Month: May 2014

Registration for AfterSchool Fall 2014 Semester is Open!

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The AfterSchool Program is the heart of Green Street. Students in Grades 1-8 foster creativity and build problem solving skills in an environment with strong role models. Our interdisciplinary approach allows for a wide range of class options in art, math, and science.

The 2014 Fall Semester runs from September 8th – December 5th. Elementary School students can be here from 4:15-5:45pm (5:15 on Fridays) and Middle School Students can be here from 3:15-5:45pm (5:15 on Fridays).

Call us this week to set up a registration appointment for your child, 860-685-7871.

Here is the list of Fall 2014 classes. We have added in video links of class performances and projects from prior semesters to give you a better idea of what our students learn in AfterSchool. If a picture is worth 1,000 words then a video must be priceless. Call us for more details on schedules and fees. We offer tuition discounts for Wesleyan faculty and staff, and for families who qualify for free or reduced lunch.

  • African Drumming (Grades 1-5)
  • Animation (Grades 6-8)
  • Art and Science (Grades 1-5)
  • Art Around the World (Grades 1-5)
  • Art with Math (Grades 3-5)
  • Art within the Rainforest (Grades 1-3)
  • Beginning Breakdance (Grades 1-3)
  • Beginning Hip Hop (Grades 1-3)
  • Capoeira (Grades 3-5)
  • Computer-Aided Art (Grades 3-5)
  • Environmental Art (Grades 1-3)
  • Improv Theater (Grades 3-8)
  • Intermediate Breakdance (Grades 3-8)
  • Intermediate Hip Hop (Grades 3-8)
  • Kids in the Kitchen (Grades 1-3 and 6-8)
  • Musical Mentoring  (Grades 1-5): During these 60-minute lessons with a Wesleyan University student musician (often on a one-on-one basis), children will study a musical instrument. Students will be allowed to borrow an instrument to practice at home– at no extra cost!  After a rich, semester-long musical experience, many students will participate in a recital performance.
  • Recess Rocks (Grades 1-3)
  • Rhythm in Music (Grades 1-3)
  • Science Club (Grades 1-3)
  • Simple Stylin’ Fashion Design (Grades 3-5)
  • Spanish Language and Culture (Grades 3-5)
  • Tap Dancing (Grades 3-5)
  • Visual Arts (Grades 6-8)
  • Wesleyan Bound (Grade 6-8): This class exposes students to the college experience via weekly visits to Wesleyan University. Students meet student leaders, tour science labs and art galleries, and more.
  • Yoga (Grades 1-5)

AfterSchool Tuition Costs

*$25 non-refundable deposit due at registration.

**There is an additional $5 fee for each half day (no discounts).

Tuition below reflects the cost of a single day’s options for one full semester.  Parents can choose to enroll a child for 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 days per week. If your child attends both Class and Homework, both fees apply.

Elementary School (Grades 1-5)

$150        per each one hour-long Class for entire semester

$75           per each 30 minute-long Homework session for entire semester

$225        per each day of full-time programming (Class + Homework)

If your child will attend multiple days per week, multiply the above Class and Homework fees by that number of days. For example, tuition for a full-time elementary student (Class + Homework) who attends 5 days per week would be: $1,050   (4x $225 for M-TH + $150 for Fri., when there is no homework session)

Middle School (Grades 6-8)

$150        per each one hour-long Class for entire semester

$300        per each 2 hour-long afternoon of Class/Classes for entire semester

$75           per each 30 minute-long Homework session for entire semester

$375        per each day of full-time programming (2 hours of Class + Homework)

If your child will attend multiple days per week, multiply the above Class and Homework fees by that number of days. For example, tuition for a full-time middle school student (Class + Homework) who attends 5 days per week would be: $1,800   (4x $375 for M-TH + $300 for Fri., when there is no homework session)           

Financial Assistance Available

Families receiving free lunch receive an 80% discount; reduced lunch 60%; Wesleyan staff and faculty 50%. We offer a 50% discount for siblings. However, only one of these various discounts can be applied per family.

For more information on financial assistance or payment plans, please call Claudia Wolf, Financial Coordinator at 860-685-7797.

 

Leonardo da Vinci Workshop

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Teaching artist Lindsay Behrens gave a history lesson on Leonardo daVinci’s life and then gave participants a drawing lesson with tips on how to draw and position facial features. Our visiting artists then made their own egg tempura paint and painted their portraits. Everyone had a great time and cant’ wait for the next workshop.

