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Webinar Hours: 10:00am - 2:00pm PT/ 12:00pm - 4:00pm CT / 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET

The Career Center at The Actors Fund Presents The Virtual Creative Classroom:
An Arts Education Symposium for the Entertainment and Performing Arts Communities

Are you interested in becoming a teaching artist to supplement your work in the industry?
Already working as a teaching artist, but would like to explore new virtual and in-classroom job opportunities?

• Learn how teaching artists are joining virtual hybrid model classrooms during these challenging times.
• Discover effective ways to navigate the employment landscape as a teaching artist.

Keynote Speaker:

With 20 years of experience in the arts education field and 22 years as a professional dancer, Shelby Williams-González has a career made up of overlapping networks.  Artist, educator and leader, Shelby is always pushing for social change.  As the new President and CEO of Inner-City Arts, Shelby brings her extensive experience to this role.  She also serves on the Board of Directors of Suarez Dance Theater and is a member of the Los Angeles Chapter for the Undoing Racism Collective.  

Arts Education Organizations Represented:

• Arts for LA
• Inner-City Arts
• LA County Arts Ed Collective
• Teaching Artist Guild
• Wallace Annenberg Center for the Arts

Topics To Be Discussed: 

• Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
• Social Justice
• Teaching The Arts Through Virtual Platforms And Hybrid Models
• Teaching Artist Best Practices

Speakers:

• Shelby William-Gonzalez, President, CEO, Inner-City Arts - Keynote Speaker
• Mark Slavkin, Director of Education, Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts - Arts Education Leadership Panel Moderator
• Kimberleigh Aarn, Arts Education Consultant, LA County Arts Ed Collective – Arts Education Leadership Panelist
• Sandy Seufert, Arts Education Consultant, LA County Arts Ed Collective – Arts Education Leadership Panelist
• Gustavo Herrera, Executive Director, Arts for LA – Arts Education Leadership Panelist
• Dr. Mariana Astorga-Almanza, Visual and Performing Arts Coordinator, Lynwood Unified School District – Arts Education Leadership Panelist
• Heleya de Barros, Co-Executive Director, Teaching Artist Guild – Teaching Artist Presenter
• Victor Sawyer, Teaching Artist, Teaching Artist Guild – Teaching Artist Presenter

Join us, your entertainment/performing arts colleagues and leaders in the Arts Education Community