District: 3 Student Population: 750. Partners: Museum of Modern Art; School of Visual Arts; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gerald Hayes Quartet

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1 Manhattan PS 9 M District: 3 Student Population: 750 Partners: Museum of Modern Art; School of Visual Arts; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gerald Hayes Quartet Partnering with the Gerald Hayes Quartet, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA), and the School of Visual Arts (SVA), PS 9 will expose students and parents to art and music activities and performances over a span of five events. The first will be a jazz performance by the Quartet, followed by a demonstration by school music faculty on music appreciation and the creation of homemade instruments. At the MMA, participants will be guided through the African-American artists collection, among others. The MoMA will guide students and parents through an overview of their twentieth century paintings, sculpture, and design. A teaching supervisor from SVA will lead fifth grade students and their parents in the designing and painting of a mural based on world mythologies and folk tales. The final event will be a Family Arts Night held at the school where student and parent artwork from the year will be on display and professional arts workshops will be offered. PS 20 M: The Anna Silver School District: 1 Student Population: 910 Partners: Henry Street Settlement PS 20 will create a program entitled "Literacy Through the Arts Program," which will consist of a ten session storytelling/bookmaking workshop series and a three part library resource program. Through this program, the parents, most of who are new immigrants and speak languages other than English at home, will have experiences that parallel their children's literacy development and writing process. The workshops on storytelling and visual arts will be led by teaching artists from the Henry Street Settlement. Parents will also be provided tickets to the Family Series, at the Henry Street Abrons Arts Center. PS 41 M: The Greenwich Village School District: 2 Student Population: 711 Partners: Lincoln Center Institute The Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education and PS 41 will continue their collaboration by creating a series of three Family Arts Workshops. The first two will be "The Tango Experience," and will include a live performance and workshop with New York Tango Trio, which introduces children and parents to the magic of tango music and dance. The third event will be a parent and child museum visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where they will explore the galleries through discussion and sketching. The program will culminate with the creation of a large mural expressing why the arts are important to the participants and to the school. PS 59 M: The Beekman Hill International School District: 2 Student Population: 380 Partners: Phyllis Rose Dance Company; Museum of African Art PS 59 plans to partner with the Museum for African Art and the Phyllis Rose Dance Company in a program that focuses on African folk art, masks, musical instruments, and dance. In addition to offering parents and students a visit to the museum, Phyllis Rose will conduct African dance workshops with third grade students and parents for four consecutive weekly sessions. Musicians and dancers will give two performances at the school for the community. The project will culminate in a parade of African dance and music making on May 16 during the school's "Family Friday.

2 PS 77 M: Lower Lab School Grades: K-5 District: 2 Student Population: 346 Partners: Henry Street Settlement; Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum PS 77, in association with the Henry Street Settlement, will kick off their program with bookmaking workshops, photography workshops, and a neighborhood walking tour. The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum will lead families on architectural walks and tours of the Carnegie Hill neighborhood. Parents and community members will lead workshops in writing and reading with favorite children and adult authors, in addition to an already popular recess workshop on scrap booking. The event will culminate in an International Potluck Dinner where parents will help create dishes from around the world, supporting classroom discussions of multiculturalism. PS 142 M: The Amalia Castro School District: 1 Student Population: 550 Partners: Mark DeGarmo & Dancers/Dynamic Forms Partnered with Mark DeGarmo & Dancers/Dynamic Forms Inc., PS 142 will present three workshops for parents, integrating dance performance, creative movement, and creative process with language arts and social studies. Two workshops will prepare parents to see the performance of Bitter Grounds: A Portrait of El Salvador, by Mark DeGarmo, by exploring elements of dance: time, shape, space, energy, and motion. The third workshop, following the performance, will be a facilitated discussion of the work. IS 143 M: Eleanor Roosevelt Intermediate School Grades: 6-8 District: 6 Student Population: 1764 Partners: Young Audiences/New York PS 143 will partner with Young Audiences/New York and the District Six Media Center, and expose parents to new approaches to core curricula that infuse subject specific classes with varied arts specialties. Students, families, faculty, and staff will work with the same teaching artists that will be working in the school over the course of the academic year. Participating parents will gain hands-on experiences incorporating the arts into many of their children's studies. Some participants will attend a professional performance, which will include a light supper and post-performance discussion. PS 145 M: The Bloomingdale School Grades: Prek-5 District: 3 Student Population: 800 Partners: CityLore PS 145 plans to partner with CityLore to facilitate intergenerational arts residencies that focus on both the Muslim and Chinese culture. There are five components to the complete Parent program: 1. a parent workshop by CityLore that will explore the role of culture and tradition in parents' personal lives; 2. an intergenerational residency in Muslim culture and visual arts; 3. an intergenerational residency in Chinese culture and dance; 4. a second annual Poetry Cookbook; and 5. a culminating Parent event in collaboration with the school's spring poetry festival.

