By Discipline
Creative Writing/Literature
Luann
Colombo
Carolyn
Cinami Decristofano
Steven
Ratiner
Melissa
Stewart
Julia
Thacker
Troubadour
Tim
Van Egmond
Johanna
Walker
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Dance
Eve
Agush
Ines
Arrubla's Flamenco Dance Project
Community Access to
Arts
Amie
Dowling
Nikki
Hu & Guy Van Duser
Kristen
Ledson
Elaine
Herg Sisler
Stames
& Strickland
VSA arts of Massachusetts
Johanna
Walker
Young Audiences of
Massachusetts
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Design and Architecture
Learning by Design
ANN SUSSMAN
Specialization: After School
978-790-7776
Annsmail4@pipeline.com
Fees: Contact for fee information
Grade Preference: 4-12
Subject Areas: Arts, History &
Social Studies, Mathematics, Science & Technology
Community Visioning is an innovative introduction
to architecture, design, and community planning that allows preteens
and teens to tackle real world problems in their neighborhoods and
demonstrate to adults and their peers their abilities and potential
for positive change in their immediate built environment.
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Folk
Millie
Rahn
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Media Arts
Karen
Aqua & Ken Field
Pell
Osborn
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Music
Artspace Community
Arts Center
Lani
Bortfield
Ellen
Clegg
Community Access to Arts
Jim & Maggi Dalton
Adrienne
Hawkins
Donna
Hebert
Judith
L. Hill
Robin
Lane
New School of Music
Odaiko
New England
Nick
Page
Joe
Sallins
Tony
Vacca
Tim
Van Egmond
VIKKI TRUE
Specialization: Residency
90 Summer St.
Lee, MA 01238
413-394-9999
vikkitrue@yahoo.com
Web Site: www.vikkitrue.com
Fees: Contact for fee information
Grade Preference: 4-12
Subject Areas: Arts, English Language
Arts, History & Social Studies
Vikki's programs expose students to the
development of music using performing, exposition, and participation.
She works with teachers to connect her workshops to their school
curriculum.
VSA arts of Massachusetts
Sara
Wheeler
Young Audiences of
Massachusetts
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Puppetry
Behind
the Mask
The
Puppeteer's Cooperative
You
and Me Puppets
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Science
Luann
Colombo
Carolyn
Cinami Decristofano
Kimberley
Connors-Hughes
Nancy
Jackson
Colleen
Kelley
Dr.
Ricky S. Stern
Clare
Walker Leslie
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Storytelling
George
Capaccio
Diane
Edgecomb
Katie
Green
Jennifer
Jacobson
Nick
Kachulis
Rona
Leventhal
Barbara
Lipke
Tom
McCabe
Motoko
John
Porcino
Tim
Van Egmond
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Theater &
Mime
Arts in Progress
Berkshire
Theatre Festival
Boston
Children's Theatre
Chester Theatre Company
Bonnie
Duncan
Enchanted
Circle Theater
Joan
Gatturna
DONNA GLICK
Specialization: Development and Planning
Huntington Theatre Company, 264 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
617-266-7900
djglick@huntingtontheatre.bu.edu
Web Site: www.huntingtontheatre.org
Fees: Contact for fee information
Grade Preference: 4-12
Subject Areas: Arts, English Language
Arts
Donna offers professional development workshops for teachers,
using the Huntington Tehatre Company model program collaboration
with the Codman Academy Public Charter School, a program designed
to strengthen and enhance literary comprehension and analytical
skills through theatre arts.
Magdalena
Gomez
Improbable
Players
Joy
Lamberton-Arcolano
Revels
Shakespeare
& Company
Tribal
Rhythms Company
Underground
Railway
VSA arts of Massachusetts
Young Audiences of
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Visual Arts
ARTSPACE
COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER
ROBIN BRICKMAN
Specialization: Residency
32 Fort Hoosac Place
Williamstown, MA 01267
413-458-9853
robin@robinbrickman.com
Web Site: www.robinbrickman.com
Fees: Contact for fee information
Grade Preference: PreK-12
Subject Areas: Arts, English Language
Arts, Science & Technology
Robin's programs build upon the natural
science and the artistry in the books she has illustrated. Through
her hands-on workshops students experience the connection between
art and science. In schools she explains how she plans a scientific
picture book and demonstrates her distinctive artwork. At any grade
level Robin can help your students learn her technique and create
a mural or small take home project of their own.
