Artist Residencies

Professional visual and performing artists bring unique educational arts programming to schools for extended residences with multiple classrooms lasting up to several weeks. Students learn new skills and methods of expression, develop creative thinking and self confidence, and gain career insights. Quality arts instruction provides young people with holistic learning experiences that engage minds, hearts and bodies. Lane Arts Council provides arts education programming based on Common Core and State Art Standards. One week of artist residency provides four learning sessions per day, over five days (20 hours). A typical artist residency is two weeks (40 hours). Lane Arts Council’s visual arts residencies expose students to new and diverse materials, a wide variety of art forms, and ways of making that strengthen their ability to communicate ideas, concepts, and personal identity. The visual arts provide a creative container in which students generate unique creations that are completely their own. Programs range from ceramics and watercolor to cartooning, large-scale mural paintings and much more. In dance and theatre arts residencies, students learn to express and communicate with their bodies and voices. Dance not only awakens and focuses students, it also intersects with math and science concepts in a way that connects for kinesthetic learners. Through theatre, students build confidence and strengthen writing and public speaking skills. Teamwork becomes an essential foundation during improvisation or collaborative choreography. In musical arts residencies, music provides young people an opportunity for expression that actively engages both mind and body. Requiring practice and patience, learning music inspires confidence. Music also supports student learning by igniting the part of our brain responsible for information gathering and memory retention. Our music offerings range from learning fiddle or Latin music to crafting and playing ceramic flutes. In tech and media arts residencies, the creative use of technology teaches 21st Century Skills in a hands-on way. Through our tech and media arts residencies, students learn essential tools to engage technology on a deeper and more exploratory level. Residency opportunities range from video editing and stop-motion animation to sound editing, video game design and more. For cultural arts residencies, artists from cultures around the world have artistic traditions that enrich our community through diversity of thought and perspective. Our cultural arts residencies are a great way to build empathetic, active and engaged classrooms. We bring residency programs such as West African dance, Latin American sculpture or Louisiana fiddle into the classroom to understand the importance of diversity and tradition. In integrated arts residencies, students learn math, science, social studies and language arts concepts more deeply when they explore them in creative ways. Our interdisciplinary arts residencies unite common core subjects with artistic expression. Whether it is investigating geology through watercolor, historical figures through the creation of a mural, or fractions through dance, these residencies will engage students and inspire teachers.