Arts Learning Grant
Arts Learning Grant
Sensory Art: Summer art classes to enhance art for sensory seeking and sensory avoiding students.
Kathy Neff: musician, Director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; Emily Swanson: arts administrator at Oldenburg Arts and Cultural Community; Kris Nelson: artist, teacher; Roxann Berglund: musician; Bill Payne: Professor of Theater at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; Sam Zimmerman: visual artist, teacher; Liz Engelman: dramaturg, founder and director of Tofte Lake Center; Jessica Peterson: essayist, playwright, co-founder of Yellow Tree Theater; Erin Cain: University of Minnesota-Duluth Student Liaison
Kathy Neff: musician, Director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; Amber Burns: dancer; Lucy Soderstrom: program coordinator, Ely Folk School; Christian McShane: musician, President, Aitkin County Friends of the Arts; Sharon Marty: arts educator, theater director
ACHF Arts Education
I will provide art classes to an under-reached population. Students with different types of sensory dysregulation face many obstacles everyday. These obstacles can create barriers to learning and activities these might children enjoy. This class will provide them a few days of fun, but they will learn something or try some kind of art that makes them happy and that can be a tool for them on a daily basis. Often in my classes students and/or parents tell me how the class has impacted them. I will be able to see if the art activity we are doing is having a positive effect on them due to my experience with my own children. It is often noticeable in their demeanor when they are participating in an activity that is helping to regulate their senses. It is also very noticeable when an activity is having an adverse effect on their senses. I will watch for this and adjust the activities we are doing accordingly.
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