paulfisher
Short Resume 1993 - 2012
Tel: (520) 850 6157
email: paul@murielofskye.com
RECENT AWARDS
In 2007 Paul Fisher was recognized for his years of distinguished service in Arts and Education, by The Arizona Daily Star and The Tucson/Pima Arts Council with the "Lumie" Award. In 2003 he was recognized by the Community Foundation of Southern Arizona as the recipient of the Buffalo Exchange Arts Award for outstanding contributions to arts in the community through education, organization and advocacy.
EDUCATION
Bachelors of Education from Birmingham University, GB.
CERTIFICATIONS
School/Community Team Training - Training of Trainers, University of Oklahoma
Principles of Brain Based Learning, Renate Caine, Tucson Unified School District
SCHOOL PERFORMANCES
Over the past 20 years, Mr. Fisher has created many performances in schools in the USA and Russia. He specializes in improvised performances based on content the classroom provides, improvisational comedy, and performance of plays such as: "Twelfth Night" and "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare.
He also writes plays with classes of middle school and high school students.
CURRENT AND RECENT POSITIONS
Southeastern Arizona Arts In Academics (Arts for "Border" Children)
Creating arts based educational environments to improve learning in the arts and core subjects. Intensive in-classroom, co-teaching residences in rural SE Arizona, from the San Carlos Apache Reservation in the north to Naco in the south.
Webiste: http://saaa.schoolinsites.com
Raytheon - Lectures/Workshops in Creative Thinking
Intuit - Creative Thinking for Leadership Teams
Canyon Ranch - Creative Thinking for Clients
Amerind Foundation - 1st. Theatre Performances in their Museum
Tucson Unified School District
Creative Thinking Consultant
Professional Development Consultant
K-3 Specialist - path of theatre, Curriculum Assessment through Drama/Instant Action Assessment
The Learning Curve - Lectures:
Bootcamp for the Brain
Lunch with Genghis Khan
History by the Cupful
The Original Spy Masters
Scotland the Brilliant
Between Columbus and the Pilgrims: the untold story of America's first explorers.
Francisco José De La Goya y Lucientes 1746 - 1828 - The last of the Old Masters and the first of the Moderns
Apache Wars - 1851 to 1886: an examination of little known, but outstanding, characters, events and adventures.
Ancient Magic part 2 - exploring the power of magic, belief, religion and some extraordinary eccentrics.
Ancient Magic part 1 - overview of occultism and mysticism from ancient times to the present day.
The compass, gunpowder and the printing press (How the destructive power of Genghis Khan created the technological dominance of Europe.)
The Kingdom United (James VI to Bonnie Prince Charlie and Europe in the 16th & 17th centuries)
UApresents (University of Arizona)
Education Consultant
Essential Theatre
Theatre workshops for Juvenile Offenders at Catalina Mountain School
Khalsa Montessori School & Satori School
Multi-year curriculum assessment, play making and performing: including pre-K - 8th grade
Program Evaluation
The Drawing Studio
Anglo-American School Moscow
Capstone Project - Native American and Stone Age skills training for the
Arizona International College, on the Navajo Reservation, AZ
Many schools in Pima County, AZ
Tucson Pima Arts Council
Multi-year collaboration with Community Arts Development Department.
Elementary through Middle School long term residencies in Writing, Acting and Play-making.
Lectures on creating successful Artist/Teacher collaborations.
Grant Reader
National Endowment for the Arts
Grant Reader
Summer Fine Arts
Creative Thinking Specialist
Readers Theatre
Staged readings of children's literature. Presented by children. Organized and sponsored by Tucson-Pima Public Libraries in collaboration with local schools as an after school program. Readings will take place in the Libraries and in the Schools. Paul Fisher, theatre artist.
Very Special Arts Arizona
Middle School Transition - 5th Grade students write and perform short plays about their fears and dreams about Middle School. They perform the work to Middle School students who comment and dialog.
Legacy Theatre Co.
Artistic Director - Readers' Theatre with a focus on material for senior citizens.
Teaching the Six Traits
Teacher Training for the Continental, Marana, Sunnyside and Tucson Unified School Districts, Arizona
Speeches
"My More-Modest Proposal" - How to solve the problem of child poverty in the US
The Value of Arts in Education: recent clients include: Voices for Education, Arizona Museum Educators, Anglo-American Schools
Arts-Based Educational Research SIG / American Educational Research Association
the path of theatre, Executive Director:
consultancies in staff development and classroom training based in Arts Integration, Intelligence, Brain and Knowledge theories, and Semiotics.
Casa de los Ninos
working with therapists, this collaboration used drama in a therapeutic setting with children in crisis.
Arizona Theatre Educators Association, Past-president.
National Association of Local Arts Agencies, Past-chair, Arts Education Interest Area
Griffinfish, Artistic Director.
Third St Kids , past-Theatre Director, internationally acclaimed arts troupe made
up of performers with a variety of disabilities and abilities.
STAFF DEVELOPMENT/IN-SERVICES
the path of theatre, 1996- staff development, planning, dialogue, collegiality, mentoring and inter-classroom partnerships now create the basis for arts integration which uses theatre as a tool to explore, experiment, problem solve and share knowledge using the whole self.
More than 10 schools, 80 teachers and 1500 children served,
Crizmac 1996-
Staff Development Seminars - Arts Integration, Intelligence and Knowledge theories, and Semiotics.
Discover, 1995-
Teacher Training, Classroom Modeling: using theatre to explore multiple intelligences, for Native American and other gifted children.
