Teaching Artists in the Classroom
This year, the Journey Program partnered with the Commack, Harborfields, Huntington, North Babylon, Northport/East Northport, Plainview/Old Bethpage and South Huntington school districts.Over 60 teachers from these districts chose to attend the Fall 2010 series of Cultural Arts Workshops and Discovery Chests were used in over 30 of our partner schools.In addition to these benefits of the Journey Program, many schools chose to have visiting artists in their schools to further enrich their curriculum. Over 45,000 students benefit from the Journey Program every school year.
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2010-2011 School Year
Commack
Students at Wood Park Primary enjoyed a special video conferencing program on African Masks with the Cleveland Museum of Art. Children in grades K-2 learned about Chinese silk production and painting at Rolling Hills Primary School. (Other Journey Programs in the Commack school district: Kuniko Yamamoto's origami/storytelling, SungSook Setton's Eastern Brush Painting, Felix Pitre's Latin American folktales and songs, and Robbi K's musical storytelling.)
Artist Esther Tollen shows students at Rolling Hills Primary School the ancient Chinese art of silk paiting.
Harborfields
At Harborfield High School, jazz musician Napoleon Revels-Bey and his band, the Rhythm Kings, performed at the district-wide Black History Month celebration.
Napoleon and the Rhythm Kings perform at Harborfields.
Huntington
Environmental artist Tonito Valderrama taught 1st graders at Southdown, Flower Hill, Jefferson, and Washington primary schools about the Native American tradition of the talking stick. Students then worked together to create their own talking sticks.
Tonito Valderrama shows 1st graders a traditional talking stick.
North Babylon
Students at Belmont Elementary explored Afria alongside photographer Michael Fairchild, while children at Robert Moses Middle School and Parliament Elementary explored Ancient Chinese Brush Painting with artist SungSook Setton. Students at North Babylon High School learned about Middle Eastern mosaics from artist Haifa Bint-Kadi. Singer/songwriter Patricia Shih also performed at North Babylon's district-wide Multicultural Celebration.
1st Graders practice their brush painting with SungSook Setton.
Northport/East Northport
At Northport and East Northport Middle Schools, 6th graders enjoyed an exciting and dynamic performance by Dance China NY in celebration of the Chinese New Year.
6th graders at Northport Middle School participate in the traditional Chinese ribbon dance.
Plainview/Old Bethpage
At Stratford Road Elementary, 3rd graders learned about the Indian art of block printing with Puneeta Mittal. Middle-schoolers at Mattlin M.S. practiced Aboriginal Australian dot painting with artist Chris Pitkin. At Old Bethpage Elementary school, students made Native American rattles with environmental artist Tonito Valderrama.
Students at Mattlin Middle School work on their aboringinal dot paintings.
South Huntington
DAt Birchwood Intermediate School, students enjoyed performances by Dance China NY and even participated in the traditional Chinese ribbon dance.
Students at Birchwood Intermediate School enjoyed perfomrances by Dance China NY.
