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Arts in Education Overview
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.
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Artist-in-Residencies
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 over 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 culminate in a demonstration of the
process and product with school/parent presentations or peer performances.
Artist Residencies
are made possible through the support of the School Systems of
Auburn and
Lewiston with additional funding by
Auburn Manufacturing,
Harriman Associates
and Northeast Bank
Below is the list of schools where L/A Arts
residencies are taking place this year. Click on the school to find out
about the residency
Auburn Middle School
: Shakespeare/Acting
East Auburn School
: Readers Theatre, Martin Swinger
Elm Street School sponsored by Auburn Manufacturing:
Lynn Plourde
Fairview School : Debi
Irons, Readers Theatre
Farwell Elementary
School sponsored by Northeast Bank: Readers Theatre, Karen Montanaro,
Jean Armstrong
Leavitt Area High School
Lewiston Middle School : April Verch
Longley Elementary
School sponsored by Northeast Bank: Karen Montanaro,
Jean Armstrong
Martel School sponsored by
Harriman Associates:
Readers Theatre
, Margy Burns Knight and Anne Sibley O’Brien
McMahon School :
Martin Steingesser
Montello School
: Readers Theatre, Lynn Plourde
Park Avenue School
: Carolyn Currie,
Readers Theatre
Pettingill School
: Lynn Plourde
Sherwood Heights School
: Mike Davis (music teacher), Annegret Baier,
Erma Colvin,
Readers Theatre
Walton School
: Readers Theatre, Monica Grabin
Washburn School
:
Michael Wingfield,
Readers Theatre, Martin Swinger
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| ArtsPass
ArtsPass is an L/A Arts initiative that provides
every high school student at Lewiston High School and Edward Little High
School with the opportunity to attend each L/A Arts
live performance, at no charge. An event may consist of dance, music, singing, or
theatre; it may be in a cabaret setting or a more formal concert hall
setting or stage. Through this program 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, and learn how to be a respectful audience member.
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| Professional Development
L/A Arts and the L/A School Departments sponsor
professional development workshops designed to help educators and administrators
incorporate the visual and performing arts into the learning experience of
all students.
Workshops are planned and coordinated by the L/A
Arts’ Education Coordinator and curriculum coordinators from both Lewiston
and Auburn. Participants are encouraged to explore different ways to
interpret, understand, and teach their area of specialization through an
arts perspective. Teaching through this unique lens allows for students to
make connections to the world in and beyond their classrooms. These
workshops train teachers how to take advantage of the arts for their power
to help children develop academic as well as social skills.
March 19 - "A Poacher's Pocket" Arts
Education Workshop
(for all Educators fed up with snow days and the distinct lack of
Spring)
led by Andrew Harris (Executive Director of L/A Arts)
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Special Projects
In addition to our regular Arts in Education programs, L/A Arts strives
each year to bring in "special events" for public and private school
teachers, students and home schooled families. Ranging from drama and
music performances to field trips to local arts organizations and
institutions, these special projects offer another way for community
members to experience the arts.
Special events are often tied to curriculum, but stress the importance of
enjoying the arts for arts sake and for practicing and refining theatre
and museum-going etiquette:
Special projects will appear here with links to a
description as they are scheduled.
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Spoken Word Initiative Spoken Word is
exciting, edgy, fun, and allows for freedom of expression without the
confines of traditional poetry or grammar. There are many students
experimenting with Spoken Word and performance poetry in this community;
in 2006 L/A Arts, in partnership with Harward Center for Community
Partnerships at Bates College, Lewiston Pubic Library and Auburn Public
Library provided an introductory performance and an organized, regular
opportunity for teens to work together on common interests. It was one of
the first times in recent history that L/A Arts has run a joint program in
partnership with the two libraries.
This year, L/A Arts continues the Spoken
Word initiative. First session began October 11 and was held at Central Maine Community College and
was open to
high school students and CMCC students. Round 2 began January 24, 2008
and was held at the Auburn Public Library.
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| Reader's Theatre
Reader's Theatre is a form of dramatic reading, during which participants
read from a script. Because the focus is on the reading process, there is
no need for memorizing, props, costumes, or sets. Readers Theatre is
limited only by the imagination. The focus on reading reduces the pressure
and stress on participants, as they don’t have to worry about remembering
their lines, yet it stimulates the cognitive processes in an effective and
enjoyable manner. L/A Arts brought readers theatre to most of the Lewiston
Public School 3rd graders and Auburn Public School 2nd graders in 2006-07.
This year, L/A Arts continues
Reader's Theatre programs in the schools.
more about Readers
Theatre 2008
Funding for this program is made
possible through
and
Auburn
and Lewiston School Department, Auburn Lewiston Breakfast Rotary
Club, Bank of America, Downeast Energy, Lewiston-Auburn Kiwanis, Northern Utilities
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