Artist Residency Program
Guidelines and Application Form 2010 – 2011
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Description:
The VSA arts of Massachusetts (VSAM) Artist Residency Program partners with schools to provide opportunities for arts-based instruction and opportunities for inclusion of students with and without disabilities. VSAM does this by pairing teaching artists with teachers to collaborate towards specific learning goals. The artist co-teaches with teachers in order to enhance the curriculum and introduce inclusive teaching strategies through the arts. To VSA arts of Massachusetts, the arts can provide multiple options for students to interact with academic content, demonstrate their understandings, and engage in learning.
We work in schools that are inclusive, working towards inclusion and special education settings. As a partner organization we can support other school efforts towards inclusion by providing opportunities for students with and without disabilities to work together in arts-based instruction. To view videos of current programs, please visit www.vsamass.org
VSA arts of Massachusetts reports to VSA arts, U.S. Department of Education, Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, and other funders on how residencies “increase academic content knowledge of the participants, primarily people with disabilities.”
Cost of the VSAM Artist Residency Program:
Artist Residency Programs take place once a week for a minimum of 12 weeks. Schools may choose to have longer or multiple residencies. The fees indicated below include artist fees for one artist, supplies, travel, planning and VSAM overhead costs. Fees for residencies involving more than one artist are higher.
| One 12-week residency | Two 12-week residencies | One yearlong residency (36 weeks) |
| $ 3,600 | $ 7,200 | $ 10,800 |
If a school does not have sufficient funds to support the full costs of a program, VSAM can provide limited funding. Please specify the amount you expect to contribute in the Artist in Residency Request Form.
Application Deadline: Friday, April 30th 2010
Information Session: Wednesday, April 14th, 3:00pm – 4:30pm , RSVP by April 9th
VSA Massachusetts, 89 South St, Suite 101, Boston, MA 02111
Fax or email:
Signed Application Form
Artist in Residency Request Form
School Information Form
Fax (617) 482 - 4298
Email:
Call Kati Blair at (617) 350-7713 ext 101 with any questions.
Application Form
Application Guidelines and Requirements:
VSA arts of Massachusetts partners with schools to allow students with special needs to have greater access to and participation in the arts and their school communities. VSAM raises financial support for this program through private and public sources. (Please read, sign and return to VSA arts of Massachusetts along with your Artist-in-Residency Request Form.)
Requirements are as follows:
- Programs must meet the following U.S. Department of Education objective:
“To increase academic content knowledge of the participants, primarily people with disabilities.”
- The program must be led by a VSA arts of Massachusetts teaching artist in collaboration with one or more classroom teachers. We will work to connect your site with the artist that best fits your needs.
- The experience should
be participatory for all students and teachers identified and last for
a minimum of 12 weeks (meeting once a week). In other words, the proposed
project should not be limited to a single performance or demonstration
where students are merely observers.
- In designing the residency program, specific I.E.P. goals and academic content goals need to be addressed. During the initial planning meeting, the teaching artist and classroom teacher(s) will establish learning and artistic goals for the residency.
- Sites granted a VSA
arts of Massachusetts Artist Residency are responsible for assisting
in coordinating a short training session or planning meeting from VSAM
to the site staff prior to the start of the residency. This presentation
will inform staff and members of the site about this residency and about
VSAM. During the residency, VSAM Education Program Managers will
return for site visits and documentation.
- As a financial supporter of the residency project, VSA arts of Massachusetts should be identified in any press release and /or media recognition as a funder of the project. VSA arts of Massachusetts requests that it be identified as a funder during culminating events (i.e. a demonstration, performance, and/or exhibit). Our logo is available upon request.
Artist Residency Request Form
Please fill out the Artist Residency Request Form and School Information Form and mail back to VSA Massachusetts by April 30th, 2010.
NOTE: If you are interested in more than one residency, please fill out the Artist Residency Request Form for each residency.
