* BAY STREET BRASSWORKS

School of Brass

Residency

Students will develop skills, learn the history, and acquire techniques for enhancing performance when playing brass instruments. Students may divide into groups that will focus on one of five instruments: French horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, and piccolo trumpet (if available).
Grade Level: 5-12

You Can Write a Blues Song! Exploring History, writing songs and performing authentic American blues music
Arts Integrated Residency
Curtis Blues uses instruments from the acoustic era of 1920's and 1930's blues to make American History, Language Arts and the fundamentals of music come alive. Students write and sing their own songs in the blues form, and enter the world of the men and women who invented modern popular music. The final day can be combined with a parent's night show where students perform the blues songs they have written.
Grade Level: K-12

Learn Fun Rhythms and Smart Rhymes with Jali-D
Arts Integrated Residency
Students are introduced to the idea of ‘Rappercussions,’ an art form that combines intelligent rhymes with African style drumming. Students work with Jali-D to learn his ‘Math,’ ‘Reading,’ or ‘Science’ rap. They also learn to compose an original song that corresponds and compliments the particular subject matter on which they are currently working.
Grade Level: 4-8

* ‡ ALDEN PHELPS

NEW! Preposterous Parodies!

Arts Integrated Residency
Students love to create parodies, and the ability to use parody indicates a strong conceptual understanding. This residency combines elements of Language Arts with your desired curriculum focus, such as History, Social Studies, or Math. Alden helps students create their own parodies, and through guided practice helps students understand rhyme structure and scheme, demonstrating basic rules of song writing. Students will connect creatively with the curriculum through language arts and music to foster deeper understanding.
Grade Level: 3-5

* ‡ ROCKCREEK STEEL DRUMS

NEW! Beginner Steel Drum Band

Residency
This unique residency brings a complete steel drum band program to your school. Students will learn the basics of steel drum playing and performance as they prepare for a final concert. A full sized steel drum instrument is provided for each student. The class will learn methods to produce good tone and to play melodies using proper mallet technique. Basic percussion skills will be taught using “Tamboo Bamboo” instruments.
Students will learn to read music symbols and charts from another culture while exploring Calypso music.
Grade Level: 3-12

African Dancing and/or Drumming
Residency
Students learn some of the dances and rhythms of traditional and modern East Africa. Learn how the Amagunju dance evolved as a way to soothe an infant king and how traditional values like respect and gratitude are passed on through song and story.
Ssuuna can tailor the program to the needs of the classroom, focusing on only dancing, singing, or drumming, or including some of each discipline.
Grade Level: K-12

Lutindo: Building Cultural Bridges through Dance and Storytelling
Arts Integrated Residency
In this residency, students will learn how African culture and tradition compares and contrasts to other cultures through dance. Social Studies and Language Arts Standards may be addressed in this customized residency. Ssuuna will work with teachers and students to explore the geography, instruments, stories, and traditional dance of an East African Culture. The residency culminates in a student performance of an original
dance with percussion accompaniment.

Grade Level: 2-12

* ‡ SUE TRAINOR

Writing Songs to Learn
Arts Integrated Residency
Singing is a whole-brain activity. Songwriting strategies for creating and producing melody and rhythm address music standards. 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

* ‡ BALLET THEATRE OF MARYLAND

Exploring American History Through Dance
Residency

BTM dance residencies focus on creative movement and dance styles such as Celtic, Jazz, Classical, and Contemporary Ballet from a variety of cultures and time periods.
Grade Level: K-12

A Language More Powerful Than Words
Arts Integrated Residency
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 TRAITIONAL CONTEMPORARY DANCE GROUP

Origins: Traditional to Contemporary
Residency
From Djembe drumming to step dance, this versatile group can custom design a residency for your students. Step dance, a marriage of movement and rhythm created with only our bodies, began in Africa many years ago and has spread throughout the world. Syncopated rhythms and movement will be incorporated into choreography, as we discuss the history and cultural background of the art form. This program will emphasize discipline, dedication, and responsibility, and illustrate how the arts can have a positive enriching impact on all areas of life.
Grade Level: PreK-12

Origins

Arts Integrated Residency
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

Roots and Rhythm

Residency
Residency workshops include learning percussive dance, singing, 'hamboning,' and improvisational exercises. Footworks makes participation accessible and fun with an approach that brings students together in a positive, constructive, and interactive way, building community and connecting the participants to each other and to their culture.
Grade Level: K-12

