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Participant Details
- Community Arts Partner Name
- Nate Herth
- Partner Type
- Individual
- Profile Photo
- Individual Bio or
Organizational Statement
- Nate Herth is a youth arts educator and visual artist who believes the process of art-making expands and informs our engagement with the world in critical, ever-changing, and ultimately positive modes. He facilitates playful, investigative, arts education in the Pacific Northwest and has worked with Arts Corps and the Creative Schools Initiative, the City of Seattle’s Creative Advantage, the Seattle Art Museum, Mo Pop, Gage Academy and the Seattle, Highline and Tacoma Public Schools. Nate takes inspiration from his surroundings: the volatile interaction of human creations and the naturally occurring world is a collision of contrasting visual information that he reflects upon in his paintings, presentations, and collaborations with other artists
Grade Levels Preferred
- Grade Levels Preferred
- 3rd - 5th, 6th - 8th, 9th - 12th
Artistic Disciplines
- Discipline
- 5, 6
- Type
- Visual Arts – Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Collage, Photography, Sculpture, Murals, Installation
Performance Arts and Theater Production
Experience
- Previous School Partnerships
- Seattle Public Schools: Emerson Elementary, Madrona Elementary, Orca K8, Kimball Elementary, Rainier Beach HS, Washington MS, Whitman MS
Highline Public Schools: Mount View Elementary, White Center Heights Elementary
Tacoma Public Schools: School of the Arts, Stewart MS
- WA State TAT Lab Graduate
- No
- Other Trainings or Certifications
- Peacemaking and Healing for Social Emotional Learning
Trauma Stewardship with Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
Youth Program Quality Assessment, Arts Corps
Arts and Social Justice Institute, Arts Corps
White Privilege Conference Seattle
CTE Probationary Certification Visual Communications
Community of Thinkers Seattle Art Museum
Peoples Institute: Undoing Racism
Edge Program, Artist Trust
- Sample Lesson Description: Student / Classroom Residencies
- City Storms: the built environment and nature explored with mixed media arts.
Community Mapping: looking at our communities and creating visual expressions statements.
Identity Masks: use book arts and poetry to make masks about identities.
- Sample Workshop Description: Teacher Professional Development
Areas of Experience and Expertise
- Approved Professional Development Provider
- 1
- Approved Classroom Residency Provider
- Yes
Teaching Approach
- Teaching Philosophy + Approach
- I create enthusiastic, engaging, relevant and positive experiences for students and communities. Learning happens when young people feel safe and empowered to make mistakes; I cultivate a learning environment that allows for experimentation and play, accommodating diverse learning styles and generating innovative thought. The visual arts offer kinesthetic, creative activities that serve as entry points for students to discover meaning and uncover connections between themselves, their communities, and the larger world. In experiencing and practicing artistic methodologies, students examine perceptions, persist through solving problems, and begin to find their voices. I have seen how art creates compassion through revealing the diversity of human expression; I see my purpose as increasing compassion and fostering social awareness and justice through art.
- Curriculum Integration Possibilities
- Science, Earth Sciences
Social Studies / History
Math
Communication Technologies
Language Arts: Literacy / Reading / Writing
- Special Skills and Areas of Expertise
- Experienced facilitator: integrated arts training for K-12 Teachers
Experienced facilitator: professional development in 21st Century Skills, Social Justice, Project Based Learning for Visual Arts K-12 Teachers
Experienced working with students from: diverse socio-economic and culturally diverse backgrounds and students with special needs and English language development
Experience in writing curriculum and grants
Experience facilitating community celebrations and student showcases and exhibits
- Testimonials from Schools
- Donte Felder dmfelder@seattleschools.org
Sydelle Denman sdenman@tacoma.k12.wa.us
Fees
- Fees
- Please be in contact.
Images
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- "Lines of Connection" Students cooperate to create patterns using string. As points on a line we can collaborate, connect and support each other and our part of the web of life.
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- "Geography of a Self Portrait" Students create photo realistic self-portraits using the grid and coordinates. They then create an abstract self-portrait using symbols and map making skills.
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- "Thematic Boxes" Students create designs that visually share information, prompt investigation, and function in the classroom as modular furniture that can creatively redefine space for learning purposes.
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- "Culture of Self: Masks We Wear" Students use the tools and techniques of visual and language arts to gather evidence and create claims about one’s identity to form a ‘culture of self’.
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- “Organizing Landscapes” Students place objects on a drawn grid to create a complex landscape and measure heights and distances based on scale and ratio.