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Opera on a Stick!

Austin Lyric Opera has developed a fun and engaging introduction to opera. A group of opera singers, accompanied by a pianist, lead students in a 45 minute program of opera instruction and live performance. After learning about the history of opera’s origins, musical and opera specific terms and concepts are introduced and demonstrated. Students are treated to live performances of several operatic selections by some of Austin’s finest classical singers. At the conclusion of the presentation, students become performers as well, as they will learn to sing a brief chorus excerpt along with their guides. A lively Q&A session ends the program. Cost is $550.

K-12 School Tours

We provide an engaging, interactive, inquiry-based environment for your students to make connections between their lives and the world around them. Our tours reinforce your classroom objectives in more subject areas than just art, including history, math, science, and language arts. All Blanton tours are designed to address the TEKS objectives. All tours are 50 minutes long.

Youth Voices in Ink: Creative Writing Workshops

Badgerdog’s writers-in-the-schools programs bring professional writers into school classrooms to lead creative writing workshops that guide students through an exploration of the literary arts, the imagination, and the power of language. In-school and after-school creative writing workshops deliver 20-30 hours of TEKS-aligned instruction in language arts. Participating students are exposed to various genres and practice all phases of the writing process—reading, critical analysis, brainstorming, drafting, revising, editing, and publication. Each workshop culminates with a student reading on campus in which each student reads his/her work before an audience of peers, family, and friends. Additionally, all Badgerdog students are published in a library-quality anthology at the end of the program. Students are also invited to attend a community-wide reading event and book release party, where they sign autographs and hear the work of writers from other workshops across Central Texas.

Opera Treasure Chests

These entertaining and educational Treasure Chests will be available for teachers for one month in their classrooms. The curriculum is a first introduction to opera for the first through third grade, and will include lesson plans, DVD’s, books, and costumes. These Treasure Chests are absolutely free but a singer and a pianist may visit the classroom for the low price of $175 at some point during the project to entertain the students with opera highlights if you so choose.

Free school tours!

Join us for a guided tour of the Umlauf!

Abrakadoodle Art Education

OUR PROGRAM HAS BEEN RUNNING IN AUSTIN TEXAS FOR MORE THAN 6 YEARS AND WE HAVE BEEN THE #1 FRANCHISE IN OUR SYSTEM THREE YEARS RUNNING AND TOP 5 FOR 5 YEARS. RECENTLY WE WERE VOTED BEST PLACE TO LEARN ART IN AUSTIN BY AUSTIN FAMILY MAGAZINE READERS FOR THE THIRD YEAR IN A ROW AND THIS HONOR COMES AS A RESULT OF OUR INCREDIBLE STAFF. WE SELECT THE BEST STAFF AVAILABLE WHO GENUINELY CARE ABOUT OUR STUDENTS AND WANT TO SEE THEM SUCCEED IN THEIR CREATIVE ENDEAVORS. WE USE A MONTESSORI, HANDS-ON BASED APPROACH AND A MIXED AGE GROUP SETTING, AS WELL AS TESTED AND PROVEN CURRICULA AND HIGH-QUALITY CRAYOLA MATERIALS TO PROVIDE THE RICHEST ENRICHMENT EXPERIENCE POSSIBLE FOR CHILDREN TO LEARN AND ENJOY BUILDING THEIR CREATIVE SKILLS.

Opera by Night

There is no better way for a young person to become acquainted with opera than to attend a dress rehearsal. These evenings are free of charge and designed for fifth grade through high school depending on the content of each production. These events are free of charge.

School Matinees

The Paramount Theatre offers school matinee performances for school groups. Study guides are tailored to the curriculum and TEKS and are provided to each participating student. The cost is on a sliding scale and many are 100% underwritten and attend at no cost to them. We also bring the theatre to them with in-class pre-show workshops where the children are prepared for the play and the theatre experience.

