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Artist: Sidy Maiga
Address 14 Webb St, Pawtucket, RI 02860 Telephone: 216/502-7940 Fax: Email: sidymaigadrum@yahoo.fr Artist Category: Artist Type: Education Artist Website: www.sidymaiga.com Description: |
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Artist: Deborah A DeMarco
Address PO Box 23249, Providence, RI 02903 Telephone: 401/440-1611 Fax: Email: demarko@4dpg.com Artist Category: Clay Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Deb creates tile murals using a photo-transfer-to-clay process, allowing any photocopied image to be printed directly on raw clay. Relief, extrusion and impression are combined with mono-printing free-form slabs of clay, allowing students to embellish images in clay language. Glazed stoneware tiles are suitable for interior or exterior surfaces. Installation is completed with volunteer help from faculty and parents. Subject matter is drawn from school curriculum, through collaboration with faculty members. As a working clay artist, graphic designer and photojournalist, Deb combines these resources in an academic environment and shares her vision with students ages 12 & up. |
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Artist: Ellen J Blomgren
Address 11 Verndale Circle, Bristol, RI 02809 Telephone: 401/254-6096 Fax: Email: ellen@mudstonestudios.com Artist Category: Clay Artist Type: Education Artist Website: www.mudstonestudios.com Description: Ceramic sculptor, Ellen Blomgren has worked with students of all ages and abilities throughout the state of RI, creating long-lasting, relief tile installations. Ellen co-owns and operates Mudstone Studios, in Warren, is a CE teacher for RISD and is also on VSA arts' roster of artists. Ellen works with each school or group's current curriculum, so that students will be learning through the art form. Each participant will create a drawing, which is composed by the artist into a template for the mural. All students will then sculpt, refine and glaze the mural. Mrs. Blomgren then takes the work for firing, adhering and grouting and will install finished panels at the site. Individual projects may also be arranged. |
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Artist: Kate Champa
Address 37 Creighton St, Providence, RI 02906 Telephone: 401/351-1683 Fax: Email: kchampa@cox.net Artist Category: Clay Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Ceramics. Kate Champa has a Masters Degree in Art History from Harvard, and attended the RISD Ceramics Department from 1978-81. She has taught students of all ages and worked in various school and after school programs, both with abled and special needs students. Kate will collaborate with other artists to provide multi-faceted ceramic opportunities for student and community projects. Her work combines handbuilding, throwing and casting techniques to produce both functional ware and whimsical sculpture. She is Coordinator for Raku Rhody-o and is happy to provide raku glazes and her own raku kiln for school & community workshops. Kate is a long-time member of the Foundry Artists' Association and exhibits regularly at the South County Art Association's Earthworks Show. |
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Artist: Nancy Lyon
Address 1311 Broad Rock Rd, Wakefield, RI 02879 Telephone: 401/783-9755 Fax: Email: nlyon4@verizon.net Artist Category: Clay Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Ceramic artist/ potter and educator for more than twenty years, Nancy Lyon offers programs in clay to augment your curriculum. One class or whole school as well as after school programs are available. Nancy is willing to work with teachers and has lots of great ideas for successful projects. Parent/guardian/Child programs available for all ages |
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Artist: Allen L. Hazard
Address 487 Ross Hill Rd, Charlestown, RI 02813 Telephone: 401-322-1021 Fax: Email: talloak223@yahoo.com Artist Category: Crafts Artist Type: Folk Artist Website: Description: [F] Allen Hazard has been making wampum for the last thirty years; he acquired his skills from his mother Sarah (Fry) Hazard and her sister Laura (Fry) Mars; "both had an amazing ability to make things with their hands, being able to watch them do needle point and beadwork in my childhood gave me the inspiration to do what I do with wampum today". Allen's jewelry - including wampum beads, necklaces, and belts - is made in an old style so that it can be worn with traditional Eastern Woodland regalia. Mr. Hazard continues to make wampum "to carry on the tradition of wampum beads for the Narragansett Nation". |
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Artist: Deborah Spears Moorehead
Address 124 Switch Rd, Hope Valley, RI 02832 Telephone: 401/539-8686 Fax: Email: paintedarrow2@yahoo.com Artist Category: Crafts Artist Type: Folk Artist Website: http://www.wampanoagartist@artshost.com Description: [F] Deborah Moorehead is a Wampanoag visual artist; she obtained her BFA from the Swain School of Design and her Masters in Arts and Cultural Sustainability from Gaucher College. In addition, Deborah is versed in Eastern woodlands musical and dance traditions. She performs regularly in the Algonquin language, both as a soloist, and as part of Nettukkuso, a women's music group. |
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Artist: Debra Meunier
Address 204 Hillcrest Dr. No., Cranston, RI 02921 Telephone: 401/944-3664 Fax: Email: d_meunier@cox.net Artist Category: Dance Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.Fusionworksdance.org Description: Teacher/Choreographer/Dancer. Deb works with children to create modern dances that are both fun and educational. She has worked in schools, nursery through college, museums and festivals for over 20 years. Programs are tailored to the needs of the group. In an in-depth residency, dances can be created working directly out of the curriculum and usually culminate in a public performance-an assembly or a shared performance with Deb's professional modern dance company, Fusionworks. On a smaller scale, basic dance workshops last 45 minutes and are highly participatory (children are creating and moving for 85% of the workshop). |
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Artist: Douglas Victor
Address 103 Princeton Ave, Providence, RI 02907 Telephone: 401/521-0546 Fax: Email: doug.dance@juno.com Artist Category: Dance Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.creativedanceinternational Description: Creative Dance Educator/Artist offers classes and workshops in the art of body movement as an artistic expression, movement as a vehicle for learning and teaching curricular material, and teacher education targeting the integral place of movement in education. A success-oriented approach to dance and body-based learning for everyone. Founder of the International Association for Creative Dance, Doug directs local dance group Creative Dance Providence, and teaches nationally for Lesley University. |
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Artist: Edward A Silvestre
Address 54 West Friendship St, Providence, RI 02907 Telephone: 401/345-4637 Fax: Email: esilvestre33@gmail.com Artist Category: Dance Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art invented over 500 years ago by slaves stranded in Brazil. The slaves disguised it as dance so they would not arouse suspicion from the guards. Capoeira integrates dance, acrobatics, singing, music and the intense discipline it takes to become a martial artist. After studying with Capoeira masters, Eddie Silvestre uses dance and movement to create an experience. A residency with Eddie will not only focus on the physical art but also the discipline. Students will sing the songs and play instruments like the berimbau. The history of the period will be explained in the form of story telling. And Eddie will integrate any student with any body type that wants to try. |
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Artist: Everett Dance Theatre
Address 9 Duncan Avenue, Providence, RI 02906 Telephone: 401/831-9479 Fax: Email: info@everettdancetheatre.org Artist Category: Dance Artist Type: Education Artist Website: www.everettdancetheatre.org Description: Everett Dance Theatre and the Carriage House School offer a unique, interdisciplinary approach to performance and education. Entertaining educational programs such as "The Marriage of Art and Science", "Written in the Air" (about emotional intelligence), & "Breaking Down Science" (aboout the physics of break dancing), engage audiences through languages as diverse as dance (ballet to breakdance), speech, interactive media, and improvisational theatre. All performances employ audience participation and can be tailored to specific age groups (youth to adult). Additional workshops are available for in-service training or classrooms. |
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Artist: Festival Ballet Providence
Address 825 Hope Street, Providence, RI 02906 Telephone: 401/353-1129 Fax: 401/353-8853 Email: info@festivalballetprovidence.org Artist Category: Dance Artist Type: Education Artist Website: www.festivalballetprovidence.org Description: The FBP School for Dance Education offers over 80 hours of classes each week during the academic year, providing pre-professional training as well as a full selection of open dance classes to the community for all ages. The school's association with the Company provides opportunities for talented dance students to appear with the professional company dancers in major productions. The school also offers a six-week summer program, including an intensive programs for serious young students. The school has become the foundation for the development of future dance professionals in Rhode Island and abroad. |
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Artist: Fusionworks, Inc.
Address PO Box 402, Lincoln, RI 02865 Telephone: 401/334-3091 Fax: Email: fusionwk@cox.net Artist Category: Dance Artist Type: Education Artist Website: www.fusionworksdance.org Description: FUSIONWORKS offers a variety of one-time and long-term programs perfect for every school or organization. With performances for all ages, classes and workshops for all ability levels, and a knowledgeable staff of artists we arwe sure to have a program (or combination of programs) that will fit your needs. Sixth-grade student Pedro says, "It was so cool, I jumped out of my seat. That is how cool it was. A+. Outstanding". |
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Artist: Island Moving Co.
Address PO Box 746, Newport, RI 02840 Telephone: 401/847-4470 Fax: 401/846-2902 Email: cheryl@islandmovingco.org Artist Category: Dance Artist Type: Education Artist Website: www.islandmovingco.org Description: Island Moving Co. is a professional, classically trained contemporary ballet company located in Newport, RI. In addition to its reputation of presenting world-class dance locally and on tour, the company is known for its work in area schools, having created critically acclaimed residencies through the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Artists in Residency program for over fifteen years. Miki Ohlsen, Island Moving Co.'s Artistic Director, has led the development of their participatory programs that include "Text into Movement", "Introduction to Creative Movement" and "Team Building and Leadership Movement Workshop". All residency planning and teaching is done by IMC's company dancers under the direction of Miki Ohlsen. |
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Artist: Kevin Doyle
Address 33 Lillis Ave, Barrington, RI 02806 Telephone: 401/573-0334 Fax: Email: hornpiper@cox.net Artist Category: Dance Artist Type: Folk Artist Website: Description: [F] Kevin Doyle is a master of Irish step dance who learned his first steps from his mother, a native of Roscommon, who taught her children to dance in their Providence home accompanied by her lilted tunes. Kevin's style represents the generations of Irish who made a new home in America…a memory which is reinforced with each kick or pounding step, and his tap-dancing provides the soundtrack to a uniquely American dance story. Irish dance forms as conveyed by Kevin Doyle are appropriate in schools and other arts and education settings. Classroom presentations, performances for groups of students, and lecture/demonstrations with workshops for students and/or teachers will meet arts GSE's in dance or music. This artist is also appropriate for collaborations with humanities teachers working with Historical Perspectives/RI History GSE's. All ages. |
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Artist: M Bach-Coulibaly/S Coulibaly
Address 18 Imperial Place, Providence, RI 02903-4642 Telephone: 401/943-6074 Fax: 401/863-7529 Email: tellicoulibaly@gmail.com Artist Category: Dance Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: West African and Contemporary Dance, Music and Culture. New Works/World Traditions is a high energy multicultural educational and concert stage performance troupe of world class musicians, dancers, actors and writers. Their interactive presentations are researched in Mande performance traditions from West Africa. New Works/World Traditions' mission is to educate through the power of performance and active participation. They offer evening-length concerts as well as in-school residencies, workshops and master classes that incorporate masquerade theatre, drum making, literacy/oral history, song, proverb and choreography. |
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Artist: Michelle Kaminsky
Address 18 Imperial Place, Providence, RI 02903 Telephone: 401/246-2720 Fax: Email: mkfiddle@earthlink.net Artist Category: Dance Artist Type: Folk Artist Website: Description: Michelle, playing the fiddle that she built herself, shares the music & dance of the early American settlers with her students. She creates programs that can integrate a variety of curriculi including American history, phys. ed., music and language arts. Programs available for all ages and abilities.(See also Music listings) |
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Artist: Shanthi Muthu
Address 11 Bristol Avenue, Pawtucket, RI 02861 Telephone: 401/305-5265 Fax: Email: shanthi_yoga@yahoo.com Artist Category: Dance Artist Type: Folk Artist Website: http://www.manishayogadance.webs.com Description: (F) Shanthi Muthu, formerly a software Engineer, now follows her passion of being a life coach through Authentic Real-deal Yoga, Meditation, Indian Dance, Yogic cooking, chants in Sanskrit language, Stress management workshops and more. She teaches both kids & adults. She and her daughter perform a classical dance form of India called "Bharatanatyam" in elaborate costumes and jewelry. The dance form is colorful, vibrant, dynamic, rhythmic and yet graceful and expressive. The performance includes audience participation at the end. Shanthi offers Indian culture classes in schools, and India-themed birthday parties. She offers "Yoga-Dance story time" with storytelling through Yoga postures and dance movements, enabling people to explore their body and to create various hand gestures for depicting objects, emotions, actions and ideas. See her website above for more information. |
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Artist: Stephanie Stanford Shaw
Address 21 Whipple St, Pawtucket, RI 02860 Telephone: 401/475-4353 Fax: Email: dansah@cox.net Artist Category: Dance Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Dancer/Teacher/Choreographer. Through collaboration with educators Stephanie believes every academic subject can be enhanced through Modern Dance. She knows that each student has a unique voice and is inspired by their individual strengths and stories. Imagery, that is appropriate and accessible, is used to help students grasp even complex movement ideas, which fosters a sense of accomplishment. Her love of dance is infectious. Stephanie is available for single classes or in-depth programs with a performance component. |
