2012-332 Arts - The Arts Center $1,500

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The ArtsCenter and ArtsCenter Stage on annual productions and has touring troupes that perform throughout the community. Galleries.The Center Gallery features the work of local and regional artists on a rotating basis. The Gallery exhibitions highlight the work of more than 100 local and regional artists in 12 exhibitions a year. The East End Gallery provides a second gallery space, offering monthly exhibitions featuring a mix of local and regional artists. Proposed Uses of Grant Funds During the course of the 2012-2013 school year TAC will continue its ongoing partnership with Central Elementary(Orange County Schools)for a fifth consecutive year. This partnership is part of TAC's focus school program, which was designed to provide enriching, meaningful arts integration experiences to low income students over the long term. TAC's partnership with Central Elementary has also been part of the school's School Improvement Plan since the inception of the program in 2008. The motivation behind the focus school program was to bring the arts into classrooms by teaching curriculum through various art forms, thus offering a program that had a lasting impact on the culture and environment of the school. Consequently, students would be exposed to an alternative method of instruction, which better suits all educational environments because it caters to students across the spectrum who have different learning styles. While we originally planned on working with Central Elementary for three years (beginning in 2008-2009), the program was so successful and in such high demand from teachers that we sought additional funding to continue working with them for another two years. Through this collaboration, TAC has implemented arts integration residencies in every grade level (K-5)at Central Elementary each year for the past four years, and last year the program was expanded to include pre-K upon requests from the teachers. In total, TAC has implemented 25 residencies at Central Elementary and seven professional development workshops for classroom teachers. In addition, TAC also partnered with Central Elementary in the 2011-2012 school year for Literacy Night, which was an evening for parents that focused on using new arts-based strategies to help their children at home with literacy concepts. During a residency, a teaching artist goes into all classes in a particular grade level and works with students to teach them specific curriculum concepts(often times multiple concepts spanning different subject areas)through a desired art form (chosen by the teachers). Grades pre-K, K, 1, 2, 3 and 5 will all have Arts-Based Learning Experiences (ABLE) residencies, which are residencies designed around a School Show students see at TAC. The experience prepares students for seeing the show, while simultaneously integrating the chosen art form into curriculum. For example, in the 2011-2012 school year, third grade students studied Native American culture by constructing and decorating masks and totem poles that directly correlated to Native American storytelling traditions, specifically those of the Pacific Northwest. The five-day residency was specifically tied to the show"GEMS: The World's Wisdom Stories," by Doug Berky that students saw at The ArtsCenter in November 2011. Fourth grade students will participate in a Page to Stage residency that gives students the opportunity to analyze a required reading through poetry and music, thus providing a more enriching experience. Students will first identify major plot points in a story, and then convert those plot points to poems and then song lyrics. Outside of class, the teaching artist will score the student-written work and direct rehearsals with professional musicians and singers who will then come back to the school about a month following the residency to perform the piece for the students. In addition to residencies, TAC will also have a professional development workshop for classroom teachers focused on arts integration, which will be designed alongside the principal of Central