ArtStoneWorks: K-6 students at the New School are introduced to Native American art, culture, and history through Seneca-Cayuga sculptor Tom Huff's instruction in soapstone carving. (2006)

The Layering Project: Nottingham HS students explore the meshing of text and image and its connection to the play Intimate Apparel with fiber artist Ann Clarke and Syracuse Stage. (2006)

The Art of Community: Van Duyn Elementary and Open Hand Theatre explore cultures from around the world through the study of mask and puppet theater. (2006)

Interactive Sessions on Baroque Culture: Nottingham HS students explore explore the connection between Baroque symbols of power and those of our own time, making connections to social norms and political realities through theatre, music, and dance. (2006)

Creating Opportunities to Honor Veterans: West Genesee HS students with local glass artist and veteran Jerome R. Durr create a stained glass window for the Syracuse Veterans Administration Medical Center. (2005)

Japanese Culture and Art: Montessori students learn about the Japanese arts of origami, calligraphy, flower arranging, garden design, aesthetic food presentation, and meditation as part of the year’s continental focus on Asia. (2005)

Character Builds Community: McGraw Elementary students study literature, puppetry, dance, music, masks, and mime with storyteller and puppeteer Regi Carpenter to create written pieces and stage puppet performances. (2005)

Local Landscapes: Jordan-Elbridge Middle School students work with ceramic mosaic artist Ginger Dunlap-Dietz to design and construct a clay mural. (2004-05)

Let Freedom Ring: Oswego HS 9th grade students and approximately 35 senior level music theory and art students with poet Georgia Popoff (2003)

Superfudge Through the Students’ Eyes: Marathon CSD, Appleby Elementary 2nd grade students in with dramatic artist John Tomasello (2003)

Syracuse University Early Education and Child Care Center art$TART partnership: with musician David Etse Nyadedzar (power point virtual, 2.4mb) (2003)

Mosaic & Character Education:  Liverpool CSD, Nate Perry Elementary 5th grade students & Ginger Dunlap-Dietz, ceramic artist (2002)

Onondaga Hill Middle School: with ceramic artist Ginger Dunlap Dietz (2002)

Performance & Multi-Age Learning: 1000 Islands School District, Guardino Elementary 3rd & 4th graders with Sondra and John Bromka of Bells and Motley Olden Music and Storytelling     (2002)

Reflecting through the Arts: Jowonio Pre-K & Barbara Furlong, ceramist    (2001)

Multidisciplinary Strategies: Liverpool CSD  Morgan Rd. Elementary 3rd grade & Juan Cruz visual artist, Lauren Unbekant actress, CNY Institute for Aesthetic Education.    (2001)

Community Building with Large Groups:  Syracuse SCD, Franklin Arts Magnet & Aduke Watts Branch, visual artist/dollmaker    (2001)

Professional Artists & Student Expressions: Syracuse SCD, Henninger HS &  Everson Museum photographs,  Mark Alice Durant photographer    (2001)

School Arts Partnership (SAP) Funded Programs:
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"Through Our Eyes: Digital Photography for Middle School Girls" uses digital photography and personal narrative as a tool for self-examination and reflection. Students study and practice photography, discuss female self-images, and create original monologues, culminating in a gallery showing and scenes from the monologues at the school’s Spring Arts Fair. (2007-08)

"Digital Story Workshop and Writing Extensions" Pre-K - grade 1 students create imaginative videos based on their play, enhancing language skills. They reflect on the meaning of their stories, create costumes and props, and draw and write books that complement these stories. (2007-08)

"Underage Cabaret" 9 - 11th grade students write, rehearse, and perform dramatic productions that link literary and personal life issues at a neighborhood professional theater using original material developed in their ELA classes. (2007-08)

"Making Books Sing at PS 39" Students read Monica Gunning's A Shelter in our Car, and use theater activities to explore the characters. Then, each class uses a different book as a basis for drama games and creative play that build literacy skills. (2006-07)

"Reading and Writing under the Ancient Night Skies" Using mythological stories about the constellations and empirical data about the stars, students explore both expository and creative writing processes. Original theatre productions are part of a day-long community celebration. (2006-07)

"Chinese Children's Folk Song/Dance/Art in Language Class" Students reinforce their Chinese language development through singing, re-telling, and acting out Chinese folk songs, playing Chinese games, discussing (in Chinese) their folksong-based Chinese brush paintings, and performing Chinese dances. This helps facilitate communication between generations and the transmission of culture. (2006-07)

"Playing Around" After researching historical and contemporary games, students create games that are inspired by ancient civilizations. The project expands a peer mentoring project and develops learning resources created by the students. (2006-07)

"Developing Citizen Artists at PS/IS 111" After seeing a fully staged version of Antigone, students create new citizen-choruses, integrate them into the play, and perform them alongside professional actors. As students adapt the plays to their own lives, they explore how their personal ethics and choices might have civic consquences. (2006-07)

"Knowledge Alive! The Struggle for Freedom against Tyranny" Students at Maplewood Intermediate learn about the history of slavery in their community through storytelling, dramatic role play, creative writing and drawing. (2006-07)

"Women of the Past Moving Forward" The Westport partnership connects students with their sense of home and pride of place in a rural community by interpreting the life of a local, nationally significant woman through a different art forms, relating her life experiences to their own. (2006-07)

"Salvadori On-Site" at JHS 131 Albert Einstein Science and Technology Academy helped students gain mastery of math and visual arts concepts through projects that involve 2-D architectural drawing and 3-D model building. (2005-06)

“Shakespeare Onstage and In the Classroom” at Lakeland High School helped students discover Shakespeare's plays as three-dimensional dramatic texts to be performed. Guided by a teaching artist, they explore the plays' language and stories through voice, movement, and acting. (2005-06)

"Write a Play!" at the Renaissance Charter School motivated students to reach inside and write authentically. All goals in writing, creativity, and higher-order thinking are met through incorporating social studies themes into a creative work of drama. (2005-06)

“Spanish as a Living Language” at PS 24 included playmaking as a way to draw English-speaking students together with Spanish-proficient ones to accomplish work together in Spanish. They focused on the standards for drama and movement via exercises, plays, improvisation and performance. (2005-06)

"Antigone and The Oresteia" at Martin Luther King Jr. High School of Arts and Technology challenges students to actively participate in the public forum – first by connecting to the big ideas of these classic Greek plays, then by expressing and articulating their opinions. (2005-06)

"Becoming a Classroom Community" at Glen Head Elementary uses dance and poetry to explore friendship, conflict, trust and community. (2005-06)

"Connections" at Questar III uses the work of Calder and Miro to explore science, math, and social interaction, addressing issues of interconnection and the concept of community with special education students by creating mobiles, murals, and mandalas. (2005-06)

"The Art of Sailing" The South Street Seaport Museum gives students at the NYC Museum School hands-on experience with navigation, cartography, physics, architecture, design, and visual arts on board historical sailing vessels in New York Harbor. (2004-05)

“Theatre of Government” at The Heritage School looks critically at the constitution and its relevance to our everyday lives. Students create an original play based upon historical and current issues relating to the constitution (2004-05)

"The Art of Liberty" at P.S. 99Q Kew Gardens engaged students and teachers in producing five large murals and four adjacent smaller murals throughout PS 99 reflecting events and aspects of US History. (2004-05)

Mt. Morris Middle School's "Strong as Steel" uses a steel drum ensemble to integrate the Arts into core curricula in Social Studies, Math, Science and English. (2003-4)