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Artist: Cynthia Treen
Address 408 Pine St, Providence, RI 02903 Telephone: 401/451-5521 Fax: Email: cynthia.treen@gmail.com Artist Category: Fiber Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.Cynthiatreen.com Description: When we tell a story, we spin a yarn. From the first yarn spun to the most ornate embroidery, language and culture have been woven into textiles. Students study multicultural textiles and learn basic embroidery, while deepening their ability to write with clarity and texture. Using the most elementary stitch in embroidery and the most basic words, they cultivate the creative voice that is within each individual. |
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Artist: Nonnie O Brien
Address 1637 South Rd, Kingston, RI 02881 Telephone: 401/783-2761 Fax: Email: nonnieob@cox.net Artist Category: Fiber Artist Type: Folk Artist Website: Description: Nonnie is a quiltmaker, and a certified Art & English teacher. She shares stories with students as inspiration for their art. Their resulting tapestries and quilts reflect school themes, such as Literacy, Community, and Multicultualism. Students have an opportunity to develop their artistic potential individually and cooperatively. Margaret Mead said, "An ideal community is one in which there is a place for every human gift"- these quilts and tapestries are a representation of that goal. |
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Artist: Priscilla Carrion
Address 25 Iona Street, Providence, RI 02908 Telephone: 401/345-8786 Fax: Email: priscilla.carrion@gmail.com Artist Category: Fiber Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Influened by traditional textile techniques and landscapes Priscilla explores the natural heritage and industrial past of places through knitting, weaving, stitiching or painting. Students explore materials and create pieces that show the hand labor involved. Supporting ideas of sustainability by studying the materials' history and present use is encouraged. Exchanging ideas with participants about craftsmanship, textile history, and the slow process helps them to develop their skills and a connection to articles hand-crafted with care. |
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Artist: Sharon Cox
Address 6 Highland St, Woonsocket, RI 02895 Telephone: 401/769-9194 Fax: Email: vipshaco2004@yahoo.com Artist Category: Fiber Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Fashion Designs/Sewing. Sharon Cox-Cole uses the technique of concept illustration to sketch to reality. From mind to sketch to pattern to fabric to fit. Encouraging and nurturing the young artists' (grades 5-12) self-expressions and creativity in the disciplines of introductory fashion illustration, pattern-making, fitting, haute-couture, aesthetics, tiedying and fabric painting. Sharon received her training at the School of Fashion Design in Boston and has been designing clothing for 25 years. |
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Artist: Susan Ballenger
Address 10 Tri Pond Ct, Peace Dale, RI 02879 Telephone: 401/792-0263 Fax: Email: realfibers@aol.com Artist Category: Fiber Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.realfibers.com Description: Weaving cloth is magic! I hope to inspire a sense of wonder and excitement of the handweaving process through individually designed Integrative Art Programs. Suitable for grades K-12 with a literature, social science and/or math-based curriculum; Computer aided technology and portable looms; Pattern and structure with unusual materials; Color use and theory; Community Weaving Projects; Special needs and high risk populations; Professional development; Consultation; Loom repair and restoration. |
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Artist: Wendy Mueller
Address PO Box 341, Lincoln, RI 02865 Telephone: 401/474-3930 Fax: Email: windymueller@gmail.com Artist Category: Fiber Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Textile artist Wendy Mueller (a/k/a Wool Lady) uses unspun wool to make handmade wool felt tapestries. In her workshop she will demonstrate how loose unspun fibers lock together to form a strong cohesive textile, unwoven in its structure, using nothing other than soap, water, and agitation. An ancient textile technique for a contemporary process oriented art. Wendy Mueller holds a B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute. She has received several grants, awards and commissions for her work. |
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Artist: David Eliet
Address 23 Grove Street, Pawtucket, RI 02860 Telephone: 401/632-1263 Fax: Email: ilitsky@yahoo.com Artist Category: Literature Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Theatre/Playwriting/Creative Writing David Eliet is a professional playwright, director and theatre educator. Offering workshops in playwriting or creative writing. Single or multiple sessions. These workshops help students learn how to express themselves through their writing and discover their own imaginative potential. Exercises range from responding to photographs to writing about family members to fully imagined plays or stories. Grades 7-12. |
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Artist: ImproWriting
Address 120 Riverside Dr, Riverside, RI 02915 Telephone: 401/437-2297 Fax: 401/437-2297 Email: barrympress@gmail.com Artist Category: Literature Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Creative writing and performing arts. Language is the end result of action, both physical and mental. ImproWriting alternates physical, theatre-based improvisational activities with personal writing. All writing is done in class and eventually shared in small groups, where collaborative collages are created of the collective writings and presented to the class. ImproWriting celebrates the idea that we all have stories, and if you can talk, you can write. This fun, participatory workshop enhances both personal and interpersonal communication skills. |
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Artist: Jan C. Shapin
Address 18 Findlay Place, Newport, RI 02840 Telephone: 401/848-5115 Fax: Email: jshapin.writer@verizon.net Artist Category: Literature Artist Type: Education Artist Website: janshapin.com Description: Jan Shapin has written novels, plays and screenplays, many of them dealing with American political history. She has over 25 year experience developing training games for community development professionals. She is the recipient of two RI Council for the Humanities grants on homelessness and is interested in working with groups of low income middle and high school students developing skills related to personal memoir, fiction and playwriting. |
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Artist: Kate Schapira
Address 261 Broadway, Providence, RI 02903 Telephone: 401/632-4401 Fax: Email: kjschapira@hotmail.com Artist Category: Literature Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Writing, Drawing and Comics. Combining creative and analytical activities allows students to learn about subjects, and become invested in them, in multiple ways. Kate is a working and published writer and poet who works with teachers to develop imaginative in-class writing and drawing activities that supplement and enhance their curricula. She's affiliated with the Writers in the Schools program. She has led workshops at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School and the Smith Hill Community Library, among others. |
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Artist: Keith S Munslow
Address PO Box 40173, Providence, RI 02940 Telephone: 401/823-9777 Fax: Email: kerrilyndailey@yahoo.com Artist Category: Literature Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.keithmunslow.com Description: Writer/Storyteller/Improv. Story writing residencies available for grades K-8. The "Build-A-Book" program is centered around the creation of oversized books of class-generated stories. Students will be introduced (or reintroduced) to the various elements of story writing through group exercises. They will collaboratively generate character, setting and plot ideas and then create the story itself. Once the story is completed, it will be typed and formatted onto 11x17" paper. Each student will be responsible for creating an accompanying illustration for one page of the story. Finally these pages will be bound, covered and housed in the school library. This program has been conducted with much success at numerous Rhode Island schools. Providence artist Keith Munslow has been performing, writing and instructing in numerous capacities for over fifteen years. Comedy improv workshops & extended programs are also available. (See also Music) |
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Artist: Living Literature
Address 120 Riverside Dr, Riverside, RI 02915 Telephone: 401/437-2297 Fax: 401/437-2297 Email: barrympress@gmail.com Artist Category: Literature Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.livingliterature.org Description: Living Literature has been celebrating the written word through readers' theatre-style preformances of non dramatic writing in schools, libraries and other community venues throughout southeastern New England since 1996. Their biannual, free workshops provide a process of taking any piece of non dramatic writing "from page to stage" by getting participants to read aloud and collaborate on a readers' theater performance. |
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Artist: Magdalena Picot
Address 636 Rockland Road, N. Scituate, RI 02857 Telephone: 401/462-5135 Fax: 401/462-5136 Email: picot48@yahoo.com Artist Category: Literature Artist Type: Folk Artist Website: Description: [F] Puerto Rican Poet. Maggie Picot was raised in the poetic tradition of her father, the "trovador" Pedro Picot, near Cidra, Puerto Rico. The family came to New England in 1973 and she has lived in RI since 1983. Maggie writes Puerto Rican folk poetry extolling the virtues of "jibaro" (hill farmer) life. She has published a collection of poems entitled "Tus campinas claman el llanto de mi alma" (Your countryside claims the the cry of my soul) and has written poetry and columns for Spanish-language periodicals in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. She has worked extensively in schools and correctional facilities for both Spanish and English-speaking audiences of all ages. Maggie also works with the whole family doing literature workshops on any subject. Adults, teens, and elementary school school children will learn to express themelves and be poets during their time with her. |
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Artist: Mark Binder
Address Pembroke Villa, Providence, RI 02906 Telephone: 401/272-8707 Fax: Email: mark@markbinder.com Artist Category: Literature Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.markbinder.com Description: Mark Binder is an award-winning author and storyteller. With a mixture of original and traditional tales, he has delighted RI students for over a decade. His offerings include: Author visits and workshops, The Art of Peace, Eureka! Science and Math, Omakase – multicultural tales, A Holiday Present, Spooky Stories, Silly Stories, and Tall Tales. Mark works with children of all ages, from K through High School in large and small settings. Schedule an event today. |
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Artist: Peter Mandel
Address 239 Transit St, Providence, RI 02906 Telephone: 401/831-5227 Fax: Email: pbmandel@cox.net Artist Category: Literature Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.author-illustr-source.com/petermandel.ht Description: Children's book author. Mandel is the author of ten books for children including: "Jackhammer Sam" (Macmillan/Roaring Brook); "Bun, Onion, Burger" (Simon & Schuster); "Say Hey!" (Hyperion); "Planes at the Airport" and "Boats on the River" (both Scholastic). His books have been named a Boston Globe "Quick Pick for Kids", a San Francisco Examiner "Bay City Best", and a "Child" magazine recommended title, as well as being translated into several languges. One of his works was recently included in "The Jump at the Sun Treasury of African American Picture Books". Children's book review columnist for the Providence Journal, Peter can work with any age group in building writing skills , advising student projects and in discussing writing or journalism as a career. |
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Artist: Steven Krasner
Address 44 Bayberry Ln, East Greenwich, RI 02818 Telephone: 401/884-2617 Fax: Email: Nudging@aol.com Artist Category: Literature Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.nudgingtheimagination.com Description: Children's Book Author/Education Consultant/Retired Sports Writer: Available for individualized, highly interactive, fun-filled writing workshop residencies that address reading, writing, speaking and listening skills in a format that lends itself to spontaneity and creativity. The end result is independent and enthusiastic writers. The program can include such collaborative finished products as: short stories, mysteries, mystery scripts that can be staged as spaghetti supper fund-raisers, video magazines, a classroom newspaper and tall tales. The workshops are adaptable from K-12. Residencies can include professional development workshops as well as parent-student workshops. |
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Artist: The Storyteller Jeanne Donato
Address 82 Potter Hill Rd, Westerly, RI 02891 Telephone: 401/596-0886 Fax: 401/596-6935 Email: JeanneDonato@aol.com Artist Category: Literature Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.JeanneDonato.com Description: Author/Integrative Learning and Expressive Arts Facilitator/Educational Consultant/Creative Drama & Brain Gym Instructor/Artist-in-Residence – “Students Are Writers” (Pre-K –Gr.7): This researched based program presents: A story-based schema to inspire confidence; fosters orality to access creative ideas; and visualization to promote an inner eye for story. It incorporates novelty, to engage students’ attention; story games, to encourage creativity, graphic organizers that address the elements of Narrative or Expository writing; and enhanced learning techniques, to create focus and reduce the stress on writing. An adjunct professor at SCSU, Jeanne holds a B.A. Elementary Ed., M.Ed. Storytelling/Reading, and Doctorate focused on Improving Academic Performance. Co-author of Storytelling in Emergent Literacy: Integrating Multiple Intelligences - professional development - available (See also Theater/Storytelling). |
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Artist: Tina Cane
Address 6 Bridgham Court, Rumford, RI 02916 Telephone: 401/274-0242 Fax: 646/239-9393 Email: tinacane@aol.com Artist Category: Literature Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Tina Cane is a poet and teacher who, for many years, taught French, English and Creative Writing in NYC's private and public school systems. She is the founder/director of "Writers-in-the-Schools" a program that places writers in RI public schools to enhance and support curriculum through teaching "imaginative writing". Students produce, polish, publish, and perform original work, while learning how the habits and concerns of working writers reflect pride in and command of self-expression. |
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Artist: Jeffree Rocco Michaluk
