Art Partners Celebrates 10 Years With Special Albright-Knox Art Gallery Exhibition
Art Partners, the innovative program for children with special needs, celebrates its 10-year anniversary with a special exhibition of artwork by children and teens Art, Heart and Soul: Celebrating Ten Years with the Art Partners in the education department of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, from Jan. 15, 2004 through Feb. 23, 2004. An opening reception (free of charge and open to the public) will be held Feb. 4, 2004, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the art gallery.
An art teacher in-service will be held there on Jan. 20, from 4-6 p.m.
Art Partners, founded in 1994 by Buffalo State College Art Education Professor Lucy Andrus, is a collaborative fieldwork program involving faculty and students from the college and teachers and students from the Buffalo Public Schools. The program focuses on urban, inner city school students with special needs, such as identified disabilities, as well as those at risk due to social, economic, environmental or other life circumstances that could negatively affect their ability to succeed in school and society.
Each semester, Professor Andrus and a team of students from her Art for Children with Special Needs course bring the program to two designated school sites in the City of Buffalo.
The team works in collaboration with the children's classroom teachers, to give the children experiences in art designed to promote established goals and objectives in children's individual education program as well as regular classroom curriculum.
The curriculum is composed of thematic units of study with sequential lessons that build upon each other in promoting goals, objectives and New York State Standards for the Arts.
Art Partners is especially important for those children who do not receive art education taught by art specialists, as well as those who can better express themselves and demonstrate their diverse capabilities through a program that differentiates instruction and takes a learning through the arts approach, Dr. Andrus said.
The program is committed to supporting equity and diversity issues to ensure that curriculum and instructional methodology are culturally competent, she added. In addition to the general multicultural perspective practiced by the program, Art Partners also teaches about the people, traditions and aesthetic productions of various cultures, including those of the Americas.
The program has worked with the students and teachers at Buffalo's BUILD Academy, Broadway Village School 57 and the community-based special education program at McKinley High School. Financial support from the program has come from donations and grants from the Center for Development of Human Services, the Resurgent City Center and the Erie County Legislature.
For additional information on Art Partners, go to http://www.artpartnersprogram.com/.
An art teacher in-service will be held there on Jan. 20, from 4-6 p.m.
Art Partners, founded in 1994 by Buffalo State College Art Education Professor Lucy Andrus, is a collaborative fieldwork program involving faculty and students from the college and teachers and students from the Buffalo Public Schools. The program focuses on urban, inner city school students with special needs, such as identified disabilities, as well as those at risk due to social, economic, environmental or other life circumstances that could negatively affect their ability to succeed in school and society.
Each semester, Professor Andrus and a team of students from her Art for Children with Special Needs course bring the program to two designated school sites in the City of Buffalo.
The team works in collaboration with the children's classroom teachers, to give the children experiences in art designed to promote established goals and objectives in children's individual education program as well as regular classroom curriculum.
The curriculum is composed of thematic units of study with sequential lessons that build upon each other in promoting goals, objectives and New York State Standards for the Arts.
Art Partners is especially important for those children who do not receive art education taught by art specialists, as well as those who can better express themselves and demonstrate their diverse capabilities through a program that differentiates instruction and takes a learning through the arts approach, Dr. Andrus said.
The program is committed to supporting equity and diversity issues to ensure that curriculum and instructional methodology are culturally competent, she added. In addition to the general multicultural perspective practiced by the program, Art Partners also teaches about the people, traditions and aesthetic productions of various cultures, including those of the Americas.
The program has worked with the students and teachers at Buffalo's BUILD Academy, Broadway Village School 57 and the community-based special education program at McKinley High School. Financial support from the program has come from donations and grants from the Center for Development of Human Services, the Resurgent City Center and the Erie County Legislature.
For additional information on Art Partners, go to http://www.artpartnersprogram.com/.
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