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 2007/2008 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.

Grant Information Session
May 14th at The Discovery Center 4-5:30pm

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Arts Partners is pleased to announce the Arts-in-Education grants awarded for the 2007-2008 school year:

2007/2008 ARTS PARTNERS’ MATCHING GRANT AWARDS
Total Awarded: $20,300

Candor High School, Candor Central Schools: “Metal Sculpture: Plasma Designs” Art and Technology students will collaborate on a three dimensional sculpture to be designed and then constructed using metal and a plasma cutter. The visiting artist Tino Ferro, who works as a sculptor in metal, will teach and assist the art and technology teachers with the project. The finished sculpture will be exhibited in the courtyard of the school.

Binghamton High School, Binghamton City Schools:  “Confluence Project” Students will investigate the watershed in Environmental Science; explore and express the interdependent relationship between the rivers and our lives through written and spoken word, art, music and film using the skills introduced by the Visual Thinking Strategy as taught by Katherine Bowman from the Roberson Museum; explore the concept of confluence as a physical reality and as a metaphor through the study of literature; engage in a study of memoir using the river as inspiration in collecting oral histories from local residents.  

Ben Franklin Elementary, Binghamton City Schools: “The Best Part of Me” Students will use book, “the Best Part of Me” by Wendy Ewald, as inspiration for the integration of creative writing and photography to self-express about their own “best parts”. Artist Yvonne Lucia will guide students through her artistic process to create works of art celebrating what makes each student special and unique.

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 hands-on art and science experience at the Corning Museum of Glass.

Vestal High School, Vestal Central School District:  “The Big Chief Animation Project, pt. 2” Art, Music and writing workshop students will bring their talents together for the creation of eight original animated films. Students will create an original story involving 2-3 original characters, sculpt props and design 3-D sets. Their task will be to send a message through animation, writing and music culminating into a final presentation of their completed DVD.

Columbus Learning Center, Broome-Tioga BOCES: “Visionary Self Portrait”. Students will learn to develop their own biographical stories into theme shaped poetry, while at the same time studying Faith Ringgold and her unique quilt painting style. The lesson plans and sessions with visiting artist Brookey Keeney, will lead to the completion of a large mural in the school that will visually reflect the students’ personal stories.

Candor High School, Candor Central Schools: “Speaking the Self” Students will create and tell authentic, personal stories and make masks using symbols from their lives. They will begin with maps as metaphors for a journey they choose that will develop into their story. Regi Carpenter will teach the art of storytelling and tell her stories as examples, while the English teacher will help students craft words for their stories and the art teacher will assist students in creating masks that have the story in symbols on them.

Roosevelt Elementary, Binghamton City Schools: “Break It and Make It” Fourth grade students, with the artistic guidance of local artist Yvonne Lucia, will work together to create a glass mosaic mural in the school library. The mural will celebrate the work of Faith Ringgold. Inspired by her storytelling the students will combine written expression and art on the mural.

Coolidge Elementary, Binghamton City Schools: “Flights of Fancy” is an integrative second grade unit that will inspire an appreciation of “flight” as both a physical and artistic experience. Teaching Artists Suzanne Bloom and Eleanor Ernest will collaborate on a six month process that will result in the creation of a garden aviary of birds of flight and fancy.

Wilson Elementary, Binghamton City Schools: “The Community Stomp” First and fifth grades will collaborate with percussionist Chris Adams to mine their home community to discover and collect the sights and sounds of their neighborhood. These “sound images” will be the basis of a percussion performance by the students for the rest of the school and the community.

Seton Catholic Central High School, “The Shakespeare Project” The Theater/Performing Arts Dept. will be performing two plays: Romeo & Juliet and West Side Story. In conjunction with these performances, the English Dept. students will be studying the socio-economic contrast and similarities between the two eras of the plays.

Chenango Bridge Elementary School, Binghamton City Schools: “The Art and Science of weaving Living Willow Structures.” Students at Chenango Bridge Elementary School will gain a deep understanding of how science applies to the art and craft of willow work, through the building of living willow structures on the school grounds with professional artist Bonnie Gale.

Click here to read more about the grants awarded for the 2006/2007 school year.

Click here to see the grants awarded for the 2005-2006 school year.

The 2007-2008 Arts Partners Application deadline has already passed but 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. The application for next year will be available in spring 2008.

2007-2008 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.