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Our next Visual Arts Workshop will take place on  Thursday, July 10th, 2014. Teaching Artist Meredith Arcari will teach us about the life and technique of Vincent VanGogh from 6:30-8:30pm. The cost for the workshops is $45 and includes all your supplies. Call the front desk today at 860-685-7871 to sign up.

Visual Arts Workshop – Vincent van Gogh

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On Thursday, July 10th, 2014 come to a visual arts workshop from 6:30-8:30pm led by Green Street Teaching Artist Meredith Arcari. This introductory hands-on workshop explores the history of Vincent van Gogh and his work through the use of line and color. Come and create your own work of art and experience using color to express emotion. No experience needed, workshop open for teens and adults.

Workshop fee – $45 (includes $20 worth of supplies)

Please call or email the Green Street Arts Center by Monday, July 7th to reserve your space.

860-685-7871 or gsac@wesleyan.edu

*All workshops are contingent on a minimum enrollment.

HOT Schools Interns Needed – Paid Summer Position

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Connecticut Higher Order Thinking (HOT) Schools in partnership with Wesleyan’s Green Street Arts Center is offering two internships to Wesleyan University or Middlesex Community College Students.

 

This is a unique opportunity for organized, tech savvy individuals interested in the elements of planning, developing, implementing and coordinating particular aspects of the HOT Schools program including the HOT Schools Summer Institute (SI). The SI is an intensive interactive arts education experience for 200 plus artists, teachers, administrators and parents engaged in school culture change through strong arts, arts integration, and democratic practice.

 

To apply: Please send a resume and letter of interest to hotschools@wesleyan.edu

 

Arts in Education (AE) Conference Planning Interns

 

Duration:  The AE Conference Planning Interns will work from May 27 – July 24, 2014

 

Description:  Participating in event design, planning and implementation

  • Research and compile relevant resources
  • Assisting in creation of promotional materials
  • Managing multiple data systems (school reports and plans, on-line registrations and surveys, etc.)
  • Organizing materials and supplies for presenters
  • Networking with educators, artists and presenters
  • General clerical duties (copying, filing, assembling materials, etc.)

 

Qualifications: The candidate for this position should be a self-starter with strong writing skills, be proficient in using excel and Google docs and have general clerical skills. The position requires flexibility, strong interpersonal skills and an interest in working collaboratively. Drivers license and access to a vehicle preferred.

 

Payment: $10.00 per hour over 9 weeks

May 26 – June 13 at 20 hours a week

June 14 – July 24 at 40 hours a week

Giant Watercolors Coming to Green Street in June

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Imagine walking through a hallway of floor to ceiling watercolors, created to make you think a little more about the world around you. That is exactly what you can do at the Green Street Arts Center starting in June. 

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During the month of June, we will be exhibiting the oversized watercolors of Michelle Podgorski, an artist originally from Rocky Hill, CT but now residing in North Carolina.  This is a photo of a detail of one of these giant watercolors entitled Weeds, but quite honestly this isolated “slice” of her work really does not pay justice to the power of these large scale studies of the natural world (some are over six feet tall)– nor to her deep appreciation for the perseverance of nature despite the destructive forces levied in the name of human “progress.”

Podgorski begins her artist’s statement– “Every day I drive past a tree that has been carved and sliced to make way for a power line.  Its branches no longer grow on its left side.  And every day I stare out my car window fascinated that it continues to grow as if it ever had a right side.”  In keeping with the Green Street Arts Center’s overarching theme of art and science, Podgorski says that her “paintings focus on the natural cycle of death and growth, adaptation and sustainability that is constantly occurring in the natural world despite our interference and– sometimes because of it”.  But even more moving than these enormous masterfully crafted illustrations of the natural subjects she so admires, is Podgorski’s more subtle, more poetic presentation of expansive areas of pure, white nothingness that she includes.  It is these large stunning areas of quiet, negative space that coerce the viewer to reflect on the environmental destruction and loss of which she speaks.  

On Thursday, June 5th, from 5-8:00 p.m. (in conjunction with Middletown’s Gallery Walk series) there will be an opening reception for Michelle Podgorski’s exhibit, Fragmented Landscape.   Her watercolors will remain on display at Green Street from June 5th through June 26th during regular business hours (M-F 9a.m.-5p.m.)  Podgorski’s exhibit will also be viewable during Green Street’s Open House festivities on Saturday, June 14th from 12-4:00p.m.  

Additionally, Michelle will present a talk on her work on Friday, June 6th at 12:15p.m.   The public should call 860-685-7871 to register for this free lunch time presentation by the artist.