Arts for Learning

Consolidated - Arts for Learning has approximately 150 workshops and performances designed by 60 teaching artists. These programs are pre-designed and accessible to k-12 educators. All Arts for Learning programs are curriculum based, meeting state and national standards in the Arts discipline and other subjects presented. During the 2023-24 academic year, we served 13,708 youth and 2,317 adults and educators through 2,538 workshops and residencies, 88 performances and community events, and 295 teaching trainings. This past year, Arts for Learning was able to continue working with indianapolis public schools (ips) with schools that have no Arts or music program, with the generous support of esser (elementary and secondary school emergency relief) funds. Through esser funds, Arts for Learning was able to work with several different schools including eleanor skillen school 34 and jennings school 109 who both received a year-round afterschool theater and dance program, and daniel webster school 46 who was able to continue programming they received last year. We were also able to provide ernie pyle school 90 with an in-school weekly music program for 36 weeks, as well as an after-school weekly music program.

Abc fellowship program - the abc fellowship is an inquiry-based, people centered approach that empowers teaching artists to build partnerships in their community. The fellowship pairs an afl teaching artist, a lead teacher (k-12 educator) and an afl staff member in an 18-month deep dive into the culture of a school community. Each trio explores the assets of the school, the socio-cultural history of the surrounding community, and the needs of the students they are serving. Each fellowship is tasked with developing a 3-year abc vision plan to serve school, communities, and students through Arts integrated approaches, and will have funding to pilot some of these programs. This process is supported by bi-weekly one on one coaching & full cohort meetings for the artist.

Third space - the "third space" program, as we envision it, uses the Arts to open up or transform the school environment, setting the stage for students to engage in authentic and meaningful Learning. The artwork not only activates the physical space but, principally, acts as a provocation, stoking students' curiosity and prompting lively class discussions. Cultural historian lisa panayotidis referred to this third space of inquiry as "the provocation of seeing." Panayotidis equated seeing with "critically-thinking through the world," in which students are incited to question how art is made and exists in a larger context.

Summer enrichment through the Arts (seta) seta is an initiative that brings Arts enrichment to wherever Young folks are at all summer long. Partnering with summer schools and summer camps, we provide fun + engaging co-creative experiences in a variety of creative art media. Seta's primary curricular focus is sel, giving some variety to the summer programming with which we are partnering. Seta often culminates with student exhibition and/or a performance by the teaching artist who led the enrichment experience. Artforce - artforce is a three-week summer apprenticeship program that introduces teens to the Arts as possible collegiate and career paths. Artforce exposes teens to local colleges, where they participate in studio classes, connect with faculty and students, and engage in campus life prior to high school graduation. They increase their understanding of the Arts and gain marketable skills by building portfolios under the guidance of professional, practicing artists. The teen apprentices will also participate in career-building and college-readiness activities. During the third week of the program the apprentices are able to connect the knowledge and skills they had been building by presenting their work in a gallery exhibition. Early Learning: wolf trap - a wolf trap residency is a partnership between a teaching artist and an early childhood educator. The teaching artists work closely with the educators to train them on the different elements of Arts integration as well as how to write lesson plans. Through the program, classroom teachers learn how performing Arts strategies and techniques foster Young students' growth in all development domains. After the completion of the residencies, the teachers will have acquired the skills necessary to embed Arts strategies within their daily practices and apply them in current and future classes to further the success of their Young students.baby artsplay! The wolf trap institutes baby artsplay! Residency program is focused on enhancing Young children's Learning in all areas of development, through the performing Arts of music, movement, and drama. Taught by a combination of local wolf trap trained teaching artists, and veteran, national wolf trap teaching artists, the classes engage children, ages three months to three years and their parents or caregivers, as well as teachers in Arts experiences. These experiences are designed to include all Learning styles in multisensory, active experiences that facilitate language and vocabulary, social/emotional and motor skills, and promote understanding of the Arts as an integral part of early childhood development.raise - raise is a five-year, multi-state project designed to address the current, urgent needs of Young learners through forging a new model of development and partnership for teaching artists and school support teams, who work together on in-depth, customized, trauma-informed and culturally responsive-sustaining Arts in education residencies. The project is funded by the u.s. department of education. After school programs sometimes referred to "out of school time" to allude to its breadth, after school programs encompass a wide variety of programming taking place outside of the traditional school day. As with our other programming, we are providing creative workshops, residences, performances, and installation work for spaces where kids are already at. This includes aftercare programs, afterschool club weekend programs, free community park programming, family nights, and programming in long-term youth residential spaces.