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Linda Beiler - Crafts: fiber artist
2140 Beaver Dam Road
Honey Brook PA 19344
(610) 273-2784
Age Range for Residencies: Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Adult
Artist Statement:
As a straw artist, I am part of a continuance of an ancient folk art celebrating the harvest. Wheat weaving, as it is called in America, is the art of plaiting straw into designs. A residency combines teaching wheat weaving experience for students and teachers while sharing the history of straw and society. Age old skills would be conveyed to a new generation who would gain an appreciation for the natural beauty of wheat and its importance to our every day life.
I am a juried member of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen and a member of the National Association of Wheat Weavers
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Barbara Bullock - Visual Arts: painter
250 W Harvey Street
Philadelphia PA 19144
(215) 848-5657
Age Range for Residencies: Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Adult, Senior
Artist Statement:
My artwork impacts on discovery, response, and experimentation. My work is about connections and retentions. Shaped paintings give me the freedom to define statements I whish to make. They are direct conversations with the viewer. Juxtaposition of shapes, color, texture coalesce into statements formed from memory. Working with collage I see people as layers of stories, habitats and places of energies the stimulus is research, travel, experimentation, painting, teaching and exploring new materials.
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Craig Czury - Literature: writer/poet
914 Leiszs Bridge
Reading, PA 19605
(610) 921-0216
craigczury@gmail.com
Age Range for Residencies: Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Adult, Senior
Artist Statement:
I believe you can't teach writing until you teach seeing. I like to remind participants that it's information through our senses that creates how we're feeling whether it's something that has immediately happened to us, something we heard about around us, or far away, or maybe just what the suns doing. Seeing from The Dark Behind My Eyes, Looking at the Lines in My Hand I See..., Listening to the Air Inside My Ears, These are the titles of stream of consciousness writing exercises I developed to allow out minds to open and visualize our lives. To see ourselves then write: poems, multi-voice poem fusion, mixed media poetry murals, bilingual/intergenerational poem opera, developing our voice to speak to ourselves clearer. Very Special Arts-LD and ESL "at-risk" students, detention centers, emergency and homeless shelters, prisons, hospitals, senior citizen centers.
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Tina Davidson - Music: composer
216 East Market Street
Marietta, PA 17547
(717) 426-1309; Fax: (717) 426 2488
www.tinadavidson.com
tina@tinadavidson.com
Age Range for Residencies: Middle, Secondary, Adult, Senior
Artist Statement:
"Nationally acclaimed composer and educator, Tina Davidson, is passionate in supporting everyone to partake of the most creative part of music making-the writing of music. Young Composers, her multi-session residency, teaches students to make their own instruments, write their own music, rehearse and perform their works for the school community. The host teachers gain hands-on experience with a model curriculum that can then be shared with their colleagues and the larger student population. "Young Composers is intriguing and productive. Watching the program has informed me and changed my own teaching practices. I would recommend Young Composers as an excellent and unique opportunity for children to experience first-hand musical composition and as a marvelous foray into the world of creativity and disciplined self-expression."
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Tracey Davis - Dance: choreographer
1314 Deer Lane
Lancaster PA 17601
(717) 898-9870
Age Range for Residencies: Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Adult, Senior
Artist Statement:
I believe that dance is truly for everyone and all who move are dancers. Through movement we express our ideas and learn new ways to communicate. By opening a dialogue that is tolerant and encouraging of new and unique ideas we can begin to better understand the world around us. As a professional dancer and choreographer I use movement to share my interpretations and thoughts with audiences. In the classroom we can use movement experiences to tie into any curricular topic and enhance the kinesthetic understanding of the subject matter. Through a gentle investigation of the creative process students of all ages with interact with one another and their environment while experiencing their own world physically and intelligently.
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Barbara DeCesare - Literature: poet
barbara@emster.com
www.emster.com/BarbaraDeCesare/
Age Range for Residencies: Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Adult, Senior
Artist Statement:
What some people may call the soul, I believe art is within us. For some, that art is accounting. Or pinball. Art is defined more by its function to the individual who practices it then by the standards traditionally held to define art. It is the tool that lifts us out of this world and into one where we feel we are our best selves. Without art, all we have is the world: the "real" world of appliances and back aches. I hope to give students the authority to accept art as a necessary and invaluable companion to this real world. A tool for survival, not fluff or a side dish. No one should endure a life void of his or her best self.
