Gerald Fierst
Storyteller in Resdience @Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University
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WORK HISTORY
Storyteller in Resdience @Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ, US
Through a grant from PNC Bank, the Zimmerli Museum of Art offers free preschool programs coordinating spoken word and tours of the collection in order to encourage higher level thinking, literacy and arts in education.
EDUCATION
Yale University
BA, English Language and Literature/Letters
Columbia University, Teachers Collge
Certfication as a Teaching Artist, Elementary Education and Teaching
SKILLS
ABOUT GERALD FIERST
Gerald Fierst, storyteller, author, and literacy educator, has worked in film, television and theater as well performing and recording in the US, Europe, and Asia as a storyteller. He is the recipient of two Parents Choice Awards for his recordings of world folktales. Fierst has been a featured teller and ghost story teller at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN, a Storyteller in Residence at the International Storytelling Center, and is on line with a scholastic.com web page Meet the Storyteller http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/storyteller/meet.htm He has presented and performed at CAJE, LIMMUD, and the National Havurah Conference. He is a recipient of the JustStories Fellowship for his work with Susan O\'Hallaran and Arif Choudhury about Jewish, Muslim, and Christian identity in 21st Century America. He is the author of The Heart of the Wedding, a non fiction book of wedding stories and ceremonies and Imagine the Moon, a STEAM book of poetry, science and folklore, and Bye, Bye, Big! A preschool picture book co authored with Margaret Read MacDonald. ABC NEWS called him “A MASTER STORYTELLER”
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