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Our Town Mural Project
Apr 11, 2012
Our Town Mural Project from Providence CityArts for Youth on Vimeo.
Students from three classes taught by Deb DeMarco and Juliette Casselman worked on mural tiles to revitalize the Bank of America Skating Rink tunnel in Kennedy Plaza as part of the NEA/ City of Providence Our Town project.
EDTAP Success Series: Andrew Watts
Mar 30, 2012The ¡CityArts! blog presents the EDTAP Success Series. Follow our five full-time AmeriCorps Expanded Day Teaching Artists as they use art to help teach math, reading, social studies, and more at two Providence middle schools, Roger Williams MS and Nathan Bishop MS.
“I recently had the opportunity to work with Mr. Taylor’s 8th grade social studies class on a second rap parody project similar to the one I did in the fall.* Here students paired up and tackled the topic of Westward Expansion. Each group picked a song to use as a vehicle for summarizing either the Gold Rush, Manifest Destiny, the Mexican-American War, or the Oregon Trail out of “Renegades of Funk”, “King of Rock”, and “Intergalactic Planetary”.
The students had a great time and it was a pleasure carrying out such a fun project.”
2011-2012 Full-time AmeriCorps EDTAP member
* Didn’t hear about Andrew’s last rap parody project? Last fall, Andrew worked with the same group of students to record rap parodies describing the three branches of government. The class was such a success that they brought him back!
Visit Andrew’s Digication page to listen to raps from last autumn based on the tunes of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Theme Song (Will Smith), Ice, Ice, Baby (Vanilla Ice), or U Can’t Touch This (MC Hammer). My favorite line re-write: “Break it down, stop! Veto time!”
EDTAP Success Series: Whitney Bates
Mar 29, 2012The ¡CityArts! blog presents the EDTAP Success Series. Follow our five full-time AmeriCorps Expanded Day Teaching Artists as they use art to help teach math, reading, social studies, and more at two Providence middle schools, Roger Williams MS and Nathan Bishop MS.
“In the past couple of weeks I have had the opportunity to extend my art integration with the 6th grade social studies group into the art room after school. Last week, I brought clay and pottery techniques to Mr. Audette’s World History class. I demonstrated how to create a coil pot and embellishment in the style of Ancient Greek pottery. This week, I arranged for an afterschool help session where I provided clay and other resources for students to use for their project. 27 students took advantage of this time for individualized help and the use of art materials. I will continue these sessions to promote the connection of art and history.”
2012-12 AmeriCorps Full-time EDTAP Member