Name of school: ______________________________________________________
Coordinating staff name: _______________________________________________
Title: _________________________________
Email: ___________________________ Phone: ( )____________________
School phone: ( )__________________ School
fax: ( )______________________
RESIDENCY REQUEST
Which art form(s) are you most interested in:
☐
Dance/movement ☐ Theatre/
☐ Cartooning ☐ Music ☐
☐ Drumming ☐ Other:
______________________________
List the grade levels and content areas you want the program to focus on:
Grades: ________________________________
Content areas: _______________________________________
FUNDING
School contribution towards the cost of the residency? $____________
What funds is your contribution coming from? ________________
Number of weeks requested (minimum 12): ________________
Projected residency start date (mm/yy): _____/______
PLANNING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Please list three dates and times the site coordinator and collaborating teachers can meet with VSAM staff/Artist for a planning meeting:
1. _______________2. _______________3. _______________
We strongly encourage all new schools to participate in Professional Development from VSAM. Please contact us for more information.
School Information
1. School Mission or Main focus:
2. What are some school-wide goals or areas that need improvement that you believe could be supported by this program?
3. What other organizations do you currently partner with?
4. Do you see possibilities for collaboration between VSAM and one of your partner organizations to enhance this program? Please explain.
5. Please describe your schools’ parent involvement strategies (including events, etc).
6. Is there a parent liaison or support person at the school? oYes o No
If yes, please indicate their name and contact information:__________________________________
I, ______________________________
_________________________________________
Signature
VSAM Partners for Fieldtrips
Fieldtrips are a way to extend the learning out of the classroom and into the community. They also provide opportunities for volunteers and guardians to be involved with the school. Fieldtrips will be arranged during planning meetings and school staff will be notified of upcoming opportunities throughout the year.
* Transportation Costs: Due to budget cuts VSAM will not be able to provide funding for transportation this year.
BOSTON
Wheelock Family Theatre: VSAM provides tickets to performances and schools are expected to cover transportation. Tickets to the VSAM partner performances include a free viewing for teachers and a Dramashop (actors visit the classroom to engage students before the show with drama-based activities). We will announce the VSAM fieldtrip dates early in the fall.
MFA Artful Adventures (Year round): Artful Adventures provides opportunities for children ages 4 and older to connect with the art and cultures of Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas through engagement with the MFA collections. Teachers and group leaders work closely with Museum educators to design customized adventures that fit the interests and needs of each group. Each visit lasts an hour and a half and combines gallery exploration with an art-making activity. We also offer Artful Adventures to bilingual groups (Spanish and French). VSAM includes this with the residency cost, but will not be able to cover transportation.
Looking 2 Learn at Mass Art (Year round): The college's innovative gallery education program, brings public school children to exhibitions. The program's objective is to promote visual thinking through interactive, inquiry-based activities. Children learn how to look by doing, by imagining what the artists were thinking about when they created the work, or by projecting their own imagination onto what exists in the work.
Festival at the Boston Children’s Museum: Every June, VSA arts of Massachusetts invites your class to join us at the Boston Children's Museum to celebrate inclusion of students with and without disabilities in grades k-5. Come express, create, and share your unique abilities and talents with others during a day of hands-on art activities. There is a suggested donation of $50 to cover part of the museum entrance and the school is expected to arrange transportation.
WORCESTER
Worcester Museum of Art (Year round): The Worcester Art Museum provides an ideal environment for your students to connect cultures, civilizations and continents throughout time. Over fifty centuries of art in our collection and exciting special exhibits throughout the year will inspire creativity in your students and encourage understanding in a variety of disciplines. Opportunities include a gallery tour, studio workshop, a Resource Center, Outreach programs and kits, lectures and classes.
