Next Arts Task Force Meeting

...Will be at the Onteora Middle School/High School in Boiceville, on Thursday February 18th, at 4pm. We will be meeting in Room 121C, the Visions 21 room; when you come in from the car park it's on the left hand side, just past the Auditorium. Feel free to leave agenda suggestions below.

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PHOENICIA ELEMENTARY… On Wednesday, January 20, the winter concert featured a premier performance by the Phoenicia Jazz Band. Mr.Laks and Mr. Schubert teamed up this year to put together a jazz band, and the school aims for jazz to remain a strong addition to the music program. Justin Kolb has signed on to do a one day residency at Phoenicia Elementary School compliments of Kids In The Kaatskills. The scheduled date is Friday, Feb 26 with a snow date of Friday, March 19.
BENNETT ELEMENTARY…Retired Bennett teacher (for 40 years!) Rudy Hellenschmidt does a residency on art history with sixth grade social studies students. Hellenschmidt does a session on each major social studies unit, and by the end of sixth grade, students can name the three types and sizes of sculpture, tell the differences between old and new Greek pottery, can distinguish a Greek sculpture from a Roman copy, and know about vanishing points, perspective, and why fresco painting is an unforgiving art.
MIDDLE SCHOOL …Eighth grade students read and performed the screenplay To Kill a Mockingbird by Horton Foote in their English classes. They will follow this up by attending a performance of To Kill a Mockingbird on March 17 at the Capital Repertory Theater in Albany. Selected students will then reenact a scene from the play during the Battle of the Books Final Four in April.
MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL… Justin Kolb, and Mikhail Horowitz Perform February 4, 7:30 pm in the newly-refurbished Harry Simon auditorium on 4166 State Route 28, Boiceveille, NY. Mr. Kolb is also a popular speaker on music education. No tickets required. Admission is Free.

WEBPOSIUM for Teaching Artists to learn more about the challenges and success of working with disabled students, followed by Q&A

GRANT WRITING WORKSHOP via the SUNY Center for Professional Development
When: March 4-5, 2010
Time: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Location: SUNY New Paltz
Prerequisites: No prior grant writing experience is required to attend
Day 1 or Both Days. Some experience or knowledge of the grant writing
process is required for those electing to attend only Day 2.
QUESTIONS? Contact the SUNY Center for Professional Development by phone
at 315-233-3052 x-112 or email: jmarshall@cpd.suny.edu

GRANT for organizations through the National Endowment for the Arts

CONFERENCE at Crowne Plaza Hotel in Albany, NY. CommonGround, to be held March 24-26, 2010, is the annual New York State arts-in-education conference that brings over 150 administrators, teachers, teaching artists, and community members together for three days of policy setting, planning, exchange of skills and inspirational speakers. This gathering contributes to fresh curriculum design, school reform and new models for classroom learning.

This year the NYS Alliance for Arts Education will be serving as the lead organizer of the conference, working in collaboration with the Empire State Partnerships, Capital Region BOCES, the NYS Department of Education, the BOCES Arts in Education Network, and the Association of Teaching Artists.

Dutchess County Arts Council

A reminder that grant applications are due on March 11, and that a local workshop on the application process is being held at the Woodstock-Byrdcliffe Guild at 34 Tinker Street, in Woodstock on Feb 11, at 4pm.

Arts Task Force Update and Next Meeting

Our meetings are held on the third Thursday of the month and so we will be meeting on Thursday January 21st, at 4pm as usual but this time in the Visions 21 room, which is Room 121C, in the main hall off the car park, opposite the conference room. This will give us all a chance to learn more about the High School's Visions 21 program and to welcome those teachers into the Arts Task Force.

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