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Charlie DelMarcelle - Theatre: actor
640 Locust St.
Lebanon, PA 17042
(717) 615-6726
Age Range for Residencies: Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Adult
Artist Statement:
I offer residencies focusing on play-building, Shakespeare, world theatre, expressive movement and curriculum specific performance projects co-created with the host organization. Students will be exposed to new forms of self-expression while learning the importance of cooperation, community, and cultural aesthetics. The creative process stimulates the mind, empowers the student, and offers opportunities to integrate curriculums. Performance builds self-esteem and unified student ensembles. Oh yeah...it's a lot of fun too.
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Angela Dohrmann - Theatre: actor
Please contact through AIE coordinator
Age Range for Residencies: Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Adult, Senior
Artist Statement:
I am a classically trained actress. I began my professional career playing Shakespeare, and then became a member of Second City where I wrote and performed sketch comedy. The exposure from the popular company led to television offers. I acted in a variety of television roles, including Nash Bridges, The Drew Carey Show and Seinfeld. I currently perform improvisational comedy with a local troupe, writing for stage, and learning the art of radio production with the goal of creating an original show. Whether you are the joke writer or the joke receiver, humor is a powerful and healing tool. I also believe that the ability to act, to play someone else, is not some lofty, exclusive secret reserved only for "the gifted." Granted, to be a great actor requires certain rare talents; however, one needs to simply observe a group of preschoolers at play to realize that we are all born with capability to pretend.
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Terri A. Durden - Literature: writer/poet
836 E. Orange St.
Lancaster PA 17602
(717) 481-7935
Age Range for Residencies: Middle, Secondary, Adult, Senior
Artist Statement:
Art and I are one. Why? Because it is the rhythm of my life. Together we make the music of the earth?the heartbeat that unites us all. Combining arts and education is invaluable. Together they removed the boundaries that would otherwise inhibit expression, growth, freedom and consequently learning. The arts are a cross-generational cultural and socio-economic form of expression. It is rewarding to share this gift that I have. I believe that I have a lot to offer up coming artists in the community at large. They can share their discovered creativity and keep art alive! In the school of life there are many lessons to be learned and I have learned them well. Let the creativity begin!
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Joel Gori - Theatre: movement
146 Valley Drive
Reading, PA 19606
(610) 406-0471
Age Range for Residencies: Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Adult, Senior
Artist Statement:
My workshops allow students to experience the physically expressive and imaginative world of the actor and theatre; improvisation, characterization, acting, pantomime, mime techniques and communication skills. Intrinsically, theatre as the vehicle develops divergent, flexible, original and elaborate thinking; fluency, concentration, risk-taking, problem solving and builds self-esteem. In a residency, students experience how the theatre artist works, views the world and learns to create theatre as apart of an ensemble. Determined by student population and length of the residency, students create theatre through improvisation, story drama, literature or writing.
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Judeth Pekala Hawkins - Visual Arts: painter
160 Bruce Road
Airville, PA 17302
(717) 862-3004
Age Range for Residencies: Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Adult, Senior
Artist Statement:
As a painter I am incredibly engaged in work that uses my own life as inspiration and I am excited to assist others in using this most renewable and accessible resource. The opportunities I have had to mentor students of varied ages have been fulfilling and learning experiences for me; a place where real exchange occurs. Little compares to igniting a spark in someone, encouraging their exploration, and witnessing their development. I most enjoy sharing the idea of painting as journaling and also find the creation of mosaics and mandala to be wonderful group activities where all ages and abilities flourish.
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Marilyn Hazelton - Literature: poet
2740 Andrea Dr.
Allentown, PA 18103
(610) 433-4542
Age Range for Residencies: Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Adult, Senior
Artist Statement:
Poetry makes sense of the world. Putting words one after the other into rhythm, line, stanza, and poem educates and celebrates the lives of the students. I teach in elementary, middle and high schools, in colleges, in facilities for adjudicated youth and incarcerated women, in transitional housing for mentally ill men and women. The themes I work with include: historical and contemporary Japanese, Native American and other American poetries, as well as concrete, or visual poetry. I believe that reading and writing poetry has the power to connect us to our lives, to each other's lives, and to make us whole.
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Dave Holt, Blues in the Schools - Music: blues musician
New Orleans, LA
www.daveholtband.com
Age Range for Residencies: Elementary, Middle, Secondary
Artist Statement:
My Blues in the Schools program is a study of the Blues, a truly original form of American music which expresses our deepest human emotions. We trace the roots of Blues music back to Africa, following it as it crossed the Atlantic Ocean on slave ships and then as it evolved into a variety of musical art forms (blues, jazz, rock and roll, rap, etc) that today pervade the American culture. Students would be exposed to many Blues legends through various mediums as well as my own live performing which draws on 30 years of professional experience. This is a multi-discipline study that covers art, music, history, social studies, geography and more. Moreover it addresses issues like the color line, diversity, multi-culturalism and interdisciplinary studies in a way that engages all aged students.
