2006/2007 ARTS PARTNERS’ MATCHING GRANT AWARDS
Total Awarded: $18,763

Arts Partners awarded eight project grants for the 2006-2007 school year.  Recipients, chosen by an seven-member panel of community members are:

Spencer-Van Etten High School, Spencer-Van Etten Central Schools: Synthesis of Art & Engineering II.  Artist Ben Sherman and the Physics teacher will be working with students to develop self powered models of moving vehicles, such as cars, boats and airplanes. These models will theoretically have the potential to be sold as full scale consumer products that have the necessary artistic visual qualities to attract customers and good engineering design qualities to be safe and long lived.

Maine-Endwell Middle School, Maine-Endwell Central Schools: Stop Motion and Claymation Video animations.  8th grade students will develop and create their own stop animation videos and claymations using multimedia technology.  The Special Education Inclusion specialist, the technology teacher, the art teacher and resident artist, Matthew Flesher, will help students in developing the concept and creating storyboards which form the basis for the student animations.  Videos will be entered in the Rod Serling Video Festival.

Candor High School, Candor Central Schools:  Warped Math: connecting the language of math with the expression of art through textile design. Through collaboration between math and studio arts, students will design warps and weave projects. Students will develop a deeper understanding of the connectedness between art and mathematics.

Binghamton High School, Binghamton City Schools:  Confluence Project. Through workshops conducted 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 with an oral history component that will include interviews of long time community members.

Roosevelt Elementary, Binghamton City Schools: The Best Part of Me. Using the book, “the Best Part of Me” by Wendy Ewald, first grade students will use the combination of creative writing, photography, and collage to celebrate the very best of who they are. With the help of artists, Suzanne Bloom and Yvonne Lucia the students will create works of art that celebrate what makes them special and unique.

The Susquehanna School, Binghamton private School: The Science of weaving a living willow dome. Elementary students will gain a deep understanding of how science applies to the art and craft of willow work, through the building of a living willow dome on the school grounds in Spring 2007, with professional artist Bonnie Gale.

Owego Elementary School, Owego-Apalachin Central Schools:  Hot Science and Hot Glass. Students will work with Diana Tillotson of Riverstone Glass Studios to create glass sun catchers. Through this project students will understand the science of glass making. Student learning and exposure to glass making will be enhanced by a full day hands-on art and science experience at the Corning Museum of Glass.

Vestal High School, Vestal Central School District:  The Big Chief Animation Project. This project will give students in International Baccalaureate HL-A Studio, I.B. Math Studies and Senior Portfolio an opportunity to combine their artistic skills with math and technology in the art of claymation. Students will learn to create the human figure from clay armatures using specific dimensions derived from their research of the High Renaissance and the works of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.

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