Colin Coots
A Portrait of History
Under the direction of Colin Coots, this is a unique visual arts residency and is a true group activity. Students select historical figures to research and then under Coots’ guidance, paint 4’ X 4’ portraits of those figures. Past projects have included Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jessie Owens, Jackie Robinson and Oprah Winfrey. Each portrait may be painted by as many as thirty students.
Grades: K-12 |
The Big Picture
Working from themes, ideas and images that your school and students have already gathered, Coots emphasizes the cooperative spirit as he guides students in mural creation. The project is designed so that the finished mural can be permanently installed or stored for later display.
Grades: K-12 |
Arts Project for All
From a life-size papier maché animal to a garden sculpture involving one class or a whole grade level, the only limit is your imagination. Tailored to your school’s needs, a project may include watercolor, drawing portraits, oil painting, acrylics or sculpture. This residency encourages creativity and cooperative learning while building community spirit.
Grades: K-12 |
The Portfolio Preparation Workshops
Colin spends a day in residence with several advanced art classes. He reviews sample portfolios, discusses what judges look for in a portfolio, involves students in drawing exercises and discusses art related careers. This is an inspiring experience for the serious art student.
Grades: 6-12
Artist: Colin Coots
Fee: $755 (Full day of workshops, 6 max)
Limit: 30 students per workshop |
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programs by this artist: Visual Arts
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 Critt's Juke Joint
IMAGE Hip-Hop Organix
This is Hip-Hop in its most natural form. This fresh and clean performance features the area’s best emcees (hip-hop artists) and musicians. Consisting of Upright Bass, Piano, Drums and Hand Percussion, all samples and beats are done with hand drums, mouths, bodies and recyclables. While this can be done in one day, it is recommended that this be done as a residency. This is also a great opportunity to perform for the community! All content is positive and proactive.
Grades: 7 - 12
Fee: Call office for details
Limit: 30 students per workshop |
ONsemble
This is a groove based improv workshop. It’s a great hands-on performance based workshop, allowing the kids to really express themselves creatively! Eric spends at least a ½ day with interested musicians and puts together a hip-swayin’, head boppin’ show for all to enjoy. While this can be done in one day, it is recommended that this be done as a residency. This is also a great opportunity to perform for the community! Grades: 4 - 12
Fee: Call office for details
Limit: 30 students per workshop |
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programs by this artist: Music
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Adam English
YA-WNY Comics Presents
In the YA-WNY Comics Presents residency, participants work together to create a professional-quality comic book! With the help of artist Adam English, students will participate in every aspect of the creation of a real comic: plotting, scripting, pencilling, inking and coloring.
Adam assumes the role of editor and divides the students into writing and drawing teams to facilitate a genuine creation by the students. By coordinating jobs and establishing deadlines, he uses students’ innate enthusiasm to guide them toward the realization of their own creative vision.
The finished product must be seen to be believed! The 8 page color comic students create together will look like it came off the shelf at the comic book shop. It will demonstrate both the knowledge taught in school and the new skills they have acquired. Students will have created something to be proud of. Grades: K-8
Fee: Call office for details
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Erie Canal Residency
Journeys and Journals: A Trip Down the Erie Canal
This residency invites students to take a personal journey down the Erie Canal by speaking through the voices of the era. A YA-WNY poet/writer experienced in teaching creative writing encourages students to express themselves through different literary exercises using vintage maps, photographs, drawings, and imaginative prompts. The poet/writer can incorporate concepts that the classroom teacher would like to focus on. Students learn to write in character, helping them develop a sense of narrative and delve more deeply into the details of daily life in a small town from the past. Journeys and Journals builds upon the students' conception of biography and autobiography and helps put their knowledge of the Erie Canal in context. Over several workshops, the students engage in sustained imaginative writing, creating interrelated narratives involving multiple culturally and ethnically diverse characters. The number of workshops depends on the program and budget of an individual school.
Artist: YA-WNY Teaching Artists
Grades: 3-8
Limit: 30 students per workshop
Fee: Call office for details |
Erie Canal Residency
The Journeys and Journals workshops can be augmented with other Erie Canal- themed programs to provide students with an interdisciplinary Erie Canal Residency that addresses multiple learning styles and truly brings the Canal age to life. Performances by Gretchen Murray Sepik as the surly packet-boat cook Erie Canal Sal (p. 47) and the musical group The Stringmen's Erie Canal Show (p. 38) give students a taste of the unique characters and songs from the period, while the Erie Canal Traveling Museum (p. 53) puts artifacts of the era in students' hands. Call the office for details on how The Erie Canal Residency can be adapted to fit your classroom curriculum.
Grades: 3-8
Limit: 30 students per workshop
Fee: Call office for details |
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Empire Shakespeare Co. lead by Roger Keicher
Shakespeak - Unlocking Shakespeare
This residency breaks down the barriers of language and theater for high school students through a multi-week residency with professional actors/teaching artists from the Empire Shakespeare Company. Shakespeak-Unlocking Shakespeare gives high school English students who are studying the works of William Shakespeare new tools to bring his language to life, making his plays much more accessible.
The Shakespeak-Unlocking Shakespeare residency includes a planning meeting, a performance of Scenes from Shakespeare (p. 48), student workshops, rehearsal time, a culminating performance, and a final reflection meeting. The student workshops include active, "on their feet," kinesthetic opportunities for the students to move with the words of Shakespeare, working though the plays with the actors, translating them into contemporary meanings as they go. Rehearsals and a final performance allow students who choose to participate, the opportunity to embrace a section of the plays and perform for fellow students, family and friends.
Grades: 8-12
Limit: 30 students per workshop
Fee: Call office for detailsArtists: Empire Shakespeare Co. lead by Roger Keicher |
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Melissa Kate
 Melissa Kate Miller is a native of the Buffalo region with a degree in musical theater. She has been a part of writing, music, and theater in venues around the world and has numerous experiences as an educator, director, writer, choreographer, actor, and vocalist. As a teaching artist, Melissa guides students in developing their communication skills and ability to express themselves creatively through writing and performing poetry, plays, and songs.
Poet's Intensive
In this residency, learners can have several opportunities to explore the possibilities of poetry and write their own poems, in different ways. Students will use their senses to increase their descriptive capabilities. They will realize the strength of their ideas, the imagery they create, and how best to use them effectively in their poems. In some workshops, Melissa can incorporate music, rhyming, syllabic and poetic forms along with learning about the styles of other poets and discovering new ways of communicating. Clean rap, slam, and freeform poetry are deconstructed to find the intelligence behind their themes and what patterns emerge. Students write in each of the workshops. Editing and sharing are practiced along the way.The entire residency consists of ten possible workshops, each focusing on a different experience. Less may be chosen and/or individualized according to students’ and teacher’s needs. Grades: 3-12
Fee: Call office for details
Limit: 30 students per workshop |
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programs by this artist: Music
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Gerald Mead
Visual Artist Gerald Mead's work consists of small scale collage/assemblages that incorporate photographic images and found objects and inspire the viewer to look carefully at what he has collected and connected. He has been exhibiting his work for over 15 years.
This multi-session residency explores the key elements of Mead's work: collage, assemblage and portfolio development. Students will work closely with the artist as he instructs them on a variety of techniques, inspires them with his own creations and encourages them in creative self expression. See workshop descriptions on p. 54 for more thorough explanations.
Grades: 6-12
Fee: Call office for details
Limit: 30 students per workshop
Limited Availability. Call office for details. |
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