Artwork created by Belmont Elementary students
as part of the Jazz Sampler project

EXAMPLES OF ARTREACH PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS

Intergenerational Projects
Groundbreaking intergenerational projects bring elders and youth together through the arts. Each project begins with a performance or activity for both generational groups, followed by a story-sharing component. Students learn the art of interviewing, and interview senior citizens to discover their biographical narratives. Students and senior citizens work together with an artist-in-residence to develop the seniors' personal stories into multi-media presentations that reflect the history and shared experiences of their community.  

Jazz Sampler
Jazz Sampler is designed to introduce students to the history and elements of jazz through workshops and performances with professional artists; to use jazz as the vehicle to deepen student learning, motivate students to read, write, and learn in all subject areas; and to enable classroom and specialty teachers to incorporate the theme of jazz into their curriculum.

Arts Inclusion
Through collaboration with the Henry Viscardi School and Herricks Middle School, FOTA has developed a model ArtReach program that provides students with and without disabilities the opportunity to interact, communicate and learn together in jazz workshops with professional teaching artists. The arts residency culminates with a performance, which students from both schools create and present together.

Click here to see how the Jazz Sampler project has been adapted for students with physical challenges.

Literacy Through the Arts
Pieces of a Dream: The Collage Project is a collaboration of Literacy Nassau and Friends of the Arts to support, supplement and promote literacy learning through an intense immersion in creating personal art. A FOTA teaching artist conducts interactive workshops to introduce collage techniques and materials to volunteer tutors and students of Literacy Nassau. Students create their own story-collages, title them and present an oral or written explanation of the title and how it relates to the story of the collage. Tutors guide students to write narratives and poems based on the stories expressed in the collages.