Savoring a Job Well-Done: Reflections on the 2018 Mid-Atlantic Teaching Artist Retreat

This time last summer, I was working hard in my role as Project Coordinator on the inaugural 2018 Mid-Atlantic Teaching Artist Retreat.  Sponsored by the Delaware Division of the Arts, Maryland State Arts Council, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Virginia Commission for the Arts and West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History, the 2018 Mid-Atlantic Teaching Artists Retreat brought together arts education professionals from across the Mid-Atlantic region to build and strengthen a regional network of teaching artists.

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Susan Oetgen
A Core Value: Lifelong Learning in the Arts

Creating a website can be challenging for a lot of reasons. I really like words -- talking and writing -- so I found it especially daunting to distill the work I do for my clients into bite-sized chunks of copy optimized for mobile! But an unexpected and welcome result of paring down my language was that I was able to see more clearly how the projects I manage add up to a big picture that expresses my core value of lifelong learning in the arts.

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Susan Oetgen