This workshop is most valuable for teachers of grades 3-6.

This workshop is presented by Richard Jenkins, a Kennedy Center Teaching Artist, published cartoonist, writer, and illustrator. He creates stories with unique engaging characters, vivid settings, and strong emotional resonance. His work spans a broad range of genres, including fiction, non-fiction,action, humor, biographical, and horror. In 1996, he began his cartooning career as the co-creator and illustrator of the nationally published “SKY APE” series, creating four graphic novels. Since 1997, Richard has also worked extensively as a teaching artist, engaging students in drawing, cartooning, story making, and painting. He works with gifted & talented, youth-at-risk, ESL, and special needs populations. His student-centered teaching focuses on building up students’ creative and cognitive capacities. He has served on the Teaching Artist Rosters of the Arkansas, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, and Utah Arts Councils. In 2009, for his exemplary work with special needs students, Richard was awarded the Teaching Artist Fellowship from VSA arts International. In 2010, he was a guest teacher at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In 2000, Richard began working throughout the United States as an arts and education consultant, providing professional development training for teachers in arts integration strategies and arts inclusion strategies for students with disabilities. 2008 marked the release of Richard's first teacher’s arts integration manual, “Comics in Your Curriculum.”

Attending this workshop provides 3 contact hours towards CEU credit, and dinner is included. For more information, call 419-522-2726 ext. 251 or email maddie@mansfieldtickets.com.

This event is free with registration below thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, Charles P. Hahn, CFP and the Ohio Arts Council.