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Arts Education Spotlight
TEACHER COMMENTS FROM SUPAMAN PERFORMANCE Overall, how would you describe the performance? We could not have asked for a more relevant meaningful presentation for our student body. He had a great message, related to the kids well, and showcased the Native American culture in a positive way. Wonderful performance – relevant to our population –… [Read More]
Winter 2018
by Ashley Lodato Education Director, Methow Arts Alliance When do you get to see the Methow Valley Elementary School art room filled with eagles, cougars, rattlesnakes, herons, and black widows? Second graders know the answer to this–when Trish Rouse visits the school, that’s when. Rouse, a Mazama-based artist and teaching artist, has been leading papier-mâché residencies for… [Read More]
Winter 2018
In 2015, Washington became the second state (after Montana) to require Native American Studies as part of a public school education, but offered few resources toward delivering a tribal curriculum; schools were simply directed to “Collaborate with federally recognized Indian tribes within or neighboring district boundaries” and to teach a tribal sovereignty curriculum. Virginia Grainger… [Read More]
December 2017
Fourth graders at East Omak Elementary School combined fiber arts with their perspectives on winter in a felted wool residency. Working with teaching artist Annie Venable, students explored the process of wet felting. First, students spent time observing and reflecting on the colors, traditions, and themes of winter. Next, they composed pieces of writing describing their observations. Some wrote poems… [Read More]
by Ashley Lodato, Education Director for Methow Arts At Brewster Elementary School, music assemblies are always bilingual, thanks to the skills of sign language interpreter Gail Brand. So whether students are deaf or hard of hearing, they can still experience the performances Methow Arts brings into the six schools in the Okanogan County Arts Education… [Read More]
In the winter of 2017, Brewster 5th graders participated in a 5-week poetry residency, working with Methow Arts teaching poet Kelleigh McMillan. Students became familiar with “painting pictures with words” and with relating their emotions to the natural world. Each week they experimented with a different poetic concept: simile, metaphor, free verse, stanza, etc. Students wrote poems… [Read More]
Spring 2017
by Ashley Lodato, Education Director for Methow Arts What began as an isolated experience 4 years ago has grown to be an eagerly-anticipated component of Paschal Sherman Indian School 8th and 9th graders’ final years: the annual urban culture trip to Seattle. In its first three years the trip included seeing a musical at one of… [Read More]