K-12 Arts Programs
Pocket Locket: Clay Miniatures Housed in Sewn Pockets
Description In this 4-5 day residency, students will reflect on and recreate an object of significance as a miniature using polymer clay and a variety of clay tools and techniques. Students will then design and hand sew their own pocket…
Literacy Through Photography PD
Description Literacy Through Photography (LTP) is an interactive concept that combines photography and literacy, empowering students to explore and capture their experiences visually, inspiring them to narrate their stories through their own words and ideas. This professional development program immerses…
Dendê Macêdo’s Recycled Sounds Residency
Description This residency includes both artist-led student workshops and an interactive performance program. In the assembly, renowned percussionist Dendê Macêdo, demonstrates instruments he made from found materials to deliver a message about protecting our environment through reuse and recycling. Using…
Dendê Macêdo’s Recycled Sounds
This interactive performance program by renowned percussionist Dendê Macêdo demonstrates instruments he made from found materials to deliver a message about protecting our environment through reuse and recycling. Using a loop pedal, Dendê presents each of the instruments by layering…
A Rainbow of Emotions
Description In this residency, which introduces basic acting skills, students learn to explore and physicalize emotional states, using their bodies, faces, breath, and voices in order to make tableaux and tell stories as performers. We use the Sanskrit words for…
An Emotional Day at School
Description In this assembly, a young Michele appears by accident in an elementary school auditorium. She was supposed to be visiting her friend, Maria, but she got off at the wrong bus stop! As long as she’s there with this…
Tola’s Room: A Puerto Rican Home Museum & Culture Space
Description An interactive cultural concept that challenges the traditional notion of a classroom by asking, “What is a classroom?” Participants explore and redefine their understanding of the classroom as a community—not just a physical space, but as people, actions, understanding,…
Money Moves: the Musical
The “Money Moves: The Musical” experience uses musical theatre to teach students about financial literacy concepts while highlighting the four parts of a musical. At the end of the program, students will create a short musical scene, which will include…
Soul of Langston
What would be of Hip-Hop if Langston Hughes never took to poetry or of Civil Rights if the Harlem Renaissance never flourished? Soul of Langston answers that question in a one-man show that explores the life and contributions of American…
Out of This World: Music and Stories from Space
Out of This World is an interactive science program designed to teach students about the planets of our solar system; the differences between meteors, meteoroids, and meteorites; and the importance of constellations, gravity, friction, and the greenhouse effect. Presented by…
Around the World: The Geography of Planet Earth
Let’s go on an adventure Around the World! Whether unearthing the mysterious treasures of King Tut’s tomb, gasping in the thin atmosphere atop Mount Everest, or learning to swim with piranhas in the Amazon River, this journey transports students to…
Life on Earth: The History of Life on Our Planet
Let’s go back in time to the beginning of Life on Earth! It’s a journey through time to 550 million years ago when life began on planet Earth. Dino guides us through the three eras of life on our planet:…