Address 94 William St, Newport, RI 02840 Telephone: 401/849-1116 Fax: Email: rocco@videoandvision.com Artist Category: Media Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: videoandvision.com Description: Film & Video Production: From Script to Screen. Hands on filmmaking workshops give students the knowledge, technique and expertise needed to produce short films & videos that are informative & entertaining. The entire class collaborates in all stages of conception, planning and execution in the film & video genre of their choice. Collaborative workshops show the importance of working together to produce one shared artistic vision. Rocco Michaluk is an award-winning filmmaker educating youth and teachers since 1999. |
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Artist: Laura Colella
Address 40 Forest Street, Providence, RI 02906 Telephone: 401/453-4372 Fax: Email: Lella11@aol.com Artist Category: Media Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: www.lauracolella.com Description: Film/Video. Workshops may be tailored to include any or all phases of short video production, including scriptwriting, storyboarding, shooting and editing. The work may focus on narrative or documentary techniques. Depending on the length of the residency, short films and/or excerpted sequences may be viewed for discussion and analysis. Laura Colella is an award-winning independent filmmaker whose works include, features: "Breakfast with Curtis"; "Stay Until Tomorrow"; "Tax Day" and shorts: "The Radiator Hymn"; "The Blind Spot"; "The Burning Hand"; "Statuary" and others. |
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Artist: Michelle LeBrun
Address 82 Camp St, Providence, RI 02906 Telephone: 401/274-1110 Fax: 401/477-4630 Email: michelle@harkenprods.com Artist Category: Media Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.HarkenProds.com Description: Youth Media, Documentary Filmmaking & Teacher Training. Harken Productions offers a wide range of educational opportunities to fit the needs of all school districts and community-based programs. From youth media to training teachers to use media in the classroom to serve the curriculum, Harken can help you make your students and teachers more competitive in today's world. We use a combination of media literacy techniques, arts technology, technical training on equipment and high-level problem solving skills as the basis of our approach. Michelle LeBrun is an award winning documentary filmmaker and has been educating youth and teachers since 1989. |
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Artist: Aaron Jungels
Address 40 Forest Street, Providence, RI 02906 Telephone: 401/453-4372 Fax: Email: ajungels@everettdancetheatre.org Artist Category: Mixed Media Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Aaron is an artist/performer who incorporates 3-dimensional design and multi-media effects in his work. He is a founding member of Everett Dance Theatre and has designed sets and props for all of their productions. Examples of past residencies include: transforming a gym into an interactive science and art exhibit with a group of high school Physics and Theater students; and designing and building a fountain in a community park with high school Art and Science students. |
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Artist: Annette H Dunkelman
Address 7 Arnold Street, Providence, RI 02906 Telephone: 401/831-4704 Fax: Email: dunkelman@aol.com Artist Category: Mixed Media Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Festival/Mixed Media Artist. Dunkelman has organized high school Renaissance, Egyptian and Asian Fairs and would like to help others with similar theme-based events or projects. This would include making costumes, props and sets as well as making miniature versions of buildings, objects, etc. The main criteria for success is allowing enough time to do a good job and making sure participants are excited about the project. Music, food and publicity are important also. |
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Artist: Anne Geissinger
Address 168 Fourth St, Providence, RI 02906 Telephone: 401/226-5583 Fax: Email: annie@dancedrumstory.com Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.dancedrumstory.com Description: Classes/residencies in group hand drumming including West African traditions (djembe and djun-djun). Students learn about community, collaboration, self-expression, and story through oral traditions. Annie has studied with African drumming masters for over 20 years in the US as well as in Senegal and Mali. She is a licensed mental health counselor and has an M.A. in Expressive Arts Therapies. |
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Artist: Atwater-Donnelly
Address 19 Walker Rd, Foster, RI 02825 Telephone: 401/392-1909 Fax: 401/392-1322 Email: AubreyFolk@aol.com Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.Atwater-Donnelly.com Description: Award-winning performers Aubrey Atwater and Elwood Donnelly convey American heritage through thrilling and interactive programs of traditional folk songs and dance. Blending gorgeous vocals, Aubrey and Elwood play guitar, dulcimer, mandolin, whistle, harmonica banjo, bones, limberjacks, and other surprises, including Appalachian clogging, square dance and French Canadian footwork. Joining them when possible is Kevin Doyle, master tap and Irish step-dancer and percussionist. All three magically connect with students and create quite a stir when they appear in school communities. |
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Artist: Barlow B Healy
Address 1776 Revolution St, East Greenwich, RI 02818 Telephone: Fax: Email: skip@skiphealy.com Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Folk Artist Website: http://www.skiphealy.com Description: [F] Fife and flute musician and builder. Skip Healy is master Irish flute player and one of the finer fife players in America. He has performed internationally and recorded with an all-star selection of traditional musicians including Aine Minougue, the late Johnny Cunningham, Kevin Burke and many others. His luthier's atelier (Healy Fife & Flute Company) features exquisitely crafted instruments. |
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Artist: Carlos de Leon
Address 135 Verndale Ave, Providence, RI 02905-1448 Telephone: 401/578-2192 Fax: Email: Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Folk Artist Website: Description: [F] Trumpeter Carlos de Leon is a composer, arranger, band leader, vocalist with 45 years experience in the Latin Music field. At present performing with his multi-national music group, Mr. de Leon does all the arrangements, which combine Latin Jazz, Salsa, Son, Merengue, Cumbias from around Latin America and the Caribbean. |
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Artist: Cathy Clasper-Torch
Address 24 Fourth St, Providence, RI 02906 Telephone: 401/272-3942 Fax: 401/331-1963 Email: cathfiddle@hotmail.com Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.thegnomesband.com Description: Cathy Clasper-Torch plays & teaches piano, fiddle/violin and the Chinese "er-hu". Both a private instructor) and a group instructor, Cathy has taught ages 5-85 and works with children in schools, churches, camps and various other performance settings. RED TIDE RAMBLERS a trio with Cathy Clasper-Torch, Mike Fischman and John Sousa, combines a lively program of traditional folk music with lots of audience participation. The children are introduced to a wide assortment of folk instruments and how they are played. Instruments include: fiddle, guitar, bass, mandolin, banjo, "er-hu", bones & bodhran. Programs include: "Folk Music for Young Folks" (aimed at youger audiences, participatory); "Songs of Peace & Protest" (aimed at Middle and High School audiences); and "What's That Instrument?" (a lively overview and demonstration of 15 acoustic instruments/questions & answers-for all ages). |
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Artist: Christopher P Turner
Address 238 Williams St, Providence, RI 02906 Telephone: 401/831-6208 Fax: Email: maloneyturner@gmail.com Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Folk Artist Website: http://www.fiddleandharmonica.com Description: [F] Folk musician. Harmonica vituoso. Traditional English and British music. Born in London to a musical family, Chris learned to play the harmonica from his father and brother. In 1975 he won the European Harmonica Championship. Chris also plays flute, whistle, bagpipes and jewsharp. He is also a composer. Experience with a wide range of ages. Limited Availability. |
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Artist: Claude St Franc
Address 76 Ontario St, #2, Providence, RI 02907-1713 Telephone: 401/270-2088 Fax: Email: Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: |
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Artist: Colette Fournier
Address 18 Harmony St, West Warwick, RI 02893 Telephone: 401/826-0093 Fax: Email: jcharmony@verizon.net Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Folk Artist Website: Description: [F] An engaging fiddler and French speaker, Colette Fournier has maintained the traditional tunes and songs from her Franco-American family and community. Travelling through New England, she and her partner, Jim Chapin, regularly present a diverse repertoire of both French and folk music. Colette is as comfortable in school settings as she is at community events, such as quadrilles, and festivals. |
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Artist: Daniel Boucher
Address , Westerly, RI 02891 Telephone: Fax: Email: Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: [F] Daniel Boucher is a talented Franco-American fiddler raised in a musical family; he learned fiddle music and songs from Quebec in that traditional context; he subsequently apprenticed with Rosaire Leroux (CT)and Donna Hebert (MA). Daniel continues to add to his song and tune repertoire by visiting traditional musicians in Quebec, and performing in the region with several Franco-American musicians. He is not ony an extraordinary fiddler, but has a very large repertoire of traditional songs, and is adept at leading call-and-response singing. |
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Artist: Diana Young
Address P.O. Box 40546, Providence, RI 02940 Telephone: 401/300-1915 Fax: Email: dianayoung@youngfishschool.com Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.youngfishschool.com Description: Diana is a world percussionist and educator. She conducts global drumming workshops, assemblies, and performs on dumbek from North Africa, djembe and djun-djun from West Africa along with other percussion instruments from around the world.Co-founder with RA Fish of the Young/Fish School of World Drumming she is expeienced in the development of needs assessment, curriculum design and the evaluation process for schools and special needs programs. Ms. Young performs and records with Annie Geissinger's Drum Sisters and R.A. Fish's Global Jazz Ensemble. Ms. Young is also listed on the Artists Roster of the Music School of RI Philharmonic and VSA of RI for youth with special needs. |
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Artist: Faith Knowles
Address 48 Sayles Ave, Pawtucket, RI 02860 Telephone: 401/721-9892 Fax: Email: FaithKnowles@cox.net Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Vamos a Cantar: Faith Knowles offers teachers and children a practical introduction to a valuable new resource, "Vamos a Cantar; 230 Latino and Hispanic Folk Songs to Sing, Read and Play", selected and edited by Faith Knowles and published by the Kodaly Institute at Capital University. Backed by her knowledge of sequential music education and its various applications along with understanding the importance of using culturally authentic materials. Faith will jump start you toward incorporating children's songs and games in Spanish into your daily curriculum. |
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Artist: Fatai I Ijifisoye
Address 255 Waldo St, Providence, RI 02909 Telephone: 401/228-6725 Fax: Email: Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Folk Artist Website: Description: Fatai is a master drummer from Ile Ife, Nigeria a major center of Yoruba culture. He offers workshops and more extended residencies about the "talking drum" ensemble and other aspects of Yoruba tradition. Yoruba culture was and continues to be a major feeder into Brazilian, Cuban and other Afro-American traditions. Because Yoruba is a tonal language the drums of Fatai's ensemble can be a source of communication. Fatai has learned from several Yoruba masters in Nigeria and the US and has performed at many community events. |
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Artist: Frank Ward Jr
Address 57 Roanoke St, Providence, RI 02908 Telephone: 401/272-7838 Fax: Email: frankward6@aol.com Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Frank Ward, Jr., bass-baritone, is a versitile performer in recitals, operas and oratorios. He received his music degrees from Morehouse College (B.A.) and the University of Michigan (M.M. and D.M.A.). In October 2005, Mr. Ward premiered "Crispus Attucks", written for him by composer Adolphus Hailstorck, at the Attucks Theatre in Norfolk, VA with members of the Virginia Symphony. Mr. Ward has presented recent recitals in North Carolina, Mississippi and Pennsylvania. For more information about Mr. Ward please visit www.frankwardjr.com. |
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Artist: Issa Coulibaly
Address 46 Gooding St, Pawtucket, RI 02860 Telephone: 401/559-1198 Fax: Email: IssaCoulibaly@hotmail.com Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: [F] Issa Coulibaly performs and teaches West African drumming and song from the Mande Djembe tradition, which he learned from master teachers in his native Mali. He toured Europe in the 1990s with the group Nahawa Doumbia, which released two recordings. Since coming to the U.S.A. in 2000 he has toured with Troupe Badenya, Seydou Coulibaly (see Dance) and more recently Didakan, conducting workshops and residencies. Sites have included Brown University, RIC, URI, Shea High School, Central Falls High School, Gordon School and Wheeler School. His drumming expertise appears in the film "Hard Luck", filmed in RI during 2005/6. |
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Artist: Jason Roseman & Tropical Gems
Address 560 Mineral Springs, Pawtucket, RI 02960 Telephone: 401/226-6165 Fax: Email: mancj10158@hotmail.com Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Folk Artist Website: http://www.jasonroseman.com Description: (F) Steel Pan player & maker. A native of Trinidad/Tobago Jason Roseman brings to us the warmth and vitality of Caribbean sounds. Steel drums were born as a means of playing music when drums were banned in Trinidad. Jason plays the classic calypso tunes the island is known for as well as jazz and his own compositions. Jason also makes and tunes steel pans, skills that he inherited from his father. Jason is also a seasoned instructor. |
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Artist: John C Monteiro
Address P.O. Box 5586, Pawtucket, RI 02860 Telephone: 401/728-3822 Fax: Email: Joao_cerilo@cox.net Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Folk Artist Website: http://www.JoaoCerilo.com Description: (F) At ease with both traditional and popular music of the Cape Verde Islands, John Monteiro (Joao Cerilo) regularly entertains large audiences at festivals and in the more intimate setting of local clubs. An internationally known musician, Mr. Monteiro has performed at a number of world music festivals and recorded several CDs. He performs in the "funana" and "batuko" styles on accordion, keyboard and other instruments. He is available for educational performances as well. |
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Artist: Jon Campbell
