“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
(Dorothea Lange)
In-School Programming
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Professional Development
I am an Adjunct Professor of Photography at Farmingdale State College (SUNY) teaching photography fundamentals classes. And I am currently a three-year alum in the PEACE (Partners in Education, Arts, & Community Empowerment) Project, which allows me to bring the magic of learning through Light Painting to Middle & High School students.
Light Painting is a formula for deep learning disguised as creating wild works of art in light, making learning and creating both fun and habit forming!
Engaging in the Light Painting process allows students to play and create freely and to resonate emotionally with music, other art forms and concepts without restraint.
The more I am witness to the magic of this medium, the more evidence I see that immersive experiences of wonderment and curiosity, allow us to easily connect to the very essence and freedom of who we are through interactive movement.
A Day of Art Professions, Steinert High School
ARTWORKS Trenton NJ
Current Programs
KINETIC CANVAS
Activating Creativity through Music, Light & Movement
(See program description and most recent residencies below)
IN LIVING HISTORY
Bringing History to Life with Light + Color + Movement
LESSONS ILLUMINATED
Experiential Learning through Applied Light Painting in the Classroom
NEXT-GEN PHYS ED
Using Motion Studies in PE & Sports to Illuminate Biomechanics
MULTI-LINGUAL VISUALIZATIONS
Student Graphic Bio’s combining Hand-Drawn Pages with Light Painting Cover Image
PORTRAITS IN LIGHT
Brilliant Experiments in Personal and Group Light Painting Portraits
Contact me for program descriptions and bookings.
Individualized residencies, workshops and presentations by request.
KINETIC CANVAS
Activating Creativity through Music, Light & Movement
In Partnership with Paolo Bartolani
Classical Pianist & Founder of Rites of Spring Music Festival
KINETIC CANVAS is an immersive, multi-media experience where students start with a blank “canvas” and create a musical story inspired by themes from nature, history, a style of music or a composer, even topics covered in other classes including literature or the sciences. Going beyond reading music, students explore how and why music connects us emotionally and culturally.
This program was developed to blend music expression, visualization through movement, and new media technology to foster rigorous learning, ideation and connection across all skill levels, cultures and abilities.
In an age of digital take-over, it is refreshing and re-affirming to see students use their full (or partial as able) body movements in service to their exploratory nature and imagination… and to see them so engaged in the creative process that they don’t want to stop!
“Our students had the chance of a lifetime to work with Alina in our Kinetic Canvas project. Alina immediately connected with the faculty and students by demonstrating her techniques and showing them what was possible.
Students were empowered right away to create their own designs in an encouraging, judgement-free creative space. Over the course of several days they created a full tapestry of light and movement skillfully edited and presented by Alina.”
Michael Hershkowitz
Director of Fine and Performing Arts
Islip School District
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
(Maya Angelou)
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