Appleby
Elementary
Marathon CSD
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2nd
Graders & John Tomasello/Theaterworks |
| 80
2nd graders investigate the link
between literature and live theater.
They use a performance of Judy
Blume’s Superfudge and
an actor residency to make connections
between the written word and dramatic
expression. By creating their
own ‘endings’ to a play and performing
them they know that reading and
writing can evolve through acting
and performing.
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Cazenovia
High School
Cazenovia CSD
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10-12th
graders & Patrick Dougherty/Stone
Quarry Hill ArtPark |
| 36
sculpture students work with international
environmental sculptor Patrick
Dougherty to understand the
purpose of environmental art.
With his master tutelage, they
create a group sculpture on the
grounds of the art park and explore
the use of materials that draw
the viewers attention to details
of the surrounding landscape. |
Dexter
Elementary
General Brown CSD
|
4,
5, 6th graders & Pat Pederson/Syracuse
Stage |
| 61
students see the Syracuse Stage
performance of Oliver!
and work with drama teaching artist
Pat Pederson to explore the many
art forms that must come together
to produce a performance. They
plan, implement and perform their
own school version of Oliver
using the skills they develop
through the residency. |
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Lanigan/Fairgrieve
Elem.
Fulton CSD
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4th-6h
graders & Paul Fisch/Theaterworks |
| 25
4th through 6th grade students
learn the connections between
written word and images through
seeing a performance of Judy Blume’s
Superfudge and working
with an illustrator and school
technology specialists to create
promotional materials. All students
in the school attend the production.
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Jordan-Elbridge
High School
Jordan Elbridge CSD
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10-12th
graders & Patti Clark/Salt
City CPA |
| 10th
through 12th grade students learn
the place for opera/musical theater
in their lives, and that they
can communicate their understanding
through music. They attend workshops
with drama teaching artist Patti
Clark in advance of attending
‘Candle in the Wind’, a one act
opera, and follow-up workshops
to connect the live performance
to the learning. The students
practice their learning through
actually teaching/mentoring elementary
students in preparation for attending
the performance.
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Jowonio
PreK
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3-4
year olds & Karen Kearney |
| Preschool
students learn the function and
purpose of puppets as a personal
‘messenger’ through construction,
putting materials together , understanding
of body parts, expressions, gestures,
etc. Professional puppeteer Karen
Kearney explores these elements
with students through the ‘Project
Approach’, which allows themes
and ideas to come from children’s
interests. |
Oswego
High School
Oswego CSD
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9-12th
graders & Georgia Popoff,
resident poet
"Let Freedom Ring" Project at
Oswego High School |
| This
5-day residency with local poet
Georgia Popoff uses elements of
writing with 150 students as they
create their own poems. These
poems are then used to generate
musical compositions, visual and
performing art works as students
learn that their ideas can be
expressed in many ways.
This interdisciplinary
approach involves the resident
poet along with the school art
teacher, English teacher and the
music teacher and culminates in
a public performance of the works
created.
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Sandy
Creek High School
Sandy Creek CSD
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11-12th
graders & Krisje Deal, photographer |
| This
5-day residency introduces visual art students to the processes of photography through
traditional work in the darkroom
as well as alternative photographic
techniques such as “rayographs”.
The resident artist explores the
history and science of photography
and the lives and works of famous
photographers as the students
create their own works. The resident
artist shares her personal work
as they look at Photography as
a career option. The work created
during the residency is exhibited
at the school.
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Dr.
King School
Syracuse City SD
|
PreK/K
& Patti Heath/Unity Group |
| Teaching
artist musician Patti Heath works
with 67 pre-K and Kindergarten
students in a 5-day residency.
They explore beat, rhythm,
sequence and segmentation of music
as they make their own music and
experience the connections of
music to their own emotions and
lives. The residency prepares
students for a performance by
the Caribbean calypso band Unity
Group.
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Frazier
K-8
Syracuse City SD
|
3rd/4th
graders & Linda Facciponte/Ballet
Hispanico |
| Teaching
dance artist Linda Facciponte,
along with a visual teaching artist,
works with 250 3rd and 4th grade
students and their teachers to
help them better understand African, European and Hispanic cultures through the dance, visual
art and music
of those cultures.
This residency culminates
in the school attending a performance
by Ballet Hispanico. |
Solace
Elementary
Syracuse City SD
|
K-6graders
& Colin Aberdeen/Unity Group |
| This
project engages the entire school
of 160 students in an exploration
of
the concept of “unity”
as an artistic (musical/visual),
social, cognitive and physical
concept.
As blues musician and teaching
artist Colin
Aberdeen works with students to
develop musical vocabulary through
listening exercises
and guides
them in the construction of their
own instruments using indigenous
materials, the classroom, art
and music teachers support his
work by studying themes of diversity
and unity in our world.
The residency culminates
in a performance by the Caribbean
calypso band Unity Group.
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