MELINDA
BRUNO
Specialization: Residency, Planning
and Development
175 Bishops Forest Drive
Waltham, MA 02472
781-275-2989
melindabruno@hotmail.com
Web Site: www.melindabruno.com
Fees: $500/day
Grade Preference: K-12
Subject Areas: Visual Arts, Language
Arts, Sciences, Social Studies, History
From pinhole to digital, photography can be used as a creative tool
to illustrate, narrate or investigate concepts in curriculum frameworks.
Collaborating with teachers and students to learn the elements of
photography and integrate them.. into subject curriculum, Melinda
offers a customized experiential and critical approach to creating
and viewing images.
HEIDI CASWELL-ZANDER
Specialization: Residencies, Development
& Planning, After-School
8 Wharf Road
Rockport, MA 01966-1334
978-546-7793
hczhome@aol.com
Fees: negotiable
Grade Preference: 6-12
Languages: German
Subject Areas: Mathematics, Science
and Technology, History and Social Sciences
Heidi Caswell-Zander brings students the
gift of self discovery and expression through art. Just about any
medium (e.g. printmaking, architecture, kinetic sculpture) can be
the basis for an experience that will enhance participants' ability
to understand themselves better and relate more effectively to their
peers and their communities.
ROBERT
CLARK
Specialization: Residencies, Development
& Planning, After-School
95 Saint James Avenue
Holyoke, MA 01040-2322
413-534-3555
rm@eofc.com
www.eofc.com
Fees: $200+
Grade Preference: PreK-12
Languages: Spanish
Subject Areas: English Language Arts,
Science and Technology, History, and Social Sciences
A visual artist who develops school programs
around visual communication, Robert Clark presents students with
opportunities to create art that uses the visual language of texture,
pattern, line, mass, value and color. Participants put concepts
into practice through projects determined by discipline and/or theme.
COMMUNITY ACCESS
TO ARTS
DAVID
FICHTER
Specialization: Residencies
20 Worcester Street
Cambridge, MA 02139-2715
617-491-5816
muralista@earthlink.net
Fees: Negotiable
Grade Preference: PreK-12
Languages: Spanish
Subject Areas: English Language Arts,
Science and Technology, History, and Social Sciences
David Fichter paints colorful, figurative
murals celebrating the diversity of cultures and the histories of
communities. He works with students of all ages to explore school
curriculum-based themes, while focusing on the fundamentals of design,
drawing, tile- making, and painting for permanent murals.
YETTI FRENKEL
Specialization: Residencies, After-School
294 Lynn St.
Peabody, MA 01960-6533
781-592-9866
yetti60@juno.com
www.yetti.com
www.snowtreebooks.com
Fees: Negotiable
Grade Preference: PreK-12
Subject Areas: Visual Art, Language
Arts
Yetti Frenkel teaches a variety of poetry
and creative writing workshops that combine writing with illustration
projects for all ages. These can be designed to compliment and enhance
any curriculum. During long term mural residencies, students learn
about design, materials, and the joy of creating something as a
group from concept to completion. Past mural themes include multicultural
images and stories, history, and creativity.
GAIL
PIKE HERCHER
Specialization: Development & Planning
280 Cabot Street
Beverly, MA 01915-0191
978-927-3131
papergail@aol.com
Fees: $450+ materials for 3 hours
Grade Preference: 6-12
Subject Areas: Arts, English Language Arts, History
and Social Sciences, Foreign Languages
In the workshop, "The World of Handmade Books," teachers learn
how to make beautiful handmade books that interface with Massachusetts
Arts, Foreign Language and History curricula. Artist Gail Hercher
presents bookbinding styles from many cultures that are useful for
showcasing writing, poetry, drawing or photographs. Students are
encouraged to succeed, treasure their work, and remember the content.
JEANNIE
HUNT
Specialization: Residencies
59 Center Street #2
Northampton, MA 01060-3024
413-586-6194
jmhunt95@verizon.net
www.oneheartarts.com
Fees: negotiable
Grade Preference: PreK-12
Subject Areas: English Language
Arts, Mathematics, History, and Social Sciences
Jeannie Hunt works with bookmaking across
the curriculum. Students build, plan and illustrate their own books
using curriculum topics such as family folklore, stories, poetry,
immigration, oral history, quilts and geometry, nature journals
and habitats. They learn book history, simple bookbinding, and the
storyboard planning process. Hunt also works with teachers to design
new projects.
NANCY
JACKSON
RICHARD JENKINS
Specialization: Residencies
99 Brattle Street, Box 46
Cambridge, MA 02138
405-850-0316
rjenkins@studiohijinx.com
Fees: Contact for fee information
Grade Preference: PreK-12, Special Education
Subject Areas: Arts, English Language Arts, History
& Social Studies, Mathematics, Science & Technology
Richard's residencies give students the opportunity to explore
their creative potential while learning drawing, painting, comics,
and animation. As an arts integration curriculum specialist, Richard
also helps teachers integrate arts into their curriculum.
