Residencies & Creative Workshops — Opening Doors to Creativity
Children from a CSA Art Workshop show their
excitement
Bringing Reading
Alive! Through Art and
Storytelling
Although the program can
benefit any audience, for the best results scholastically, this
residency is slated for 4th - 6th grade students and/or the teachers who teach
them. An experience where participants discover that everyone is creative
and has special talents and unique heritage, this workshop is based on the right
and left brain concept--right being the feeling side, speaking with pictures;
and left being the structural side, speaking with words. A balance between
the two sides creates harmony, and participation encourages increased
self-confidence, which in turn affects increased scholastical performance. To
save setup time, each class is held in centralized area such as a media center
where students can be brought.
A. Residency “Word Pictures & Picture Words”
-- Bringing Reading Alive! Through Art and
Storytelling The daily workshops outlined below
scheduled into:
4-Day Residency: 3 classes per day—Plus Performance on 5th day
Daily workshops are 45 - 60 Minutes each • 30 students
each class Total workshop & performance fees for
5-days
$2000 plus travel & per diem
Art supplies furnished by
school
Fees
can be negotiated B. Workshops
Day 1. Opening
Doors to Creativity--Point of view,
participation
Day 2.
Storytelling based on Heritage--Hands on
Creative Writing
Day
3. Left Brain/Right Brain & Achieving Balance--Demonstration
Day 4. Spontaneous Visual Artwork-–Hands on Artwork
Day
5. Celebration Presentation by the Ammons Sisters
to
school body in auditorium
These daily workshops can be
performed independently at less cost
(1) Preferable: The
beginning exercises in the workbook, "Catch the
Spirit of Creativity," by Amy Ammons Garza and Doreyl Ammons Cain,
are offered to be used in conjunction with all the creativity exercises
throughout the residency. The workbook purchased in quantity from the workshop leaders is priced at $2 per
book.
Also
used in workshop is the storytelling book “Matchbox Mountain.” Purchase price
$7.
(Note: a suggestion--the parents or the
Parents/Teachers Association could purchase these books for the children/or the
cost could be shared. The workbook is designed to last a lifetime.)
quantity from the workshop leaders is priced at $2 per
book. 