L/A Arts’ Education Programs offer continuous, on-going programming in all Lewiston Auburn public schools, which affects nearly 10,000 young people every year, and works with other schools throughout the state on projects and programs as well as in an advisory capacity. Projects range from bringing artists into elementary schools for studio residencies to providing arts and curriculum related teacher workshops for all educators and administrators. The arts help influence students’ creative, cognitive, and social abilities. They can provide students with an outlet to develop creativity, fluency, originality, expression, imagination, risk-taking, and self-perception. At the heart of each Arts-in-Education program is a desire to build a community of life-long learners who realize the potential of the arts to understand, to express, to teach, and to enlighten.

L/A Arts’ 2010-2011 Arts-in-Education programming is made possible through a partnership with the Lewiston and Auburn School Departments and is funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts   

2011 -2012

AIE Program Benefactor:

The Quimby Family Foundation

AIE Program Partners:

Helen and George Ladd Charitable Corporation

AIE Program Sponsor:

Auburn/Lewiston Breakfast Rotary

AIE Program Supporters:

LePage Bakeries

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ARTSPASS is an L/A Arts initiative that provides students at Lewiston High School and Edward Little High School with the opportunity to attend L/A Arts live performances at no charge. L/A Arts will reserve a set amount of tickets for each L/A Arts public performance to be used through ARTSPASS. With ARTSPASS students have the opportunity to . . .

• Become familiar with a variety of performing arts
• Experience the process of attending an arts event
• Develop the habit of attending live performances
• Learn how to be a respectful audience member

A student must call L/A Arts to reserve their ticket and mention that they are either an EL or LHS Student who is using ARTSPASS.

L/A Arts will then reserve the ticket, which the student may pick up at the L/A Arts office during business hours or at the box office on the night of the performance.

ARTSPASS is good for one ticket only per show and can be applied only to the student who makes the phone call. ARTSPASS is only redeemable at public performances presented specifically by L/A Arts. When reserving mention ARTSPASS.

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Every school year, L/A Arts sponsors an Artist Residency in each elementary and middle school in Lewiston and Auburn. Through residency work in the classrooms, assemblies, and arts presentations, this program reaches approximately 5,000 students and 350 teachers. Residency and artist programs are designed by L/A Arts and school staff, based on curricular content and need at each school. Artists work with the classroom teacher in planning thematic connections to the curriculum and interdisciplinary approaches to teaching subject matter and social issues. Mediums such as dance, theatre, book-making, singing histories, painting, sculpture and museum education help engage students of all learning abilities and styles. Residencies often culminate in a demonstration of the process and product with school/parent presentations or peer performances.

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LEAP

The Lewiston Educational Achievement Program (L.E.A.P.) offers Lewiston Middle and High School students a safe, academically enriching environment, consisting of nutritious snack, effective homework assistance, and creative enrichment classes - at no cost to parents.

Learn French with a tennis pro! Create video games and design websites! Cooking with math! Build musical instruments and learn how to play them! Develop your sports skills! Write your resume and do an apprenticeship! Paint a mural! Become a peer mediator and resolve conflicts! Grow a community garden! Train your mind and become a leader!

The LEAP program runs after school in both the Middle School and High School on Tuesdays Wednesdays & Thursdays from 2:30 - 5:00 PM throughout the school year. Students must commit to attend at least 2 days per week for a minimum of 30 days. LEAP will not accept “drop ins” for a single day or week. Students are expected to arrive on time and remain present for the entire period, 2:30-5:00 pm on the days that they attend. Late arrivals must provide a written note from a parent, guardian, or teacher in order to stay. Students are not permitted to leave school grounds before or during program time. Transportation Home is provided.

Link to Registration form (pdf file in both English and Somali)

For more information contact

Lori Safford                         Jan Grafton                                                  Toni Cerbo
LEAP Director                     LHS LEAP Coordinator                              LMS LEAP Coordinator
782-7228                                                                                                   782-7228
 lori.safford@laarts.org                                                                             toni.cerbo@laarts.org

L.E.A.P. is a 21st Century program with additional funding from MetLife.

See schedule

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2011-2012 Arts-Based Professional Development Workshop Series for Educators

A core element of the Arts In Education Program of L/A Arts is the Professional Development Series for teachers.  This essential series, in partnership with the Lewiston School Department, helps teachers – both art teachers and non-art teachers for grades pre-K through Grade 12 – recognize the value of the arts and incorporate aspects of the arts into their curriculums.

These workshops will help teachers to foster and recognize creative talents in their students, and to encourage aspirations for the development of artistic talent.   They also provide an opportunity for teachers to meet artists from Maine, who are working, who deliver an excellent program, and who enrich our communities. All of the artists are also experienced in delivering residency workshops for students. L/A Arts serves as a bridge between the community artists and the schools, and maintains teacher development as one of its key priorities. Each teacher attends one of the five Professional Development Workshops listed below:

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Teachers/Adminstrators Evaluation Survey

Artists Evaluation Survey

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