The Phonics Program: Alphabet Awareness

This innovative program, created by Jerry Raven, Cindy Hanna and Marna Burstein, uses multiple stimuli to teach phonics to pre-Kindergarten through first grade students. Using songs, dances, signing and visual arts, each consonant or vowel is attached to a variety of activities which establish and reinforce the connection of the letter to its corresponding sounds. By acknowledging that all students do not learn in the same way, or at the same rate, The Phonics Program addresses the needs of those students who struggle with the traditional approach to reading.
A musician and dancer work with a small group of students from each class or an entire class, teaching four or five songs and dances relating to the letters of the alphabet at each session. The songs are reinforced by the classroom teacher who leads the entire class in the corresponding visual art activity described in the accompanying Curriculum Book. Students listen to the accompanying CD and sing along while working on the art project. The Residency culminates in a celebratory performance by all participating students.

Grades: Pre K-1
Artists: Jerry Raven, Kip Ralabate
Fee: $4,250 - Full Residency
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Limit: 100 students (four classes)

Dave Ruch

Local/Regional History Comes Alive! Residency

Design your own program with Dave to explore your area's rich history through local stories and songs, songwriting projects and more. Armed with a slew of intriguing musical instruments (guitar, jaw harp, banjo, mandolin, dulcimer &/or washtub bass), a carefully researched store of songs from your region, and a zest for exploring local history through music, there's no telling what your students will discover about their history....and themselves!

American History Comes Alive! Residency

Programs similar to the above Local/Regional History Comes Alive! Residency can be centered around any number of other historical topics including (but not limited to) New York State History & Stories, Native Americans, Regions of America, Colonial America, Revolutionary War, Civil War, Underground Railroad, Pioneers, Westward Expansion, Gold Rush, Occupations, Waterways, Immigration, World Communities, New York State History, etc.
School visits varying in duration from one day to two weeks or more link Social Studies curriculum topics with interactive songs, research and songwriting projects.

Grades: K-8
Fee: Call office for details

More programs by this artist: Music & Family & Community

Jen Russo

The Sacred Art of Mandalas

In this residency, students will explore the circular art of Mandalas.  In these radial designs, the center is the most important element with related details orbiting around it's visual nucleus.  Like a small universe, Mandalas take on a life of their own as students think in terms of circular repetition.  Any theme can be used including objects in nature, symbols, words, images,  places, experiences, etc., to create these very special works of art.

Grades: K-12
Fee: Call office for details
Limit: 25

Explorations in Printmaking

In this residency, students will learn one or many kinds of printing techniques: stamping, foam printing, linoleum block printing, collograph printing, monoprinting, etc. depending on the age group.  Imagery  can vary from basic line patterns, shapes and visual textures, landscapes or cartoonish self-portraits!  The possibilities are endless in this high-success residency. 

Grades: K-12
Fee: Call office for details
Limit: 25

A Visual & Physical Experience of Yoga

Experienced art educator and yoga teacher Jen Russo will lead students through a fun & physical process that will culminate with a painting.  Through learning about the living art of Yoga, students will increase body awareness, increase strength and flexibility, fluidity in movement and a sense of being grounded, which can calm and center the individual.  Throughout this residency, students will understand the proportions of the human body so that they may draw and paint themselves in the yoga position they like the most.  Colors, textures, lines, words and/or symbols can be added in and around the figure, which will describe the student's whole self within this pose. 

Grades: K-12
Limit: 30 students per workshop
Fee: Call office for details

Reynold Scott

Hands On Jazz

Woodwinds, brass, piano, guitar, drums and voice are used to teach elements of jazz and collaborative musicianship.  This program is ideal for groups interested in improvisation and composing.  Multiple workshop sessions may culminate with a concert composed of selected students and the jazz group.  These workshops are designed to meet the students' needs. 

Grades: 1-12
Fee: Call office for details
Limit: 30 students per workshop

A Whole Note Band

Multi-talented jazz musician Reynold Scott will bring his orchestra of instruments including trumpets, tubas and more to teach the students to play basic notes and perform a piece together.

Grades: K-5
Fee: Call office for details
Limit: 30 students per workshop

More programs by this artist: Music & Family & Community

Jeanne Vuich

Theaterworks Residency

This multi-session residency will result in the creation of an original play which will be performed at the last session.  Participants will create several original stories together and choose the one most suitable for dramatizing. Participants will develop this story into a play through the use of improvisation.  Students learn theater terms, develop acting skills and work as an ensemble respecting each other's ideas.  The play will be curriculum related and involve teacher input.

Grades: K-12

Understanding History Through Creative Dramatics

This residency will delight and educate students while enabling them to gain a deeper understanding of the historical period that they are studying. The first session will be spent playing theater games and learning the basics of improvisation. In the second session, participants will use improvisation to explore the struggles and dilemmas of the people who lived during the time period being studied. Workshops are developed with the teacher's input at a separate meeting to define curriculum goals, assessment and evaluation strategies. This residency can be extended to include student performances.

Grades: 3-12
Fee: Call office for details
Limit: 20 students per workshop

More programs by this artist: Theater & Dance

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