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Laura Howell - Theatre: actor
305 North West End Avenue
Lancaster, PA 17603
(717) 399-9385
Age Range for Residencies: Middle, Secondary, Adult, Senior
Artist Statement:
As a theatre professional, I am fully aware of the life-changing positive influences this art form can have on students of all ages. I have been a witness, a participant and a facilitator of this countless times. I believe specifically in the power of Shakespeare to unleash students' creativity and thereby open up a world of possibilities for them. To truly come alive, Shakespeare must be spoken - must be experienced. The deep understand and empowerment students gain as they learn how to decipher his texts, act his words and explore his characters not only enhances their intellectual and creative growth but also encourages their growth as empathetic human beings. Respect and trust are integral to the successful experience as they learn to value and depend on each other - not just on themselves. Thus the joy of working in the theatre enhances their lives for years to come.
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Thomas J. Jolin - Music: musician
596 Orchard Road
Orrtanna, PA 17353
(717) 642-8053
Age Range for Residencies: Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Adult, Senior
Artist Statement:
During residencies, students enjoy a complete immersion into folk music including instrument building, folk dancing, song writing and performance on the newly made instruments. The school selects which instruments the students will make: hammer dulcimer, bowed psaltery or mountain dulcimer. The school keeps the student made instruments for future music education and as a legacy. All instrument makers clearly sign the instruments as an historic record. As a performer for over 35 years, I present an opening concert, performing on the hammer dulcimer, mountain dulcimer, button accordion, bowed psalter and banjo. I've recorded six albums. As an instrument maker for over 25 years, I give generous compliments to the students for their work. A final hoedown concert is held in which the students dance, sing and perform on their new student made instruments. They always feel very satisfied with their accomplishments.
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Kevin Lehman - Visual Arts: sculptor
560 S. Prince Street
Lancaster PA 17603
(717) 509-7547
www.Klpottery.com
Age Range for Residencies: Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Adult, Senior
Artist Statement:
Creativity is the essence of art. An open mind's boundless imagination provides unlimited possibilities for creation: a concept given form by the creative process and the technical skills of an artist. The process is flexible and begins with an idea that is developed through brainstorming, thumbnail sketches, and finally a detailed drawing; this drawing is used as a blueprint for construction. When fabrication begins, one must tolerate deviation from the original plan because of the serendipitous nature of the creative process. The building process itself can generate new ideas and interesting developments that potentially can change the final result. Working with clay, participants in the residency program will expand and challenge their minds and develop an understanding and appreciation of this creative process.
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Shalya Marsh- Visual Arts: sculptor
342 Nevin Street
Lancaster, PA 17603
(717) 290-8048
www.shalyamarsh.com
Age Range for Residencies: Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Adult
Artist Statement:
Art is fun. The visual arts help people learn and strengthen their thinking process. My goal is to help unleash instinctive creativity, expressive ideas, and create interdisciplinary connections that encourage exploration and exposure to new working methods and materials. Teaching in the community and in school settings has provided me the resources to enable participants to articulate ideas in a variety of ways through ceramics, sculpture, photography, textiles, music and mixed media. Workshops can be tailored to each school or organizations individual needs. My focus is on giving participants the opportunity to communicate and express ideas, explore their imaginations, observe the world around them and discover their personal identity and culture.
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Teresa Mastrobuono - Theatre: actor
230 South Spruce Street
Lititz, PA 17543
(717) 626-8108
Age Range for Residencies: Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Adult
Artist Statement:
Theater is the magician's art. It is the act of crating something out of nothing. With a phrase, a series of gestures, or a pointed glance, an entire new world can be created. This is the power of imagination. Theater affirms the possibility of being able to make the imaginary real. It empowers, emboldens, gives rise to the notion that perhaps your own world is one completely of your own creation. So the most important concept I endeavor to impart is: imagine well, and make your life look like your imagination.
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Barbara Pearson - Dance: choreographer
405 Center Street
Bethleham, PA 18018
(610) 866-0516
www.barbarapearson.com
Age Range for Residencies: Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Adult, Senior
Artist Statement:
I am trained in ballet and modern dance, and have done extensive research in historic and ethnic dance forms. I teach the basic elements of dance and choreography, with emphasis on getting students to create and find meaning in their own original work. As part of my residency I do workshops with the school staff to give them new skills to use in the classroom, and to plan integrated units and decide on assessment methods.