NEW! Understanding the Star Spangled Banner Through Dance
Arts Integrated Residency
The Star Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key in Baltimore on September 14, 1814, and the upcoming 200th anniversary is a great opportunity to celebrate Maryland history. Explore the events leading up to the writing of our national anthem and the meaning of the words through movement and dance. Students will learn the basic elements of dance and some fun choreography to the song. Using improvisation, students will learn how dance can communicate ideas, thoughts, and feelings and have the opportunity to choreograph their own dance moves.
Grade Level: 3-5

Exploring the Cultural Diversity of the United States Through Traditional Dance
Arts Integratied Residency
This residency is designed to meet the Maryland State Curriculum 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

* ANNA MENENDEZ

La Fiesta del Baile
Residency
Students will study the role of the dancer and palmero (rhythmic hand clappers) as they explore basic flamenco dance techniques and rhythms. Students will also be exposed to Spanish cultural studies and vocabulary.
Grade Level: 1-12

* NRITYA

India Immersion

Residency
Students are introduced to Indian culture through food, festivals, modeling Indian clothes, and henna drawings. Students learn a folk dance as well as learn to use hand gestures and dance movements to perform a short story.
Grade Level: K-12

Storytelling through Dance: Myths, Legends, & Folk Tales of India
Arts Integrated Residency
Students will investigate relationships between dance and language arts in order to learn how to combine dance patterns to perform a short story in English in the Bharatanatyam style. Students will analyze and define characteristics of folktales of India, and compare and contrast folktales from India with American folktales.
Grade Level: K-12

* GAYLE DANLEY

NEW! IF YOU REALLY KNEW ME:

A unique and powerful anti-bullying tool for your school
Gayle Danley has turned 18 years of sharing her slam poetry in schools into a unique program designed to impact your school’s anti-bullying efforts in a hands-on, accessible way. Gayle opens this intensely focused day by performing several soul-touching
original slam poems in a large group assembly about her own experiences with bullying. She then conducts a series of workshops leading your students, teachers and counselors through the process of writing and sharing their own life experiences through the power of slam. An assembly for parents and the school community culminates this incredible day of healing and bonding.
This one day package includes:
* A kick-off assembly
* Two workshops with students and teachers
* A professional development session with guidance counselors
* A culminating assembly for the school community
Grade Level: 4-12

Get Slammin’
Arts Integrated Residency
Students and teachers gain insight into the process by which Gayle writes her slam poetry, with workshops that introduce her step-by-step method. Let Gayle inspire your students up close and personal, and end the residency with your own school’s Poetry Slam Competition!
Grade Level: 4-12
Residencies are limited to one week

Everyone is a Storyteller
Arts Integrated Residency
Students will learn how to make a story come alive by using different voices, facial expressions, and movements. They will learn to tell one or more stories.
Grade Level: K-5

The Swallow’s Nest
Arts Integrated Residency
Students will be introduced to the basic structure and the five elements of a story, and the tools of storytelling: voice, facial expressions, and body movement/gestures. Students will learn that telling a story from a specific culture requires researching the culture and incorporating cultural flavors into the presentation, to make the story come alive and be believable.

Grade Level: 6-12

Create a Puppet World
Residency
Students will explore the unique qualities of puppets by bringing an environment to life. They may choose the ocean, a rainforest, an African savannah, the Chesapeake Bay, or even another planet. Students will learn to use creative problem-solving skills as they work together to make puppets, props, and scenery, and combine all these elements to create their puppet world.
Grade Level: 3-8

Puppets Tell a Tale
Arts Integrated Residency

Students will learn how to use a folktale, poem, or original story and bring it to life as a puppet play. Carolyn will guide them as they create interesting puppet characters from simple materials, and then add props, scenery, and story outline to help tell their story. The workshops emphasize taking creative risks, solving problems, and sharing ideas.
Grade Level: 2-8

