Thursday, September 21, 2023 | 4:30–6:30pm
ADMISSION: Free with advanced registration
Gain new tools to integrate a visual art experience with your literacy curriculum. At this workshop, elementary and art teachers can learn to incorporate The CJM’s award-winning Stories and Art of Ezra Jack Keats program into their classrooms. Teachers will be introduced to Keats’s biography as the son of Jewish immigrants; his path to becoming an artist; and his choice to portray characters of color who reflected the Brooklyn neighborhood where he lived. Teachers will then participate in and learn art projects inspired by Keats’s illustrations that focus on bringing small moments to life through collage.
Participating teachers will receive a set of classroom art supplies for the art making project, a copy of one of Ezra Jack Keats’s books, and a short video to share with your class!
This program is geared toward K–2 Teachers, and is eligible for FWEA PD hours. Dinner is included.
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The Ezra Jack Keats Bookmaking Project is an annual project presented by The Contemporary Jewish Museum (The CJM), the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), and the San Francisco Public Library that promotes the art and craft of original bookmaking in the classroom, and invites SFUSD students in grades K–12 to design, write, and create their own books. At the end of the project, books will be honored, showcased, and celebrated.
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Major support for K-12 School and Teacher Programs is generously provided by the California Arts Council; California Bank & Trust; William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Barbara and Ronald Kaufman; The Bernard Osher Foundation; Pacific Gas and Electric Company; The Ullendorff Memorial Foundation; and Yerba Buena Community Benefit Fund.