CA/T: Columbia Artist / Teachers

CA/T: Columbia Artist / Teachers A dual mission since 2002: accessible teacher training for all Columbia MFA students and community e

A dual mission since 2002: accessible teacher training for all Columbia MFA students and community enrichment through the arts. Founded in May 2002, Columbia Artist/Teachers (CA/T) is a faculty of Writing Program MFA candidates. CA/T provides MFA teachers with training and teaching opportunities on and off campus, with students of all ages and levels. We collaborate with local schools and various community organizations in New York to establish no-cost arts education programs designed specifically to the needs and goals of the institutions. These writing workshops and seminars present the opportunity for an educational artistic outlet, developing literary talents, encouraging sharing, discussion, critical thinking, and creative expression. Our instructors are experienced, dedicated, and passionate about teaching writing and the arts. CA/T is advised by Professor Alan Ziegler, the Writing Program Director of Pedagogy, and led by Dorothea Lasky, Columbia Artist/Teachers Director.

Reminder: our application period for 2021-2022 Columbia Artist/Teachers is open until tomorrow, Sept. 27th, at 11:59 PM!...
09/26/2021

Reminder: our application period for 2021-2022 Columbia Artist/Teachers is open until tomorrow, Sept. 27th, at 11:59 PM! You can find information about our sites and our application process here. If you have any questions, send us a message!

All students in the Writing Program (including Research Arts) are eligible to be a member of Columbia Artist/Teachers. Interested students should attend a brief information session, held at the beginning of the Fall semester, which addresses time commitments and stipulations particular to each teach...

The Zip Code Memory Project (ZCMP) seeks to find reparative ways to memorialize the devastating losses resulting from th...
09/05/2021

The Zip Code Memory Project (ZCMP) seeks to find reparative ways to memorialize the devastating losses resulting from the Coronavirus pandemic while also acknowledging its radically differential effects on Upper New York City neighborhoods. Working across the zip codes of Harlem, Washington Heights and the South Bronx, ZCMP is gathering with local community, arts and academic organizations to imagine how the losses of the pandemic can be acknowledged, mourned, and healed, and how the mutual aid, care and repair they have occasioned can be honored.

Throughout this coming year, community members from these neighborhoods will participate in a series of art-based workshops and events envisioned to transform and enliven our neighborhoods and to repair a sense of trust that will help ZCMP build networks of shared responsibility and belonging.

For more information on how to get involved, visit

Want to participate in a creative project to explore how the Covid-19 pandemic affected you and your community? Let’s mourn our losses, envision new...

Join CA/T and IWI tomorrow  for an evening of food, drink, music, and letter-writing.
03/03/2020

Join CA/T and IWI tomorrow for an evening of food, drink, music, and letter-writing.

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10/02/2019

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Don't forget: Round 1 applications are due tomorrow at noon!
09/13/2019

Don't forget: Round 1 applications are due tomorrow at noon!

05/30/2019

For those of you interested in adjunct teaching positions, Carla Stockton sent me the following. If interested, please reach out to her at: [email protected].

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I'm writing to you at the behest of my boss at Lehman College College Now, where there is a need for qualified, talented instructors to teach the College Comp classes.

If you know graduates who are seeking to break into the scintillating world of adjuncting, this is a great opportunity, particularly for beginners, and I would be happy to explain the benefits to anyone who might be interested. . . . If you would be so kind as to share my email address with them.

The big thing for anyone seeking employment of this kind is that once you're in this program, you are far more stable than in any other sector of the academic world. Sections do not get cut at the same pace, and, in fact, classes are constantly being added.

At Lehman, too, once the English Department has vetted the instructor, so long as the College Now program releases that instructor to do so (meaning that College Now has no need to keep the instructor for a second assignment), the instructor will have a leg up on getting a job in the undergraduate program. I can explain all that to anyone with an interest.

Personally, I have never had a teaching assignment I find more satisfying. I teach smart, "woke" people, who are grateful and enthusiastic. I work with committed administrators who truly care about making sure these kids from the Bronx -- a community rife with disadvantaged schools and environments -- have a boost out there in the world. I have both autonomy in the classroom and support from my administration top to bottom. It's a job I highly recommend to anyone who really wants to teach.

Thanks for sharing this around.

Best,
c

Reminder: Wednesday May 1st in Dodge 413 at 7:30pm.Please join the Incarcerated Artists Project for a conversation with ...
04/30/2019

Reminder: Wednesday May 1st in Dodge 413 at 7:30pm.

Please join the Incarcerated Artists Project for a conversation with Tommy Demenkoff, Director of Arts Education at the NYC Department of Correction. Mr. Demenkoff is a longtime provider of arts education in jails and prisons.

Hi all - the Columbia Veterans Reading is TONIGHT in room 501! Please swing by!
04/29/2019

Hi all - the Columbia Veterans Reading is TONIGHT in room 501! Please swing by!

Young Writers Present -- May 4th, 12:30pm, Lenfest CenterWe invite everyone in the CA/T community to our final public ev...
04/24/2019

Young Writers Present -- May 4th, 12:30pm, Lenfest Center

We invite everyone in the CA/T community to our final public event of the year and a celebration of the great work done in our classrooms! This event will feature readings from our young people at CA/T; we will also have special guest readings from Our Word and contributors to our Calico literary magazine. Afterward, we'll hold a reception at Dear Mama, next door at the Jerome L. Greene Science Center!

Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/young-writers-present-tickets-38448311936

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