Robidoux Foundation Arts Infusion Project
targeting gifted, generalist, fine arts and pre-school teachers and students, this multi-year project is extending arts integration with collaborations between art teachers and other staff and extending the impact of these techniques to include 2, 3 and 4 year olds.
Arts Integration Program
multi-year, open ended, collaborations with schools and staff which develop rooted bodily-kinesthetic practices as part of the school culture.
University of Arizona
Bodily-Kinesthetic Techniques, Masters of Education students, 1997-
Story Theatre Techniques, Theatre Education Students, 1993/94
Arts Integration Theory and Practice, College of Education, 1994
Pima County Adult Education, 1998- Conversation techniques, English Speaking
requirement, for English as a Second Language Students.
Prescott College
Arts Integration Theory and Practice, Graduate Students in Education, 1993/4
Pre-service training in Arts Integration, 1993/4
University of Phoenix
Arts Integration for working teachers studying to be Principals, 1996
Odyssey of the Mind
Training of Trainers, 1992/93/94
Education Enrichment Foundation
Elementary School Librarians Library Power
Using the Arts Resources in our Community, 1993/4
PERFORMANCES
Mr. Fisher is a performing artist: he performs regularly with Monolog Cabin. He recently performed "Los Disparates", an audio-visual performance work for The University of Arizona, Museum of Art, "Restoring the Balance" at The Muse, and acted in "Later Life" at the Invisible Theatre in Tucson, AZ. He has also been a regular performer with OTO Dance.
With Chamber Music Plus Southwest he has performed in the following staged readings at the Berger Center and other venues:
Remembering Felix
Beethoven Lives Upstairs
The Chelm Stories
Suite Success
Mozart finds a melody
Babar
A fiddle lesson for Albert
Alice-a-cabaret
TUCSON PIMA ARTS COUNCIL
(as Arts Education Director, from 1990-95, paulfisher was responsible for:)
He was hired to create the Arts Education Program in 1990. While Director, he was responsible for all aspects of Arts Education for Tucson and Pima County. Creating arts education partnerships, collaborations, initiatives and dialogues throughout the community, this program is recognized at home and nationally.
Arts Integration Program (AIP)
AIP, a nationally acclaimed program, creates ways for teachers to integrate basic fine art activities with their core curriculum. Over 6 years, ongoing dialogue with school principals, staff, artists, parents and researchers contributes to many adaptations of the program to meet the changing classroom environment. Each site develops arts education activities which are best suited to the site's own educational and cultural requirements.
In-services are provided for elementary classroom teachers on how to integrate arts methods with other core curriculum, story theatre, mentoring, visioning and planning .
AIP manuals provide teachers with lesson plans that integrate music, dance, theatre and visual arts into teaching other core subjects. Classroom
demonstrations by arts specialists provide teachers with co-teaching experiences in arts integration.
AIP has served 10 school districts, 40 schools and over 6500 students.
JTPArts program, also known as Art Works.
In collaboration with other programs at the Tucson/Pima Arts Council, this project employs Pima County Youth, who are eligible for Job Training
Partnership Act funds, to work in teams with artists, to create works of Public Art throughout the community.
Another nationally recognized program, JTPArts has created mosaic tile and painted murals, large public sculptures, landscaping in public housing, road signage, zoo exhibits, computer publishing, video and other projects.
Multi-media Arts Education Center
This program provides high quality computers, teachers and technicians as a service to the community. Since its inception, it has served middle school through high school students, youth employment workers, Adult Education Students and artists.
WORKSHOPS/SEMINARS/PAPERS/CURRICULUM (before 1995)
Mayor's Metropolitan Education Commission, speech: "Art? Why Bother?" 1995
American Educators Research Association, San Francisco CA April 20 1995 -
paper presented "Arts Integration: Semiotic Transmediation in the Classroom"
National Association of Local Arts Agencies, 1990 - 95, speech: "Art? Why
Bother?" 1995, Workshops, Presentations, Committee Leadership
Arizona Theatre Conference, Improvisation Techniques, 1993/94
National Legal Aid Association, Annual Western Conference - Community
Mobilization Training, 1994
Community TEAM Training, PeopleLinks/University of Oklahoma 1993
Curriculum, over the past 12 years, arts integration curriculum in theatre and
video has been developed for a variety of school districts, Pima County Adult
Education and the Department of Developmental Disabilities.
PUBLICATIONS
"the path of Theatre" Fisher 2002,
"The Body Kinesthetic" Fisher 1998,
"Arts Integration Manual" Betts/Fisher 1996
"We're People First" Jeff Moyer 1996
"Working Relationships" Institute for Community Development and the Arts
"Arts and Learning" , V12(1) Open Door 1995
"School, Communities, and the Arts: A Research Compendium" the National
Endowment for the Arts 1995 (Steering Committee/Program citation)
"If this Is Social Studies, Why Isn't It Boring?" Steffey and Hood, 1994.
"Teaching Essential Skills Through Arts Integration - Theatre Manual"
Tucson/Pima Arts Council, 1990
COMMITTEES/PANELS
National Endowment for the Arts, grants reader 1995-
Buffalo Exchange Arts Award, Chair 2006-09
National Endowment for the Arts, Past-chair, A+ Arts Initiative Grants Panel
Tucson Pima Arts Council, Arts Education Grants Panel, 1998-
Community Foundation of Southern Arizona, Buffalo Exchange Grant Panel Chair 2006-
Step Into the Arts, Planning Committee 1992/93/94
Increase the Peace, Planning Committee 1993
Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Education Committee, Docent Trainings
Arizona Parks and Recreation, Annual Conference 1994 - Arts in the Parks
Community Foundation of Southern Arizona, Grant Panel Chair, 1993/4
