Arts Learning
Arts Learning
Illusion Theater will partner with Washington Technology Magnet School to provide diverse 8th graders with a curriculum integrated, arts based program that helps prepare them for high school success.
Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Chair of the Nominating Committee, Smithsonian National Board. Trustee, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Uri Camarena: Business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Board chair, Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Officer at-large, Minnesota State Arts Board; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Secretary/Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Sean Dowse: Mayor of Red Wing, elected 2016. Former executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Citizens for the Arts. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Philip McKenzie, Oboe and English horn player; adjunct oboe faculty, NDSU; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: Executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; coordinator, First Stage Gallery; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund.; Christina Widdess: Arts organization consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.
Carl Beihl: Artist in photography, ceramics, painting; instructor, Minnetonka Center for the Arts; David DeGennaro: Former managing and creative director, West Bank School of Music; Nathaniel Dickey: Associate Professor of Music; low brass, band; Connie Lanphear: Communications manager, Freshwater Society; James Miller: Founder and managing director, Velo Glass; Akiko Ostlund: Dancer, performing artist, poet, puppeteer, curator, and activist; Sharon Thalmann: Former executive director, Henning Landmark Center; theater actor, producer, designer and director
ACHF Arts Education
Through theater activities, 8th grade students will be better prepared for high school socially and emotionally towards greater success and involvement. We will conduct written and oral surveys + pre/post questionnaires with youth on awareness of issues and comfort level dealing with them; track participation; interview teachers and school liaisons. 2: Participants will gain knowledge of theater and develop new theater skills, and 6-8 will develop additional capacities as peer educators. Illusion will survey participants on theater knowledge/skills and peer education learning, document demonstrations of arts/peer education learning throughout, and interview teachers and artists.
8th graders became better prepared socially and emotionally for high school and thus more likely to succeed by participating in theater activities. The above results were confirmed via a combination of: *Pre/post questionnaires for participating students and teachers *Written and oral surveys with the above *Tracking of student participation *Interviews with teachers and school liaisons. 2: Participating students gained new theater skills and ways to express themselves, and a ten student sub-group gained new abilities as peer educators. The above results were confirmed via a combination of: *Post program surveys and interviews with participating students *Demonstrations of new arts and peer education ongoing thru the program *Interviews with participating teachers and artists.
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