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Cazenovia Middle School
Cazenovia CSD
Madison County
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7th Grade
Tammy Goldacker, muralist
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Students will use visual art elements (perspective, values, focus) to explore themes of global heritage of the US, colonial/native heritage of CNY, and forces that motivated change (canals, abolition, revolution). Music/movement and a culminating mural will be used to develop symbolic meaning across curricula.
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Fayetteville Elementary
Fayetteville-Manlius CSD
Onondaga County
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1st grade
Denny Giantomasi, pop musician
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Students will combine knowledge about US Presidents whose faces they see daily on US coins with organizational strategies inherent to math and music. They will explore rhythms and sequences in music that parallel patterning and numerical order in math. They will brainstorm and collaborate with the musician to create a song that can educate others.
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Indian River HS/MS
Indian River CSD
Jefferson County
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7-12th grades
Trillium String Quartet
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Music students will research the elements of Baroque, Classical, and Romantic styles of music. They will develop a process of info-gathering, application, rehearsal, and performance with professional classical musicians as mentors. Students will discover the impact of English language arts and visual art from those historic eras on the music.
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South Jefferson Central
South Jefferson CSD
Jefferson County
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7-8th grades
Amy Rohde, mosaic artist
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Students will apply research about local history, identify actions that form excellent collaborations, and develop a source for positive self-concept through creation of a community mural and through video documentation of the process. The work of transforming an idea into tangible form and of reflecting back on the process will rely on the visual/physical characteristics of mosaic (many parts to a whole).
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Nate Perry Elementary
Liverpool CSD
Onondaga County
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6th grade
Ginger Dietz, mosaic artist
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Students will build on their experience and knowledge of visual art and community building from a residency in their fifth grade year. This year they will explore conflict, tolerance, and diversity through new methods in manipulating clay. As a response to world/local violence, students will learn about elements in visual art that are harmonious/opposing and themes in social studies that can be symbolized. To see more details and pictures of the project, click here.
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Pulaski Jr./Sr. High
Pulaski CSD
Oswego County
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7-12th grades
David Hessel Photographer/Eastman House
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A special bequest on behalf of the Pulaski Schools was donated to art$TART from the Pulaski Foundation.
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Students will research the history, processes, and function of photography in society through development of a school darkroom and collaboration with a professional photographer and archives from the George Eastman House.
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