Address 4 Marten, Narragansett, RI 02882 Telephone: 401/439-3296 Fax: Email: jcampbellwampum@yahoo.com Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Folk Artist Website: http://www.jcampbellwampum.com Description: [F] Folk Artist. Instrument & Wampum making; Antler & Wood Sculpture. Jon began building musical instruments in 1970. He has built guitars, mandolins, bouzoukis and, more recently, drums and rattles both on commission and for his own musical endeavors. He also spent several years researching and building Uillean (Irish) bagpipes with Patrick Sky. Jon's interest in traditional instrument ornamentation and inlay has led to a sideline of jewelry making which now includes the manufacture of tubular beads from Quahog shell, historically known as Wampum. He has also done several wood sculpture projects. |
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Artist: Joseph O Addy
Address 250 Sayles Ave, Pawtucket, RI 02860 Telephone: 401/787-4832 Fax: Email: laudobaddy@gmail.com Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Folk Artist Website: www.laudobaddy.com Description: [F] Obuamah Laud Addy was born and raised in Ghana, West Africa in a family of traditional musicians and healers. During the 1970's, he played "high life" (Ghana's popular dance music) with several bands as the lead singer and a percussionist. In 1983, Obuamah came to the US and joined the ensemble Odadda as a lead singer, led by his uncle Yacub Addy who most recently was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. Odadda has toured and collaborated with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra releasing an album "Congo Square" and traveling widely through the US, Japan, Canada and the Carribean; with appearances at the Kennedy Center (DC) Rose Hall at Lincoln Center (NYC) and the Montreal Jazz Festival (Canada). A recent broadcast performance by Odadda, included the President Obama pre-inaugural "Celebration of America" led by Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in January 2009. In 2010 Obuamah established as the musical director the AS220 Criss Cross Orchestra (ACCO) with the help of Umberto Crenca, artistic director of AS220 and Rhode Island Philharmonic School of Music in Providence, Rhode Island. The AS220 Criss Cross Orchestra is a dance band, with a variety of global sounds and a contagious energy. "Criss Cross" is a worldwide, polyrhythmic music that combines traditional native African, American, Caribbean, Cuban, Latin American and European musical styles, and includes the tonality, improvisations, and other musical dynamics found in Jazz, Rhythm & Blues, and Hip Hop. ACCO is prepared for school and college workshops or concerts for special events and festivals. Since Obuamahs arrival in New England in 2007 he has also served as a master/teacher to youth in several local schools and colleges, teaching traditional Ghanaian West African drumming, dance, songs and rituals. |
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Artist: Kathryne Jennings
Address 79 Wheeler St, Cranston, RI 02905 Telephone: 401/467-7545 Fax: 401/467-7545 Email: Kathryne_Jennings@brown.edu Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Singer/Actress. Kathryne is a professional singer who performs both classical and popular music. She sings with opera companies, orchestras, and in solo recitals as well as in musicals and cabaret. Her approach to residencies involves introducing students to musical styles, instruments, and stories about great musicians, incorporating as many art forms as possible (poetry, literature, drama, visual arts, and dance). With the students, she emphasizes singing, performing, creativity, and most of all, a sense of fun as they learn to appreciate all kinds of music! |
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Artist: Keith S Munslow
Address PO Box 40173, Providence, RI 02940 Telephone: 401/823-9777 Fax: Email: kerrilyndailey@yahoo.com Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.keithmunslow.com Description: Musician/Performer/Songwriter. Songwriting workshops/residencies available for grades K-8. Keith has conducted simple songwriting workshops as well as multi-week, performance-based programs in which student-generated songs, skits, improvs, poems, and stories are developed into a show and presented at the school. Providence artist Keith Munslow has been performing, writing and instructing in numerous capacities for over fifteen years. (See also Literature) |
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Artist: Kevin Fallon
Address 36 E Killingly Rd, Foster, RI 02825 Telephone: 401/996-4024 Fax: Email: Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Folk Artist Website: Description: [F] Kevin Fallon is a traditional fiddler who inherited his music from his family and from local fiddlers, including the Old Time Fiddlers of RI. He offers music instruction and performance in old-timey, celtic, jazz standards and euro-ethnic music. He has run "slow-jam" workshops at festivals and is active in the traditional music scene. |
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Artist: Kim Trusty
Address 180 Medway St, Providence, RI 02906 Telephone: 401/621-7205 Fax: Email: Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Folk Artist Website: Description: Musician, Actress and Vocalist Kim Trusty offers a series of educational concerts for lower, middle and high school students.Concert Series are: Blues Kids can use, Folk Tales, The Music of Harlem and Great African American Women Guitar Players. Blues Kids Can Use: This concert talks about the music of Bessie Smith, Ray Charles, B.B. King Big Mama Thorton, Etta James. and others Folk Tales: This Concert is about the impact the music of Peter Seeger, Phil Ochs, Odetta and Bob Dylan and many others, had during the civil rights movement. The Music of Harlem: Talks about the music of the Harlem Renaissance ad the impact of jazz music. music performed is the music of Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn and others. Great African American women Guitar Players: This concert explores the talents of lady greats Elizabeth Cotten, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Odetta, and their influences on my own guitar playing and writing. |
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Artist: LeRoy J White
Address 18 Grafton St, Newport, RI 02840 Telephone: Fax: 401/846-6845 Email: jhprod@aol.com Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: LeRoy shares his life as a creative person through presentations which consist of personal history, group discussion and performances to remind the creative young soul to follow the guidelines of knowledge and keep the soul aspect alive as one moves into this world. LeRoy presents an ancient option and with options comes freedom, freedom to perhaps change the world into a better place via creativity. |
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Artist: Lydia E Perez-Nieves
Address 209 Maryland Ave, Warwick, RI 02888 Telephone: 401/737-0751 Fax: 401/737-0751 Email: yorubapr@verizon.net Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Folk Artist Website: http://www.afroyorubarican.blogspot.com Description: Afro-Puerto Rican and Caribbean Arts- Music & Dance (Performing Arts) Lydia, a national artist, teacher, and consultant, directs traditional “Bomba”, “Plena”, “Jibaro” and Caribbean music dance with YORUBA2 (her national group). They appear and perform for colleges, schools, churches, galleries, libraries, museums and festivals across the state and New England. She also offers private classes in Afro-Caribbean dance and music at her studio in Warwick and also conducts classes around the state upon request. She teaches at libraries, colleges, and public schools both during the summer. She is introducing the Caribbean Program in the Institute of Exploration in the Puerto Rican Culture, Springfield, MA, with great success. |
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Artist: Martin Grosswendt
Address 68 Tallman Avenue, Cranston, RI 02910 Telephone: 401/785-3044 Fax: Email: lesmoore2u@cox.net Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Martin Grosswendt is an experienced multi-instrumentalist, primarily on guitar. He has been a mainstay of the folk, acoustic music scene in New England since the 1970's. He is available for residencies or lessons on roots music of many kinds for childrenof all ages. |
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Artist: Michael Fishel Bresler
Address 857 Hope St, Providence, RI 02906 Telephone: 401/273-9814 Fax: Email: breslersmusic@gmail.com Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Folk Artist Website: Description: [F] Folk Artist. Jewish folk arts- music, stories and dance, shared as a lively and living legacy of diverse Jewish cultures. Students learn: What's Jewish? What is Klezmer?…the Kabalah? Who are the Hassidim & the Sephardim? How are cultures passed on to the next generation?...effected by neighboring cultures? Students develop new excitement about their own ethnic heritage. Michael (BA Music) has studied and performed traditional Jewish music for several years. Musician. One day show(s) or 5 -15 day residencies. Michael offers a choice of programs adapted to the needs of the students. He has a multicultural musical repetoire and a supply of easy student participation instruments. Michael's professional bands give concerts of klezmer, bluegrass or old-time string band music. Michael (BA in music) has been teaching for 25 years, kindergarten through college, including extensive experience with special needs and multi-ethnic inclusion projects. Flute Soup. Michael and Phyllis Aronson demonstrate an exciting multi-cultural array of flutes, fifes & other flute-like instruments, including the traditional music of each. Different musical structures are described; students are involved in singing and clapping to teach careful listening. Adapted to age group. Michael (BA in flute) has been teaching/performing for 25 years; Phyllis (MA in music), teaches and performs, including the Hartford Symphony and the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra. |
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Artist: Michelle Kaminsky
Address 18 Imperial Place, Providence, RI 02903 Telephone: 401/246-2720 Fax: Email: mkfiddle@earthlink.net Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: [F] Fiddler. Playing on a violin that she built herself, Michelle uses her background of hot Old-time and Cajun music to share older American folk traditions. Since her teens, she has immersed herself in fiddle & dance styles from New England to Louisiana. Combining music, dance and singing games, Michelle will create a program that integrates folk arts into your curriculum. Guitar, banjo and rhythm instruments can be included. Available for all ages and abilities. Marimba Magic. In this participatory workshop, Michelle uses fabulous-sounding xylophones; the gentle, yet rich tones remind one of windchimes, only the players are creating the music! The instruments, ranging from soprano to bass are especially designed with removable wood or metal bars. The goal is to give everyone, including those with no music background, a chance to make music that sounds great in a relaxed informal setting, while building self-esteeem. Available for all ages and abilities. (See also Dance listing) |
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Artist: Opera Providence
Address 585 Elmgrove Avenue, Providence, RI 02906 Telephone: 401/331-6060 Fax: Email: rderobbio@OperaProvidence.org Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Education Artist Website: www.operaprovidence.org Description: Opera Providence (OP) fosters access to opera for all and promotes the development of community among the diverse cultural groups living in the greater Providence region through OPERAtunity education and outreach programs. Programs include: artist-in-residence multi session projects; after school programs, outreach, in-school performance, main-stage professional performance, interactive assemblies and performances in collaboration with other non-profits. Study guides provide age-appropriate and standards-based activities that are easily integrated into class curriculum. These programs have proven impact on student academic success and positive social outcomes. |
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Artist: Philip G Edmonds
Address 24 Dixon St, Providence, RI 02907 Telephone: 401/461-3683 Fax: Email: philwhistle@gmail.com Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Folk Artist Website: Description: [F] As a native of Killaloe, County Clare, Ireland, Phil learned to play the tin whistle in a place where, as he says, "The backyard was the fields." When he was 14 years old, Phil, along with his family emigrated to America and settled in South Providence, where he still lives.Besides the Gnomes, Phill presently plays whistle and button accordion with several RI ensembles including: The Providence Wholebellies, Trua and the AS220 Criss Cross Orchestra directed by Ghanaian Obuamah Laud Addy. The world music scene of Providence has had a big influence on Phil's music. Catch him some Friday nights sitting in with Zerui DePina's Cape Verde band in Central Falls. Phil has written two books "Reconnecting with the Soul of Ireland" and "Taking Great Care: A Protrait of Community". |
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Artist: Providence String Quartet
Address 1392 Westminster St, Providence, RI 02909 Telephone: 401/861-5650 Fax: 401/861-3700 Email: info@communitymusicworks.org Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.communitymusicworks.org Description: The Providence String Quartet is the resident ensemble of Community Music Works, and has developed a strong reputation through its concerts in Rhode Island, Boston, New York and Los Angeles. The PSQ performs music from the 18th-21st centuries, including frequent collaborations with artists from other disciplines. Its education concerts include humor, insights into music through visual artwork, story-telling and improvisation, as well as introductions to repertoire heard in their concerts. |
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Artist: Rachel Maloney (Turner)
Address 238 Williams St, Providence, RI 02906 Telephone: 401/831-6208 Fax: Email: maloneyturner@gmail.com Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Folk Artist Website: http://www.fiddleandharmonica.com Description: [F] Folk Artist. American folk (Appalachian) music and musical instruments. For all ages. Rachel was born in Norton, Virginia. Her love of the fiddle was nurtured at an early age by the many festivals in the mountains of Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina. Rachel's greatest inspiration has been the powerful musical tradition in that pocket of the Appalachians where she grew up. Her travels to Europe broadened her love of folk music. Rachel plays the fiddle, washboard, melodian, jawharp, bones, viola, psaltry, mandolin, and cornet. Limited Availability. |
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Artist: Rebecca Chace Brewster
Address 31 Hanson Rd, Barrington, RI 02806 Telephone: 401/378-0065 Fax: Email: beckychace@cox.net Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.beckychace.com Description: Singer/songwriter. Becky Chace has been performing and writing roots, country, blues, folk, and rock music for over a decade. She's best known for her powerful vocals and prolific songwriting. Chace offers workshops that connect students to music through songwriting in ways they may have never known were possible. Her workshops in songwriting, performance, poetry and singing can be tailored to any age group or skill level. |
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Artist: Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra & Music School
