About the Educator Camp

NMWA’s virtual Educator Summer Camp is designed for all educators: schoolteachers, home school instructors, scout leaders, and more. We just ask that you come with your learners in mind and a playful spirit!

We will offer 1.5-hour sessions daily, Monday, July 21, through Friday, July 25. Sessions, inspired by the Art, Books, and Creativity (ABC) Institutes and NMWA’s collection, are hands-on, participatory, and fun. Sessions will explore NMWA’s collection and resources, introduce historical and contemporary women artists, and engage participants in experimental making and close looking.

Guest instructors include artists and educators from around the country. You will receive a recommended supply list, applicable digital resources, and a Zoom meeting link in advance of each session.

Register for one session or many depending on your interest and commitments.

Session participants can request certificates of completion reflecting total earned participation hours.

About the Program

Create a book with artifacts that tells a story connecting your family history, imagery, and craft. Narrate a story of “Who are your people?” — either an important person in your life or yourself. You will be prompted before the first session to dig up three photos and a few documents for inspiration. Think birth/death/or marriage record, a poem, letter, or an artifact of family lore. IBé Crawley will guide you in techniques of illustration, and collage with a future plan. Your art book will be shared, read, preserved and appreciated for generations. Crawley’s book 11033 is on view in the current exhibition A Radical Alteration: Women’s Studio Workshop as a Sustainable Model for Art Making.

About the Artist Instructor

IBé Crawley uses a variety of materials ranging from raw cotton, reclaimed marble, pancake boxes, quilting materials, and found objects. She creates visual representations of narratives that she has researched and written, or imagines and constructs, with the goal of creating images that represent the men, women and children who are often-times missing from the larger cultural narrative or presented in a narrow manner. Stitching stories, collage and carving visual representations are a few of the IBé Crawley’s creative techniques.

Questions? Reach out to education@nmwa.org.