Green Street Arts Center Blog
Join us on Saturday, December 12, 2015 from 10:00-2:00pm for the first annual Green Street Holiday Trunk Show!
We have assembled a group of talented artists to participate in this fantastic event. We will have various items up for sale from one of kind art pieces, handmade scarves, jewelry, and much much more.
All items will be sold at prices BELOW $50.00!
A percentage of all items sold will be donated back to Green Street to benefit our AfterSchool program.
Join us on for the annual Ornament decorating workshop at Green Street! This workshop is courtesy of the Middletown Parks & Recreation Dept.
Kids can decorate an ornament for FREE to place on their tree at home or give as a gift.
Saturday, December 12, 2015 from 10:30am-12:00pm
Visit FroyoWorld on Main Street in Middletown on Friday, October 9th between 5:00-8:00pm to help support Green Street! 20% of all sales will be donated to Green Street to support our youth programs.
Our Discovery AfterSchool Program serves primarily children in Grades 1-5 from all corners of Middletown, many from our neighborhood here in the North End. We also have a unique middle school class offering on Fridays called Wesleyan Bound where students are exposed to a college campus. They get to participate in workshops with student leaders, talk to professors, tour galleries and laboratories, and more.
Registration for spring classes will open in January. Stay tuned for more information or call us (860-685-7871) to be put on a notification list and we’ll let you know when registration is open.
Our Rainbow Music Class with Miss Veronica Voorhies is back at Green Street this fall with a special autumn theme.
Based on feedback from parents we’re including more movement this time around to complement the music and also a playlist for parents to take home.
Please see attached flyer for details and call us today to sign up.
Deadline to register is Friday, October 9 and space is limited!
Classes are on Fridays from 10:30—11:15am starting October 16th — November 13th, 2015
Pay $50 for a 5– week class, families with multiple children receive
15% off per sibling children from 6 months— 5 years old, at least one adult must stay for class
HOT SCHOOLS
INTERN POSITION AVAILABLE
Connecticut Higher Order Thinking (HOT) Schools in partnership with Wesleyan’s Green Street Center for Teaching and Learning is offering an internship to Wesleyan Students.
This is a unique opportunity for a highly organized, tech savvy individual interested in understanding the elements of planning, developing, implementing and managing a not-for-profit program which includes a year-long calendar of monthly professional development offerings in intensive, interactive, arts education experiences for artists, teachers, administrators and parents engaged in school culture change through strong arts, arts integration, and democratic practice statewide.
Duration: October – December 2015
Details: 8 hours per week, schedule TBD
Description: Participating in event planning and implementation
Qualifications: self-starter, collaborative, use excel, use Google docs, audio visual equipment, general clerical skills, flexible, strong interpersonal skills
Stipend: $10 per hour, 8 hours per week, paid in bi-weekly installments
The program is a synthesis of educational pedagogy and strategic partnerships with teaching artists and arts and cultural organizations dedicated to cultivating arts energized school communities. Program interns assist in all aspects of planning and implementation of this program.
Applicants should email a resume and letter of interest to hotschools@wesleyan.edu
The goal of Bradley’s work is to share his passion for fish, fishing, and the marine environment with others. By highlighting the natural beauty of each individual fish species, viewers can come to respect, enjoy, and aspire to preserve these amazing creatures for the future.
His artistic skills and style have evolved throughout his life as a furniture craftsman, woodworker, and taxidermist. Growing up in Fairfield and Westport, Connecticut, Bradley also developed a deep passion for the outdoors, fishing, and wildlife conservation.
Bradley uses a multi-technic process with acrylic paints. Each painting is based on a foundational print of the actual fish, similar to the Japanese Gyotaku technique. Therefore, each original painting is the life size of the fish species. Then, the realistic details are added using artist brushes and airbrush techniques. To finish, Bradley mounts and frames the prints himself. The wood frames are artistically finished and assembled from repurposed wood boards.
Jones’ exhibit, FISH FOR LIFE will be on display from October 1st-28th with an opening reception on Thursday, October 1st from 6-8:00p.m.
The Green Street Center for Teaching and Learning is located at 51 Green Street, Middletown, CT.
The gallery hours are Monday through Friday 9a.m.-3p.m.
Please join us for the Green Street Teaching and Learning Center Registration Day and Open House this Thursday, August 20th from 12:00-5:00PM!
This will be an opportunity for parents to come in and ask questions, tour the facility, and learn more about Green Street and the Discovery AfterSchool and Wesleyan Bound programs.
Discovery AfterSchool (Grades 1-5)
Every year, the Discovery AfterSchool Program at the Green Street Teaching and Learning Center offers a range of classes in the arts, sciences, and math for children in Grades 1- 5. http://www.wesleyan.edu/greenstreet/youth/afterschoolclasses.html
Our AfterSchool team is made up of our core education staff, professional instructors, and Wesleyan University Students who serve as instructors, teaching assistants, and homework tutors. We pride ourselves in being able to offer such a diverse group of role models with a wide range of backgrounds and expertise to the children in the program.
The Program is flexible for busy schedules. Children can be sent for five days a week or for one specific class of interest once a week. They can also be signed up for homework time where we have college student tutors available to get them started with their homework for the day.
