Arts in the Schools
Arts in the Schools
Folk Instrument and Dulcimer Building Residency with Ross Sutter.
John White: writer, photographer, retired journalist; Georgette Jones: literature teacher, theatre actor/director/teacher; Marilee Strom: musician, former art teacher, business owner; Kathy Fransen: musician, theatre, Rhythm of the River coordinator; Janet Olney: visual artist, Willmar Area Arts Council coordinator; Joyce Meyer: photographer, retired art teacher, Canby Arts Council; Pam Blake: retired art educator, visual artist, Tyler Arts Council, Lincoln County Art Fair, Southwest Minnesota Weaver’s Guild; Michele Knife Sterner: theatre actor, SMSU Associate director for Access Opportunity Success program; Lisa Hill: musician, Crow River Singers, attorney; Joyce Aakre: visual arts, writing, Discover Dassel committee, Board member for Litchfield Community Education, Exhibit committee for Dassel Area Historical Society; Emily Petersen: visual artist, art teacher; David KelseyBassett: visual artist, musician; Anne O’Keefe-Jackson: human resources director, bead and quill work; Cindy Reverts: visual artist, Rock County Fine Arts Association treasurer, Council for Arts in Humanities in Rock County; Brett Lehman: Worthington International Festival, Worthington City Band, Worthington Concert Association; Erica Volkir: performing arts, Director of Pipestone Area Chamber of Commerce and CVB; Claire Swanson: visual arts, arts teacher, Meander Art Crawl Committee.
Deb Ahmann: literature, education; Mary Kay Frisvold: music; Lisa Hill: music, Southwest Minnesota Arts Council board; Candace Joens: music, theater; Joyce Meyer: visual art, education, Southwest Minnesota Arts Council board; Dana Miller: literature, education; Anne O’Keefe-Jackson: visual art, Southwest Minnesota Arts Council board.
ACHF Arts Education
This residency will address the following goal: Supporting high-quality, age-appropriate arts education for residents of all ages to develop knowledge, skills, and understanding of the arts. Students will build their own one stringed dulcimer and limberjack by following step-by-step directions. Students will be able to play a variety of songs solo and with a group in a performance on their dulcimer. Students will be able to explain how pitch changes with the length of the dulcimer string. Students will be able to keep rhythm and beat with their limberjack dancing. Students will learn different Scandinavian song games and dances and perform them. Students will become teachers as well as learners as they introduce their instruments to first graders, parents, and Senior Care Center residents. Students will each complete "How to Build a Dulcimer" - a set of instructions for building a dulcimer. Students will perform as a group and in small groups at the end of residency performance to demonstrate their mastery of the instruments and the dances. Students will work in small groups to create a video journal about the constructing of both instruments, about the experience of teaching first graders and seniors about the dulcimer and about sharing their new skills at the end-of-residency performance. These video journals can be shared with Care Center residents, parents and the teachers can share the journals with administration and school board.The residency will also include a time to evaluate with the teachers and the project director.
Students built their own one stringed dulcimer and limberjack by following step-by-step directions. Students learned to play a variety of songs solo and with a group in a performance on their dulcimer. Students learned how to explain how pitch changes with the length of the dulcimer string. Students learned to keep rhythm and beat with their limberjack dancing. Students learned different Scandinavian song games and dances and performed them. Students became teachers as well as learners as they introduced their instruments to first graders the Senior Care Center residents. Teachers created a video journal to document their residency experience.
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