2009-2010
Funded Projects
For
the 2010 calendar year NYSAAE awarded funds
to seven schools for artist residencies
focusing on Music, Theatre Arts, Literary
Arts, Visual Arts, and Dance.
Participating Schools:
Abram Lansing Elementary
School
Berne Elementary School
Canajoharie Middle School
Genet Elementary School
New Scotland Elementary
School
Rensselaer Middle School
Scotia-Glenville Elementary
Schools
$2,473
"Dance in Social
Studies with 3rd Grade Students"
Abram
Lansing Elementary School
Cohoes School District
Partnering Cultural Organziation: eba
Dance
Third grade students learned about Japan,
Ireland, and Brazil though way of traditional
dance, music and the visual arts, including
specific dance steps and patterns, meaning
of the dance, costumes, musical rhythms,
instruments and indigenous folk arts. They
also focused on world social studies, including
the affects of the environment (geography,
weather, etc.) on type of government, personal
characteristics, dress, food, utensils,
and architecture.
$535
"Bringing Out
Stories to Life"
Berne
Elementary School
Berne-Knox-Westerlo Central School District
Partnering Cultural Organization: Nancy
Marie Payne
This project supported the literacy development
of the Berne Elementary School’s 5th grade
students. Teaching artist, Nancy Marie Payne,
storyteller, introduced the arts of story
telling through performance and participation
activities.
During the residency the students explored:
-the literary elements of a specific story
and the respective roles of characters
-concepts of character, setting, and plot
-techniques for learning stores such as
storyboards, mime, and imagery
$2,500
"Tree of Life
Mosaic"
Canajoharie
Middle School
Canajoharie School District
Partnering Cultural Organization: Joshua
Winer
Through this residency students obtained
a deeper understanding of glass mosaic medium
and a deeper understanding of the Celtic
symbol of the tree to represent life force,
connectedness, strength, rebirth and wisdom.
After extensive research in the art, language
arts, and science rooms via computers, students
learned not only about the history of the
mosaic medium, but also how the symbol of
the tree of life has been carried down over
the centuries.
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$1,500
"Rocking for Character"
Genet
Elementary School
East Greenbush Central Schools
Partnering Cultural Organization: Song
Spun Productions
This project integrated music and language
arts into the character education curriculum.
Fourth and fifth grade students worked with
teaching artist, Brian Chevalier, to create
two character education songs. In guiding
the students to create their songs, Brian
stressed the writing process and guided
the students in conversation around the
meaning behind the song, words and lyrics.
Students communicated their character education
lyrical message through devices of music.
$2,500
"The Firebird"
New
Scotland Elementary School
Albany City Schools
Partnering Cultural Org.: The
Puppet People
By working with the teaching artist and
art specialist, as well as classroom, special
education teachers, and parents, the students
designed and created their own puppets as
a means to express emotion. Student wrote
personal narratives and skits. Using their
puppets as props, third graders presented
to younger children with the cooperation
of the school’s social worker.
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$2,500
"Louder Than a
Bomb II"
Rensselaer
Middle School
Rensselaer City School District
Partnering Cultural Organization: The
Capital Repertory Theatre
Over the course of six weeks, eighth grade
students worked with their classroom teacher
on an ELA unit in which multiple forms of
poetry were discussed and explored.
Simultaneously, this diverse group of students
read Nikki Grime’s young adult novel, Bronx
Masquerade, which tells the story of
a group of urban teenagers who discover
the value in their diversity through slam
poetry event called “Open Mike Fridays”.
The Rensselaer Middle School students read
this novel and had their own Open Mike Friday
every week. Students learned the basics
elements of public speaking and performance
through their participation in each Open
Mike Fridays.
$2,500
"Celtic Footprints"
Scotia
Glenville Elementary Schools
Partnering Cutural Org.: Ellen
Sinopoli Dance Company
During this residency students experienced
stories of Celtic culture through movement,
words and music. During five sessions, activities
reinforced the interrelationship of movement,
music and musical instruments, and words
as in the performance. Each day students
were exposed to new vocabulary and incorporated
this vocabulary, as well as reflective responses,
into daily journals.
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