Classes Offered
Grades 3-5: African Drumming, Art and Math – Young Masters, Art and Science, Art Around the World, Ballet Technique, Beginning Step Dance, Capoeira, Improv Comedy, Intermediate Breakdancing, Intermediate Hip Hop, Kids in the Kitchen, Make Your Own Book, Musical Mentoring, Science Club, Simply Stylin’ Fashion Design
The cost of each class is $150 and each day of homework help is $75 for the fall semester. To calculate the total cost, you multiply those fees by the total number of days the child will attend. Financial assistance and payment plans are available for free and reduced lunch families and those who otherwise qualify. We don’t want to keep any child away from these opportunities so if you think our classes would be beneficial, talk to us about how we can help.
Wesleyan Bound (Grades 6-8)
Wesleyan Bound is a unique after school class for middle school students (Grades 6-8) based at the Green Street Teaching and Learning Center in Middletown, CT. http://www.wesleyan.edu/greenstreet/youth/AfterSchool%20Wesleyan%20Bound%20.html
The class exposes middle school students to the holistic college experience – so much more than academics and admission tours. Each week, students visit the Wesleyan University campus for a wide range of activities like workshops with students groups, talks with professors, tours of science laboratories, and guided visits of art galleries.
The class is co-taught by two Wesleyan University students who coordinate a wide range of activities for the middle schoolers. Past activities have including a step dance workshop with the WeStep student club, baking cupcakes at a student program house (a residential option at Wesleyan where students with similar interests can live together), digging up artifacts at an anthropology site, meeting with the rugby team, touring the theater department behind the scenes, and so much more.
Wesleyan Bound will take place on Friday afternoons this fall from September 18th – December 11th with a student showcase on the last day. Students arrive at the Green Street Teaching and Learning Center around 3:00pm for a 3:15pm class time.
The class is shuttled to the Wesleyan University campus for their activities and brought back to Green Street for a 5:15pm dismissal. Parents are responsible for pick up.
The cost of the class is $300 for the fall semester. Financial assistance is available for free and reduced lunch families.
Do these programs sound like something your child would enjoy? If so, please join us on Thursday!
Since 2008, Kathi’s work has focused almost exclusively on images of wildlife that she photographed while in Africa. After many years of painting the figure in situations that explored the human imprint on nature, Kathi turned to animal imagery to tell this compelling story from a different perspective. Each encounter with nature gave Kathi an untold appreciation for the interdependence of species.
Wildlife, especially large mammals, is endlessly fascinating to observe. Drawing and painting from photography has allowed Kathi the emotional distance that she needed to escape verisimilitude. When facts recede into the background, her memory, imagination and pictorial concerns take precedence.
Kathi is reminded of Cezanne’s statement that “all systems are artificial” and an artist “deals with the tension between what is seen and the constructions made of it”. Kathi uses color, composition and space to create an effect of nature and what is experienced, not a copy of it.
Packer’s exhibit, Memory and Harbinger will be on display from September 3rd-23rd with an opening reception on Thursday, September 3rd from 5-8:00p.m.
The Green Street Center for Teaching and Learning is located at 51 Green Street, Middletown, CT.
The gallery hours are Monday through Friday 9a.m.-3p.m.
In addition, Green Street will be hosting an artist talk on Monday, September 21st from 12-1pm featuring Kathi Packer.
In conjunction with the Middletown Art Walk, The Green Street TLC will be hosting a very special photo exhibit featuring Middletown resident, Hannah Vecchitto.
Hannah is a 15 year old Middletown High School student and leukemia survivor. With the help of the Make-a-Wish Foundation Hannah received the gift of a lens from Nikon; a Mac computer with photo-editing software; photography lessons, and photo editing lessons. In Addition, we at The Green Street Teaching and Learning Center offered Hannah the opportunity to exhibit her work in our upstairs gallery space.
After a year of snapping photos Hannah is ready to share with the public what the world looks like through her eyes.
Please join us on Thursday, August 6th at 5pm for the opening reception of the “The little things” exhibit.
The Green Street Teaching and Learning Center is located at 51 Green Street, Middletown, CT.
The gallery hours are Monday through Friday 9a.m.-3p.m. The gallery will close at noon on Fri., Aug. 7th.
Matt Low is a Brooklyn, NY-based photographer whose crisp, concise, and often calligraphic imagery packs a poignant punch as demonstrated in this show of powerful and poetic photographs of beach debris entitled Persistence at the Green Street Center for Teaching and Learning of Wesleyan University.
Greatly disturbed by the growing profusion of plastic detritus he observed washing up onto our beaches, Low began to photograph the vast assortment of forms he encountered while walking the shoreline. Individually, each of these bits of beach debris appeared nothing more than expended and mundane. But by astutely arranging and juxtaposing natural ocean remnants with cast off, man-made plastic forms, Matt Low initiates a powerful poetic and/or political discourse within each of these photographs he presents. Persistence, a captivating photographic narrative– both delightful and dire– is not to be missed.
Low’s exhibit, Persistence will be on display from August 6th-27th with an opening reception on Thursday, August 6th from 5-8:00p.m.
The Green Street Center for Teaching and Learning is located at 51 Green Street, Middletown, CT.
The gallery hours are Monday through Friday 9a.m.-3p.m. The gallery will close at noon on Fri., Aug. 7th.