* ‡ MARK LOHR

NEW! America’s Got Vaudeville!
Arts Integrated Residency
Long ago, before “America’s Got Talent”, Vaudeville ruled as America’s number one form of entertainment! Join new Vaudevillian Mark Lohr as he teaches vaudeville style comedy
and a few circus skills to boot! This five day residency will teach students performance techniques enabling them to perform their very own “REALLY BIG SHOW” for another class. Students will experience history through the introduction of Vaudeville and the importance this art form played during the Industrial Revolution. In addition to learning the elements of slapstick comedy, students will learn how to juggle, spin plates and
communicate nonverbally using posture and facial expressions.
Grade Level: 3-12

* ‡ KATHERINE LYONS

NEW! The Drama of Metamorphosis

Arts Integrated Residency

In this unique residency, Katherine uses the tools of an actor to creatively explore a complex, natural process. Through costumes, voice and movement, students explore the metamorphosis and life cycle of a butterfly. The student actors learn to transform themselves into the characters in this natural drama. The basics of this residency can also be a one-day workshop.

Grade Level: K-3

The Immigrant's Trunk

Arts Integrated Residency
In partnership with the Jewish Museum of Maryland this residency challenges students to explore their own cultural heritage in order to bring old family stories alive. Students will view a performance by Katherine which depicts the journey of a real-life Jewish Immigrant coming to America and living the American Dream. Critical research and listening skills are developed as students interview an "elder" from their community (or their family), then they work in collaborative teams to bring that information to life through performance. The experience may conclude with a field trip to the Jewish Museum where the students are given the opportunity to tour the museum, perform their own work, and discuss connections between their character's journey and those displayed around them.
Grade Level: 3-12

* ‡ DEBRA MIMS

Telling Life Lessons

Arts Integrated Residency
Students will learn the elements of Theatre performance via "The Actor's Toolkit" which incorporates the use of the Body, Voice, Focus, Concentration, Cooperation and Imagination. Students will learn to present a life lesson they learned from an older person who has influenced them and present this lesson in front of an audience.
Grade Level: 3-6

The Student Performance Studio

Arts Integrated Residency
Students will learn the elements of theatre using "The Actor's Toolkit" which incorporates the use of the Body, Voice, Focus, Concentration, Cooperation, and Imagination. Each student will then demonstrate their understanding about a teacher given topic through personal expression and performance.

Grade Level: 3-6

* ‡ QUEST: VISUAL THEATRE

NEW! Visual Theatre

Residency

This engaging four day residency introduces students to the power of visual theatre. Students will learn visual theatre techniques such as movement, focus, size and shape to express themselves and create short visual theatre pieces. Through the use of visual theatre, students enhance their 21st Century Skills. Quest artists work with teachers to apply the residency activities to curricular goals and statewide standards. The residency
culminates in a brief student performance.
Grade Level: K-12

Wonderfully Ridiculous Letter Stories: Using Creative Writing and Storytelling to Motivate and improve Literacy
Residency
Adventures, Comic characters and Mishaps - Silly letter stories are a perfect genre for encouraging students' language development. This residency helps students recognize and hear the different phonetic sounds and the dolce while discovering how to write a short story. Depending on the literacy level of the students, teachers will decide what sounds the children need to explore. Together, we write and dramatize a story using a word containing the target sound in every sentence. The result: A comic adventure ready to be shared with another class about perhaps a Green Giant named Gita who grabs big bagels.
Grade Level: PreK-3

Discovering the Power of the Written Word: Using Creative Writing and Storytelling to Motivate Students to become Authors

Residency

From the beginning of time writing has had the ability to empower, anger, hurt, encourage, or excite someone.  This residency creates an atmosphere where students may redefine and/or polish their own written voice.  Through a series of creative writing exercises and the process of writing, students discover the power of their own words to tell a story, change someone’s opinion or create an imaginary place.  The end result of the residency is a piece of writing ready to be displayed at the school and/or published.  Arianna Ross will coordinate a special writers’ event where the students have the opportunity to share the stories they wrote with their peers and community members.

Grade Level: PreK-12, Can be tailored to specific age groups.

His-story, Her-story, Our-story: Using Storytelling, Creative Drama, and Writing to Dramatize Perspectives in Social Studies
Arts Integrated Residency
Storytelling and Drama provide the perfect bridge between the rote learning of historical facts and a deeper comprehension and empathy for events and people. In this residency, classes are divided into small group "families" that personify the diverse perspectives that exist during a significant historical conflict, (For example: the British, the Tories, the Patriots, and the Continental Congress during the American Revolution). Students develop a narrated group story based on their exploration of the differing points of view through creative drama, storytelling and character journaling. By the end of the residency, as a culminating event, students will perform a selection of their historical fiction for their peers in another classroom.
Grade Level: PreK-12, Can be tailored to specific age groups.