Address 667 Waterman Avenue, East Providence, RI 02914 Telephone: 401/248-7070 Fax: 401/248-7071 Email: WFRIED@riphil.org Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Education Artist Website: www.riphil.org Description: The Rhode Island Philharmonic & Music School is the nation's largest combined professional orchestra and music school, with 70 faculty, and 65 orchestra members. We offer in-school performances, workshops & residencies; Education and Rush Hour Concerts, Open Rehearsals; master classes, chamber/ensemble study, teacher professional development; as well as private lessons on 30 instruments plus voice/choral; classical, jazz, rock & blues and world music. |
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Artist: Robert "Mance" Grady
Address 94 Angell Rd, Cumberland, RI 02864 Telephone: 401/333-2293 Fax: Email: info@mance.com Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Folk Artist Website: http://www.mance.com Description: [F] Mance Grady has amazed many with his mastery of the traditional Irish frame drum, the bodhran, as well as with his skills on other ethnic percussion. Rhythm is the tie that binds us all which Mance has shown in workshops and clinics on the bodhran. Venues have ranged from schools to festivals, including the Berklee College of Music (where he shared the stage with Giovanni Hildago, Victor Mendoza and Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez) and ICONNS Music Festival. Mance has performed with a virtual who's who in the Celtic music genre in his 33 plus years as a Celtic percussionist. When not performing with specific bands, Mance continues to be a guest artist both in performances and in the recording studio. His organic feel for rhythm allows him to journey into different musical genres and he loves to bring the bodhran into new musical territory. Performances can be arranged to include other musicians in various configurations for such events as concerts, weddings, private parties, and corporate functions. |
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Artist: Robert Arthur Fish
Address 460 Charles Street, Providence, RI 02904 Telephone: 401/228-4899 Fax: Email: rafish222@gmail.com Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.youngfishschool.com Description: RA Fish began the study of American drumset & marching drums in 1962. At Berklee College of Music he studied with Alan Dawson. After moving to New York City in 1973, Mr. Fish began to study global percussion, including Indian tabla, North African/Middle Eastern dumbek (two recordings on Lyrichord discs) and other forms. He has played and recorded with a wide range of jazz, pop & ethnic musicians. In 1998, after returning to RI, he co-founded the Young/Fish School of World Drumming (see also) with Diana Young. Together they have formulated a unique teaching methodology for all populations, including those with special needs. Mr. Fish & Ms. Young collaborated with the RI Phiharmonic and composer/educator Judith Sainte Croix on a piece for RI 2000. In 2002 Mr. Fish received the Fellowship for music composition from RISCA. He is also listed the rosters for the Music School of the RI Philharmonic and VSA of RI for special needs children and youth. |
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Artist: Solati Trio Inc
Address 23 Methyl St, Providence, RI 02906 Telephone: 401/521-2602 Fax: Email: hctatian@cox.net Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Rhode Island's award winning Solati Trio, whose members, Ludmilla Lifson, Sophia Herman and Hrant Tatian are accomplished performers, is involved in all aspects of music presentation. The Trio has given educational concerts, participated in residencies and master classes, recorded a CD of new compositions as well as trios from the standard repertoire, in addittion to presenting it regular series of formal concerts for the past several years. In 2006 Solati Trio performed in Rio de Janeiro at the 12th Annual Cello Encounter and conducted a succesful residency at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School in Providence. |
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Artist: Song Heng
Address 257 Massachusetts Ave, Providence, RI 02905 Telephone: 401/263-2089 Fax: Email: songjewelry@netscape.net Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Folk Artist Website: Description: [F] Song Heng and his group regularly perform at Cambodian community events, including Cambodian New Year celebrations and weddings. Song Heng is a master musician and plays the"roneat" (Cambodian xylophone). He accompanies himself with several Cambodian musicians. |
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Artist: Vozes de los Andes
Address 78 Jewett St, Providence, RI 02908 Telephone: 401/351-4329 Fax: Email: Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Folk Artist Website: Description: [F] Vozes de Los Andes plays music from the South American altiplano. Members come mostly from Bolivia. They play music from there and other countries on instruments such as: "zamponas" (panpipes); "charangos"; guitars; "quenas" (flutes) and drums. Their music combines Spanish and Native American elements. The group is available for performances and demonstration-type programs. |
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Artist: Young Fish School of Drumming
Address PO Box 40546, Providence, RI 02940 Telephone: 401/300-1915 Fax: Email: dianayoung@youngfishschool.com Artist Category: Music Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.youngfishschool.com Description: Global drumming program, workshops and assemblies for K-12; special needs children, adults, seniors, colleges, hospitals, community centers, etc. Co-founders & teachers R.A. Fish and Diana Young present a most celebrated and enjoyable approach to multi-cultural diversity through their global drumming programs. Utilizing a world map and an assortment of drums and percussion instruments from around the globe they explore the musical and rhythmic landscape of North Africa, the Middle East, West Africa, India, Asia and the Americas. All programs are tailored to the specific needs of the school and its curriculum. Music departments and social studies programs could integrate lesson plans into this process to create their own individual program. Young Fish are also on the artist roster of VSA Arts RI and New England States Touring roster of the New England Foundation for the Arts. |
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Artist: Aurea, Inc.
Address 43 Arlington Street, Pawtucket, RI 02860 Telephone: 401/723-9972 Fax: Email: Artist Category: New Genres Artist Type: Education Artist Website: www.AureaEnsemble.org Description: Aurea is an ensemble of musicians and actors from several genres which presents thematic programs of music linked to dramatic readings. Themes have included "Albion's Tears: Poetry and Music of England"; "Child's Christmas in Wales"; "Not About Heroes"; T.S. Eliot's "'Til Human Voices Wake Us"; "Under a Latin Moon"; "Reflections on Rilke"; and "Inflections of Love". Members include classical string players Charles and Consuelo Sherba, folk & avant-garde multi-instrumentalist Chris Turner, actor Nigel Gore and others. All artists have many years experience working with young audiences. Available for performances and residencies. Recommended for middle school and up. |
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Artist: Christopher E. Johnson
Address 60 Trask St, Providence, RI 02906 Telephone: 401/954-0721 Fax: Email: tranzitthawt@yahoo.com Artist Category: New Genres Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Poetry/Spoken Word. Christopher Johnson is an award-winning poet whose words have been called infectious like a favorite song, inspirational and riveting. Christopher is fresh off a two-year artist residency at AS220 and hasn't lost a step, winning the internal competition "Famecast" in December, 2007. He is presently touring the country giving workshops in high schools, colleges and youth detention facilities. |
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Artist: Dan Butterworth
Address 451 Eagle Peak, Pascoag, RI 02859 Telephone: 401/568-4251 Fax: 401/568-2187 Email: butterworth1@mindspring.com Artist Category: Puppets Artist Type: Education Artist Website: butterworthproductions.com Description: Puppetry, (Dance, Festival, Gallery, Museum, Animated Sets and Shadow Images). Themes from around the world emerge from a highly decorated stage, through the air and right out into the audience. Music, dance and movement allow show anywhere: in-school, festival, or full theatre production. Carnaval del Mundo. Residencies: Tailored for each occaision/curriculum. Single class/school or community-wide. Gallery/Museum: Interactive exhibits/artists of all kinds. Coupled with performance & community outreach. Exhibits travel or are custom made for theatre/movies or permanent installation. Set Design and Custom, Inventive Theatre Construction: Including Wheelchair theatre (Mobile Effects Platforms) lights, images, sounds and animated sets for wheelchair users.. |
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Artist: Erminio Pinque
Address PO Box 5742, Providence, RI 02903 Telephone: 401/831-9652 Fax: Email: bignazo@bignazo.com Artist Category: Puppets Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.bignazo.com Description: Puppeteer/Maskmaker/Director. "Creature-Creation" is a combination puppet/maskmaking performance residency. Erminio is a faculty member at RISD, and the artistic director of the Big Nazo performance group. He has worked with special needs, elementary, high school, and elderly students in assisting them to bring to life the characters that exist in their imaginations. Using foam rubber, fabric, cardboard and tempura paint, participants create original and extraordinary masks and puppet creatures. The process develops drawing, painting and 3-D building techniques, as well as encouraging experimentation with materials, creative storytelling, and collaboration with fellow students. The final project is to form a play, parade, environment or video project. |
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Artist: Abigail Jefferson
Address 166 Columbia St, Wakefield, RI 02879 Telephone: 401/932-6565 Fax: Email: abijef@cox.net Artist Category: Storytellers Artist Type: Folk Artist Website: http://www.AbigailJefferson.com Description: [F] Abigail promotes multicultural awareness through creative expression. Through a unique blend of story, dance, song, and rhythm, she brings to life traditional stories from around the globe with an emphasis on the African diaspora. Abigail's (Ifatola's) performances & workshops are highly interactive, educational and fun-filled. Audiences of all ages have described her performances and workshops as inspiring, informative and energizing! |
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Artist: Christopher "Kavi" Carbone
Address PO Box 3759, Newport, RI 02840 Telephone: 401/846-9014 Fax: 401/846-9014 Email: bpresent@earthlink.net Artist Category: Storytellers Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.arts-in-celebration.com Description: Storyteller, theater artist, musician, yoga instructor. In performance, Christopher presents "Story & Song Celebrations", interactive experiences based on themes of your chosing. Workshop subjects include: "Storytelling and Creative Drama", "Yoga & Movement", "Music & the Special Child". Programs are especially geared towards grades K-4 and Special Education classes, but are available for all grade levels. A graduate of NYU's Performance Studies Program (M.A.), Christopher is dedicated to personal growth & community-building through the arts. |
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Artist: Cindy Killavey
Address 240 Bramans Ln, Portsmouth, RI 02871-3311 Telephone: 401/847-5148 Fax: Email: storyteller@storyri.com Artist Category: Storytellers Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.storyri.com or www.tandemtellers.com Description: Author/Actress/Storyteller Offers classroom programs/assemblies that encourage creativity, imagination & writing. Whether appearing as the Rainbow Wizard to encourage healthy eating in "Eat a Rainbow Every Day"; collaborating with students to create a play based on a folk or fairy tale or presenting an interactive music & storytelling program in tandem with another teller. Cindy is, as one youngster put it: "The bestest I ever seen". |
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Artist: Diane Postoian
Address 1 Midland Street, North Providence, RI 02911 Telephone: 401/461-1322 Fax: Email: dianepostoain@gmail.com Artist Category: Storytellers Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.dianepostoian.com Description: STORYTELLER/COMEDIAN/WRITER/CREATIVE DRAMATIST In 2006, Diane Postoian received an Honorary Doctorate from Rhode Island College for her life-long acheivements in theatre and education for young audiences. During her time as director of Looking Glass Theatre she received grants nationwide for her commitment to educate through performance. "I didn't choose my profession. It chose me. Once I knew I had a gift for comedy and a love for learning, I knew I could use my performance energy to teach in a way both children and adults would find entertaining and inspiring." Diane's programs include: Acting Naturally About Reading- Staged stories and classroom workshops helping students to connect the passion and emotion of the spoken word to its written text. The Olga! Project- A 'serious' comedy routine tackling such topics as media-hype, body image, violence in entertainment and bullying. ParentZING- A playful, informative lecture/workshop for educators and parents on the value of pretend in early childhood education. Tell Me a Story- professional exploratory coaching for beginner storytellers Do That Again!- During free pay student's say many astounding things. With a creative dramatist to inspire them into creating dialogue and improvisation, a workshop transforms into a magical, almost unbelievable story. |
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Artist: Len Cabral
Address 30 Marcy St, Cranston, RI 02905 Telephone: 401/781-0019 Fax: 401/781-0020 Email: len@lencabral.com Artist Category: Storytellers Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.lencabral.com Description: Len is an internationally known storyteller, who uses the art of storytelling to engage listeners of all ages & backgrounds. Through storytelling and questions asked by Len during the course of his performance, students will be motivated to begin interviewing parents, grandparents & elders in their families for stories about the "olden days". This will lead to better listening & speaking skills. |
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Artist: Marc Joel Levitt
Address 20 Pinehurst St, Wakefield, RI 02879 Telephone: 401/783-0887 Fax: Email: marcjoellevitt@gmail.com Artist Category: Storytellers Artist Type: Education Artist Website: marclevitt.org Description: Corwin Press author/storyteller/radio host and documentary filmmaker, Marc Levitt has worked throughout the United States and in forty-five countries. Mr. Levitt's work includes workshops in writing based on his book "Putting Everyday Life on the Page", storytelling performances of primarily memoirs, original New England-based Halloween tales, workshops in oral presentation and diversity celebration. Marc Levitt believes in encouraging students to write from their own experiences and to utilize their home and school environment for inspiration. Mr. Levitt has won both RISCA's New Genres Fellowship and was the original recipient of RICH's Tom Roberts award for the creative use of the Humanities. |
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Artist: Mark Binder
