Artists in Schools
Grant Program
(Local Capacity Building Grant Initiative)

-Funding for an artist residency in your school-

For the 2009 calendar year, NYSAAE awarded funds to nine schools for artist residencies focusing on Media Art and Technology, Music, Theatre, Dance, the Visual Arts, Poetry, and Literature.  

Participating Schools:

Boulevard Elementary School
Canajoharie Middle School
Gilboa-Conesville Central Schools
Glenmont Elementary School
Jefferson Central School
New Scotland Elementary
Scotia-Glenville Elementary Schools
Tech Valley High School
Troy PS14

$2,415
"Exploring Math Through Movement"
Boulevard Elementary School
Gloversville Enlarged School District, Fulton County
Partnering Cutural Organization:
Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company, Inc.


This project involved an introduction to modern dance for 4th grade students through participation and a presentation of the art form.  It also utilized dance to teach curricular dance to teach math concepts such as percentages, probability,  and fractions.

* This residency addressed and integrated the following NYS-Learning Standards: Art, Dance, Math/Science/Technology (MST), and ELA.

$2,618

"Coral Reef Mural"
Canajoharie Middle School
Canajoharie City School District, Montgomery County Partnering Cultural Organization: Art & Wellness  

May 2009

News Article
Undersea Mural Now Adorns Nellis

Through the residency, fourth graders generated a deeper understanding of the unique, biologically diverse system recognized as a valuable economic and environmental resource.  After extensive research in the art and science rooms, via computers, students learned about coral reefs and what they can do to save them.  The residency culminated in a large 140 ft. + Coral Reef Mural which is permanently displayed in the newly renovated sports complex entrance at Nellis, the community/school pool.

*This residency addressed and integrated the following NYS-Learning Standards:  the Arts (Dance/Theatre, Music and Visual Arts), Math/Science/Technology (MST), ELA, Social Studies, and Character Education.         

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$775
"Nature of Poetry"

Jefferson Central School
Jefferson City School District, Schoharie County
Partnering Cultural Organization: Susan Fantl Spivack

Through this residency students in grades 1-6 learned how to use poetry as a writing form to help them express themselves and their responses to the world around them.  The artist met with the students and told stories about nature as well as stories from other lands, and worked with the curriculum of individual classes and all students with special needs.

*This residency addressed and integrated the following NYS Learning Standards: ELA, Science, Character Education, and Visual/Theater arts.
 

$2,500
"Bully Busters"

New Scotland Elementary/ formerly PS19
Albany City School District, Albany County
Partnering Cultural Organization: The Puppet People 

Third grade students designed and created their own puppets, and used music as a means to express emotion.  Students wrote personal narratives, and using their puppets as props, presented to younger children with the help of the school's social worker.

*This residency addressed and integrated the following NYS Learning- Standards: Visual Art, Music, Theater, ELA, and Character Education.

$3,000
"Renaissance Fair"
Gilboa-Conesville Central School
Gilboa-Conesville Central School District, Schoharie County
Partnering Cultural Organization: Bells and Motley

Students learned about authentic period music, visual art and art history, manners, costumes, and dances.  At the end of the residency students participated in a costumed-theatrical performance open to the public.

*This residency addressed and integrated the following NYS-Learning Standards: Social Studies, ELA, the Arts (Dance, Music and Visual Arts)

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     Renaissance Fair Photo Gallery

$3,000
Scotia-Glenville Central School District

Glendaal, Glen-Worden, Lincoln and Sacandaga Elementary Schools
Partnering Cultural Organization:
Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company, Inc.

Students learned how to problem solve, created specific mathematical shapes with their bodies, learned new dance vocabulary, and reflected upon their experience by writing in their journals following each session.

* This residency addressed and integrated the following NYS-Learning Standards: Dance, Music, ELA, and Math.

$2,200

"Events in Motion: History Interpreted Through Animated Collages"
Tech Valley High School
Joint venture of Questar III & Capital Region BOCES

Partnering Cultural Organization:
         Andrew Lynn-New Media Alliance

Tech Valley News Article
April 2009

Student Are Getting Animated Over History Films

Animated Short History Films:

Stalins Great Purge

D day Final

SUPER TROTSKY
Hitler Animation Movie

Our Great Bolshvik Movie
Kristallnacht
 

10th grade students at Tech Valley High School worked with their Art, Social Studies, and English teachers, and collaborated with Andrew Lynn of the New Media Alliance to create animated short films of historical events (The Russian Revolution, China's Cultural Revolution, WWI, and WWII).

*This residency addressed and integrated the following NYS Learning Standards: Visual Art, Social Studies, Technology, and ELA.
 

$2,500
"Building Community Through Dance"
Glenmont Elementary School (Partnering School: Troy PS 14)
Bethlehem School District, Albany County
Partnering Cultural Organization: Vanaver Caravan

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Bethlehem Central School District
News Article

May 22, 2009
Glenmont Students Build Community Through Dance Article

The Times Union
May 30, 2009
Children Share a Love of Dance

Using a combination of critical thinking skills, effective communication, and teamwork, the students and educators learned and shared dances from around the world. 

The goal during this residency is for students, teachers,  and parents from two school districts to work collaboratively so they can better understand and appreciate the diversity and similarities within urban and suburban communities.

The residency culminated with a collaborative dance performance at the NYS Museum in Albany, NY.

*This residency addressed and integrated the following NYS Learning Standards: The Arts (Dance, Music and Visual Arts), ELA, Languages other than English, Health Education, Social Studies, Technology, and Character Education.

$2,500
"My Place in the World We Live"
Troy PS 14 (Partnering School: Glenmont Elementary)

Enlarged City School District of Troy, Rensselaer County
Partnering Cultural Organization: Vanaver Caravan

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Empire State Partnerships:
Evaluating Teacher-Student Learning Project
My Place in the World We Live
 

The Times Union Newspaper
Albany, NY
May 30, 2009
Children Share a Love of Dance

Three- first grade classes will studied themselves, their families and their communities' heritage through writing, reading, drawing, sculpture, and dance.

The goal during this residency is for students, teachers,  and parents from two school districts to work collaboratively so they can better understand and appreciate the diversity and similarities within urban and suburban communities.

The residency culminated with a collaborative dance performance at the NYS Museum in Albany, NY.

*This residency addressed and integrated the following NYS Learning Standards:  The Arts (Dance, Music and Visual Arts), ELA, and Social Studies.

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