Story-Telling & Story-Writing
Arts Integrated Residency
Design your own residency. Match your curriculum with Arianna's strengths as an artist and teacher. Create a residency that is the right balance for your classroom of storytelling, writing, drama, and movement. Allow the creative process to guide your students' ability to synthesis and evaluate their understanding of new areas of learning.
Grade Level: PreK-12, Can be tailored to specific age groups.

Explaining Science with a Story

Arts Integrated Residency

In ancient times, people explained a scientific phenomenon with a story.  Through a series of creative drama exercises and writing the students will act out a variety of scientific concepts they are presently studying.  We will create a theatrical visual connection to their newfound knowledge.  Additionally, we can through a technique entitled Mantle of the Expert pretend that we are international scientists trying to solve a specific problem.  The students during the drama will create a hypothesis and a theory as to for example “Why Tigers are disappearing?”  This can be adapted to any scientific subject with the proper advance notice.

Grade Level: PreK-12, Can be tailored to specific age groups.

Play and Tell Folk Tales from Around the World

Arts Integrated Residency

Play with instruments and touch artifacts from small villages all over the world.   Listen to a short story. Learn to tell a traditional folk tale as a collaborative team or as an individual.  Arianna specializes in folk tales from India, Indonesia, Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, and Russia. Through the art of play, deepen your students understanding of story sequencing; increase their language development; knowledge of other cultures; their ability to work as a team. Students develop their own performance incorporated two or three folk tales that they have learned.

Grade Level: PreK-12, Can be tailored to specific age groups.

A Taste of Storytelling

Arts Integrated Residency

Discover what it takes to perform a story from memory. Learn specific storytelling techniques that you can use in the future to give a speech, tell a story or even perform in a play. Create the beginning of and structure for an entire story that you can share with a friend, a child, or at a performance venue.

Grade Level: PreK-12, Can be tailored to specific age groups.

Listen-See-Tell
Arts Integrated Residency
The Listen-See-Tell approach to storytelling explains and gives focus to basic concepts of active listening and natural oral and written expression utilizing the techniques of creative dramatization, active participation, and group creation. This residency offers a way of looking at the storytelling process that makes it natural and easy. Storytelling is seen as an extension of conversation, and is made up of the simple activities of listening, seeing (imagining), and talking (telling): skills essential for collaboration, creativity, cross cultural understanding and critical thinking. Students will gain storytelling skills that will leave them motivated to read...and read with purpose!
Grade Level: 4-12

Tell It Write
Arts Integrated Residency
In this residency, students will write a simple personal story or their own version of a folk tale. Students will learn the similarities and differences between effective oral storytelling and effective creative writing. Peer and teacher evaluation and criticism will help students identify many of their strengths and to correct their weaknesses as communicators, listeners and readers. At the end of the residency, the stories will be ready to "self-publish" for reading by other students.
Grade Level: 4-12

* ‡ SYNETIC THEATER

Leap Into Imagination!
Residency
Students will explore the signature movement style of Synetic Theater in a versatile custom designed residency that suits your students' learning. Synetic offers a unique and cross-cultural type of theater that incorporates dance, body awareness, storytelling, music and mime. At the end of the residency students will come away with a presentation that exemplifies the discipline, dedication, body control and creativity they have gained through the project that will carry with them in their studies and throughout their lives.
Grade Level: PreK-12

Fables in Movement
Arts Integrated Residency
Students explore the three elements of Synetic Theater's style of physical theatre: movement, acting, and pantomime. Following a workshop in each discipline, students will work in groups to choreograph selected fables.
Grade Level: 3-12

Bringing Your Studies to Life
Arts Integrated Residency
Multicultural studies will come to life as Synetic actors help students tackle and explore a subject by creating a theatre scene about it. Students use the fundamentals of theatre: movement, simple classroom props, and their own imaginations to bring their studies to life!
Grade Level: 3-12

NEW! Garden Sculpture
Arts Integrated Residency
Students collaboratively create three-dimensional mixed media totems for your school grounds. The process includes drawing, sculpture and painting. Curriculum integrated lessons cover science, math and literacy.
Grade Level: 3-12

