Dan Godston
PROFILE
_• Received national and international recognition for
writings and directing cultural programs
• Published articles, essays, and poems which appeared in
more than two dozen publications
• Promoted excellent communication skills and built
positive, professional relationships
• Demonstrated ability to initiate, organize, lead and
motivate others to set and achieve goals
• Committed to creating innovative work that combines
text, visual art, and audio
JOB EXPERIENCE
Founder /
Director 8/2009-present
Pedagogical
Arts, Inc. Chicago,
IL
Pedagogical Arts, Inc. offers educational programs, with
a focus on arts education—especially creative writing, multidisciplinary
projects, arts integration, and technology in the arts.
Part-Time
Faculty 9/2000-present
English
Department, Columbia College Chicago,
IL
• Have taught Writing and Rhetoric, Literature, and First
Year Seminar courses.
• Facilitated professional development workshop during a
Writing and Rhetoric faculty meeting (2006).
• Organized events which involved interdepartmental
collaborations and participation from the Chicago community, such as the
Listening to Our Planet event (Earth Week 2009), and a Chicago-New Orleans
Panel Discussion (10/2009); both of which were part of Columbia College’s
Critical Encounters Program.
• Have presented innovative curriculum and pedagogy
developed for Columbia College courses -- by presenting at conferences and
publishing articles in journals.
Founder /
President of the Board of Directors 7/2008-present
World
Listening Project Chicago,
IL
• Organized soundwalks that have happened in the Chicago
region—at the Chicago Center for Green Technology, Garfield Park Conservatory,
and the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.
• Founded and direct World Listening Day, an annual event
that happens on July 18. Over 400 people from six continents participated in
the 2010 World Listening Day.
Teaching
Artist 9/2002-5/2010
Center for
Community Arts Partnerships, Columbia College
Chicago, IL
• Taught poetry residencies at Chicago Public Schools,
through Project AIM. (12/03-6/2009)
• Collaborated with teachers to develop arts integrated
curricula.
• Showcased students’ work and curricula during Project
AIM’s curriculum fairs. (2005-2009)
• Facilitated two poetry sessions during professional
development workshops. (2004)
• Co-taught poetry workshops at Jones College Prep
School, as part of the Harrison Haiku Station Project (HHSP). Collaborated with
faculty and administration from several departments at Columbia College during
HHSP’s planning stages, which culminated in the renovation of the Harrison
subway station in Chicago’s south loop neighborhood. Several students’ haiku
from these workshops were among the haiku which were chosen to appear on walls
in the Harrison subway station, on the CTA’s Red Line. (6/2004-5/2005)
Freelance Arts Educator 9/2002-present
• Extensive experience as a teaching artist who has taught classes and
developed curricula for classes for children, teens, families, and
intergenerational groups—at Marwen, Urban Gateways, the Hyde Park Art
Center, Lincolnshire High School, and other organizations.
•
Unique classes and workshops have included creative writing, music,
musical instrument building, and visual art components—for programs that
have involved single art forms, multidisciplinary goals, and arts
integration strategies.
Poetry Instructor 12/2006-12/2009
Snow City Arts Foundation, Rush Children’s Hospital Chicago, IL
• Facilitated poetry writing activities with young people who are receiving medical treatment at Rush Children’s Hospital.
• Collaborated with supervisors and colleagues to develop curriculum.
• Led professional development workshop during staff meeting. (2007)
• Co-presented, with Eric Elshtain, “Poets Are Doctors of Language”
workshop, during the 2008 Society for the Arts in Healthcare Conference.
• Edited poetry collections by hospitalized children. (2008, 2009)
Poet-in-Residence 9/2001-6/2007
Hands on Stanzas Program at the Poetry Center of Chicago
• Facilitated poetry residencies at schools in Chicago Public Schools, in collaboration with teachers
•
Co-led panel discussions about teaching poetry to children and
teenagers at Whitney Young High School (8/2002), the Printer’s Row Book
Fair (6/2002, 6/2003), and the Harold Washington Library Center’s Poetry
Festival (4/2002).
• Organized and facilitated city-wide poetry reading at the Daley Plaza (4/2003).
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Taught poetry classes at Taft High School (2002-2006), Chalmers School
(2001-2002, The Chicago Youth Centers (2002-2003), and Medill Elementary
School (2001-2003).
• Recipient of 2001-2002 Gwendolyn Brooks Hands on Stanzas Teaching Award.
ESL Instructor 3/1994 to 9/1997
Yonsei University’s Foreign Language Institute Seoul, Korea
• Received Best Teaching Materials Award (1996).
• Contributed lesson plans to the Foreign Language Institute’s teachers’ manual.
• Co-facilitated two professional development workshops (1994).
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EDUCATION
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Mills College Oakland, California
Master of Fine
Arts in Creative Writing September 1998
to May 2000
The University
of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan
Bachelor of
Arts in English September 1988 to
June 1990
West Virginia
Wesleyan College Buckhannon, West Virginia
January 1987 to May
1988
HONORS AND ACTIVITIES
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Co-Curator of The Synesthetic Plan of Chicago, an art installation which occurred in the Chicago Cultural Center and other locations throughout Chicago. SPC was commissioned by the City of Chicago, with funding from the Chicago Tourism Bureau (5/2009-present). For more info, please visit
http://synestheticplan.wordpress.com/.
Grant Recipient -- Community Arts Assistance Program (City of Chicago, 2009) and the Center for Teaching Excellence (Columbia College Chicago, 2009) for poetry collection editing project
Grant Recipient -- CAAP (City of Chicago, 2008) and CTE (Columbia College Chicago, 2008) for music recording projects
Grant Recipient – Illinois Arts Council’s Governor’s Grant Program, travel expenses for UNESCO World Conference on Arts Education (3/2006).
Co-Curator of The Synesthetic Plan of Chicago, an art installation which occurred in the Chicago Cultural Center and other locations throughout Chicago. SPC was commissioned by the City of Chicago, with funding from the Chicago Tourism Bureau (5/2009-present). For more info, please visit
http://synestheticplan.wordpress.com/.
Grant Recipient -- Community Arts Assistance Program (City of Chicago, 2009) and the Center for Teaching Excellence (Columbia College Chicago, 2009) for poetry collection editing project
Grant Recipient -- CAAP (City of Chicago, 2008) and CTE (Columbia College Chicago, 2008) for music recording projects
Grant Recipient – Illinois Arts Council’s Governor’s Grant Program, travel expenses for UNESCO World Conference on Arts Education (3/2006).