BA Carleton College; MALS Movement Studies, Wesleyan University; Graduate Howard Gardner Institute, Harvard University; Recipient; Distinguished Service Award, dance forum of the Lehigh Valley; and Appreciation Award, PASHPERD; founding director Lehigh Valley arts-in-education Coalition; choreographed for Touchstone Theatre and Pennsylvania Youth Theatre; choreographs and performs an member of "Two in Time", a duo that recreates Historical social dance; does Multiple Intelligence Workshops and teacher training.
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Christine Perrin - Literature: writer/poet
2343 North Second Street
Harrisburg, PA 17110
(717) 234-8903
Age Range for Residencies: Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Adult, Senior
Artist Statement:
Poet Allen Grossman said in an interview "I am convinced that the greater function of poetry (if there can be a greater function than to bring people to discourse one with the other) is the keeping of the images of persons as precious in the world." This expresses why I've spent and spend my days attempting to make living artifacts of words and experience and have tried to teach others the value of doing the same.
Christine Perrin attended The Johns Hopkins University for her BA in Literature and Writing Seminars. At the University of Maryland she earned and MFA. Since then she has taught at Messiah College and currently at Johns Hopkins. She teaches poetry and fiction. She has published poems recently in The New England Review, TriQuarterly, Agni, and Mars Hill. She is reccipient of a fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Academy of American Poets Prize. She has received a scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and worked on staff for the past two years. She has taught students of all ages.
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Patricia Scialo - Visual Arts: photographer
1228 Cleveland Avenue
Wyomissing, PA 19610
(610) 374-8456
www.patriciascialo.com
Age Range for Residencies: Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Adult, Senior
Artist Statement:
My goal is to help students to express their ideas in a form that would heighten their creativity and enhance visual awareness. Through the camera's eye (a view-finding tool) the students learn to focus on things such as light, shadow, form, and texture. Photography is a magical process that enriches a child's world of seeing and can possibly initiate a lifelong exploration.
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Mimi Shapiro - Interdisciplinary Arts: book artist and poet
239 North Concord Street
Lancaster PA 17603
(717) 390-2606
www.mimiartz.com
Age Range for Residencies: Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Adult, Senior
Artist Statement:
A book arts residency is an exciting time to learn something new. It stretches art and poetry, the book form is a container that holds words and images, it differs from other more conventional books because it is an experience about itself. It is a portable art exhibit, about relationships, between the pages, between thoughts and dreams, between images and the maker, the book and reader. It is a three-dimensional object, with light, space and linear movement. We will make books from a single sheet of paper, sew a binding and incorporate poetry. Explore words and creativity, how this visual, tactile object comes alive. The visual arts offer the opportunity to be successful and is basic to the idea of educating the whole person. Art helps all other thinking processes, perception becomes fine tuned, the student invents the answer. With one advantage-book arts is also fun.
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Bill Wood - Storyteller
119 Edgehill Avenue
West Grove PA 19390
(610) 869-7575
www.billwoodstoryteller.com
Age Range for Residencies: Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Adult, Senior
Artist Statement:
I believe creativity is philosophy and a way of life that can be learned and practiced. We are all creative in our own way! I also believe that art is play! In residencies I begin by setting up the playing field. This means teaching about the basic structure and form of stories. Next we establish the rules of play. Some of these rules pertain to respect for each individual's ideas, others follow from specific goals of the residency. From there the possibilities are endless! I like projects in which storytelling is used to support or enhance other work being done by the host organization, such as: bridging generational gaps, instilling respect for the environment, bring history to life, using stories for therapy or self discovery, or (fill in your idea).
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Fulton Theatre - Theatre: actor
Fulton Opera House
P.O. Box 1865
Lancaster, PA 17608
(717) 394-7133
www.atthefulton.org
Age Range for Residencies: Elementary, Middle, Secondary
Artist Statement:
Since 1976, the Actors’ Company of Pennsylvania has produced award-winning work designed to entertain and challenge young minds with theater of the highest artistic merit. All of our educational work centers around moments of direct experience – active, hands-on instruction in which ideas are explored together by students, their teachers, and facilitating theater professionals in residencies designed collaboratively with host populations (which have included “at-risk,” deaf, and blind students). Our intent is to teach not only about our art, but about what our art can teach. Theater Arts education can and should introduce the pleasure of esthetic experiences, enhance basic learning of all kinds, foster the sorts of skills that characterize our most complex adult like tasks, and build both community spirit and cultural awareness.
