Survivors

HOLOCAUST PLAY INFUSES VIDEO 

MAY 26TH, 2015
ARTICLE BY: WICSONSIN PUBLIC RADIO/SPECTRUM WEST

The play titled, And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank, contains video interviews of Holocaust survivors, Eva Schloss and Ed Silverberg. The interviews are accompanied with live acting, which is a unique feature only found with this moving production. The play occured Wednesday at the Mabel Tainter Center for the Arts.

Wisconsin Public Radio with A.I.M.

spectrum west with al ross

MAY 26TH, 2015
Radio Interview by: Wisconsin Public Radio/Spectrum West

A.I.M. Director Dr. Tami Rae Weiss speaks to Spectrum West's Al Ross about UW-Stout's new arts integration program to support teachers. Spectrum West is WPR's weekly program exploring the music, arts, and humanities in western Wisconsin including in-depth, behind-the-scenes interviews and stories about area writers, musicians, theater, visual arts.

UW-Stout project takes AIM at teacher support, retention through the arts

An Opportunity for the Menomonie Area 

May 13TH, 2015
ARTICLE BY: Knowledge Powers Wisconsin

During the next two years, University of Wisconsin-Stout will launch Arts Integration Menomonie to support teacher candidates and retain early career teachers in the Menomonie school district.

“Through thriving partnerships, we can make the most of each other’s strengths and thereby better serve our teachers and their students,” said Tami Weiss, director of the art education undergraduate program and assistant professor of art education at UW Stout.

One of AIM’s defined initiatives is Co-teaching In and Through the Arts — CITA — involving student-teachers, teachers and teaching-artists.

And Then They Came For Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank

AND THEN THEY CAME FOR ME

REMEMBERING THE WORLD OF ANNE FRANK

January 12, 2015
Article by: The Dunn county news

And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank, is a unique theatrical experience: a multimedia play that combines videotaped interviews with Holocaust survivors Ed Silverberg and Eva Schloss with live actors recreating scenes from their lives during World War II. Ed was Ann Frank's first boyfriend. Eva Schloss was the same age as Anne Frank and lived in the same.

Early Art Learners: UW-Stout’s AIM program targets early art education

Early Art Learners

UW-Stout's A.I.M. program targets early art education

February 4, 2015
Article by: Volume One Staff

A new art integration program has UW-Stout in sight. Over the next two years AIM (Art Integration Menomonie) will work to infuse art into the curriculum of kindergarten through third-grade classrooms. To do this, AIM will provide support for young teachers in the art education and early childhood education programs at UW-Stout and will be partnering with the School District of the Menomonie Area and potentially, the Mabel Tainter Center for the Arts.

Project takes AIM at teacher support: retention through the arts

Arts integration

Project takes AIM at teacher support, retention through the arts

January 12, 2015
Article by: University of Wisconsin-Stout

During the next two years, University of Wisconsin-Stout will launch Arts Integration Menomonie to support teacher candidates and retain early career teachers in the Menomonie school district.

AIM is taking direct aim at infusing arts into the curricular and instructional tool belt of city kindergarten through third-grade teachers and in the art education and early childhood education teacher programs.