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DocuSign Envelope ID: 7CEDDAD8-C193-4F99-B5D3-B22F6EBF4B15 The ArtsCenter HIV Always Inspiring. Nlnp Katie Murray February 9, 2017 Orange County Arts Commission 200 S Cameron St Hillsborough,NC 27278 (919)245-2335 Ms. Murray: The ArtsCenter provides youth educational and arts activities that reach approximately 30,000 children primarily from Orange County. The ArtsCenter's Youth Education department includes School Shows,Artist- In-Residence residencies, summer ArtsCamps,Afterschool Arts Immersion, and Youth Arts Classes. The ArtsCenter has provided artistically excellent, age-appropriate, and accessible arts performance experiences to Triangle youth and families since 1982. Currently our Artist in Residence(AIR)program reaches 1,200 students in the Orange County School system and serves 3 Orange Co. Title 1 elementary schools, all of which have underserved, ethnically-diverse, and low-income populations.The Title 1 Schools served include the following: Central Elementary(70% of students receive free/reduced lunch),New Hope Elementary(58%free/reduced lunch),and Efland-Cheeks Elementary, (59%free/reduced lunch). Artists in Residence(AIR): During the school day, AIR offers 5 day residencies that use the arts to teach curriculum. This program incorporates arts integration into the environment of the whole school.The residencies tailor instruction more effectively to students' varied learning styles,allowing them to make strides academically and as individuals. In the 2016-2017 school year,The ArtsCenter is implementing 18 residencies in pre-kindergarten through fifth grades(including, residencies with a visual art, drama/theater,dance, or music focus). If given$5,000 in support from the Orange County Arts Commission,then during the 17- 18 school year,we can add Orange County's newest Title 1 elementary school,Grady Brown,and serve their additional 450+students with 6 new onsite residencies.The Grady Brown Student body is 57.2% White, 25.6%Latino/a, 14.8% Black, 0.2%Asian,and 0.2%Native American;(50.4%free/reduced lunch). The Orange County School's Title 1 Schools'Coordinator has requested this addition to our AIR program. When students learn through arts integration,they are engaged in experiences in which they actively build and demonstrate their understanding of both the art form and the other curriculum area. During a successful AIR residency, ceramics artist Jason Abide worked with 3rd graders at Central Elementary where the students created a series of clay tiles illustrating the life cycle of plants that they had learned in science class. The tiles then became a mosaic that Abide installed in a public area of the school. Following a Jackie Robinson School Show performance,teaching artist Virginia Queen Danforth taught New Hope Elementary 5th graders studying NC history the 4 P's of performance culminating in a student-written reenactment of the Greensboro lunch counter demonstration for their peers. After-residency testing demonstrates that our AIR students gain an 86% proficiency in the content covered through their residency. AIR Coordinator,Virginia Queen Danford,has been an actor and teaching artist for more than two decades; Danford has managed similar school residency programs in NY and NC. Danford received her BFA in Acting from West Virginia University and her MFA from Pennsylvania State University.One third of our AIR residencies are taught by artists of color who comprise 28.5%of our AIR teaching roster. I have attached a budget for Grady Brown Elementary School residencies for school year 2017-18. Thank you for your consideration, 1 1,1 e TomkoviLk;"I cvcl pmcllt Director 300-G East Main Street I Carrboro,NC 27510 I P 919.929.2787 I F 919.969.8574 I www.artscenterlive.org