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“What impressed us the most was Carolyn’s ability to bring out the creativity in our students.”

Brian, Director, Harford Day School

Young Audiences/Arts for Learning (YA), America’s largest arts in education nonprofit, transforms the lives and education of our youth through the arts. We provide artistically excellent programs, expertise, and resources to ensure every student is immersed in opportunities to imagine, to create, and to realize their full potential through the arts.

YA Arts Integrated Residencies Programs have the same structure and elements of an Artist-In-Residence, but are led by artists that have received training from the Teaching Artist Institute (TAI). Arts Integrated Residencies connect skills and concepts in the arts with skills and concepts in literacy, math, science, and history. They can be custom designed to meet the specific needs of your students. All YA residencies are skills and State Curriculum standards-based.

To schedule a Residency and to learn about possible funding opportunities, please contact Pat Cruz at 410.837.7577.

All YA programs are performed by professional artists that have completed a rigorous interview and audition process. YA also evaluates our artists annually.

For curriculum connections, pricing, and more, please download the 2009-2011 resource guide or use our interactive searchable database.

Ballet Theatre of Maryland

A Language More Powerful than Words
Students will love this interactive approach to literature, including lessons on “Romeo and Juliet,” “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” “The Scarlet Letter,” and “Cinderella.” Students study music and demonstrate movement in order to draw inferences, synthesize meaning, and analyze character, mood, and plot.
Grade Level: 4-12

DishiBem Traditional Contemporary
Dance Group

Origins
This residency infuses storytelling, dance, and music into
reading. During the course of the residency, students will
analyze and interpret teacher selected text and creatively
express their comprehension of the text through movement. It builds skills in sequencing and reading comprehension,
while providing an outlet for self expression.
Grade Level: K-12

Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble

Exploring the Cultural Diversity of the United States Through Traditional Dance
This 3 to 5 day residency is designed for the VSC Social Studies Standard: People of the Nation and World. Students will explore the diversity and commonality of the people of Maryland, the U.S., and the world. The residency will also explore the multicultural nature of our country and how these cultures borrowed and shared traditions, resulting in new traditions. Dances and their histories from different cultures are presented in a fun and inviting way, giving students the opportunity to literally feel and experience each culture.
Grade Level: 3-12

Ssuuna

Lutindo: Building Cultural Bridges through Dance and Storytelling
Fact or fiction, students will express their comprehension through dance as they learn how African culture and tradition compares and contrasts to other cultures. Social Studies and Language Arts Standards may be addressed in this customized residency. ‘Ssuuna’ will work with the teacher and students to explore the geography, instruments, stories, and traditional dance of an African Culture. The residency culminates in a student performance of an original dance with percussion accompaniment that is based on the text.
Grade Level: 2-4

DishiBem Traditional Contemporary
Dance Group

Origins
This residency infuses storytelling, dance, and music into
reading. During the course of the residency, students will
analyze and interpret teacher selected text and creatively
express their comprehension of the text through movement. It builds skills in sequencing and reading comprehension,
while providing an outlet for self expression.
Grade Level: K-12

Odyssey Opera Theatre

Opera Tales: Looking at Children’s Literature Through The Opera Glass!
Stories will come alive and take on a whole new level of excitement in this residency, as students explore story structure and various skills, such as recall and sequencing, through basic elements of opera. After discovering how opera is a story communicated through a unique combination of arts, students will analyze and create dialogue, then sing, dance, and act out their favorite folk tale, fairy tale, or story of your choice. Music, drama and language arts standards will be addressed in this customized residency, which may culminate in a student sharing or mini–opera presentation.
Grade Level: PreK-5

Alden Phelps

Word Play
Teaches students how to create their own songs, poems, and rhymes while understanding “economic decision making” and cause and effect. Alden explores the concepts of irony, parody, rhyme structure, and elements of speech, and explains how to apply them to themes like transportation and technology.
Grade Level: 3-8

Ssuuna

Lutindo: Building Cultural Bridges through Dance and Storytelling
Fact or fiction, students will express their comprehension through dance as they learn how African culture and tradition compares and contrasts to other cultures. Social Studies and Language Arts Standards may be addressed in this customized residency. ‘Ssuuna’ will work with the teacher and students to explore the geography, instruments, stories, and traditional dance of an African Culture. The residency culminates in a student performance of an original dance with percussion accompaniment that is based on the text.
Grade Level: 2-4

Sue Trainor

Writing Songs to Learn
Singing is a whole-brain activity. Songwriting strategies for creating and producing melody and rhythm address Music standards, while Language Arts standards, such as identification of a main idea, exploration, organization, and restatement using imagination and poetic language skills, are enhanced and taught at the same time.

