Antoinette is equipped to teach pottery and do presentations in Mississippi. Apart from the Mississippi Whole school programs, libraries and other non -profit organizations can check the grants program from MAC to see if they qualify.
The Teaching Roster program of the Mississippi Arts Commission is developed to bring artists in the classroom to help students to develop the whole person and to obtain insight in class topics that re often needed to be visualized.
Announcement: Grant Recipient
Teaching Artist Roster Grant No. 21-4902354-AE/TAR

Antoinette Badenhorst
Project Title: for the Teaching Artist Roster
The following comments represent the consensus of the Panelists based on their
discussion.
Strengths:
The panelists felt that:
● The applicant has an impressive resume and has exhibited worldwide.
● The applicant provides beautiful work samples.
● The applicant is knowledgeable about class time and how to use that time
effectively and efficiently.
● The application includes strong, detailed plans that are grade level and age
appropriate with solid connections to the arts standards.
● The applicant introduces vocabulary, concepts, skills and techniques of her
arts discipline though her work with students and teachers.
● The applicant has strong references. The panel notes that her
recommendations and evaluations say “beyond expectations”
● The applicant is skilled in presenting information effectively to different
audiences.
● The lessons provided make strong connections to other content areas - social
studies & cultural exchange.
Concerns:
● None
Recommendations:
● None
The panel recommends for the Teaching Artist Roster
As a member of the Mississippi Artist and Teaching Rosters, Antoinette is available to provide services to local non-profit organizations such as arts councils, museums, schools and libraries These organizations can receive a mini grant from MAC to support a performance or a workshop by a Roster Artist. A Mini grant can pay half of a roster artist’s fee, up to $1,000.
Under the current social distancing situation, Antoinette is already able to teach students online. Details about her as artist are available on her website; https://www.porcelainbyantoinette.com/#/
The Mississippi Arts Commission, a state agency, serves the residents of the state by providing grants that support programs to enhance communities; assist artists and arts organizations; promote the arts in education and celebrate Mississippi’s cultural heritage. Established in 1968, the Mississippi Arts Commission is funded by the Mississippi Legislature, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mississippi Endowment for the Arts at the Community Foundation for Mississippi, and other private sources. The agency serves as an active supporter and promoter of arts in community life and arts education.
For information from the Mississippi Arts Commission, contact Anna Ehrgott, Communications Director, 601-359-6546 or aehrgott@arts.ms.gov.
Under the current social distancing situation, Antoinette is already able to teach students online. Details about her as artist are available on her website; https://www.porcelainbyantoinette.com/#/
The Mississippi Arts Commission, a state agency, serves the residents of the state by providing grants that support programs to enhance communities; assist artists and arts organizations; promote the arts in education and celebrate Mississippi’s cultural heritage. Established in 1968, the Mississippi Arts Commission is funded by the Mississippi Legislature, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mississippi Endowment for the Arts at the Community Foundation for Mississippi, and other private sources. The agency serves as an active supporter and promoter of arts in community life and arts education.
For information from the Mississippi Arts Commission, contact Anna Ehrgott, Communications Director, 601-359-6546 or aehrgott@arts.ms.gov.
Arts integrated clay programs for schools
With parents, grandparents and neighbors who go to a supermarket for all their needs, children do not get examples of sewing clothing, baking bread and many other activities that were just normal and spontaneous ways of learning earlier on. Evening meals and even gardening became instant projects, depriving children from a way to get insight of how the world operates.
Walmart was founded in 1962. Prior to that every town in the US had its Main Street with Mom and Pop stores. Farm activities were close to town and when something broke or was needed for some or the other reason, improvisation was the norm of the day.
As Walmart and many other chain stores became household names in America, that carried everything from a nail to a sewing machine and a horse saddle, the need to innovate became lesser. Now, more than 50 years later, there are very few things that cannot be found in one of these stores.
With parents, grandparents and neighbors who go to a supermarket for all their needs, children do not get examples of sewing clothing, baking bread and many other activities that were just normal and spontaneous ways of learning earlier on. Evening meals and even gardening became instant projects, depriving children from a way to get insight of how the world operates.
As Walmart and many other chain stores became household names in America, that carried everything from a nail to a sewing machine and a horse saddle, the need to innovate became lesser. Now, more than 50 years later, there are very few things that cannot be found in one of these stores.
With parents, grandparents and neighbors who go to a supermarket for all their needs, children do not get examples of sewing clothing, baking bread and many other activities that were just normal and spontaneous ways of learning earlier on. Evening meals and even gardening became instant projects, depriving children from a way to get insight of how the world operates.
A simple example is when science students learn how to obtain gravity in liquid, as for instance used in paints, ceramic glazes or medicine. By just learning this in theory, is meaningless, unless they see in practice how it can influence the outcome of the use of a specific liquid. If there are not enough or too much sediment in either one of these, the effect of the medium becomes incorrect or useless. By showing students through arts integration how to obtain gravity and then bring it into practice, to see the results for themselves, the learning process becomes an enrichment instead of just another discipline.
When The Mississippi Department of Education began to integrate arts in the school system, it became more than just an art class, home economics or workmanship class as it was known 40 or 50 years ago. Those days all school students had to do arts and crafts projects in a designated hour once or twice a week. A holistic approach in which, words and letters and sentences, as it is presented in class subjects, became alive through all the various art disciplines. Students learn to construct and demonstrate understanding through an art form in all subject areas.
Teaching at the Summer Institute at Delta State University
The work on display below was done by students that Antoinette taught over a period of 2 weeks
This exhibition developed over a period of 2 weeks, during Janice Wyatt Mississippi Summer Arts Institute. Students learned to do pottery projects under the leadership of Antoinette.
More student work at Janice Wyatt Mississippi Summer Arts Institute
Teaching children at Kaleidoscope in Barrington Illinois
Students learned architectural design elements in a playful way. They also learned to improve their hand eye coordination with wheel work.
Antoinette got involved with arts integration in South Africa when she worked with students on various levels. The approach to became self-sustainable in difficult economic situations, inspired schools to start with projects in which children, among other things, learned vegetable gardening and refurbishing of furniture.
The artist also worked with endangered children in West Point. Numerous other elementary, middle and high schools used her services in various ways, while she taught Community and University students alike.
When she became a member of the Mississippi Arts Commissions Artist Roster, some of the early projects of the
Mississippi Whole School programs were chartered by
Pierce Street Elementary School in Tupelo, Mississippi.
(Images below was taken in 2005)
Antoinette was working with students.
Pierce Street Elementary School in Tupelo, Mississippi.
(Images below was taken in 2005)
Antoinette was working with students.
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