Address Pembroke Villa, Providence, RI 02906 Telephone: 401/272-8707 Fax: Email: mark@markbinder.com Artist Category: Storytellers Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.markbinder.com Description: An award-winning author and storyteller, Mark's school events combine the best of the spoken and literary for elementary, middle and high schools. His stories keep students riveted. His workshops get them thinking and creating. Programs include: The Art of Peace, Omakase (multicultural tales), A Holiday Present, Spooky Stories, Tall Tales, Silly Stories and Songs. Workshops include: Writing the Story, Telling the Story. Single events or half, full or multiple-day residencies. |
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Artist: Melodie Thompson
Address 23 Anstis St, Cranston, RI 02905 Telephone: 401/368-1955 Fax: Email: MelodyArts@aol.com Artist Category: Storytellers Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.melodieproductions.com Description: Actor/Writer/Storyteller. Using storytelling, acting, dance and sign language, Ms. Thompson uses the power of performing arts to bring inspiring messages to audiences of all ages. As a certified teacher in regular and special education, as well as a nationally-recognized performing artist, Ms. Thompson brings a wealth of expertise to both stage and educational settings. Ms. Thompson holds a Masters in Special Education and offers a variety of entertaining workshops, specializing in arts-integrated curriculum, as well as aesthetic and cultural appreciation. |
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Artist: The Storyteller Jeanne Donato
Address 82 Potter Hill Rd, Westerly, RI 02891 Telephone: 401/596-0886 Fax: 401/596-6935 Email: JeanneDonato@aol.com Artist Category: Storytellers Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.JeanneDonato.com Description: Storyteller/Author/ Integrative Learning and Expressive Arts Facilitator/Speaker/ Educational Consultant/Life Coach/ Creative Drama & Brain Gym Instructor/ Master Balloon Artist/Artist-in-Residence – Story Programs (Pre-K –Gr.8): “Students Are Storytellers,” Creative Writing, & Enhanced Learning Techniques. The Storytelling Ladies Series: The Winter Lady ®, Pioneer, Patriotic & Storybook Lady celebrates our humanity and delights in our cultural differences. Jeanne holds a B.A. Elementary Ed., M.Ed. Storytelling/Reading, and Doctorate Improving Academic Performance. Co-author of Storytelling in Emergent Literacy: Integrating Multiple Intelligences - professional development workshops available (See also Literature) |
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Artist: V Raffini
Address 73 Tanner St, Providence, RI 02907 Telephone: 401/588-0966 Fax: Email: raffini_productions@yahoo.com Artist Category: Storytellers Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Storytelling/Arts Educator. Raffini has been doing community-based storytelling & programs for over 25 years. Her work will transfix & transform you into a world of never ending possibilities. She is captivating, original, inventive and exciting as well as an outstanding educator. The Sister to Sister youth initiative; The Bam Poetry Slam; & "The" Theatre Technique are some of the courses/classes she offers. She was also the producer of "The Harlem Renaissance". Through her special talents she has touched and changed the lives of many. |
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Artist: Valerie Tutson
Address 155 Lexington Ave, Providence, RI 02907 Telephone: 401/273-4013 Fax: Email: vtutson@yahoo.com Artist Category: Storytellers Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.valerietutson.com Description: Storyteller. Valerie Tutson graduated from Brown University with a Masters Degree in Theatre Arts and a degree in Storytelling as a Communication's Art. Valerie draws her performance stories from around the world with an emphasis on African traditions. Her repertoire includes stories from the Underground Railroad as well as the first person characterization of Ellen Craft. In addition Valerie also shares stories celebrating the lives of notable RI black women Duchess Quamino and Nancy Elizabeth Prophet. Valerie also offers workshops for students and teachers in theater, storytelling and story writing. Appropriate grade levels for performances include grades Pre-K through 12. Workshops grades 3 to adult. |
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Artist: ACT @ St. Andrew's School
Address 63 Federal Road, Barrington, RI 02806 Telephone: 401/246-1230x3053 Fax: 401/246-0510 Email: labbatomarco@standrews-ri.org Artist Category: Theatre Artist Type: Education Artist Website: standrews-ri.org/page.aspx?pid=464 Description: ACT @ St. Andrew's (ACTSA), formerly All Children's Theatre, offers comprehensive theater arts education programs to all youth, grades K-12 in Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts. Student-actors learn the fundamentals of acting while developing as individuals. Training includes playwriting skills, voice and diction, movement, improvisation, musical theatre as well as production and performance. The ACTSA Ensemble, consisiting of students 8-18, performs full-scale productions several times throughout the year for the public. |
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Artist: Adam G Gertsacov
Address 6 Wolfe Rd, Narragansett, RI 02882 Telephone: 401/351-2596 Fax: Email: kafclown@well.com Artist Category: Theatre Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.ACMECLOWN.COM Description: Adam is a professional actor, director, and clown. He has extensive experience as a residency artist, teaching all forms of theatre, including clowning, puppetry, commedia dell'arte, circus and improv. His residencies typically culminate in a performance by students and can be custom-themed. The focus is not on the product as much as the process-participatory learning and creation with students learning the skills, and then creation with students learning the skills, and then creating the show, guided by the group leader. Usually the product ends up being pretty good. Performances by Adam are also available. Call or email for more information. |
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Artist: Amy L. Budd
Address 12 April Court, Providence, RI 02908 Telephone: 401/965-5198 Fax: Email: amylynnbudd@mac.com Artist Category: Theatre Artist Type: Education Artist Website: www.amylynnbudd.com Description: Specializing in integrated curriculum performance projects, grades 2-12. Choose a residency plan or collaborate with Amy on a customized one. She trains students in the foundations of acting and works with them to build original shows around academic subject matter. Students RAISE their knowledge by Reading or Researching, Analyzing & Interpreting information, Synthesizing it into new forms, and Evaluating their work. Recent subjects include: Kwakiutl storytelling; the UFO debate; body systems; RI ghost stories; and vaudeville |
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Artist: Beth Hettrick Berry
Address 250 Main Street, Wakefield, RI 02879 Telephone: 401/477-0504 Fax: Email: Bethberry_2001@yahoo.com Artist Category: Theatre Artist Type: Education Artist Website: gearproduction.org Description: Playwright/director Beth Berry works to provide a positive performing experience to students of all ages. Key to this process is the practice of "self-casting", where students choose their own roles after hearing an outline of the play. The script is then tailored to fit the participants. Past themes have included: art history, the human body, the water cycle, tolerance, & exploring the library. Casts number from 36 to over 250. Work with Beth to create a unique theatre experience for your learning community. |
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Artist: Clare Vadeboncoeur
Address 2420 Plainfield Pike, Johnston, RI 02919 Telephone: 401/943-2159 Fax: Email: goodheartpro@cox.net Artist Category: Theatre Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.goodheartpro.com Description: Story Performer. STORY ALIVE! An Expressive Arts Experience for Children This program integrates body, mind and spirit through a poetic blend of creative movement, drama and storytelling. The goal is to provide a safe, loving environment to empower children to give physical form to their ideas and feelings. Clare enjoys working with teachers and designing residencies that can be integrated into curriculum. |
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Artist: Don C Mays
Address 878 River Ave, Providence, RI 02908 Telephone: Fax: Email: dcmays@mac.com Artist Category: Theatre Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Don Mays, a self-taught writer/filmaker, produced his first theatrical piece some fifteen years ago. A graduate of Drake University (BFA) and the National Shakespeare Conservatory in New York, he has worked as a producer, director, actor, stand-up comic, writer and educator for many years. He is also a founding member of Mama's Reel Blackmarket Films, co-producer of "Same Difference". Mr. Mays will work with students to write and mount a video/theatre production in cooperation with school staff and possibly other artists. |
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Artist: Elizabeth Anne Keiser
Address PO Box 2744, Providence, RI 02906 Telephone: 401/316-7255 Fax: Email: elizabeef@hotmail.com Artist Category: Theatre Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Elizabeth has developed numerous curriculae which are facilitated "on the feet, instead of the seat" with a major focus on literacy, tolerance and global issues. She has worked for six years with ArtsLiteracy (through Brown University) and the Providence Black Repertory Company. Each workshop is tailored to the goals of teachers, runs between 3 and twenty visits, and culminates into a student-driven performance. She has three touring shows available (Reading Changed My Life; The IgnorAnt {both for ages 12+} and BeA Walking {for K-5}). |
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Artist: Fantasy Works Youth Theater dba Rhode Island Youth
Address 2170 Tower Hill Rd., Saunderstown, RI 02874 Telephone: 401/294-2215 Fax: 401/295-4574 Email: ann@RIYT.org Artist Category: Theatre Artist Type: Education Artist Website: www.RIYT.org Description: Rhode Island Youth Theatre collaborates with schools and other educational partners to promote arts literacy through: Stories on Stage workshops-(Improv. Workshops boased on literature) 6-week after-school programs-(Ensemble production of a play or musical) Teen playwriting festival-(One-week residencies leading to the development of original works presented as stage readings at a culminating festival). RIYT has been doing educational theatre programs since 1987 (previously known as FantasyWorks). |
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Artist: Improvise! Inc
Address 48 Barberry Hill Rd, Providence, RI 02906 Telephone: 401/274-3418 Fax: Email: naidaw@mindspring.com Artist Category: Theatre Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Creative Drama and Storytelling. Rose Pavlow and Naida Weisberg are now involved with Playback Theatre, RI, an organization with companies all over the world. Audiences tell their personal stories and the Playback artists enact their stories on the spot, improvisationally. The enactment is a gift to the teller. Props percussion instruments & scarves are used. |
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Artist: Laurie Heineman
Address 36 Hundred Acre Pond Rd E, West Kingston, RI 02892 Telephone: 401/782-2464 Fax: Email: laurihei@cox.net Artist Category: Theatre Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: THEATRICAL CATALYST/ACTOR/ DIRECTOR/ COACH Laurie has acted and directed professionally on stage, film, & TV( wnning an Emmy Award) and she joyfully provides hands-on collaboration with students and teachers around classic plays and literature. Program's vary from a 2 hour stand-alone, to month long productions with whole teams. She will craft a program to fit your needs, curriculum, and time. Her book on taking the fear out of teaching Shakespeare, in AP Classroom: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Prufrock Press). Laurie taught at St. Andrew's school for four years, honing skills in working with a variety of learners, including those for whom English is a second language. In the award-winning PBS documentary A Touch of Greatness, she agrees with her late mentor Albert Cullum, that students are bored by mediocrity, but turned on by greatness. Her Playing with Shakespeare workshops in K-12 schools, in hospitals, libraries and other venues have brought joy and insight to all. She treasures the richness of discovery at each age. Laurie also provides professional development in multi-disiplinary curriulum, working inclusively with teachers and/or with therapeutic staff's. She is always eager to use theatre, improvisation, movement and voice to enhance understanding and improve reading skills. Shakespeare, Aesop, Lorca, Greek and Roman plays are some of the many genres she will use. |
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Artist: Len Cabral
Address 30 Marcy St, Cranston, RI 02905 Telephone: 401/781-0019 Fax: 401/781-0020 Email: len@lencabral.com Artist Category: Theatre Artist Type: Folk Artist Website: http://www.lencabral.com Description: [F] Folk Artist. Cape Verdean culture and storytelling. Len is also available as a folk artist storyteller. Len's mother and grandmother sang to him in Portuguese Creole. All around were songs and stories in other tongues, Armenian, Italian, Bulgarian, it was a true melting pot. Len uses mime, poetry, song, humor, and vivid characterizations to engage children of all ages through the magical power of the spoken word, while at the same time connecting with each other through stories told and heard. |
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Artist: Marc Kohler
Address 23 Turner Avenue, Providence, RI 02908 Telephone: 401/351-0373 Fax: Email: Marcwkohler@aol.com Artist Category: Theatre Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Multi-disciplinary Artist. Storyteller, puppeteer, face painter, art workshop specialist. Marc has worked with the RISCA Arts in Education Program from its inception. He is a working storyteller, face painter, puppeteer, and character actor. He graduated from Brown in 1969 in English, and did graduate work in Theater and Creative Writing. His residencies have included theater arts (Playwriting, historical re-enactments, make-up, masks, solo and group plays) and puppet arts (Many kinds of puppet making, character creation, and performances). He has ten years in residence at special needs locations for children and adults (Groden Center, Cranston Center, Meeting Street School, CITE, Providence SIEP, etc.). In September 2010, his studio became a performance and arts workshop location for field trips in the arts and performance disciplines. |
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Artist: Marvin Novogrodski
Address 25 Charles Street, East Providence, RI 02914 Telephone: 401/578-9399 Fax: Email: marv@marvmarv.com Artist Category: Theatre Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.marvmarv.com Description: Marvin Novogrodski, more popularly known as Marvelous Marvin, offers three science-based shows entitled "The Magic of Science", "How the Body Works" and "Buggin' Out". Check out www.marvmarv.com Fees range from $300 up for shows. Marvin is also available for residencies that mix science, dance, circus arts and theatre. Prices are negotiable. Shows are geared for a K-6 grade age range. |
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Artist: Michael Fishel Bresler
