For the 2024-25 school year, the Mulvane Art Museum is providing arts integration instruction by professional teaching artists for the Topeka and area public school district. The intent is to provide arts-based instruction directly to K-12 students in their classrooms. Each participating artist will also offer a free public presentation or workshop at the Mulvane Art Museum. This program is made possible by the Kansas Arts Commission and the Arts Everywhere Grant.
Artists in Schools Program Goals:
1) Access: Artist-educators who are skilled in a variety of media will demonstrate artistic processes and teach interdisciplinary art lessons to K-12 students in the Topeka and area public school district.
2) Learn: Artist-educators will introduce students to a variety of artmaking methods that have cross-curriculuar connections to subjects like engineering, science, music, storytelling, social-emotional learning, and civil rights and Native American history.
3) Create: Using materials provided by the Mulvane Art Museum and the Arts Everywhere Grant, students will draw, paint, engage in puppetry, and create sculptures, prints, photographs, and mixed media collages.
Artist Roster, 2024-2025
Juniper Tangpuz
STEAM (engineering) through sculpture
Juniper Tangpuz received a BFA in sculpture from the University of Kansas, and currently works at the university assisting students as a shop and lab manager. His art envisions universes where ideas compress, expand, and inspire. He works in a range of materials but considers paper to be his "native language."
Dennis Rogers
Native American history through sand painting
Dennis Rogers is Native artist living in Topeka, Kansas, and a graduate of Haskell Indian Nations University. He demonstrates sand painting and Native American dance as full-time visual and performing artist. His Navajo sand paintings have been featured around the country.
Camry Ivory
Music and composition through painting
Camry Ivory is a musician, artist, and the inventor of Coloratura, an innovative instrument that uses paintbrushes to create electronic music and physical art. Camry curates live performances and interactive workshops that invite people of all ages and abilities to create their own audiovisual art and explore their creative potential.
Aisha Imani Sanaa
Storytelling, history, and social-emotional learning through painting and collage
Aisha Imani Sanaa’s art and design practice focuses on wellness, liberation and the pursuit of new beginnings. In her work, she draws inspiration from Black culture, history and stories of resiliency. She holds a BFA from California College of the Arts.
Ann Dean
Civil rights history through photography
Since its inception, photography has been used for raising awareness of social issues, provoking emotions and thoughts, and reshaping our perceptions of the world. Ann's presentation will delve into the impact of photography on the civil rights movement in the aftermath of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, which declared racially segregated schools unequal and unconstitutional. She will trace the evolution of how African American individuals and communities have been portrayed from historical beginnings in this country, through the fight for basic human rights and up to the present day. Ann is a freelance photographer and teaches photography at the Lawrence Arts Center.
Justin Marable
Environmental studies, storytelling, science and history through silkscreen printing (learn more about his process)
Justin Marable received a BFA in printmaking from the University of Kansas. He uses the rich medium of serigraphy, or screen printing, to rework his photographic images in a way that captures the changing atmospheric moods of our community by using monoprint, paper, and photographic stencil techniques.
StoneLion Puppet Theater
STEAM (science) through puppetry
StoneLion’s focus is on presenting entertaining and thought-provoking arts experiences and presenting real world actions to lessen our impact on the planet and make our community a better place to live.
Xavier Martinez - Common Picasso
Hispanic heritage, science and social studies through painting, drawing and mural work
Xavier Martinez is a portrait painter, muralist and activist-minded artist in the Topeka/Lawrence area. “It’s important to me to use my platform as an artist because I come from an ethnically diverse family. I want to constantly remind people what’s going on and be a reminder for us to all participate in the movement any way we can.” Xavier can teach beginner through advanced drawing techniques and how they relate to the science of light through drawing form and shadow. He can also speak to Hispanic heritage and social studies in connection with his portraits and community art.
Schedule a classroom workshop
Contact us with any questions or to schedule a workshop. Please note that although we will do our best to accommodate your request, schedules are subject to artist availability. If possible, please have flexible dates.
Stacy Ash
Education Coordinator
stacy.ash@washburn.edu
785-670-2420
