Using the free program Audacity, blank blocks, and chance, participants will learn how to create sound artwork with their students. Participants may want to download Audacity prior to the session so that they can create their own sound artwork as well as participate in the group sound artwork.
Mike Mitchell is an artist and arts educator living in Nashville, Tennessee. Also known as mikewindy, he is a 2020 Makey Makey Ambassador, has achieved the Tennessee Art Education Association Middle Region Art Educator of the Year award, and is Tennessee’s only Crayola Creativity Ambassador. He sits on the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s rural, educational, arts, culture, and history committee. He earned a degree from the University of Memphis in 2004, where he investigated making art using a wide array of media, including video, sound, painting, printmaking, ceramics, metal casting, stop motion animation, collage, and performance. He has continued those investigations over the past twenty years and exhibited his work in public spaces all over the world, including galleries, trains, street corners, and outside the grocery store where he has been shopping for forty years.