2005/2006 ARTS PARTNERS’ MATCHING GRANT AWARDS

Arts Partners awarded twelve project grants for the 2005-2006 school year.  Recipients, chosen by an five-member panel of community members are:

Macarthur Elementary School, Binghamton City Schools: “Through My Eyes, In My Voice” will have fourth graders use photography, photo collage, digital imaging, and expressive writing to document and exhibit their perceptions of themselves and each other. The year-long project culminates in the creation of a photo journal by each student with narrative and images of student’s daily life, and the creation by each class of a collage inspired by the art of Romare Bearden using photo images from student journals to represent the diversity and relationships that shape their community. Suzanne Bloom, author and illustrator, will be the resident artist.

Mann Elementary School, Binghamton City Schools: “Mosaics of Life” is an art project where third grade students will design and crate mosaic benches and stepping stones to be installed at the front entrance of Horace Mann. The mosaic designs will symbolize students’ understanding of diversity in society. Yvonne Lucia, painter and mosaic artist, will be the resident artist.

Binghamton High School, Binghamton City Schools: Through workshops led by naturalist, writer and photographer Rick Marsi, and classroom lessons by individual teachers, students will examine nature writing, investigate the impact of the confluence on our community, and explore the artistic relationship between the watershed, their community, and their lives. Art and literature will be the means of exploration.

Candor Elementary School, Candor Central Schools: Musician John Simon will work with pre-kindergarten students and their parents in an interactive project to compose and perform original stories that connect to family’s lives. Performing a child’s story, Crocodile Beat, written by Gail Jorgenson, Mr. Simon will set the book to music to make it come alive.

Candor High School, Candor Central Schools: “Math and The Fiber Arts” will allow students to gain an understanding of how math applies to three fiber arts: weaving, basketry, and quilting, through interaction with the math and art teachers and two professional artists – Bonnie Gale, basket maker; Sue Smith Heavenrich, spinner and weaver.

Chenango Forks Middle School, Chenango Forks Central Schools & Southern Tier Celebrates: Eileen Ruggieri, storyteller, will partner with teachers to offer a literary arts education program – New York Poetry in Motion/Young Poets Speak to sixth grade students. Students will create theme-based poetry and learn how to feel comfortable in presenting personal poems. Students will recite their poetry as part of First Night Binghamton.

Maine Memorial Elementary School, Maine-Endwell Central Schools: Fourth grade students will work with storyteller Eileen Ruggieri in studying and personally enhancing short fables that teach a lesson or highlight a character education word from the school’s Morning Program. The students will role play their character’s part in front of the Morning Program audience using masks created in art class.

Maine-Endwell Middle School, Maine-Endwell Central Schools: 8 th grade students will develop and create their own stop animation videos and claymations using multimedia technology. The English teacher, art teacher and resident artist, Matthew Flesher, will help students, develop a concept, create storyboards, and create their animated videos. Videos will be entered in the Rod Serling Video Festival.

Owego Elementary School, Owego-Apalachin Central Schools: Third graders will travel “Around the World” as they see art from different cultures, learn about the art processes of those countries, and work with artists representing the countries studied. Students will also study the countries’ in the context of community, map making, location and culture. Writing, reading and social studies will be integral to the project. Artists Kriko Frank ( Japan), Kathye Arrington (Africa), and Cheryl Dutko ( Ukraine) will partner with teachers.

Spencer-Van Etten Elementary School, Spencer-Van Etten Central Schools: Third grade students will identify the way in which home design of all species defines and builds their community. They will describe, analyze and select their favorite architectural attributes and include them in creating their own ideal home. Entire classes will construct their unique aesthetic and functional classroom community and mount it for display in the school.

Spencer-Van Etten High School, Spencer-Van Etten Central Schools: Through physics classes, students will develop models of consumer products that meet good engineering design and visual art qualities (as related to three-dimensional design and color). Each product must be safe and attractive to its consumer, as well as perform to its design goals.

Whitney Point Middle School, Whitney Point Central Schools: “Pathways to Cultural Discovery” will provide students with an experience to help them understand culture and how it is reflected in the arts. Students at each grade level will create a mural on local culture to be displayed at the main entrance to their school. Aubrey Clark, painter and muralist, will be the resident artist.

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