Education / artist in residence program
A.I.R.
Artist In Residence Program for Okanogan Region Schools
Artist In Residence program for Okanogan County Schools.
Logo by artist Cassy Marchbank
A.I.R. Overview:
Methow Arts’ Artist in Residence Program serves the Omak (including Paschal Sherman), Okanogan, Pateros, and Methow school districts; spanning a 1,000 mile radius, two river valleys, and serving more than 3,700 students and 300 teachers.
Through arts education programming, Methow Arts seeks to increase access to arts education for students in rural Okanogan County who otherwise have little to access to the arts in their schools, as well as maintain the arts as central to education, and teach esssential skills in the arts (EALR's) as outlined by the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction.
The Okanogan Regional Artists Roster serves as the main resource for classroom teachers seeking artists to teach in their classrooms. The roster is a list of qualified literary (including creative writing and poetry), visual (including film) and performing (music, dance and theatre) artists selected to teach in the program.Artists living in the Okanogan region apply to be included in the roster.
Teachers may also select artists from the Washington State Arts Commission Artists Roster for short term residencies. Teachers select an artist and then submit an Air Dreams proposal for funding to Methow Arts. Artists then complete an Artist Planning Worksheet. When residencies are completed teachers evaluate the project, and are encouraged to share student work with the community through public art, performances and publications.
Finally, student artwork is shared with the community through exhibits in school hallways, libraries and cafeterias. Some residencies also focus on the development of public art for permanent display. Projects have included stained glass window installations, glass mosaics for the Winthrop Post Office as well as regional schools, framed paintings for a local hospital, and the completion of a clay relief mural on the Methow Valley Community Trail.
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Omak Elementary School students perform "Wings" wearing
bug costumes of their own creation during a residency with artist Kathleen Smith.
For more information contact:
artseducation@methowartsalliance.org
509-997-4004
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