K-12 Arts Programs
Where Do Clothes Come From?
Description Designed especially with the youngest learners in mind, this program offers a hands-on examination of plant and animal sources of fibers that become cloth. Students will learn two different techniques for making fabric: wet felting (a centuries-old technique for…
Story Bridges: Exploring Identity and Connection
This dynamic assembly for 6th through 12th grade students helps them discover and explore many of the facets of identity. Noa shares her experiences of bridging differences through the power of story. She invites students to consider the multiple aspects…
East Meets West
Description East Meets West is a collection of wonderful vignettes guaranteed to delight audiences. Presented with string puppets, hand puppets and rod puppets, the audience is sure to be enchanted and amazed. The short stories offer both Eastern and Western…
Dreams of Land
Description Dreams of Land is an innovative, cross-cultural puppetry performance. Artist Hua Hua Zhang and her performance team explore relationships, emotional states, and ways we process them using her unique lens of both Asian and Western viewpoints and attitudes. We…
Mr. Phelps’ Word Game Boxes
Description It all starts with a box of magnetic words and phrases. With accompanying pre-recorded video and a 16-page activity booklet, students (grades 2-7, or younger with more hands-on help) can sing and write rhymes and songs along with Mr.…
The Frederick Douglass Writing Club Assembly
Description Students learn the importance of literacy by following the life and career of Frederick Douglass through multimedia presentations and song. This assembly takes students from Frederick Douglass’s humble beginnings on the Eastern Shore of Maryland to the cities of…
The ABCs of Rap Assembly
Description Baba Bomani’s program uses rhythm and rhyme to explain basic reading and math concepts such as how to recognize syllables and showing how a rapper’s flow is simply a number bond math equation! Students have fun breaking and learning…
BARS: Writing Process Assembly
Description Students are taken on a fun, multi-media trip through the world of creative writing where they discuss the writing process (pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing). Students will rap along to original, professionally released music created by Bomani, as…
The Frederick Douglass Writing Club
Description Students learn about the career of Frederick Douglass and imitate it by writing autobiographies, journalism, and speech-writing as well as raps. Pricing Typically, residencies range from $2,500 and up, but we can use your available budget and ‘work backwards’…
The ABCs of Rap
Description Students learn the basics of Hip Hop performance using ELA and Math skills. Students learn and perform a rhyme expressing the bullet points of a major topic they are discussing. Pricing Typically, residencies range from $2,500 and up, but…
BARS Writing Process
Description Students learn the basics of the writing process through the art of Hip Hop rhyme. Students will write rhymes bragging about themselves and summarizing a topic in class. Pricing Typically, residencies range from $2,500 and up, but we can…
Ceramic Relief Sculpture
Students will design and create a relief sculpture mural with handmade ceramic tiles. The mural may have an art integrated theme incorporating science, history, or other curriculum objectives. Students will learn how this kind of sculpture has been used throughout…