Literacy Through The Arts.com
HAVING FUN AND SOMETHING TO SHOW FOR IT!
Literacy Through The Arts
All projects begin and end with writing.
CO- CREATED AND CO-DIRECTED BY: Matt Sullivan, Composer, Musician, Educator Ken Cro-Ken, Ecosystem Painter, Videographer, Educator
We created the .com with the phrase many are now considering
as the method of choice within contemporary education strategies.
Matt Sullivan and Ken Cro-Ken have successfully joined forces creating inter-disciplinary and multi-media LITERACY THROUGH THE ARTS projects for over a decade for public and private organizations.
(Students from SONGCATCHERS- New Rochelle, N.Y. & a photo taken in North
East Pa., w/ a wooden painting by Ken Cro-Ken placed in the
foreground.)
1) For students to realize the need to develop the Language Arts Skills
2) For participants to realize that education can actually serve as a form of entertainment.
KEN CRO-KEN - VISUAL ARTIST, COMPOSER
MATT SULLIVAN - OBOIST, COMPOSER
OON HAND ARE: Guest Musicians, Composers, Visual Artists, Writers, Filmmakers, Technicians...
DINA ALEXANDER - BROADWAY COMPOSER, SOUND ENGINEER, MUSIC TEACHER
JAMES BERRY- TECHNICAL ENGINEER, COMPOSER
QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS, ARTS-IN-RESIDENCE, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
For more information about WHO WE ARE, please click on the link below:
* Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts,
(Rated in the top ten nationally by Time magazine
as one of the most creative Arts programs.)
* The Songcatchers of New Rochelle,
* Downtown After 3 Club (DA3), an after school program created after the events
of 9/11 for two high schools one block south of the former World Trade Center.
(The H.S. of Economics and Finance, The H.S. for Leadership and Public Service)
* Summer Institute for Jazz, w/ The Westchester Chamber Orchestra
Here are some of the creative projects you can begin to choose from:
* The Nature of Sight and Sound
includes creating a video; using the visual composition to compose the music.
* Video Production
includes script writing, poetry, songs, narrative, open forum discussion...
* Multimedia Events
Creating a visual composition that includes music and/or voice.
* The Gallery Experience
Learning every aspect of presenting and promoting an exhibition:
make art, writing a theme and artist statement, promo art and text layout,
and then the physical preparation for and have a gallery show in Manhattan.
* Literacy Through Nature
Becoming Investigative Researchers and then Investigative Reporters,
it's inhabitants,
and memorizes their information. Next, they practice
(and/or a small group),
Students learn individually and then decide collectively:
and then the conclusion. Finally, participants consider how to market their project/product with photographs,
drawings and a brief description that will be used to create the front and back cover
By learning every experience from concept to product, students
and the potential that exists for them to be more self-empowered
Our professional artists, musicians
and experienced teachers will bring at least three important components to succeed in education and beyond:
* A feeling that one can be
self-empowered by developing talents
* Knowledge about how to
turn projects into products - (Bridging the gap between the academic world and the “real” world.
* and a transference of passion!
Interdisciplinary and multimedia projects reveal the connections between all things.
No organization is too big or too small.
All projects are tailored to meet the curriculum standards and the budget of each organization.
Time offers participants the luxury of "living with a thought" over time.
Parents and teachers will be proudly surprised but not nearly as much as the students.
We can assist your teaching staff as they too will become more inspired!
It will transform a student of any age into a young philosopher who not only understands the world better, they understand themselves more.
and offers clear choices of WHO to be in life. Some of the words we offer help them to make sense of the world and eventual choices they will have to make in life.
If they can say: Super-calla-fragilistic-expy-ala-docious,
They can learn words like: pragmatic and dogmatic.
Give them big words and they will eat it up!!!
What is a white collar and blue collar worker? (Both described with equal respect.)
Our vocabulary list and the awakened powers of talent will have all of your students become empowered beyond belief.
Who and what they are to become is one and the same choice.
Soon we will have a video detailing our program for the NATURE OF SIGHT AND SOUND,
*"Earth-Alert", a student based music video
&
*"OPEN FORUM"discussion on encoding and decoding within the art making process.
The average age of participants in this OPEN FORUM was 13 y.o., and they will surprise you!
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The Nature of Sight and Sound
"Why things look the way they sound and sound the way they look."
Earth Science, Language Arts, Music, Visual Arts,
History and even Math can be brought together.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson said: Our history is directly related to Natural History.)
CLICK ON THE NATURE OF SIGHT & SOUND TAB BELOW
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT A SCIENCE COMPONENT TO
LITERACY THROUGH THE ARTS!!!
http://literacythroughthearts.com/NATURE_OF_SIGHT___SOUND.html
*Guest musicians, artists, filmmakers, writers...
Such as, Quintet of the Americas
www.quintet.org
ALSO HAVE A LOOK AT THE "WHO WE ARE" TAB
TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR CORE TEAM.
Let the learning and fun begin!!!
Remember, no organization is too big or too small.
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