Allen Road Elementary North Syracuse CSD 4th grade	Everson Museum of Art Evelyn Fiorenza, painter "New York's Native Flora & Fauna - Bringing the Outside In" CCE Research Partnership
Students research plants and animals found in New York State with their classroom teachers. The artist helps the students create paintings of their animals/plants. She then incorporates their original artwork into a wall mural in the school's library after the work is shown at the Everson. See pictures from this partnership.
Chittenango Middle School Chittenango CSD 7th grade	Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric artist "Sew, Why Not?"
Through collaborative creation of a traditional fabric quilt, students learn about westward expansion of the United States, and how migration of people leaves a "cultural trail," disseminates ideas, and causes people to work together. Find out more about this partnership.
Cincinnatus Central School Cincinnatus CDS K, 2, 3, 5, 6, GED	Everson Museum of Art Marlene Roeder, visual arts/VTS trainer Judith Schillo, visual arts/VTS trainer "Thinking Through Art"
Health and Social Studies classes integrate Visual Thinking Strategies, which develop speaking, listening, observation, and reasoning skills through guided discussion of visual arts. They visit the Everson Museum and create art works of their own based on their discussions.This project is part of a long-term initiative in VTS at Cincinnatus.
Dr. Martin Luther King School Syracuse CSD 4th grade	Syracuse Children's Theatre Elizabeth Holmes, theater artist "Understanding Life on the Underground Railroad" CCE Research Partnership
Through the incorporation of improvisation, characterization, music, quilt design and dramatic play, students develop an original short play portraying what life was like for the people who journeyed to freedom on the Underground Railroad. Find out more about this partnership.
Franklin Magnet School Syracuse CSD 5th grade	Patti Heath, musician "The Science of Music"
Students relate the principals of physical science to the production of sound and the workings of musical instruments, making discoveries in science that lead to creation of sound. Students become musicians making choices relating back to the science of sound production as they write and perform a musical piece. See pictures from this partnership.
Hamilton Central School Hamilton CSD 10th grade	Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University Holly Adams, theater artist Thomas Hoebbel, filmmaker "Public Health in History - Documentary Film" CCE Research Partnership
Students of the Hamilton Central School District work with teaching artists in theatre, film, and music to create a fifteen-minute documentary film comparing aspects of the AIDS epidemic to the bubonic plague of Galileo's time. Students will research these epidemics and write the film script, integrating content learned in their Biology, World History, Health, English, and Theatre Classes into the final film.
Jowonio Syracuse CSD Pre-K	MaryFaith Decker, ceramicist, photographer "The Welcome Project"
"The Welcome Project" will use the Reggio approach (child-led, arts-based education) to explore the themes of welcome and inclusion. Interactions and interviews with students and debriefing and brainstorming with staff generate ideas for a redesign of the school's entryway.  Students produce work in clay to be included in the entryway.
Madison Elementary School Madison CSD 3rd and 6th grades	Open Hand Theater Geoffrey Navias, visual and theater artist "MASC - Madison's Adventures in Societal Costuming" CCE Research Partnership
Students explore masks used by various societies around the world, and develop an understanding of how masks are used by different cultures, incorporate symbolism and personify cultural values, and are influenced by geography and natural resources. Students design and create their own masks reflecting an American or world culture.
Madison High School Madison CSD 11th-12th grades	Stone Quarry Hill Art Park Susan Parker, fabric artist "Fiber Art: From Field to Fabrication" CCE Research Partnership
Students enrolled in upper-elective science and art courses explore the relationship between plant/animal fiber physiology and the use of fiber as a medium for visual expression. The teaching artist helps students draw conclusions about fiber structure and function. Students create two fiber art installations: one of plant fiber on temporary display at Stone Quarry Hill Art Park and one of animal fiber on permanent display at Madison Central School.
Millard Fillmore Elementary Moravia CSD 3rd grade	Holly Adams, theater artist "Chaos"
The project addresses Chaos Theory via arts-integrated learning to understand patterns in weather. Students create music reflecting the natural sounds caused by weather events, use the art of Jackson Pollack and various weather imaging to inspire a collaborative mural, and create theatre pieces based on their science and art explorations, using the power of art to represent, interpret, and internalize concepts of weather. Find out more about this partnership.
Montessori School of Syracuse private 1st - 3rd grades	Sarah Saulson, weaver "The Art of Weaving in Native American Cultures"
As part of the school-wide cultural focus on North and South America, students explore the historical and practical significance of textiles for indigenous American peoples, collaborating to produce a woven recording of their classes' participation in this project. Starting on small table looms and graduating to a floor loom, they incorporate traditional Navajo methods and patterns along with their own choices of color and pattern to weave a rug for permanent display. See pictures from this partnership.
Nottingham High School Syracuse CSD 10th grade	NYS Early Music Association "Interactive Sessions in Baroque Culture" CCE Research Partnership
Students appreciate what life and politics were like in the 17th and 18th centuries, and how the Baroque era is relevant to the present, through creating, performing, and participating in the arts of music, poetry and theatre. This project continues to build on a workshop for teachers on Baroque music, culture, and politics in April 2005. Find out more about this partnership.
Renaissance Academy- Carnegie High School Syracuse CSD 10th grade	Everson Museum of Art LaToya Ruby Frazier, photographer "Making Choices: Stereotype vs. Prototype"
Students create self-portraits to define and re-evaluate their own individual images versus stereotyped images, and to inspire motivation for self-reflection and creative problem-solving in a pro-social manner. Through studying artistic decisions of photographic artists, interaction with community artists, and using professional equipment to create their own artworks, they develop expressive, verbal, social, and analytical skills.
Salem Hyde Elementary Syracuse CSD 6th grade	Krista Birnbaum, photographer "I am a Landscape"
Born from a desire to open the creative minds of students, the project uses photography as a tool to facilitate individual artistic expression. Exposed to a multitude of non-traditional, more contemporary, conceptual art modes, students enter a rare space where personal opinions can be explored without a right answer. Find out more about this project.
Solace Elementary School Syracuse CSD 4th - 6th grades	Open Hand Theater Leslie Archer, theater artist Geoffrey Navias, theater artist "Puppetry Playwriting Project"
Open Hand Theater conducts a three-month artist residency that encourages creative writing through the development of scripts for puppetry. This project is integrated into students' daily language curriculum, allowing children to connect their experiences and other learning to characters and dialogue in their writing, and to see their writing brought to life through a publication and performance.

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