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 2010-2011 school year a grant from The Roger L. Kresge Foundation will provide additional funds to support projects in Broome County. We are grateful to the Foundation for its' 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.

NEWS:

Arts Partners has recieved funding again this year from the New York Council on the Arts!

While funding is down from last year we are so pleased that our politicians kept the Arts as a priority in NYS!

We are proud to announce the following schools have been awarded grants last year:

2009/2010 ARTS PARTNERS’ MATCHING GRANT AWARDS
Total Awarded: $16,378

Woodrow Wilson Elementary School: “Planting Ideas, Growing Good Things to Read” Working with author/illustrator Suzanne Bloom, 2nd grade students will create original poems gleaned from the natural beauty of the Woodrow Wilson edible garden. Master Gardeners will host the students at Cornell Cooperative Extension to view and interact with the public gardens with particular emphasis on the natural and organic ornamentation of the gardens.

Calvin Coolidge Elementary School: “1st Grade Body Beats” Body Beats is an integrated arts project designed to foster first grade students’ ideas about what makes them special and unique through poetry and percussive rhythm. Percussive artist, Chris Adams will join the first grade team to set class generated poems to rhythm and motion by using a variety of creative body beats.

Candor Elementary School: “Storytelling Around the World”  This project will provide students with the opportunity to work with Beauty & the Beast Storytellers and 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.

Horace Mann Elementary School: “Aesop Comes Alive!”  Under the direction and with the help of Storyteller Eileen Ruggieri, students will learn and interpret fables, and will create imaginative masks to help them present the tales to students and families. Students will entertain at our Storytelling Celebration with three-dimensional props, and will help to spread the life lessons of Aesop’s fables.

St John the Evangelist School: “Commemorative Mosaic Mural: 60 Years of Dreaming, Believing and Achieving!”  Students will work with artist Yvonne Lucia in learning the process of creating a mosaic wall mural and work as an entire school to complete the mural. Students will also learn the history of mosaic murals, especially mosaics in Cathedrals. The eighth grade will be responsible for the design of the mural focusing on the school’s 60th anniversary and mission statement.

Ben Franklin Elementary School: “Folktale Fantasia” This is an integrated arts project designed to immerse students in the genre of folktales through a unique blend of storytelling and tile art. Working with Regi Carpenter and Annemarie Zwack, second graders will craft and perform an original Binghamton folktale, and create an outdoor touchable tile mosaic to visually accompany it.

First Presbyterian Nursery School: “Jazz Tales” A local musical family will collaborate to bring Jazz to life through the dramatization of favorite fairy tales. Lesson plans will use jazz music to demonstrate drumming, patterning, vocal improvisation through scat singing and syllabication and large motor movement. Children will chose four different fairy tales to dramatize using jazz music as a backdrop and vocalizations they have learned to depict characters in the story.

Chenango Bridge Elementary School: “Bridging the gap between Fitness and Dance” This project will help students maintain, improve, and strengthen their personal health by using the skills and physical activities that a physical education and a dance education can provide. Dance can offer the students an opportunity to achieve components of health related fitness, to be creative, to be expressive, and to gain respect for the body by seeing beauty in movement.

Seton Catholic Central High School: “The Enchantment of Fairy Tales, Myths & Music” Students will define myth and fairy tale and then explore the marriage of text and music by studying the Opera version of Hansel & Gretel by Composer Engelbert Humperdink. Critical thinking skills will be applied when comparing and contrasting two very different productions of the opera: one at our own Tri-Cities Opera and another at The Metropolitan Opera Co. in NYC.

The new application is not yet available for 2010-11year but you can still download the application as a planning tool. The application is available for download by clicking on the link below.

2009-2010 Arts Partners LCB Application
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.

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

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.