Women & Their Work Tour and Workshop

Women & Their Work believes contemporary art should be an accessible resource for the entire community. Our mission includes keeping all W&TW exhibitions free and open to the public and educating audiences of all ages about contemporary art. We produce critical essays about each exhibition at W&TW, and we hold panel discussions about contemporary art issues and best practices for artists. W&TW has developed a comprehensive art education program for Austin students ages K-12, reaching thousands of students and educators each year through: • Gallery workshops and tours • In-school performances • Professional development for teachers Women and Their Work gave our students a once-in-a-lifetime experience to be bused to the gallery, work with the actual artist and also create their own artwork alongside the artist. This would have never happened without the support of W&TW. The gallery’s education outreach has made a powerful impact. — Del Valle High School Art Teachers: Abigale Mosbarger, Javier Barbosa, Jenny Parry • During each exhibition, Women & Their Work invites students from Austin and area schools to the gallery for a tour and art-making activity. Students are led through the exhibitions and conduct discussions about themes in the work on display. When possible, the exhibiting artists themselves lead the tours, illuminating their artistic processes for students and encouraging students to explore their own ideas about the work. • After the gallery tour, students experiment with materials and techniques similar to those used by the exhibiting artist, allowing them to better understand the art-making process. Tours are free to all students and teachers, and W&TW also pays for transportation and for a half day substitute teacher, if needed.

Film Kids

Film Kids uses active, student-driven film production to encourage young people’s confidence, creativity and critical thinking skills. The adaptation to technology begins at such an early age in modern America that young people have no fear of cameras, and the spark of their imagination can also facilitate technical skills that help with future careers. This is what inspired Film Kids to plan after school programs, initially at Brentwood Elementary School and Lamar Middle School, and the reception of this idea has been positive enough to encourage in-school gifted-and-talented programs, summer camps and community outreach as well. Film Kids teaches storytelling, storyboarding, acting and the use of video cameras, and has also been able to teach video editing with the help of some facilities’ computer labs. Film Kids strives to encourage artistic confidence through hands on, collaborative, student-driven filmmaking.

Teaching the TEKS Through Theatre

The Education/Outreach department is offering in-school workshops that use theatre techniques to engage students in classroom learning. These workshops: • Meet specific needs of a school’s curriculum—from social studies to science, English to math, theatre to art • Use drama techniques including taking on roles of characters in literature, learn vocabulary through movement and gestures, and reenacting situations based on historical events and places

Wax Track Gallery Exhibits and Seminars

We build statues and monuments in wax, bronze, and concrete and can provide seminars on wax statue making as well as setting up exhibits to display our work. Typically we set up our exhibits in the library of a school.

Creativity Club @ the Dougherty Arts School

The Dougherty is excited to expand Creativity Club as an onsite after school program option. Creativity Clubs includes visual arts, theater and digital media using a process-oriented teaching approach. Van transportation is currently being offered for students enrolled at Matthews and Zilker elementary schools. A local area elementary school with 5 or more students enrolled in C-Club @ the DAC may request van transportation. Parents and guardians are welcome to enroll children and provide their own transportation to the Dougherty. Creativity Club @ the DAC is an after school program that is held onsite at the Dougherty. Students explore arts educational programming through lessons taught in various artistic mediums and disciplines. Creativity Club’s curriculum follows a process-based learning model with lesson plans developed by our Instructors in response to monthly themes that emphasize cultural studies, art history, and creative techniques. This method allows every project to be responsive to the students’ creative interests as well as incorporate the Instructors’ own artistic expertise. Instructors are carefully chosen so that each site provides diverse cultural arts experiences for all participants in the areas of visual, performing and media arts. The goal of Creativity Club is to provide students the time and space to develop individual creative expression through group participation in structured and intentional recreational activities and arts lessons. The small groups of one teacher per 10 students allows more time for each student to participate in the artistic process. Enrollment is set on a monthly basis. Each student is guaranteed a spot in the next month’s class as long as tuition is paid by the deadline.

Southgate-Lewis House Tours

The Southgate-Lewis House is a historic two-story home in east Austin, Texas. It was built in 1888 by a local bookbinder using the Gothic Revival style of architecture. The home is located in a historically African-American neighborhood. In 1986 it was sold to the W.H. Passon Historical Society for its headquarters. It was recently renovated. The Society operates the Museum at the Southgate-Lewis House. The museum’s exhibits focus on the African American experience in Austin and Travis County. Also, Wax Track often displays their statue exhibits in this space.

