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SITE SANTA FE PRESENTS AN ART EDUCATION
LECTURE BY DR. JAMES CATTERALL "THE ARTS AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: RESEARCH,
PRACTICE, AND POLICY"
August 21, 2002
Santa Fe, NM - SITE Santa Fe presents a lecture by Dr. James Catterall,
professor at the University of California at Los Angeles Graduate School of
Education and Information Studies, and director of the Imagination Group,
a collaborative group of academics, students, teachers, and arts professionals
interested in learning in and through the arts. The lecture is part of SITE
Santa Fe's education and outreach programming, and will be held on Wednesday,
August 21 at 6 pm. Admission is free to the public.
James Catterall's lecture at SITE Santa Fe, "The Arts and Human Development:
Research, Practice, and Policy," will focus on the effects of broad-based
arts learning on human neurological and social development. Dr. Catterall's
lecture will coincide with the September 2002 launch of SITE Santa Fe's new
arts education outreach initiative, SITE OFFSITE. Funded by a two-year,
$50,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, SITE OFFSITE
will bring quality arts learning programs to underserved schools on Santa
Fe's southside and to the nearby San Juan and Pojoaque pueblos.
Dr. Catterall is nationally known for research and publications related to
children at risk and for studies examining the influences of participation
in the arts on learning and development. His research focuses on basic roles
of imagery in cognition and on how arts-related instructional and curriculum
policies impact teaching and learning.
Dr. Catterall holds a Ph.D. in Education from Stanford University, an M.A.
in Public Policy from the University of Minnesota, and an A.B. with honors
in Economics from Princeton University. He currently heads the design team
for the new Riverside School for the Arts, a collaboration between the University
of California at Riverside, Riverside Community College, and the County Office
of Education. He has also served as director of a multi-year evaluation of
the Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education, a program that pairs artists and
teachers for interdisciplinary teaching. In 2002, Dr. Catterall published
Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development,
a state-of-the-art review of research on links between the visual and performing
arts and academic and social learning.
SITE Santa Fe's education and outreach programming is supported by The Dr.
Ezekiel R. and Edna Wattis Dumke Foundation, The Frost Foundation, Ltd., The
McCune Charitable Foundation, the Donald and Barbara Meyer Education Fund,
and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Concurrent with this event are SITE Santa Fe's exhibitions Gary Simmons,
John F. Simon, Jr., and Sarah Morris: Capital, which are on view
through September 8, 2002.
SITE Santa Fe is located at 1606 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Exhibition
hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 pm; Friday, 10:00 am
-7:00 pm. Admission is $5.00 for adults and $2.50 for students and seniors;
members are free. Free admission is offered on Fridays, made possible by a
grant from The Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston. Free guided tours are offered
on Fridays at 6:00 pm and Saturdays and Sundays at 2:00 pm. Tours in Spanish
are by appointment. SITE Santa Fe gift certificates are available. Call 505.989.1199
for more information. This announcement is partially funded by the City of
Santa Fe Arts Commission and the 1% Lodgers' Tax.
Contact: Press Office
Tel: 505.989.1199
Fax:505.989.1188
email: press@sitesantafe.org
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