APRIL 2014
EXAMINER MEDIA • ARTSWNEWS
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Mount Vernon Students to Benefit from Arts and Education Partnership
The Mount Vernon School District is the recipient of a $1,192,600 grant that supports a partnership between the district and ArtsWestchester to foster the integration of arts education into core elementary curricula. With the goal to improve students’ academic performance, as well as to document and communicate the results, the grant – one of only eight awarded this year by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) – will run from 2013 through 2017.
The DOE funds projects that create effective models for integrated arts educa- tion programs for dissemination to other districts nationwide. The grant to the Mount Vernon School District will support 37 artist residencies per semester in four schools and will benefit over 500 students. The academic performance of a ran- domly selected group of students will be tracked over a four-year period and mea- sured against a control group. Teachers will attend development workshops that inspire ways to use art in conjunction with teaching ELA, science, history, math and science concepts. A recent workshop held in ArtsWestchester in downtown White Plains included a lesson by teaching artist Patricia Miranda, who demonstrated how to make paint from egg yolks and natural dyes. The history and availability of those dyes and their impact on the economy and social class was discussed.
“There is a great need for alternate ways of learning, because kids have unique ways of accessing learning,” says ArtsWestchester’s CEO Janet Langsam. “What we hope to accomplish, in addition to providing a template for other schools to fol- low in the future, is to provide our county’s students with opportunities to learn expe- rientially, a method that is proven to be a valuable and successful learning tool.”
Teaching artists and art teachers recently learned how to make paint from egg yolk and natural dyes in a workshop with artist Patricia Miranda.
A previous collaboration with the Mount Vernon School District provided professional development to teachers and an integrated learning program to students. By the conclusion of the program, 95.2% of the participating educators demonstrated improved pedagogical skills in arts education, and 85% of students receiving instruction demonstrated improvement in attendance, interest in subject matter and test scores.
Hats Off to HATtitude at Arts Award Luncheon
Be sure to wear your best hat to the 2014 Arts Award luncheon:
Hosted by CBS 2 Reporter Tony Aiello and sponsored by First Niagara Bank, the luncheon will honor a special group of individuals and organizations for their outstanding contributions to the cultural life of Westchester.
Presented by:
The work of exhibiting milliners may be on high-demand from celebri- ties, but it will remain on display at ArtsWestchester until April 12. Viewers still have time to take a closer look at the hat’s history, fashion and cultural significance before the organization hangs up its hat on its current HATtitude exhibition. The more than 160 exhibited hats from 50+ contemporary milliners and private collections – pieces custom-made for the French Duchess of Tallyrand, Anya Caliendo’s Asylum, which arrived at our gallery direct from an Italian Vogue photo shoot, and noteworthy religious head coverings – all highlight the function of the hat in global cultures and its position in 20th and 21st century couture fashion. For more info, visit:
artsw.org/hattitude.
• The Village of Ossining • Hannah and Walter Shmerler • The New Choral Society • Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts • Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art • Music Therapy Institute of the Music Conservatory of Westchester • Yorktown High School Dance Company • Westchester County Arts Leadership Association
Friday, April 4 at 11am
Westchester Marriott, Tarrytown For more info, visit:
artsw.org/artsaward
High Tea hat by Janet Sikirica
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