In this residency, each teacher will select a song topic for the class from current curriculum. In addition to learning about songwriting tools and structure, students will manipulate the content using higher level thinking as they apply their knowledge, experience, and perspective to the task. An excellent curriculum assessment tool, the potential uses for songwriting as an integrated classroom application are endless.
Grade Level: 2-5

Tamara Wellons Washington

Poetry to Music
At the end of the residency, students will be able to identify and explain poetic elements that contribute to a poem’s meaning, while creating a melody for a poem. Students will use their voices to improvise simple melodic phrases and sound elements of poetry.
Grade Level: K-8

Flip It!
Tamara teaches the students that songs are the combination of melody, lyrics, and music. She cleverly integrates reading strategies, such as inferring, and challenges students to identify and explain words that create tone in a song. The culminating activity is a class presentation of a classic song with a rearranged melody.
Grade Level: 5-8

Baltimore Shakespeare Festival

Romeo and Juliet Middle School Residency: Exploring Character, Plot, and Theme through Tableau Vivant Performance
Six one-hour (minimum) long workshops
A BSF teaching artist will guide the students to explore the consequences of violent conflict by embodying characters in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The students will understand character through reading, evaluating, choosing costume pieces, and finally, collaborating with peers to create Tableau Vivant (Living Tableaus) of eight scenes from Romeo and Juliet. This residency incorporates the VSC Language Arts Content Standards for Comprehension of Literary Text and the VSC Theatre Content Standard for Creative Expression and Production.
Grade Level: 6-8

Linda fang

The Swallow’s Nest
Students will be introduced to the basic structure of a story, the five elements of a story, and the tools of storytelling: Voice, facial expressions, and body movement/gestures. Students will learn that to tell a story that belongs to a specific culture, it is important to research the culture and incorporate the cultural flavors into the telling, to make the story come alive and be believable.
Grade Level: 6-12

Odyssey Opera Theatre

Opera Tales: Looking at Children’s Literature Through The Opera Glass!
Stories will come alive and take on a whole new level of excitement in this residency, as students explore story structure and various skills, such as recall and sequencing, through basic elements of opera. After discovering how opera is a story communicated through a unique combination of arts, students will analyze and create dialogue, then sing, dance, and act out their favorite folk tale, fairy tale, or story of your choice. Music, drama and language arts standards will be addressed in this customized residency, which may culminate in a student sharing or mini–opera presentation.
Grade Level: PreK-5

Arianna Ross

Discovering the Power of the Written Word
Through a series of creative writing exercises, students will find, redefine, and/or polish their own written voice while creating short stories, poems, newspaper articles, or scenes from a play.
Grade Level: Pre K-12

Story-Telling & Story-Writing
Create a storytelling and writing residency with Arianna,
which meets your school’s curricular and social needs.
Grade Level: PreK-12

Laura Zam

Using Drama to Develop Peace Building Skills
This arts-integrated residency teaches students dramatic writing, narrative literacy, and conflict resolution skills such  as empathy, deep listening, and emotional awareness, as well as peaceful problem solving techniques. Due to its emphasis on conflict resolution, the residency can also be easily aligned with any behavioral management system the school has put in place.
Grade Level: 4-12

Herb Massie

Voices in Clay
This project-based residency can be customized to address your curriculum. Master ceramic artist Herb Massie can mold this sculpture residency for any age group or subject. Basic hand building techniques and elements of design will be explored as students analyze, identify, and implement a variety of skills for creating authentic clay sculptures.
Grade Level: K-12

Amanda Pellerin

Earth, Fire, Mortar, Grout – Clay Across the Curriculum
Curriculum concepts will transform into inspiration, as Amanda links your objectives and standards from any subject to clay. Amanda will custom design the project based on the classroom teacher’s curriculum and student needs.
Grade Level: 3-12

WALTERS ART MUSEUM PARTNERSHIP
Mosaic Masterpieces
This unique opportunity will introduce your students to the craft of mosaic making! Students will work with professional ceramic artist Amanda Pellerin to observe, analyze, and be inspired by a collection from the Walters Art Museum.

Students will create a mosaic mural for their school which expresses and illustrates knowledge gained through their experience at the Walters and with the artist.

This artist-in-residency program will include:
* An outreach lesson in your school by a Walters educator
* A guided tour of the Walters Permanent Collection with a studio experience at the museum
* Sessions with Amanda
* The creation of a mosaic map mural for your school
Grade Level: 3-12