Arts Partners provides matching funds for Broome and Tioga County schools and cultural organizations for multi-day, well planned, curriculum integrated arts-in-education projects. This re-grant program is made possible with public funds from the Local Capacity Building (LCB) Initiative of The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and is administered by The Discovery Center.

Grants for classrooms pre-k through twelfth grade range from $750-$3000. For the 2008/2009 school year a grant from The Roger L. Kresge Foundation will provide additional funds to support projects in Broome County, and a grant from The Gannet Foundation will provide additional funds to support projects in both Counties. We are grateful to these Foundations for their support!

Arts Partners, and the New York State Council on the Arts, believe in fostering quality collaboration between artists and teachers for the purpose of expanding arts-in-education during the normal school day. Successful applications are for projects that have a minimum 3-day artist contact sessions with the same group of students (for first time projects) or 5 days for subsequent applications for a repeating project. These are matching grants and in-kind donations are allowed for a portion of the match.

Please attend this years Project Sharing
June 4th 4-6pm at The Discovery Center
This Project Sharing is open to the public.

Presentations will be made of this years granted projects.
There will also be time to visit all the grant projects to talk and network with the teachers and artists involved in this years grants.

Arts Partners is pleased to announce the Arts-in-Education grants that were awarded for the 2008-2009 school year:

2008/2009 ARTS PARTNERS’ MATCHING GRANT AWARDS
Total Awarded: $14,784

Candor Elementary School, Candor Central School District: “Storytelling Around the World.” Students will work with Beauty & the Beast Storytellers to learn how to tell stories from a variety of countries using vocal and facial expression, hand gestures, volume, and tempo. The storytelling project will motivate students to research their story’s country of origin.

Coolidge Elementary, Binghamton City Schools: “Street Beats” Students will express themselves and their connections to their environment through a variety of artistic mediums including poetry, music, and visual art. Teachers working with Artist Suzanne Bloom will immerse students in a rich variety of poetry created by artists of and/or inspired by the Harlem Renaissance. Students will draw upon their personal experience and their school and community cultures to craft original poetry.

Discovery Kids Preschool, UPK program. “Animals in Action” is a collaboration that will bring the world of animals to life for preschoolers. Students will enjoy 2 months of animal themed music classes then a visit from the Binghamton Zoo will provide the opportunity to see live animals and ask animal experts questions about the animals from our studies. The project culminates with the creation of animal masks that will be used during a performance for a featured First Friday event.

John Harshaw Primary School, Chenango Forks Central School District: “Poetry & Movement” 2nd grade students will explore different types and styles of Poetry. Each 2nd grade class will create and write their own class poem in their favorite style. To help deepen the understanding and interpretation of each poem, the students will collaborate with members of VIA Dance Collaborative to choreograph movements that enhance each class poem.

Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, Binghamton City Schools: “Childstory” is a project designed to captivate young children to learn about the lives of local children, past and present, through the art of storytelling and using the historical resources of The Phelps Museum. 2nd graders will work with Storyteller, Eileen Ruggieri to awaken the storytellers inside them.

Roosevelt Elementary, Binghamton City Schools: “Welcome Mosaic” Fourth grade students, with the artistic guidance of local artist Yvonne Lucia, will work together to create a public “Welcome Mosaic” for the school lobby. Students will use their math skills in measurement to plan the use of the space where the mural will be.

St. John School, Broome County Catholic Schools: “The Science of Sound” will enhance student learning by drawing connections between Science and Music as we explore pitch, vibration & resonance. This work will use Aesthetic Education to help students learn about themselves and become more keen listeners and questioners.

Vestal High School, Vestal Central School District:  “Creating Graphic Novels / Words to Images” During this project, student artists and authors will work with internationally recognized cartoonist/illustrator and author, Mark Schultz, to create short stories and produce artistic works in the form of graphic novels.

Woodrow Wilson Elementary, Binghamton City Schools: “Character Education Syncopation! ” The idea for Character Education Syncopation!, a dynamic multi-percussive performance, is inspired by the success of last year’s Community Stomp!  at Wilson School. The medium is rhythm and under the creative direction of percussionist, Chris Adams, students will be introduced to instrumental, vocal, and body created beats as the mode of expression. Students, teachers and artist will craft a performance linked to Wilson’s school wide Character Education curriculum.

Click here to read more about the grants awarded for the past few school years.

The 2008-2009 Arts Partners Application has passed for this year. The application is available for reference by clicking on the link below.
This will open in Word on your computer. To save a copy to apply with, use the FILE<SAVE AS command in your Word program. This document also includes the Project guidelines and budget information to help you fill out the application.

2008-2009 ARTS PARNERS APPLICATION

To view and download a “Promising Practice” from 2004/2005 projects click on the link below. The lesson is one designed for a pilot project to establish a permanent education program at The Discovery Center based on the “Umbrella” by Jan Brett.

PROMISING TEACHING PRACTICE

Grantees please download the Final Report here. Final Reports are Due June 30th. Thank You.