Address 857 Hope St, Providence, RI 02906 Telephone: 401/273-9814 Fax: Email: breslersmusic@gmail.com Artist Category: Theatre Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Actor (including comic & mime), Storyteller: Introducing students to realistic characters bringing stories & songs from other cultures. Engaging, creative performances: "Sappy the Old Cowpoke", "Around the World in 50 Minutes" etc. Classroom materials provided. Also available for extended creative performance residencies. Michael (BA in in music) studied theater with Tony Montanaro, and has taught music at all levels from kindergarten to college for 25 years. Michael has a multi-cultural repertoire and extensive experience with special needs students. Dr. Lambert's Travelling Medicine Show: Lively recreation of old-time travelling "snake oil" peddler, including magic, music and comedy. Authentic painted backdrop. Audience participation. Fourth grade through adult. Designed to teach critical thinking and help students evaluate sales pitches. Classroom materials available. Michael, who performs with a keyboardist and assistant, has been doing this show for 15 years.. (See also Music listing) |
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Artist: Ricardo Pitts-Wiley
Address 146 Colonial Road, Providence, RI 02906-2550 Telephone: 401/475-6675 Fax: 401/475-6676 Email: pittswiley.ricardo@gmail.com Artist Category: Theatre Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.mixedmagictheatre.org Description: Ricardo Pitts-Wiley develops projects 2-6 weeks long with high school/college students or community groups. The artist, teachers and students break down text, language styles and acting problems to develop a final theatre event and experience. |
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Artist: The Sandra Feinstein Gamm Theatre
Address 172 Exchange Street, Pawtucket, RI 02860 Telephone: 401/723-4266 Fax: 401/723-0440 Email: steve@gammtheatre.org Artist Category: Theatre Artist Type: Education Artist Website: www.gammtheatre.org Description: The Gamm Theatre has professional theater educational programs to offer to schools, grades 4-12 throughout the state of Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts. Professional actors and designers participating in these residencies are high school or college educators, as well as theatre artists. Customized, curriculum-based programs may be developed with Gamm's education director, choosing from the following menu: master classes in acting, improvisation, Shakespeare study, public speaking, stage combat; and voice & diction. 10 a.m. school daytime matinee performances at the Gamm Theatre in Pawtucket are accompanied by curriculum-based scholarly study guides. |
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Artist: Traveling Theatre
Address 1 Louisa Street, Providence, RI 02905 Telephone: 401/461-1813 Fax: Email: sarah@cdlri.org Artist Category: Theatre Artist Type: Education Artist Website: www.travelingtheatre.org Description: Traveling Theatre is a non-profit, educational arts enrichment organization located in Providence. Its mission is to create a community of highly qualified teaching artists who travel throughout the state providing artistic experiences for youth that strengthen creativity, literacy, problem solving, cooperative learning, self-confidence, and the life skills necessary to face everyday challenges. Our vision is to see youth actively engaging in creative learning. Traveling Theatre designs and implements high quality arts integration programming that meets the needs of the individual school and state curriculum expectations. |
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Artist: Trinity Repertory Company
Address 201 Washington Street, Providence, RI 02903 Telephone: 401/521-1100 Fax: 401/751-5577 Email: education@trinityrep.com Artist Category: Theatre Artist Type: Education Artist Website: www.trinityrep.com Description: Project Discovery offers student matinees of select mainstage productions, supported by in-school programming, study guides, and teacher preview performances. The Young Actors Studio offers a wide range of year-round, out-of-school classes for students in grades K-12. Backstage tours, job shadows, and internships are available. Lifelong learning opportunities include post-show talkbacks, an in-depth magazine published three times per year, study guides for all productions, acting classes and discussion groups for adults |
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Artist: Amy Bartlett Wright
Address 39 Massachusetts Blvd, Portsmouth, RI 02907-1007 Telephone: 401/293-0572 Fax: Email: info@amybartlettwright.com Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: www.AmyBartlettWright.com Description: Amy paints large realistic murals for public educational facilities such as Museum of Science Boston, US Fish and Wildlife Service at Sachuest Point in Middlletown, Save The Bay's Environmental Education Center and Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence. Paintings show realistic background scenery and animals in appropriate habitat. The public or students can watch work in progress which is not only a lesson in the mechanics of mural painting but also instructive about the animal/ habitat relationship. Amy teaches Natural Science Illustration at RISD's Continuing Education. www.AmyBartlettWright.com |
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Artist: Andrew M Sloan
Address 160 Atlantic Ave, Providence, RI 02907 Telephone: 401/432-6300 Fax: Email: andrew@newsheriff.com Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Andrew Sloan is a painter and mural artist who works in a distinctive, vivid style. His work features bright colors and bold compositions. Among his many projects are a large mural in a park in Olneyville, and a series of portraits from endangered, indigineous cultures based on documentary photographs from around the world. |
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Artist: Anna Jane Kocon
Address 16 Winsor Street, Providence, RI 02908 Telephone: 401/256-1859 Fax: Email: anna@annajane.org Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Visual Artist. Silkscreen printmaking to create one-of-a-kind garments for a group of up to ten students. Beginning with a demonstration and examples of single color garment silkscreening, students will be walked through the process of designing and printing their own tshirts. The artist can either come to a facility and perform a two day workshop or a group can come to the artists studio for a one day workshop. |
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Artist: Arthi Sundaresh
Address 249 1/2 Carpenter St, Providence, RI 02903 Telephone: 401/374-5349 Fax: Email: Arthi@riseup.net Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Arthi Sundaresh is a photographer and oral historian. Through portraits and interviews, her work presents commentary on peoples' histories: on social inequalities, gender conformity, and on loss, grieving and healing. By sharing experiences, people can relate to each other and begin to break down constricting boundaries. Sundaresh's work aims to put forth these themes in writing and photographs in order to re-open dialogue and build understanding across differences. Limited Availablity. |
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Artist: Beth Drainville
Address 256 Canonchet Rd, Rockville, RI 02873 Telephone: 401/539-3113 Fax: 401/539-3113 Email: bethdrainville@aol.com Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.bethdrainville.com Description: Painter/Illustrator. Directs diversified groups with individual abilities and needs. The instructional objective is finding the "artist within" by developing observation skills and drawing and painting techniques to express and communicate concepts, ideas and emotions. Using the state art standards as a guideline to create an arts-integrated curriculum, students and educators benefit from a valuable resource to enhance and fufill new education initiatives. |
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Artist: Bradley R Fesmire
Address 16 Winsor St, Providence, RI 02908 Telephone: 401/743-7449 Fax: Email: bradfesmire@gmail.com Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: www.bradleyfesmire.com Description: Visual Artist. Combining history and practice, this artist will work with students and engage them in a painting project that centers around the ideas of surrealism and abstraction. Beginning with the ideas of chance that the surrealists used in their practices, students will learn the history of surrealist art and thought and then proceed to make an abstract painting using the idea of chance. With a concentration on mark making and learning the medium, students of all ages can enjoy this project and leave with a work of art all their own. |
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Artist: Brent Bachelder
Address 195 Lenox Ave, Providence, RI 02907 Telephone: 401/467-5277 Fax: Email: Neopolsi13@aol.com Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.clubneopolsi.net Description: Muralist/ Painter/ Graphic Designer/ Sculptor/ Illustrator Brent has worked professionally in RI as a commercial artist and owns Club Neopolsi Creations Design Studio, established in1989. Additionally, he has taught for over nineteen years as a freelance instructor at such places as R.I.S.D., Providence CityArts for Youth, Highlander Charter School, the Learning Community Charter School, The Met School among many others. Brent has also created numerous large-scale community mural art projects all over the state as well. Please visit his website or Google his name to see some of his projects and he also has a great short documentary video on YouTube too. He feels that it is extremely important to not only teach technical art skills in the programs and classes he runs, but also to use the creation process as an avenue to teach other subjects such as literacy, science, math, history and ecology. Past educational projects include Dinosaurs!, The History of Whaling, Architecture: Bridges and Skyscrapers, Weather Systems, Planets & Outer Space, Environmental Biomes and Systems of the Body. Brent can tailor a custom educational program on other subjects as well and he can fit one of his existing curricula into your schedule. Available weekdays, after school, weekends, summers and vacations. Available for consultation, grant preparation, instruction, community art project development and teacher training to non-profit organizations or schools throughout Rhode Island. |
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Artist: Cathren Housley
Address 1400 S Broadway, East Providence, RI 02914 Telephone: 401/434-1922 Fax: Email: cathrenhousley@aol.com Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: www.cathrenhousley.com Description: The achievement of great work takes more than inspiration; it requires an understanding of process. Cathren, an award winning illustrator, leads student's through "The Publishing Game" to gain understanding of the production and business of art. Student's form their own company and are cast roles as both artist and administrator to learn how an idea is developed into a finished children's book. Each student will create their own illustration. |
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Artist: Cheryl Kirk Noll
Address 19 Hooker St, Providence, RI 02908 Telephone: 401/861-5869 Fax: Email: ckirknoll@verizon.net Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.cherylkirknoll.com http://cherylkirknoll.blogspot.com Description: Cheryl is a watercolor painter who has illustrated over 30 books for children, contributed to magazines such as Highlights and Calliope, and done dozens of illustrated stories for elementary reading programs. She specializes in multicultural and historical art. Her picture books include several Japanese folktales and a history of the Black regiment of RI. She also teaches at RISD-CE and is advisor for their Children's Book Illustration certificate program. Cheryl is available for presentations. BS-Lebanon Valley College, BA-Rhode Island School of Design |
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Artist: Dana Simmons
Address 18 Imperial Place, Providence, RI 02903 Telephone: 401/831-7360 Fax: 401/831-7360 Email: dana@sprintmail.com Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.danasimmons.com Description: Painting/Photography/photshop/Sculpture/Drawing/Mixed Media. MFA Pratt Institute. RI & MA certification K-12. Offering an eclectic and varied format to reach individual needs. Independent study programs or collaborative teacher/classroom hands-on curriculum. Multi-media expression emphasised. Twenty-eight years of teaching experience and residencies with all ages & needs. Critiques, informative discussions foster creative and individual self-expression. Program may culminate with an exhibition. |
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Artist: Elizabeth Talbot
Address 100A Lafayette St, Pawtucket, RI 02860 Telephone: 703/901-2392 Fax: Email: talbot.elizabeth@gmail.com Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: www.liztalbot.com Description: Murals/mosiacs, Landscape/garden design. Working outdoors promotes thinking differently and natural awareness. Althouhg differences apply for each project, students will use math, scienceand language arts to research, sketch, model, and build their project. Possible project materials include: found glass/plastics/wood, plants, rocks, and branches. Students will work as a team and develop a sense of creative accomplishment through the project. Liz is the Creative Director for the non-profit New Urban Farmers and is an orgaizer for the Providence community art event Fun-A-Day. Www.newurbanfarmers.org |
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Artist: Erik Gould
Address 518 Pawtucket Ave, Pawtucket, RI 02860 Telephone: 401/726-1259 Fax: Email: erikom3@gmail.com Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.erikgould.net Description: Photo and new media workshops. Traditional photo processes including pinhole cameras, camera obscura, and experiments with light sensitive materials. Projects include creating camera obscura within rooms and free standing boxes, building pinhole cameras from found materials such as mint tins and garbage cans. Digital and new media workshops employing digital photography, video and audio capture exploring documentary and self expressive modes. Projects include slideshows with audio,video shorts and field recording of audio and video interviews and found sounds. Personal mapping and gps tagging explored. |
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Artist: Gail Porter
Address 152 Bayard St, Providence, RI 02906 Telephone: 401/273-9529 Fax: Email: g.porter@cox.net Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: STILL PHOTOGRAPHY: Students are challenged to discover their unique ways of seeing and to expand their vision by exploring their environments from many vantage points. Students use digital cameras, and learn a photo program; or use film, and learn b+w printing in a darkened room; or use a combination of the two. Sample projects: students make “sunprint” photo paper and use it; construct and use pinhole cameras; create self-portraits with self-reflective writing; create abstract photographs that inspire poetry; or create documentary projects. Teacher and artist design a custom photography program that meets state standards in literacy, social studies, visual literacy, science and/or technology. CLAY ANIMATION: Students create a short animation using stop motion animation. Working in teams, they write a simple script; draw storyboards; form their characters from modeling clay; build mini sets and make props from found/recycled objects, cardboard and/or clay. Meets several technology and art standards as well as those mentioned above. |
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Artist: Gail Whitsitt-Lynch
