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JCCC adds SAS to local school
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Rudy Autio, Battlefield, 2002, gift of Marti and Tony Oppenheimer and the Oppenheimer Brothers Foundation. |
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Stages and Studios: All Arts Day, a new partnership between the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art and the Carlsen Center ArtsEducation program, will offer fourth-grade students from Starside Elementary School, DeSoto, a day of immersion in the visual and performing arts from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, March 6, at Johnson County Community College.
Students will attend Spirit Horse, a play that explores family bonds and Native Canadian traditions, at 9:45 a.m. in Yardley Hall of the Carlsen Center, JCCC. Teachers will receive study guides about the play in advance.
After a lunch furnished by the college, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art will offer guided interactive tours and engaging hands-on activities focusing on Native American works and animals in art exhibited in the museum’s permanent collection and on campus.
Students will be creating a collage showing their own interpretations of a special animal, and they will be creating a clay coil vessel featuring animal symbols of their own invention.
On return to the Carlsen Center, the fourth-graders will have a tour of theater spaces and their backstage areas. They will then reconvene with the theater company for a discussion of the performance, their arts experience and their perceptions of the Indian traditions they explored.
This is a pilot all-day program for SAS, funded in part by donations from private individuals and by the Carlsen Center ArtsEducation program and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art.
“The SAS Project is deeply committed to ensuring the arts are accessible to all children,” said Angel Mercier, program director, Carlsen Center ArtsEducation.
“This program combines the best of what JCCC’s arts venues have to offer to children in the community. Each year, thousands of children may see performances and participate in ArtsEducation workshops at the Carlsen Center, and since the museum opened in 2007, we have school groups regularly visiting the campus for art tours and individual students signing up for our Contemporary Creations art classes, but this is the first time we are combining the various programs into a comprehensive package,“ said Karen Gerety Folk, curator of art education, Nerman Museum. “We are grateful to have the enthusiastic cooperation of the Starside Elementary teachers and students who are participating in the pilot program.”
For more information about the SAS program, contact Mercier at 913-469-4221 or Gerety Folk at 913-469-8500, ext. 4771.
