Calling All Art Teachers

On Friday, May 18, The Lab School of Washington (D.C.) will host its 14th annual workshop, “The Power of Art: Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities.”

The one-day workshop provides art teachers with a better understanding of learning disabilities, original ways to teach, and how art can be used to teach academic skills. The Rauschenberg Foundation kindly provides hotel accommodations and limited travel funds. Because artist Robert Rauschenberg was not diagnosed until adulthood with dyslexia, he wants to stress the value of art education in the classroom, especially those students with learning disabilities. Either he or his son, artist and photographer Chris Rauschenberg, will attend the workshop and meet with the teachers.

Applicants must teach K-12 art in a U.S. public or private school where some or all of their students have learning disabilities. Applications are due April 2. Thirty-two teachers will be selected to attend the workshop.

Founded in 1967 by Sally L. Smith, The Lab School of Washington, D.C., is an arts-based independent school for students of average to above-average intelligence with moderate to severe learning disabilities.

For more information about "The Power of Art" or to receive an application, please call The Lab School at 202-944-3083 or e-mail Emily Marchetti. Downloadable applications at The Lab School web site.