Literacy Through The Arts
CO-CREATED & CO-DIRECTED BY: MATT SULLIVAN, COMPOSER, MUSICIAN, EDUCATOR KEN CRO-KEN, EARTHWORK ARTIST, EDUCATOR All projects begin and end with writing.
HAVING FUN AND SOMETHING TO SHOW FOR IT!
Matt Sullivan and Ken Cro-Ken have successfully joined forces for well over a decade
to create interdisciplinary projects that thrive on the arts and multimedia.
Our interdisciplinary and multimedia projects reveal the connections between all things.
All projects are tailored to augment the core curriculum and work within the given budget of each organization. No organization is too big or too small. Together, our combination of professionals come together with yours to show the connections between human history, art/music history and natural history.
Exposure to writers such as, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and to artists, such as, Robert Smithson & Andy Goldsworthy
PHOTOS TAKEN BY
KEN CRO-KEN
KEN CRO-KEN IS AN EARTHWORK PAINTER WHO FOCUSES ON THE INVISIBLE FORCES THAT SHAPE AND MOLD ALL THINGS.
Using a unique palette that Cro-Ken created and developed over the last 30 years, he sets his "Speed Elements" paints into motion.
The video camera captures images that elude capture by the canvas as they transform and take on the behavior of nature close and far.
Just as a planet surface records a record of past events, so too does that Speed Element palette come to rest;
and therefore, more accurately could be called a "painted". It is the video that could more appropriately be called a "painting".
Participants learn to understand that all things are in a constant state of flux or change.
Modern art was often said to "reflect a moment in time".
WE WANT TO OFFER EVEN MORE!!!
Students learn to observe how nature and space appear but equally important, how it moves.
Emerson - "How something appears depends on how long one takes to observe."
MATT SULLIVAN & KEN CRO-KEN
AT SYMPHONY SPACE
- THE NEW YORK TIMES - Published: February 22, 2011 -
"The most unusual work I encountered was “Multiple Oneness,” an intriguing performance-art piece by
the oboist Matt Sullivan and the
painter Ken Cro-Ken. While Mr. Sullivan played a melancholy lament
over
recorded sounds, Mr. Cro-Ken poured liquids onto a canvas projected onto
a video screen.
The colorful liquids flowed through the painting’s
raised surfaces like yellow lava,
swirling in strange tandem with the oboe’s melancholy tunes."
- VIVIEN SCHWEITZER -
To see Ken Cro-Ken's earthwork videos and Matt Sullivan's TIME RELEASED PERFORMANCES
please go to this YOU TUBE link for a MULTIPLE ONENESS performance:
http://www.youtube.com/mattsullivanmusic
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT MATT AND KEN,
PLEASE CLICK ON EITHER NAME BELOW TO LINK TO THEIR SITES:
>>> MATT SULLIVAN <<<
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>>> KEN CRO-KEN <<<
LITERACY THROUGH THE ARTS
PLAY, EXPERIENCE EDUCATION AND LEARN SIMULTANEOUSLY.
"If we prefer our own ways over nature's, nature will not be slow in undeceiving us."
- RALPH WALDO EMERSON -
<<<HERE IS ONE OF OUR CLASSES IN ACTION>>> -
YOU TUBE VIDEO - "LITERACY THROUGH NATURE".
All of the Language Arts Standards is put into use as students go from
investigative researchers to investigative reporters.
http://www.youtube.com/kencroken#p/a/u/2/Qci6d873NJw
* The goal within our mission is to create engaging educational projects through the arts. Students will learn first hand, the importance to developing their Language Arts Standards while learning to create a bridge between the "art world", "academic world" and the "real world". The potential also exists for participants to become more self-empowered as they realize that creative intelligence can guide their ways for a more exciting, passionate and productive life.
Our affiliation with a host of local, national and international contemporary art and music venues can offer students insight into the professional world of the arts. There is an opportunity for students to also become more greatly aware of the potential that exists for anyone to be more creatively minded in every aspect of their education and future career choices.
OUR TEAM:
Our core team of professional musicians, artists, writers, etc... will share their talents and methods;
but what may be learned most is the powerful role passion can play in all that one does.
KEN CRO-KEN - EARTHWORK PAINTER & VIDEOGRAPHER, EDUCATOR
MATT SULLIVAN - OBOIST, COMPOSER, EDUCATOR
DINA ALEXANDER - BROADWAY COMPOSER, SOUND ENGINEER, MUSIC EDUCATOR
JAMES BERRY- TECHNICAL ENGINEER, COMPOSER, EDUCATOR
CATHERINE MCWEENEY - WRITER, EDITOR, EDUCATOR
QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS, ARTS-IN-RESIDENCE, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
(For more info. about WHO WE ARE, please click this link: www.literacythroughthearts.com/Who_We_Are.html )
Such as:
* 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, with The Westchester Chamber Orchestra
Creating a video; using the visual composition as the foundation for the musical composition or vice-versa.
* Literacy Through Nature
Script writing, poetry, songs, narrative, open forum or debate...
* Multimedia Events
Creating a visual composition that includes music and/or voice.
* The Gallery Experience
Learning every aspect of presenting and promoting an exhibition:
Creating 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.
SONGCATCHERS OF NEW ROCHELLE, NY
A PHRASE THAT MANY NOW CONSIDER TO BE THE "METHOD OF CHOICE" WITHIN CONTEMPORARY EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES.
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 assist your teaching staff and they too will become more inspired!
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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.
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
* Soon we will have a video detailing our program for
THE NATURE OF SIGHT AND SOUND,
* "Earth-Alert", a student based music video
Let the learning and fun begin!!!
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