We conduct residencies in theater arts for all grade levels, with a four-fold goal: (1) to engage all students in active and diverse modes of thinking and learning, building creative problem-solving skills, (2) to reach those who are otherwise disempowered by providing alternative gateways to understanding and achievement, (3) to promote arts-integration in the curriculum, and (4) demonstrate the intrinsic value of theater in the lives of children
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Bells & Motley Olden Music, Dance, and Storytelling
Contact: Sondra Bromka, John Bromka
2 North Street
Marcellus NY 13108
(315) 673-2995; cell (315) 263-8640
www.bellsandmotley.com
Age Range for Residencies: Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Adult, Senior
Artist Statement:
Authors, Musicians, Artists, Historians, and Educators have 25 years' experience infusing the arts into curriculum. Performances, workshops, and multidisciplinary residency themes include Medieval, Renaissance, and American Heritage Music, Dance, and Literature. Language Arts programs include Song and Playwriting, Dramatic Storytelling Arts; Oral Literature and Balladry; Book Arts, Manuscript Illumination, and Calligraphy. Musical storytelling and theater performances and workshops range in scale from creating participatory folkloric tales to operettas to thematic pageants. Custom residencies; arts integration teacher consultancies offered.
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Hilltop Studio - Visual Arts: mosaic artists
Beverly Leviner and Nancy Sarangoulis
1343 Cross Keys Road
Reading PA 19605
(610) 926-3225
Age Range for Residencies: Middle, Secondary, Adult, Senior
Artist Statement:
In 1994, Nancy Sarangoulis and Beverly Leviner founded Hilltop Studio. Nancy brought a keen sense of sensitivity to color and adventurous imagery. Beverly, a sculptor and ceramic artist brought ideas of process and dynamic forms. Together they began exploring the possibilities of tiles, mosaics and murals as decorative and architectural forms. Their vision involves bringing art to the public domain, using education as part of the vehicle to express the creative energy of a community. Their experience has proven this possible.
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Imani Edu-Tainer African Dance Co. - Dance: choreographer
720 Third Street
Lancaster PA 17603
(717) 397-5124
www.imaniafricandance.org
Age Range for Residencies: Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Adult, Senior
Artist Statement:
Founded in 1992 by Sonya Mann-McFarlane, Imani Edu-Tainers African Dance Company's mission is to promote the celebration of African traditions and culture through dance, drumming, educational workshops and other cultural enrichment activities. Further the goal of the organization is to acquire and provide training, education and cultural enrichment in the African traditions to residents Lancaster County and surrounding communities. A particular emphasis is placed on youth participation. Imani offers African dance and drumming classes to children between the ages of 5-18. Community classes in dance and drum are also offered to adults. The mission of the organization is embodied in its name and logo, "Imani - meaning faith and "eau-tain" - educational as well as entertaining. The symbol of the "Akuaba" doll represents health children and "eau-tain" describes our goal, which is to provide training, education and cultural activities in the traditions of West Africa. Our motto is "A people without faith in their youth is like a tree without roots".
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Shakespeare Face to Face: Theater of the Seventh Sister -
Theatre: Shakespeare
PO Box 276,
Lancaster PA 17608
(717) 396-7764
www.seventhsister.com
Age Range for Residencies: Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Adult, Senior
Artist Statement:
Shakespeare Face-to-Face is a perfect introduction to the works of Shakespeare. Actors give the text life while the students personally engage with the characters and circumstances of the chosen play. The arch of Romeo & Juliet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth or Hamlet (in development) is presented. A narrator provides continuity focusing on the characterÿs decisions and the resulting consequences that build the play. The students then create/write parallel scenarios, decision by decision. They rehearse the alternative plays and present them to the class/school. These can then be used as a basis for writing a simple verse drama. Using this technique the students are provided a personal entry port into the charactersÿ perspectives, their decision-making processes and the play itself. Other residencies (including Elementary) can be created.
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YorkArts Mosaic Visions Team - Visual Arts: mosaic artists
10 N. Beaver Street
York PA 17401
(717) 848-3200
www.yorkarts.org
Age Range for Residencies: Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Adult, Senior
Artist Statement:
Mosaics are metaphors. They can show us the value of the individual and
the beauty of the multitude. Tiles of all colors, shapes and sizes held
tight by a common bond comes together to form a stunning display greater
then the sum of its parts. Mosaics are inclusive, allowing participants
of all ages and abilities to contribute to a progress that empowers them
by turning their ideas into a permanent work of art that reflects vision
and hard work.
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