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 project. |
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 project. |
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 project. |
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 project. |
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. |
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.
See pictures and read more
about this project. |
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. See pictures
and read 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. |
