Teaching Roster Artist in Residency

Guided by visual artist Lee Ann Goers, students study state bugs, make skeletal drawings, and create abstract 3 dimensional masks. Because students learn in different ways I will provide additional entry points for experiential learning through playful sensory participation, including movement, sound making, and singing. These skills are applied as students express the character of their chosen insects in active, fun, and imaginative ways.There will be an increased level of student participation and enjoyment in warm-up exercises, loosening up over a series of sessions, and taking greater creative and expressive risks. Students successfully translate information about a non-human physical form (insects, both realistic and imagined) into creative movement, sound, description, and story. Students demonstrate greater accuracy, confidence, and energy in performing with and in front of their peers in a variety of performance modes. Students act in cooperation in an environment where they feel the freedom and support to express themselves in new and dynamic ways. Students share in group discussions what they learned, what was challenging, and what was fun about participating in warm-up exercises and group performance.