NEW! Papermaking, Printmaking and Bookbinding
Arts Integrated Residency  
Students get the opportunity to learn three distinct art disciplines while creating handmade books. In support of the Maryland Green School program, this project is environmentally focused and uses recycled materials.
Grade Level: 3-12

Story Masks!
Arts Integrated Residency
Bring the exciting art of mask making to your school! Caryl works with students to create unique masks that bring to life story characters and historical figures from classroom curriculum. Students learn the history of mask making in a global context and experience hands on creative activities in sculpture, drawing, painting, and mixed media.
Grade Level: 3-8

School Community Mural/Banner Project
Arts Integrated Residency
This residency offers students hands on opportunities to collaborate on a site-specific artwork for their school, focusing on almost any subject or theme. The murals can be painted directly on your walls and the banners hung in an interior or exterior area of your school. Students will conceptualize, design, draw and paint the Mural/Banner in classes that teach grade appropriate art making and good character skills.
Grade Level: 3-12

The Felted Mural Residency
Residency

Students, working with both wet and needle-felting techniques, will develop individual elements of a larger, multi-paneled scene that can be hung in the school when the project is complete. Students learn how to take loose, dyed wool fibers and combine them with soap, water and friction to create a cohesive piece of fiber, and they’ll use specially-designed felting needles to refine the fiber into a recognizable form, add detail and eventually work it onto the shared background. This project has many possible curriculum connections based on theme.
Grade Level: 4-8

The Felted Vessel Residency
Arts Integrated Residency

Students will explore a new artistic medium and exercise their creativity when designing a fabulous, functional, felted vessel. After observing vessels from many cultures, wool is felted around a tennis ball using soapy water and friction to create a solid structure. Once the shapes have dried, they’ll be cut in two, leaving a small wool dish with a lid. To finish their artwork; embroidery needles, decorative thread and beads are used to embellish and create hinges, handles and feet.
Grade level: 1-8

* ‡ JOHN IAMPIERI

Baltimore Screen Painting
Arts Integrated Residency
Screen painting is a unique and traditional folk art that started in Baltimore back in 1913. Students will learn the history, techniques, tools, and functionality of the art form. This residency will be custom-designed to meet your schools needs and budget. Students can make individual “mini screens” or a large-scale mural to be installed at the school. Screen painting images can be created from observation, memory, or imagination and is a perfect medium to connect to content in the classroom curriculum.
Grade Level: 1-12

Voices in Clay
Residency
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

Handmade Tile and Mosaic Murals
Arts Integrated Residency
All projects are custom designed for your students or school group. Most projects require multiple planning and creation sessions. Students have the opportunity to participate in planning and designing the mural content, creating handmade tile from raw clay, cutting and shaping fired tile, tile layout, and the cementing and grouting process.
Grade Level: K-12

Earth, Fire, Mortar, Grout – Clay Across the Curriculum

Arts Integrated Residency
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

Penguins! King, Emperor, and Rockhopper too

Arts Integrated Residency
In this clay sculpture residency, students will read penguin related resources and each create a clay sculpture of a penguin. Techniques covered are the use of coil, slab, pinch, and armatures to build their sculpture. Students explore the process of ceramic sculpture through the creation of their individual creative works. Projects can be fired in your school kiln or the artist’s studio.
Grade Level: 3-5

Exploring Chemistry through Clay
Arts Integrated Residency
Making Clay from Scratch! Students will understand what a clay body is, learn the definitions of ceramic raw materials, practice the use of a gram scale for production of a clay body, practice safety during labs, and use the created clay in the production of a personal art tile. Slide shows of cultural connections and clay around the globe are included. (School must have gram scales for student use)
Grade Level: 7-11

WALTERS ART MUSEUM PARTNERSHIP: Mosaic Masterpieces

Arts Integrated Residency
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

DANYETT TUCKER

Imagine It! An Art Book of Your Own
Arts Integrated Residency
Brainstorm ideas for original character development, settings, and story plots. Collaborate with peers utilizing problemsolving skills to develop storyboards. Then use a variety of innovative methods to illustrate and bind “An Art Book of Your Own.” Activities culminate in a book signing and dedication of final works to the classroom library. The 21st century skills are covered in this exciting story telling adventure.
Grade Level: 3-8