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Historical June 1980 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Dear neighborhood, I wish to publicly thank Neighborhood School, the Missouri Arts Council and the National Endowment of the Arts for continuing to support the arts and artists.
For the past two years through their backing, I have been an Artists-inSchools resident at neighborhood School, 6195 Washington.
The Artists-in-Schools program brings artists into schools to enhance the existing curriculum, to work with the teachers as well as the students, to see the school as studio, and bring to it not only paints and clay, but also the aesthetic bent that goes with them. How this has worked at neighborhood School has been varied to say the least. I have worked in the studio at the school, occasionally alone, but most often with small groups of children who often work along with me on their own projects. I have gone into their classrooms watching their program to see where we could combine the arts with the curriculum.
To give a couple of examples of how this works, I had observed an attempt to learn times tables that was moving slowly and had no visual focus, so with the teachers cooperation the children made large paintings for the classroom on shaped canvasses: marching up a rainbow were progressive multiples of 8; on balloons floating up to the clouds were 9, 18, 27, 36, etc; check points on a car race track were multiples of 6.
As another example, I had observed a unit on map reading and thought the children would be more involved if they were map makers themselves. So they each made large permanent maps on frosted mylar that they could put on their wall at home.
We discussed the philosophies behind various two-dimensional interpretations of our planet. Happily, most preferred Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion projection of the earth that looks like a flattened geodesic dome, and groups the land masses into an islandic cluster.
We also got into Fuller’s oeuvre of designs and writings. I believe the arts are important for one’s sense of uniqueness and independence.
At Neighborhood School, test scores have climbed and the children’s responsibility for their learning has greatly improved. I am pleased that the school feels the Artists-in-Schools program is valuable.
They have submitted a proposal for refunding the program next year, the third and final year under the grant program. I am looking forward to next year at the school. Among next year’s plans is a workshop in the fall for teachers in the area on ways of integrating the arts into the curriculum.
For any information, you may call Neighborhood School, 725-4620. Yours Truly, Sue Sante
Originally published in The Paper, June 1980.
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