aTi Summer 2008 Exhibition

Artists and teachers share a common goal: to nurture creative potential. For artists, creative potential may result in a painting, print or sculpture. For teachers, their work of art is their students.

For over three decades, The New Jersey Artist/Teacher Institute (aTi) has welcomed classroom teachers, arts teachers, administrators, student teachers and artists to be immersed in a variety of art forms including book arts, creative movement, music, printmaking, storytelling, theater, mixed media and writing. Led by professional arts instructors, aTi participants break through barriers to creative teaching and learning and connect with a community of peers emerging refreshed, renewed, energized and inspired.

This exhibition displays visual art created by artist and teacher participants during aTi Summer 2008 held at William Paterson University and Rutgers University-Camden in New Jersey and finds a perfect home at the Arts Horizons LeRoy Neiman Art Center (LNAC) whose mission is to strengthen the community through the arts. Envisioned as a vital cultural resource for youth and families in the Harlem area, the LNAC provides quality visual arts experiences and connects participants to career paths of various arts disciplines and genres.

aTi is a co-sponsored program of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and Arts Horizons. Additional funding has been provided by The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the Victoria Foundation and the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation. The LNAC is made possible by a generous donation from the Neiman Foundation.

Jenifer Simon, Director
The Artist/Teacher Institute

Clayton Evans, Director
The LeRoy Neiman Art Center