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Berks (formerlyWyomissing) | Joelle Dennis | tiemediajoelle@verizon.net |
Centennial | Joanne Heim | jobug123@aol.com |
Central Bucks | Helene Ault | bearhma@aol.com |
Cheltenham | Barbara McCormick | Jmccormick1@comcast.net |
Coatesville | Betty Smaltz | |
Colonial | Wendy Schildt | infinitylines@earthlink.net |
Council Rock | Lisa Gressen | lisagressen@comcast.net |
Downingtown | Andie Remington | acremington@earthlink.net |
Great Valley | Connie Ferris Meyer | cfm7@cornell.edu |
Jenkintown | Allison Durkin | allsndurkin@msn.com |
Lititz | Katie Clair | tclair@dejazzd.com |
Lower Merion | Wendy Peck | wrpcons@comcast.net |
Lower Moreland | Bobbie Forman | lmtsd.org/art2school.htm |
Methacton | Joanne Sobocinski | tigersobo@comcast.net |
Morrisville | Kelly L. Schlussel-Edens | visualdiva@yahoo.com |
Norristown | Robin Aldefer | alderfer@aol.com |
North Penn | Sidney Matthews | sidneymatt@comcast.net |
Octorara | Kim Bond | bondhome@epix.net |
Owen J. Roberts | JoAnn McKiernan | JKM@bellatlantic.net |
Pennsbury | Lori Crew | tick@comcast.net |
Perkiomen Valley | Terry Nicolo | p.nicolo@verizon.com |
Philadelphia/RSVP | Elsie Epstein | kamishbred@comcast.net |
Phoenixville | Susan Greene | greene@vsi.net |
Pottstown | Beverly Nuzzo | artjn@aol.com |
Radnor | Nancy McGivney | nancy.mcgivney@verizon.net |
Rose Tree-Media | Betsy Camp | camppb@comcast.net |
Souderton | Loretto Davis | lcdavis@comcast.net |
Springfield - Delaware County |
Priscilla D'Onofrio | pdonofrio@comcast.net |
Springfield - Montgomery County |
Margaret Lichtenstein | OLICHTY@aol.com |
Springford | Sandi Barron | tizsa@aol.com |
Tredyffrin/Easttown | Lynne L. Brown | lynnelbrown@comcast.net |
Twin Valley | Patricia Cloetingh | dcloetingh@dejazzd.com |
Upper Dublin/ Hatboro Horsham |
Debbie Greenawalt | dmgartmom@hotmail.com |
Upper Merion | Fran Kahle | frankahle@aol.com |
Wallingford/Swarthmore | Mimi Haggerty | mimibh@aol.com |
West Chester | Joan Seoni | jwseoni@comcast.net |
Wissahickon | Jane Pace | jk.pace@verizon.net |
New Jersey:
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Cherry Hill | Jackee Rosenberg | punim@comcast.met |
Evesham/Marlton | Karen Spieker | click here to visit their Web site |
Haddonfield | Nazneen Mandviwalla | nazneenm@yahoo.com |
Hunterdon County | Joanne Wolsiefer | jwolsief@hcrhsk12.nj.us |
Margate | Kim Sabo | skellig2753@comcast.net |
Medford | Catherine Livinstone | camdl@comcast.net |
Moorestown | Jan Martemucci | jancmartemucci@comcast.net |
Northfield | Jennifer Kelly | keithdkelly@aol.com |
Palmyra/Riverton | Dorothy Sperock /Sharon Merriman | iloveplymouth@aol.com /kmerriman@comcast.net |
Pittsgrove | Karen Cohen | skcohen@comcast.net |
Rancocas Valley | Doreen Clark | flannelfantasy@netcom.com |
Riverton | Sharon Merriman | kmerriman@comcast.net |
Vineland | Susan Simon | sms8@comcast.net |
West Deptford | Rebecca Wilson | rebeccawilson@comcast.net |
Volunteers are sought through school newspapers, flyers sent home with the children, brochures placed in museums, local newspaper articles, and word of mouth.
AGTS members develop their ideas and presentation techniques through a series of informal workshops held in the fall. The workshops for Central Bucks AGTS are held each Wednesday morning at the Michener Art Museum during September and October. During these workshops, volunteers present research on the artists and artwork in the current group of reproductions. Upon completion of the workshop training, new volunteers observe experienced ones in actual classroom settings and begin teaching in December.
In addition, a series of optional art lecturers, held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), colleges and other locations, are available to AGTS volunteers. A schedule and description of this year's lectures are available in the Activities and Events section of this Web site.
AGTS of Delaware Valley, Inc. is a non-profit volunteer organization that collects modest dues from each member. Some of the chapters have the dues paid by the school district or PTOs; members in other groups pay their own dues. Central Bucks members pay their own dues. Dues, materials purchased, and mileage expenses are totally tax deductible. Currently, the dues are $15.00 and include the four optional lectures that are arranged by AGTS of Delaware Valley, Inc.
The volunteers have total control over the amount of time that they want to devote. Each volunteer provides a list of days or hours on which he/she is available to teach. The scheduler strictly adheres to this list and creates a teaching schedule that is distributed four to eight weeks in advance. Generally, a volunteer visits a school every other week. Should an unexpected illness or emergency arise, volunteers are expected to find a substitute to teach their classes; members are provided with a list of all volunteers availability so that finding a substitute is relatively easy. AGTS volunteers are also expected to attend seventy-five percent of the workshops or borrow a videotape of the workshop missed.
CBAGTS volunteers are expected to attend workshops and/or to borrow and view tapes of the workshops missed, to maintain a file of all the material distributed each year, to pay dues, to arrive early dressed appropriately and teach the assigned class or to find a substitute for themselves should an unexpected illness or emergency arise. Volunteers are provided with a list of all volunteers' availability schedules; therefore, finding a substitute is relatively easy.
AGTS of Delaware Valley, Inc. is governed by a steering committee composed of two representatives from each participating school district and an elected executive board that guides the steering committee. AGTS is a self-supporting, non-profit organization incorporated in the states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Central Bucks art teachers welcome the attention focused on art during the days on which the presentations take place in their schools. Volunteers concentrate on art appreciation and see their role as supplementary to the art teachers' positions. CBAGTS stresses the need for the students to maintain their customary hands-on art classes with the regular art teachers and requests that presentations take place in the individual classroom. Many times the reproductions correlate with the curriculum and provide another perspective on the material being taught. CBAGTS is never in competition with the regular art teachers.
In Central Bucks all of the schools visited except one, have an art program.
Janice C. Miller (215-348-5626) e-mail (rljcmiller@erols.com)
holds the position of Orientation Chairperson on AGTS of Del.
Valley, Inc. board and guides interested parties through the
process. She will provide classroom demonstrations and meet with
prospective volunteers to answer questions.