3 PS 161 M: Don Pedro Albizu Campos School District: 85 Student Population: 871 Partners: Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning; Aaron Davis Hall The Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning and Aaron Davis Hall at City College will partner with PS 161 in this three-part Parent program. The first part involves three-hour Saturday workshops where parents and children will create collaborative visual arts with resident artists. It will also include two Family Days, where participants will experience on-site performances and visual art workshops with cultural arts partners. Parent and student work will be exhibited these days to the local community. Finally, participants will go on guided community walks where they will have the opportunity to view public art, visit local cultural institutions, such as the Studio Museum in Harlem, and engage with the local community through partner performance visits. P 162 M: Sojourner Truth School Grades: K-12 District: 75 Student Population: 205 Partners: Readers Theatre Workshop; Young Audiences/New York; El Museo del Barrio PS 162 will partner with Readers Theater Workshop in involving parents in the creation and preparation of a student Spring Concert and Fiesta Latina, in April. Parents will help with costumes, food, and will be asked to lend their expertise in dance and instrumentation. They will also be invited to accompany their children on visits to the Museo del Barrio and the Museum of the Native American, which will include two parent workshops where native artists will speak on the influence of the Taino culture and other indigenous peoples. PS 163 M: The Alfred E. Smith School District: 3 Student Population: 650 Partners: The Folk Art Museum; Learning by Design; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum PS 163 will partner with the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM), Learning By Design: NY, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in their "Neighborhood Quilt Project. The quilt will be communally designed and created, expressing both personal narratives and shared understandings. An educator from AFAM will hold a workshop on textiles to broaden ideas of how participating parents can portray their world. The project will also include gallery visits and walking tours of the neighborhood, during which parents will document and sketch the architectural environment surrounding the school. Parents will be encouraged to keep a journal about their ongoing work with resident artists, as will their children. The quilt will be on display at the year-end exhibition of student and parent work. PS 178 M Grades: K-2 District: 6 Student Population: 300 Partners: Creative Arts Laboratory, Teachers College Columbia University PS 178 will partner with the Creative Arts Laboratory, at Columbia University, to create joint student/parent performance, entitled "Things My Elders Told Me. Two Spanish-speaking teaching artists will conduct workshops where participants will create written, visual, and performance works of art based on this idea. The themes will explore cultural differences and finding common ground among different groups. They will share their work, and then discuss it, through a performance attended by other participants and school faculty.

4 PS 183 M: Robert Louis Stevenson Grades: K-5 District: 2 Student Population: 570 Partners: Henry Street Settlement To commemorate PS 183's 100th anniversary next spring, the school is planning a reading of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, the school's namesake, and an enhancement of their outdoor children's garden with mosaics. Partnering with the Henry Street Settlement, parents and their children will create beautiful mosaic artwork, engage in the poetry and history of the school's namesake, and add their own legacy to the school's design. PS 184 M: Shuang Wen School Grades: PreK-4 District: 1 Student Population: 245 Partners: New York Chinese Cultural Center PS 184 will partner with the New York Chinese Cultural Center to provide parents and students with a cultural dance performance, as well as sequential workshops reflecting traditional fine arts practice in Asia, discussions about these art forms, and how they continue through the cultural education of their children. The partnering organization will conduct these activities in both English and Mandarin Chinese, simultaneously, which is necessary for the school's population of parents. Visits to local museums will enrich the experience by exposing parents to the community s cultural resources. PS 191 M District: 3 Student Population: 388 Partners: Studio in A School; Lincoln Center Institute PS 191 is planning to increase parents' appreciation of the impact of the arts on their children's education through their partnership with Lincoln Center Institute and Studio in a School, and their program, "OPENING THE WINDOWS: Parents Accessing Existing Neighborhood Arts Partners." Each art partner will host parent-child hands-on workshops. Lincoln Center will host a Saturday workshop and performance, by the storyteller David Gonzales. Studio in a School will host two separate workshops, one for the students and parents of Kindergarten through third grade and the second for fourth through sixth grade. IS 243 M: The Center School Grades: 5-8 District: 3 Student Population: 192 Partners: Lincoln Center Institute IS 243 is planning a program for students and parents to attend a performance of As If the Past Were Listening, by Lincoln Center Institute's master storyteller David Gonzalez. The performance, which dramatizes a collection of folktales from the Latino world, will be followed by four workshops, at the school, on dramatic storytelling, by Lincoln Center Institute teaching artists. The program will culminate in a performance of storytelling and skits by the parent and student participants. The event will showcase their illustrations, costumes, and scenery created for the performance. PS 363 M: The Neighborhood School District: 1 Student Population: 260 Partners: Downtown Theatre Arts; Third Street Music Settlement; Studio in A School Coupled with their arts partners Downtown Arts, Studio in a School, and Third Street Music School, PS 363 will offer three concurrent Saturday programs with a choice of three workshops for families. These choices include a workshop in art, music, or theater skills. This is an opportunity for parents to have a hands-on arts experience with their children, and to draw on the talent of some parents to instruct. Skills covered will include: print making, book making, collage, song writing, instrument creation, improvisation, storytelling, and puppetry.

