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In
addition to the full-day school, Children's Studio School programs
include:
City
As Studio© is a summer
program of research, investigation, design, creation and analysis.
For six weeks of full-day sessions, participants three to
eleven years old work with architects, writers, visual and
performing artists to explore the life and history of the
Washington, DC area. Children function as urban planners,
historians, composers and poets, and grapple with concepts of
mathematics, physics and structure to create their own urban
designs, reconstructions, and performances.
After 4 Studio and Early
Light Studio are held throughout the year.
In these studios children are engaged in experiencing and
manifesting their ideas through many art disciplines, guided by
community artists.
Evening and Weekend Studios are ongoing community studios
taught by diverse community artists. Parents and their children
are engaged in an artistic process that guides them to develop new
forms for the expression of their ideas and dilemmas in one or
more arts disciplines. Working
in the school’s Arts As Education pedagogy, artists/teachers
guide adults in exploring their own arts processes and
proclivities. Parents
also learn how to become involved in their children’s education
and identify new and effective approaches for interaction with
each other.
Community
Performances in music, dance, poetry and theatre are held
throughout the year.
If you have any questions about these Artists and Families
programs, and Artists and Communities programs, contact studio
school at info@studioschool.org.
For more information about the Artists and Communities
programs (Evening and Weekend Studios), contact Lisa Richards
at APT@studioschool.org.
Community Studios
Partially subsidized studios are available for visual and
performing artists and architects who wish to support the community.
Contact Marcia McDonell at studischool@studioschool.org
for more information.
Potomac
Anacostia Ultimate Story Exchange (PAUSE) is an email mentoring
program, founded by Dr.
Carolivia Herron, that links young creative writers with adult
mentors. Volunteers
from civic and community groups critique and encourage the
students’ writings by email to heighten their love of community,
self-confidence, and language and computer literacy skills.
Epic
Paths: Children’s
Studio School has initiated a two-year partnership with Martin
Luther King Jr. Elementary School (MLK), with the “epic path”
as the conceptual tool. Led by Dr. Carolivia Herron, this program will
employ oral compositions, writing and other artistic
disciplines to enrich language experiences of children and thus
increase their verbal, writing and reading skills. The epic literary genre encourages young learners to create
personal and group epics by weaving their own stories (and naturally weaving into them all
academic disciplines).
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