What if a lesson ended with a standing ovation? This Broadway musicals-inspired session blends choreography, interpretation, and drama with academic content. Students step into the spotlight by adapting lessons, concepts, songs, or movies into powerful scenes full of character, movement, and imagination. It’s a perfect entry point into physical expression, storytelling, design, and the joy of performing arts. If you need a new way of getting the point – or the facts – across, this session can do it for you. Available in English & Spanish.

Learning English as a second language and body movement come together in this session where participants go beyond everyday language acquisition. Students will increase vocabulary, strengthen English speaking and listening skills, and practice following directions through rhythm exercises, musical activities, games, and more. Bilingual reinforcement will be provided as needed, but movement and creative interactions will power the learning in a welcoming, supportive environment. Available in English & Spanish.

Need to support phonics-based classroom goals? Want to engage students through movement, music, storytelling, and interactive arts? In this session specially tailored for grades PK-3, students will practice early CKLA sounds, letter names, and phonemic recognition through creative movement. Rhythm activities, collaboration games, and storytelling exercises are all a part of this immersive and interactive experience for young language learners. Available in English & Spanish.

Emotions can be big, intense, and overwhelming—but they are also the ultimate fuel for creative expression. This interdisciplinary workshop guides students to explore how famous artists and authors translate powerful feelings into groundbreaking work. Rather than just copying a masterpiece, students learn to tap into their own emotional storehouses to create original visual art or poetry. Discover how creators use color, imagery, and word choice to convey deep feelings, draft original writing or visual art inspired by their own personal experiences and emotions, and practice constructive, empowering outlets for processing complex feelings through hands-on creative work. This session seamlessly bridges ELA and Visual Art standards while driving core Social-Emotional Learning (SEL). It gives students a meaningful, safe space to build self-expression and leave with a deeply personal portfolio piece.

In this workshop, students will design and construct their own handmade journals using recycled and found materials, then bring those pages to life with collage, writing, drawing, and mixed media techniques. Through a mixture of guided prompts and creative freedom, students will explore personal expression and visual storytelling in a low-pressure, highly tactile format. Students will learn simple book binding techniques, explore artistic journaling as a tool for self-reflection, and discover methods for collaging and repurposing recycled materials. Short-Term Residency Option: Day one: The teaching artist will discuss what a junk journal is, show examples, and create the cover/main structure for their journals. Day two: The teaching artist will begin with a brief demo showing students some ideas for pages and techniques for creating things like pockets. Students will be given a number of prompts to use as jumping off points for their pages. Day three: Students will warm up by creating a new spread focusing on slightly deeper prompts such as "what my room says about me" or "things I want to remember," followed by time for reflection and group discussion.

It’s printmaking! It’s carving! It’s a beginner’s workshop on both! Linocutting, a process by which the artist carves into a flat surface and then inks the “raised” bits to create a mirror image print, is the glue that unites the two techniques. Students in this session will be given design samples and work on carving in a technique used by Picasso, Escher, and many others. At the end of the workshop, students will be able to take home the stamps and prints they created. Here’s to a new skill and a very cool piece of art!

Color, fluidity, line…and freedom. These all come together in a watercolor creation in Paint What You “Sea.” Over the course of a class period, students will experiment with color and shading through painting images of the ocean. They will be guided in creating fluidity and line with their brushes; through that, they will gain a basic understanding of watercolor painting and experience the freedom that comes with the medium.

What if you were asked what your ideal world would be…and then you had the opportunity to create a visual of it? In Make Your Universe, students will do just that. Students are given the freedom to put together what their ideal world would be and the opportunity to experiment with the art of collage making by using magazine clippings to create a unique art piece. Through this, students both express themselves and gain a better understanding of collage as an art form.

Genres will blend, creativity and inspiration will be unlocked, and artistic visions will evolve and merge during Creative Writing Into Songwriting. Through guided creative writing exercises, the students will write poems, flash fiction, or prompts that will be used to fuel their songwriting experience. Much music will ensue. This session can be adapted for certain holidays, so please chat with the artist about options after booking!