Arts Education & Outreach

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Tapestry Arts provides arts education in local schools and arts outreach in the neighborhoods.

Arts Education and Outreach Philosophy

Tapestry supports learning in and through the arts by:

Providing opportunities and access
Developing creativity
Fostering imagination

2003-2004 Programs

Washington United Youth Center

Latina Women Striving for Success - This program provided young women, who were victims of violence, an opportunity to express themselves through the arts.

Sacred Heart Community Center

After school program –Several artists participated in this program including drama, folklorico dance, visual art and photography.
Academic Summer Camp – The four week curriculum runs parallel to the camp’s academic program and will include three to four artists.

InnVision – The Villa

Art as Therapy – Arts programs for the children who are residents of these transitional housing programs.

Migrant Education

A six week summer school visual art and dance program.

Santa Clara County Office of Education Alternative Education

Alternative Placement Academy - Muriel Wright School
An eight week, multi-stage project was established to achieve several artistic, educational and social objectives with 40 students, ages 14-18 in a lock-up facility were involved in gourd drum making and wood burning.

Escuela Popular

A four-week class will use the visual arts to integrate art into learning English as a second language.

Fammatre Elementary School

Three eight week residencies were taught throughout the school year in this school’s after school program. Classes included photography, visual art and musical theater.

CORAL – Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning

Eight-week residences were held throughout the school year at four different sites in this after school program:

Lowell Elementary
McKinley Elementary
Sherman Oaks Elementary
Stonegate Elementary

Classes taught were: Photography, Chinese and African Multicultural/Multidisciplinary residencies, Visual Art, Aztec dance and Folklorico dance.

San Jose After School

Eight week residences were held throughout the school year at seven different sites in this city run after school program:
Classes taught were: Photography and Visual Art

Mexican dance at Escuela Popular

World Moves – December 2004

This is a 10-week multicultural dance residency program funded, in part by the Valley Foundation and Cisco Foundation. For ten weeks students in six San Jose elementary schools are being instructed in a variety of ethnic dances. The schools will come together for a culminating event in December 2004. This year’s participants include Anne Darling Elementary, Windmill Springs, Olinder School, Escuela Popular, Sherman Oaks and McKinley Elementary.

The goal of the program is to teach youngsters about diverse cultures through the universal languages of the arts. The dances artists teach the students about the history, music and traditions of their ethnicity through dance. Native musicians accompany the students in their performances. Authentic costumes add to the experience. The schools are selected based on a needs assessment which determines which schools are underserved in the area of dance, which have an ethnic diversity which would benefit from this program and which schools have the physical facility to support the program. The schools may choose the ethnicity they wish to study. It is recommended that they select an ethnicity other than the predominant one of the student body. Lessons are based on the California State Framework for the Visual and Performing Arts and assessed in accordance with the State Standards for Arts Education.