Austin Community Steelband's Workshop

The steelpan musical instrument is a cross-cultural magnet. It is fun and easy to learn to play quickly, well enough to perform a song. The students will learn to play steelpan in groups of 10 in a steelband in Austin Community Steelband’s workshops. Each student will play a professional quality instrument in varying musical voice ranges equivalent to conventional musical instruments in other bands or orchestras that is provided by the workshop. During the class students will develop the skill to play a song together well enough to perform.

Elisabet Ney Museum Tours of Exhibits

The Elisabet Ney Museum invites guests to tour the permanent collection of Elisabet Ney portrait busts and personal memorabilia displayed in her former Austin, Texas studio, Formosa. The Museum is a designated national, state and local historic landmark. The Museum’s collection of Elisabet Ney busts and mementoes are on loan from the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center of The University of Texas at Austin. Currently on special display are selected papers from the Visions of the West Collection Elisabet Ney Archive including Elisabet Ney’s The Mission of Art, her proposal for the establishment of an Academy of Liberal Arts in Austin at the turn of the century, and the personal journal she kept on her first return trip to Europe after a twenty-five year absence.

Young Artists

Young Artists @ Arthouse is a free Saturday morning art program focused on helping students with a strong interest in art to develop their art portfolios and learn more about opportunities in the arts. Priority is given to students from underserved areas in and around Austin.

Leaps and Bounds

Leaps and Bounds, now in it’s 10th year, is an arts education program at Mainspring School and Allison Elementary School. Directed by Artistic Director Allison Orr and taught by three teaching artists, the program provides free classes in creative movement to children from families of low-income. The program has become a critical part of the arts educational programming at both schools, and each school provides both cash and in-kind support in order to match the program’s cost. In 2011, Forklift will lead 200 classes serving over 100 children who would otherwise be unlikely to have access to this kind of arts enrichment programming. Apart from the overall goal of teaching underserved children, Leaps and Bounds provides artistic programming that engages the children in the creative process, supports the children’s developmental progress, improves the children’s ability to work in a group setting, and strengthens the students’ concept of themselves as artists and creators.

Club Arthouse

Club Arthouse is a free, intensive program at Arthouse for Austin-area high school students who have a strong interest in visual arts, allowing them to delve more deeply into contemporary art one afternoon each week. Meetings are held on Wednesdays, 5:00-7:00pm.

O. Henry Museum Tours

The mission of the O. Henry Museum is to collect, preserve, and interpret artifacts and archival materials relative to the author, for literary, educational, and historical purposes that are accessible to the public.

G & S Minstrels

At the moment there are 3 singers one plays the piano and sings and the other 2 ( one man and one woman) sing and lead the audience in song.

El Sistema Austin

Beginning October 17 2011, HAPA will provide approximately 40 students in grades 6-8 at East Austin College Prep Academy with ensemble-based music education for 2.5 hours Monday-Thursday and two hours on Saturday. In January 2012, we will offer 30 more students the chance to participate and complete our full symphony orchestra. The only cost to participants will be a small program fee that will be based on a sliding scale and will be waived for participants who are unable to afford it. There are no barriers to entry based on ability or financial circumstances. Program participants will get instruction from expert teaching artists in the following areas: 1. Singing and solfege 2. Group and private instrumental instruction 3. Technology (digital portfolio, improvisation, composition) 4. Team-building activities (group drumming, music listening/appreciation, outdoor games) In addition, there will be numerous opportunities to perform, to hear live music, and to attend cultural events. Each Thursday there will be a “recital hour” open to the community that will feature performances by students, teaching artists, and guest artists. Finally, parent classes will provide an opportunity for parents to learn basic musical skills in order to support their children, to get to know other families in the community, and to have fun in a laid-back atmosphere.

After-School Enrichment

CST offers quality theater, dance and visual art classes to students from low-income families.

Academy for Young Artists

The Austin Chamber Music Academy provides small ensemble opportunities during the fall and spring semesters. Professional musicians coach chamber ensembles and teach theory and composition classes for intermediate and advanced musicians of all ages. Participants experience the joys of studying and performing chamber music with enthusiastic musicians of comparable proficiency. As an indispensable member of an ensemble, students will make new friends while improving their sense of rhythm, musical confidence, intonation, and performance skills. Students will also participate in theory and composition classes with their peers.

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