5 PS 364 M: The Earth School District: 1 Student Population: 221 Partners: ArtsConnection; North East Native American Association The Earth School will use two popular school-wide events - the annual Readathon and Earth Day celebrations - to feature four art forms relating to each day's theme. Partnered with ArtsConnection, workshops surrounding the Readathon will focus on storytelling and dance of the African-American and Afro-Caribbean experience. The Earth Day celebrations will be illuminated by family workshops in Native American stories and dances presented by the Northeast Native American Association. In addition, a workshop and performance of traditional Puerto Rican music and dance will be presented by an artist from ArtsConnection. Both days will include refreshments and a facilitated conversation exploring the artistic, social, and cognitive dimensions of these art forms. PS 811 M: The Mickey Mantle School Grades: PreK-8 District: 75 Student Population: 325 Partners: Marquis Studios PS 811 plans to offer a series of eight parent/child workshops. Six of them will be workshops with artists from Marquis Studios, and two will be field trips to Symphony Space, a local performing arts center. Each performance at Symphony Space will be followed by an optional parent/child workshop at the Children's Museum of Manhattan. Some of the specific disciplines to be explored in the workshops are: circus arts, shadow puppetry, mime, book making, music, and rhythm. PS 859 M: Special Music School Grades: 1-7 District: 3 Student Population: 120 Partners: The Kaufman Center PS 87 plans to partner with the Visual Arts in Action Program with primary interest in training parent volunteers who will implement a comprehensive, visual art curriculum in the classroom. This program will explore processes of drawing, painting, and sculpting in a logical and analytical way. Participants in the Visual Arts in Action Program will have the opportunity to exhibit their work in the Balcony Gallery of Merkin Concert Hall. Parent volunteers will be recruited to install and remove the exhibit, in addition to framing and matting student and parent work. IS 897 M: Manhattan Academy of Technology Grades: 6-8 District: 2 Student Population: 210 Partners: New York Chinese Cultural Center Working with The New York Center for Chinese Culture, IS 897 will hold three hands-on arts workshops on the connections between visual arts and literacy. The workshops will teach parents and students calligraphy and poetry writing, as well as Chinese painting techniques, which will be used to illustrate their poems. These workshops will culminate with a Saturday afternoon field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

6 Auxiliary Services for High School Grades: 9-12 District: 79 Student Population: 1200 Partners: Metropolitan Museum of Art The Auxiliary Services for High Schools will collaborate with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Education staff to offer six classes and hands-on workshops, combined with parent accompanied museum trips. The Metropolitan Museum of Art s staff will focus on such topics as African sculpture, pre-columbian South American sculpture and architecture, European Impressionist paintings, Arms and Armor, and Islamic mosaics. In addition, workshops will reflect GED social studies topics. For example, slave trade references in workshops on medieval Benin masks and sculptures, and interpreting graphic material related to the arts of Korea and Southeast Asia. City As School High School M 560 Grades: District: 79 Student Population: 691 Partners: The Center for Urban Pedagogy City As School will partner with the Center for Urban Pedagogy on the arts and architecture project "City Without A Ghetto," a multimedia, multisite exhibition about how students and parents relate to their neighborhoods. This semesterlong project will challenge students to create an exhibition that addresses the legacy of urban renewal in New York City, and will include such issues as racial segregation, public housing, and ongoing efforts to reduce and eliminate poverty. The program will include such activities as neighborhood architectural walks, oral history documentation, and model building. These activities will allow parents to use art and architecture to consider issues such as the history and future of their neighborhoods, their relationship to a larger community, and how this knowledge is passed along to their children. The Computer School M Grades: 6-8 District: 3 Student Population: 310 Partners: Wingspan Arts The activities of the program at The Computer School, in partnership with Wingspan Arts, will include four workshops, with students, parents, and one or more teaching artists, and attendance at a Broadway show. In the four workshops, the various aspects of musical theater will be broken down into subjects: vocal/instrumental music, acting, dancing, and design. After the Broadway show, parents and students will participate in a meeting to discuss their previous lessons on the elements of production. The students and parents ability to understand and appreciate a show more fully will increase their enjoyment of the medium, and will encourage them to attend future performances with their children. The Heritage School M 680 Grades: 9-12 District: 71 Student Population: 312 Partners: The Studio Museum in Harlem; Taller Boricua The Heritage School s Parent program will include five Saturday art making experiences for the entire family, and a culminating event and art exhibition on the evening of May 15. Two of the experiences will take place in collaboration with The Studio Museum in Harlem; and the other three will occur at The Heritage School, in conjunction with their art teachers and in-school arts partner, Taller Boricua. The activities will include museum visits and discussions, combined with handson art making workshops. The program is designed to mirror the year-long arts program, thus providing parents with an appreciation of the arts their children are exposed to in the classroom.

7 Martin Luther King, Jr. High School M Grades: District: 71 Student Population: 2263 Partners: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Martin Luther King, Jr. High School, in partnership with the Guggenheim Museum, is planning to bring five arts workshops to their student and parent populations. These workshops will include a museum visit and orientation, student and parent collaboration on the creation of a short digital video, discussion on approaches to portraiture, and the development of computer art skills, including proficiency in PhotoShop and web design. Time will be set aside at the end of each session to share work with other participants. The final session will be a school reception where participants will share and view their work with other students, administrators, teachers, and parents.