ANN JON
Specialization: Residencies, After-School Programs
688 Jacobs Ladder Road
Becket, MA 01223
413-623-2068
annjon@bcn.net
www.sculpture.org/portfolio
Fees: Negotiable
Grade Preference: 6-12
Subject Areas: Arts, English Language Arts, History & Social Science, Mathematics, Science & Technology
Ann Jon offers sculpture workshops that present both innovative and traditional ideas, materials and techniques. The subjects vary from students interpretations of personal experiences to inspirations from the work of master artists, and connections with math, mythology and the environment. The goal is to open the minds, eyes and hearts the students, help them understand, see and feel creative concepts, guide them from concept to object, and teach them the use of sculptural media and techniques.
LISA
LINK
Specialization: Residencies
lisalink@yahoo.com
lisalink@post.harvard.edu
Grade Preference: 9-12
Subject Areas: Arts, English Language Arts
Lisa Link is an artist who encourages young people to be producers,
rather than consumers, of mass media images. She works with students
to design posters, billboards and web sites that relate to other
curriculum areas as well as to their daily lives.
MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS
Specialization: After-School
28 Damrell Street
South Boston, MA 02127
(617) 268-6700
www.medicinewheelproductions.org
Fees:$140/two hours of programming,
$70 for each additional hour
Grade Preference: 7-12
Subject Areas: Arts
Medicine Wheel Productions is a public arts program through which
youth are mentored by professional artists. Youth create evocative
artwork including dance, visual and landscape art for public exhibition.
All our projects give voice to communities, to artists, and to youth,
emphasizing the transformative power of inclusive public art.
CALEB NEELON / SONIK
Specialization: Residencies
P.O. Box 381591
Cambridge, MA 02238
617-435-2265
calebfunk@hotmail.com
www.theartwheredreamscometrue.com
Fees: $400/day; from $250 for shorter
programs
Languages: Conversant in Portugese,
Spanish Grade Preference: PreK-12
Subject Areas: Arts, English Language
Arts, History, Social Sciences, Foreign Languages
Having painted in over twenty countries
on five continents, Caleb "SONIK" Neelon, Ed. M. uses graffiti,
murals, and street art as passports to the world. He offers custom-tailored
art projects that simultaneously stress community, identity, and
individual expression. SONIK also offers presentations on global
graffiti and street art.
JANICE
ROGOVIN
A.E.
RYAN
Specialization: Residencies, Development
& Planning, After-School
12 Williams Street
Brookline, MA 02446-2918
617-731-0014
aeryan@rcn.com
www.aeryan.com
Fees: Negotiable
Grade Preference: PreK-12
Subject Areas: English Language Arts,
History, and Social Sciences
Sculptor A.E. Ryan offers workshops for
students and teachers using mixed media, found objects and recyclables,
dioramas, tableaux, sets and installations, puppets, masks, clay
and plaster. Workshops draw heavily from multi-ethnic traditions
past and present, and encourage students to tap their imaginations
and senses of humor. Art works can complement social studies, science
and humanities curricula. Long-term residencies can include projects
around themes such as Ancient Egypt, Native American cultures or
natural habitats.
AMY SCHUSSER
Specialization: Residencies
139 Cottage Street
New Bedford, MA 02740
508-961-1617
aschusser@hotmail.com
Fees: $200/day; plus travel expenses
Grade Preference: 1-12
Subject Areas: Visual Art
Designing themes that are tailored to specific ages and to the
curriculum of the school, Amy offers workshops in mask-making, tile/mosaic
work, and ceramic sculpture. She also offers a special program based
on the Japanese Tea Ceremony where students create ceramic utensils
and participate in a modified version of the Tea Ceremony.
VSA arts of MASSACHUSETTS
JOSHUA WINER
Specialization: Residencies
144 Moody Street, Building 18
Waltham, MA 02453
781-788-8700
joshuacwiner@yahoo.com
www.joshuawiner.com
Fees: Flexible; tailored to needs
of individual school community
Grade Preference: K-12
Language Proficiency: French Subject
Areas: Visual Art
Joshua Winer specializes in the creating
site- specific murals, mosaics and mobiles. He has worked for 15
years as an Artist-in-Residence / Visiting Artist in schools of
all levels, creating collaborative site-specific artworks with students,
teachers, and members of the school community.
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