Worcester Festival: VSA arts of Massachusetts invites your class to join us to celebrate inclusion of students with and without disabilities in grades 9-12. Come express, create, and share your unique abilities and talents with others during a day of hands-on art activities. This year, the Festival will take place at the Whitin Mill at Alternatives, in Whitinsville. Explore food, clothing and shelter for a green planet through the arts. Suggested donation is $50 per school group (maximum 30 students). Each school must arrange transportation.
Funding Resources
BPS Arts Expansion Fund:
The mission of the BPS Arts Expansion Fund is to empower BPS schools to embrace and expand arts instruction in schools. Priority is given to:
• Expand arts instruction during the school day for elementary, middle and K-8 schools that serve fewer than 100% of their students with once-weekly, year-long arts instruction.
• Develop and employ targeted strategies to meet the needs of high school students.
• Support district-wide efforts to support high quality arts instruction through professional development and other capacity building efforts.
• Extend or complement existing resources.
The deadline for 2010-2011 grant cycle is March 30th, 2010. Check the BPS Arts Office website for more information and application.
Big Yellow School Bus Grants:
A partnership between the Bank
of America Charitable Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Council
(MCC), is a new grant program to help schools meet the costs of providing
educational field trips to cultural institutions and events across the
Commonwealth for their students. http://www.
Target Corporation Field Trip Grants:
As part of their commitment
to education, Target has created the one-of-a-kind Target Field Trip
Grants program. Target will award 5,000 grants of up to $800 each for
the upcoming 2009-2010 school year. Find out more about his funding
opportunity by visiting http://pressroom.target.com/
W.K. Kellogg Foundation Funding Opportunities:
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations that support communities as they create conditions that propel children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger society. The Foundation looks to support four dimensions of community life: 1. Family Income and Assets 2. Education and Learning 3. Food, Health, and Well-Being 4. Family and Economic Security
Requests for grants are reviewed
throughout the year. To view the Kellogg Foundation application online,
http://wrm.wkkf.org/
Innovative Teaching Grants
Kids In Need Teacher Grants
provide K-12 educators with funding to provide innovative learning opportunities
for their students. http://www.kinf.org/grants/
Lowe’s Parent Teacher Group
Funds:
Lowe’s will donate $5
million to public schools and public school parent teacher groups.
http://www.
Barbara Bush Foundation for
Family Literacy:
To develop or expand projects designed to support the development of
literacy skills for adult primary care givers and their children. http://www.
Department of Education
Improved Ed for Kids with Disabilities:
This program promotes academic
achievement and improves results for children with disabilities. This
grant could not be used as matching funds for VSA arts funding
because it is federal Department of Education dollars. http://www07.grants.gov/
Professional Development Opportunities
VSAM offers Professional Development opportunities for our partner schools and recommends that new schools receive training before the beginning of residencies. Our PD focuses on arts integration strategies that support learning and engagement for students with and without disabilities. More specifically, we look at ways in which the arts can provide students with multiple options to interact with content, express what they know and engage in learning. In-school training for partner schools is included in the cost of residencies.
We also provide professional development opportunities that are open to teachers and administrators outside the school. Visit our website, www.vsamass.org or contact us throughout the year for more information. Trainings include:
Defining Pathways in the Arts: Art and Universal Design for Learning (UDL): In this workshop, participants explore how the arts can offer students multiple ways to interact with academic content, express what they know and engage in learning.
The Arts and MCAS-Alt: Evidence of Learning through the Arts: Supports teachers to use the arts in their classrooms to engage students and to use student work in the arts as evidence of learning in MCAS-Alt portfolios.
"Start with the Arts": Start with the Arts is an instructional program created by VSA arts for pre-school and early elementary school learners that uses the arts to assist young children, including those with disabilities, in exploring themes commonly taught in early childhood classrooms, while developing basic literacy skills and self-expression. We offer workshops for educators and parents.
"Multi-Arts Resource Guide": Learn hands-on activities in teaching the core curriculum to students of different ages and abilities. VSAM offers workshops based on MARG for teaching artists, regular and special education teachers and paraprofessionals.
