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ARTS EDUCATION
Round out your art offerings
by hiring Teaching Artists
for your school and arts program
Arts Reach To Schools (A.R.T.S.)
Arts Reach To Schools is a program connecting teaching artists with classrooms. TCA’s A.R.T.S. program provides diverse arts experiences to public and charter schools utilizing a roster of vetted, trained, and fingerprinted, working-artists.
For Schools:
Schools sign a contract with TCA that will set the funds amount that TCA will administer. TCA hires the Teaching Artists and takes care of payroll, fingerprinting, and TB testing. When the initial funds are depleted, TCA will contact the school in the interest of replenishing the account.
For Teachers:
Contact the Teaching Artist or TCA Education Director (Sarah Spring), to schedule a lesson or experience and confirm the cost. Your school’s principal or financial office will also require the invoice. Once the lesson or experience is completed, please fill out the required evaluation and email to sarahmelisse@gmail.com OR mail to:
Tuolumne County Arts, P.O.Box 5287, Sonora, CA 95370.
Current Art Lesson Offerings
CULTURAL DANCE
Traditional Dance/Full Circle Movement
Teaching Artist: Lesly Baker
Grades: K-12
Students will learn traditional steps of five cultural dances, HULA, BOLLYWOOD/BHANGRA, SPANISH FLAMENCO, FUSION, EGYPTIAN BELLY DANCE. The students will be encouraged to express their physical creativity as they connect to the music and rhythms while learning short choreographed routines. They will also be introduced to floor work, (creative travel across the floor) with combinations of steps and patterns. Cultural dances allow students to begin to understand another culture. Dance at its core is communication through geometry, expressed through the patterns of step, music, and beats.
Time: 1 hour
WATERCOLOR
Color My Feelings - Exploring Emotions Through Watercolor
Teaching Artist: Stacy Lindsey
Grades: K-2
Children will be taught how colors connect to our moods and emotions. Through images brought by the artist and peer discussion, students will explore the way this affects the world around them and the choices they make in their art. During the session, students will make a colorful emotion chart.
Time: 3 to 5 sessions, 50 minutes per class.
Max class size: 24 - 30
Materials: Water cups & pencils; the artist will provide the rest.
COLLAGE
Artists in Depth - Frida Kahlo
Teaching Artist: Stacy Lindsey
Grades: 5+
Frida Kahlo is a Mexican artist known for her soul-bearing self-portraits and multifaceted life. Students will make a self-portrait.
Time: 1.5 - 2 hours
Materials: Pencils; the artist will provide the rest.
Artists in Depth - Jean-Michel Basquiat
Teaching Artist: Stacy Lindsey
Grades: 5+
Jean-Michel Basquiat is an influential Black American artist who changed the face of contemporary art. Students will create an homage to someone they care about or admire.
Time: 1.5 - 2 hours
Materials: Pencils; the artist will provide the rest.
Artists in Depth - Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Teaching Artist: Stacy Lindsey
Grades: 5+
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is a Native American artist whose expressionistic art explores Indigenous histories, identities, and foundational myths. Students will create an image that conveys a statement of their choice. They can choose a complaint, hope, memory, etc.
Time: 1.5 - 2 hours
Materials: Pencils; the artist will provide the rest.
Color Harmony Collages
Teaching Artist: Stacy Lindsey
Grades: 3+
The artist will provide a brief overview of color theory basics. The focus will be on the concepts of harmony, complimentary, subsidiary, and tertiary. Students will then create a small collage using the concepts they learned.
Time: 1 - 1.5 hours
Materials: Pencils; the artist will provide the rest.
DRAWING
PAINTING
CERAMICS
New opportunity; new class!
Ceramics - Hand-building, Sculpture, Tiles
Teaching Artist: Andrea Walker
Grades: K-12
Art classes will be uniquely catered to age and ability. Classes can include, coil pots, pinch pots, handbuilding, as well as glazing and underglazing. Each student will leave with their own art work that has been glazed and fired. Andrea has been involved with clay work throughout her life, and currently operates her own ceramic studio. Andrea is a credentialed teacher who received her Masters degree in 2020.
Time: Dependent on age and class size, 1-2.5 hour sessions.
Materials: Clay, glaze and kiln time.
MIXED MEDIA
Teaching Artists
DOCUMENTS FOR ARTS REACH
Request an arts lesson/ experience.
For the
Classroom Teacher
You will have contacted the artist first and agreed upon the time, type of class(s)/experience and cost. Give this to your principal or financial office.
If there are materials, receipts will be sent separately, so the school can complete the paperwork.
Evaluation of the Teaching Artist
Artist: Fill out and take this with you to give to your Classroom Teacher.
Classroom Teacher: Fill out the evaluation, digitize and send to: info@tuolumnecountyarts.org
OR send to: P.O.Box 5287, Sonora, CA 95370