Arts Learning
Arts Learning
Upstream Arts will carry out residency programs in the special education classrooms of 25 Minneapolis Public Schools in the 2018-19 school year. This program will bring theater, music, dance, visual arts, and poetry to 375 students with disabilities.
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.
Maria Argueta: English language learner teacher, Crookston Public Schools; Michael Carlson: Art teacher, art club advisor, and track and field coach at Foley High School; Anastasia Faunce: Program director, University of Minnesota College of Continuing Education and Professional Studies; editor, Open to Interpretation series.; Joelle Fernandez: Competitive dancer and teacher; Arts Board grantee; Molly Gamble: Artist; former arts event planner at Maryland Institute College of Art; David Glenn: Ceramic artist. Former Arts Board member, past executive director of the Minnesota Project; Lauren Hildebrand: Arts and education consultant; cofounder of Trollwood Performing Arts School
ACHF Arts Education
MPS students with disabilities will widen their creative expression while gaining social/communication skills vital to school and life. Pre/post-program evaluations on each student will measure increased creative expression and social and communication skill improvement. Pre/post meetings between artists and Special Education teachers will allow for outcome and impact assessment.
MPS students with disabilities successfully widened their creative expression while gaining social and communication skills vital to school and life. Pre/post-program student and teacher evaluations tracked student progress and demonstrated that students of varying abilities were engaged, learned in the arts, widened their creative expression, and developed key social and communication skills.
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