Address 44 Rockaway St, East Providence, RI 02914-1012 Telephone: 401/434-4957 Fax: Email: gail@whitsitt-lynch.com Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.whitsitt-lynch.com Description: Visual Artist. Residencies in sculpture, kindergarten through high school, and for social service agencies. Large groups including grade levels, multi-disciplines, etc., can be developed jointly by teachers and the artist. Core groups can vary according to need and project focus. For example, students can work in a group on a large sculpture, wall relief, or on individual pieces. Media used by Whitsitt-Lynch include: ferro-cement, papier mache, wood assemblage, clay, wood carving, stone carving, fibers, wire, soft materials, and geometric paper forming. Printmaking and Sumi Ink techniques can also be incorporated. Whitsitt-Lynch is primarily a wood and stone carver, assemblage sculptor, and printmaker. Her work appears in numerous public and private collections, and includes a ferro-cement eagle in Roger Williams Park. |
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Artist: Holly Ewald
Address 35 S Atlantic Ave, Warwick, RI 02888 Telephone: 401/862-4229 Fax: 401/467-7826 Email: Hewald@me.com Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: voicesandvisions.org Description: Visual Artist/ Bookmaking, Collage, Drawing, Photography, Public Art. The artist enjoys collaboration and will work closely with teachers to incorporate classroom curriculum. She mostly enjoys exploring a sense of place (History and environmental issues) and facilitating community connection through collaborative art making. Ideally projects involve parents and broader community in oral history that informs student visual art. |
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Artist: Jessica Regelson
Address 52 Dexterdale Rd, Providence, RI 02906 Telephone: 401/273-9667 Fax: Email: jessregelson@gmail.com Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.indigomoonmosaics.com Description: Students will work together to design and make a mosaic mural. The design will incorporate images from the students' sketchbooks in which they explore a theme from their academic curriculum in a very personal way. They will learn how to cut tile, glue and grout the finished piece, which will be on permanent display in the school. Alternatively, individual mosaics on a much smaller scale can also be made. The scope, complexity and level of dexterity needed can be adapted to any age group. |
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Artist: John Kotula
Address 16 Amos Street, Peace Dale, RI 02879-2414 Telephone: 401/783-0610 Fax: Email: johnkotulapchn@yahoo.com Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: portraitoftheartistasanoldman.blogspot.com Description: John is a visual artist who is interested in public art. He has worked with young people in the United States and Central America to develop and paint murals. Other workshops include: portraiture, self-portraiture, mask-making and comic books/graphic novels. John has a lot of experience working with schools and would welcome the opportunity to collaborate with teachers to develop projects that meet their curricular goals. He is a returned Peace Corps volunteer and speaks intermediate-advanced Spanish. |
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Artist: Kenneth A Speiser
Address 131 Rochambeau Ave, Providence, RI 02906 Telephone: 401/521-9652 Fax: 401/454-0184 Email: kspeiser@cox.net Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.Speisersculpture.com or www.publicartri.com Description: Sculpture/Printmaking/Painting. Kenn Speiser is a professional sculptor who has worked with High School students to create painted wall murals and 3-Dimensional works of art that have a special relationship to a specific site (Site Specific Art). Students and teachers work together with Speiser to identify an appropriate location, select and collect materials, work on design possibilities, and complete the installation within budget and time limits. Learning takes place throughout every stage of the project's development. Www.rustprints.com www.safetyenvelopes.com |
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Artist: Kurt R Van Dexter
Address 1740 Stony Lane, No Kingstown, RI 02852 Telephone: 401/837-2215 Fax: Email: asclepiask@aol.com Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.stonylanestudios.com Description: Landscape/Garden Design. Through design, students forge connections with the natural world. Schoolyards serve as canvas while plants, paths and gardens become the pallette. Math, Science, Language Arts and research skills will be combined with art and design to create outdoor classroom spaces, gardens and otherwise enrich the schoolyard environment. Student-produced schematic design plans, models, sketches and presentations will take place. Kurt, a registered landscape architect, visual artist, and certified K-12 visual arts educator, works to educate people about nature through art and design. |
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Artist: Laura E Travis
Address 15 Maple St, Wakefield, RI 02879 Telephone: 401/792-7149 Fax: Email: laura@as220.org Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: campus.digication.com/lauratravis or facebook:lauratraviscarving Description: Sculptor/Stonecarver: Laura Travis is an award-winning visual art educator with over 20 years experience. She has worked with children & adults of all ages teaching stone carving. Small, individual or group projects can be arranged according to site & interest. Limestone and soapstone used are soft and easily managed by beginners. |
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Artist: Lauren W Scotto
Address 22 Orchard Avenue, Greenville, RI 02907-1007 Telephone: 401/949-4891 Fax: Email: laurenscotto@verizon.net Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: risd.digication.com/laurenscotto Description: Painter, Visual Artist. Using mostly nature as her subject, Lauren creates drawings and paintings that exploit the qualities of her surfaces and media, always allowing texture and mark-making to have a prevalent voice in her work. Collaborating with teachers for content and subject matter, Lauren works closely with students to create murals in public spaces. Students become familiarized with the steps of the design process including brainstorming, sketching, designing and refining ideas, while gaining much from the process of working on a large, sustained project. |
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Artist: Lucille Mota-Costa
Address 34 Plenty St, Warwick, RI 02889 Telephone: Fax: Email: lmotacosta@cox.net Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.artisessential.nct Description: Murals, Mosiacs, Spontaneous Happenings. Multi-media presentations, and Digital imaging are my passion. The bigger the better. The more participants the better. I am a painter, illustrator, and sculptor. I work in a wide range of mediums in all these areas. I also have advanced skills using a variety of computer software as a tool for planning art as well as creating it. As an arts educator I have extensive experience developing curricula based on state/national standards and applying this curricula in a classroom setting. Theme projects which address such topics as cultural diversity, ethics, self-awareness, political awareness and community involvement, are all areas I enjoy exploring with students of all ages and learning styles. Viva the Arts! |
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Artist: Marcy Eclipse Neilson
Address 17 Whipple St, Barrington, RI 02906 Telephone: Fax: Email: eclipsfey@aol.com Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Project A.W.A.R E offers a wide range of possibilities and has won a variety of awards for model programs in the past. Projects focusing on environmental topics, community issues, fairies, theater, fun and fantasy are some of the many possibilities. Project A.W.A.R E is committed to designing projects that fit your needs and has a team of skilled artist and professionals. Available during the day time , Fridays and weekends. FAIRIES, FUN AND FANTASY-WALL HANGINGS AND FAIRY MAKING Projects (K-12). Discovering the magic of art is the foundation of Fairies, Fun and Fantasy. This is a really fun project, where all students can get involved and explore their individuality and imagination. The students are taken through a series of step-by-step exercises to explore the creative process. They learn to stretch their imagination with beautiful array of craft materials. Classes begin with group discussions, storytelling and creative exploration. For the fanciful wonderland display, the studentas create a group wall hanging made from scraps of materials and objects. They develop communication skills and at the same time ease into more challenging design projects. This program can be adjusted to the needs of the school and there can also be an emphasis on current environmental topics. Eclipse is an experienced art teacher and is currently the artist in residence with Pawtucket Child Opportunity Zone. She is a former art director at St. Dunstan's school. |
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Artist: Mary Beth Meehan
Address 109 Burlington Street, Providence, RI 02906 Telephone: 401/480-3184 Fax: Email: marybethmeehan@cox.net Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: www.marybethmeehan.com Description: Photographer/Writer Mary Beth Meehan is a professional photojournalist & documentary photographer with a particular interest in issues of urban life, including immigration, culture and community. Her educational work assists students-both native speakers and ESL students- in telling the stories of their own lives through images and words, promoting both visual and verbal literacy. Students become familiar with the visual language of photography and are asked to reflect on such themes as: self, home, family, neighborhood, community and dreams. (These themes may be adapted to suit any classroom curriculum.) Students then make their own storytelling pictures. Their photographs serve as a springboard for writing, reflection and further photography. Projects culminate in a publication or a final public exhibition. Mary Beth has received RISCA education grants for for projects with Groundwork, Providence, and RI Youth Guidance as well as working in the Central Falls school system. |
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Artist: Maryellen Snyder
Address 55 Scott Rd, Cumberland, RI 02864 Telephone: 401/475-7746 Fax: Email: maryellen@apeiron.org Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.apeiron.org Description: Visual Arts/Photography. Maryellen would collaborate with English/Language Arts and Science teachers to develop a photography program in which students study their environment and their interactions with the environment through a series of photographic and literary exercises. Students would produce individual bodies of work as well as working as a community in a final photographic project. The program could be tailored to work with any grade level. |
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Artist: Michael Townsend
Address 55 Sims Ave, Providence, RI 02909 Telephone: 401/225-8552 Fax: Email: tapeart@gmail.com Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.www.tapeart.com http://www.www.trummerkind.com Description: Tape Art is a collaborative visual art form that uses a special, low-adhesive tape to draw. Students work together to develop themes and create temporary tape art murals on the walls of their school. Invented in Providence over 13 years ago, Tape Art has travelled as a public art form around the world and extensively through the United States, transforming buildings into works of art. All Tape Art programs are custom tailored to each school to integrate existing themes and curricula. Appropriate for all age levels. For more information view a wide range of Tape Art projects on the web at www.tapeart.com or call 1-800-TAPE-ART. |
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Artist: Monica Shinn
Address 33 Armstrong Ave, Providence, RI 02903 Telephone: 401/965-5045 Fax: Email: mshinn1@cox.net Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: With degrees in painting, metals and education, Monica has worked in theatre and welding fabrication for over 20 years. She enjoys working with students of all ages and capabilities and believes everyone can learn to make art. Her skills are in promoting individual creative thinking and using drawing, painting, theatre craft, and sculptural mediums to increase self expression and self awareness. She can easily work with teachers to combine their teaching objectives with her skills to provide a challenging and exciting artistic experience. |
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Artist: Munir Deishinni Mohammed
Address 35 Whitney St, Providence, RI 02907 Telephone: 401/461-0897 Fax: Email: munirstudio@alum.risd.edu Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Folk Artist Website: Description: Fine Artist. Mr. Deishinni was born in Kumasi, Ghana, West Africa. He holds a Masters in Arts Education from RISD and a Bachelor of Arts from Ghanatta College of Art. An educator and muralist his media include oils, acrylics, water color, pastels, pen and ink, and wash. He enjoys teaching art to students, middle school through college. Additionally he has taught community art projects at numerous centers for all ages. |
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Artist: Servio Agustin Patino Sanchez
Address 25 Iona Street Apt 1, Providence, RI 02908 Telephone: 401/432-6397 Fax: Email: patinoartstudio@yahoo.com Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Painter/Muralist/Portrait Artist. Agustin Patino has extensive experience teaching both in the U.S. and in Latin America. His unique system of instruction is practical and effective. Students of all ages would benefit from instruction in methods and mediums such as painting (oils & acrylic), drawing, pastels, watercolor and the creation of murals. Agustin is multi-lingual in Spanish, English, Italian and Portuguese. |
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Artist: Steve Brosnihan
Address PO Box 111, Bristol, RI 02809 Telephone: 401/253-5909 Fax: 401/253-5909 Email: Stevebfly@msn.com Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: http://www.stevebcartoons.com Description: Steve Brosnihan is a professional cartoonist who has been published in Rhode Island newspapers and national magazines. His "Cartoonagrams" program employs a method that is easy to learn and remember. Using letters of the alphabet, students draw fun and unusual cartoon characters created by Steve. All students, from grades K through high school, regardless of artistic ability, will enjoy drawing Cartoonagrams. Steve also teaches academic classes using Cartoonagrams, putting a cartoon spin on subjects including American History, Shakespeare, Geography, Anatomy and Rhode Island awareness. Instruction periods are ideally one hour per average size class. |
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Artist: Susan Clarke
Address 67 Wilbur Road, Lincoln, RI 02865 Telephone: 401/724-8878 Fax: Email: susanraeclarke@gmail.com Artist Category: Visual Arts Artist Type: Education Artist Website: Description: Visual Artist/Surface Artist. Susan will work closely with teachers and students to create a project that integrates art into the classroom curriculum. Using state standards, she develops an art experience to enhance and reinforce the learning experience, leaving the teacher with knowledge and material to recreate the activity. She uses a variety of materials to create murals, mosiacs, quilts, journals and 3-D models. She has 35 years of public school teaching experience. |
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