Artist Scholars
- Group I: 3rd – 5th grade
- Group II: 6th – 8th grade
- Group III: 9th – 10th grade
- Group VI: 11th – 12th grade
Our Artist Scholar Program is our signature Interdisciplinary Arts program for our youth! This program is tailored for four distinct groups: Group I: 3rd – 5th, Group II: 6th – 8th, Group III: 9th – 10th and Group VI: 11th – 12th. This program is offered to these four groups in three six week sessions for the Winter/Spring 2024 Season. The Artist Scholars curriculum integrates dance and other arts mediums to explore and offer commentary on popular culture, visual culture and society through new media and technology and creative expression.
As an educator, I firmly believe in the transformative power of dance. Beyond honing physical skills, our program is crafted to instill confidence, foster teamwork, and nurture a deep appreciation for the arts. The Artist Scholars program is not just a place to explore dance and movement and attempt to be interdisciplinary and seek to engage STEAM but it is an incubator, a community space that digs deep into material and also celebrates the joy of movement, culture, understanding society, responding to feedback, creating and showing. Artist Scholars engaging in storytelling through movement and the limitless creativity of young artists recognize the vibrant energy, the use of their powerful voices, and boundless curiosity and imagination they each hold.
Artist Scholars
- Group I: 3rd – 5th, 6-7:30p, Thursdays
- Group II: 6th – 8th, 6-7:30p, Thursdays
- Group III: 9th – 10th, 3 – 4:30p, Saturdays
- Group VI: 11th – 12th, 3 – 4:30p, Saturdays
The Artist Scholars program is a creative incubator! Over six week sessions, students engage in discovery, creating, critical thinking and discourse around art, Hip-Hop, history, society, Social Media and more from a young person’s POV. Artist Scholars investigate movement and dance integrating other art mediums and utilizing technology and new media to make deeper meanings about their discoveries. Artist Scholars’ program for each session culminates in an exhibition and artist talk and showing open to the public through ticket sales. Proceeds will be donated to various causes.
All sessions include Artist Scholars using dance and being shown how to integrate dance and movement with other arts mediums, engaging with new media and technology, Design Thinking, Ideation, co-creation and collaboration, research inside the studio and outside in the field, artistic and creative feedback, art work development and presentation framework support, culminating exhibition and artist talk/showing, community engagement, social impact and more.
Dress Code & Materials:
- No specific dance attire or clothes, loose fitting clothes are commended; no shoes on wood (socks preferable) on marly floors artists can be in socks or bare feet.
- Something to write with, a journal for the session, a lap top or ipad is option.
- Other materials will be provided.
