Weaving the Threads, Reconnecting Our Stories
Every summer, P.S. ARTS Teaching Artists and staff brainstorm a new theme for the upcoming school year which is used as a guide for classroom curriculum and activities. The 2021-22 school year’s theme is Weaving the Threads, Reconnecting Our Stories. Sound familiar? That’s because this theme is a spinoff of last year’s theme (Weaving the […]
Weaving the Threads, Connecting Our Stories
Each year, P.S. ARTS teaching artists and staff gather together to create a unifying theme to provide a framework for the coming school year’s curriculum. This school year will be unlike any other and we’ve chosen a theme that speaks to the growing need for community and connection in the face of social distancing. We […]
Windows and Mirrors
Every year, P.S. ARTS teaching artists and staff gather together to create a unifying theme that guides their curriculum throughout the course of the following school year. This year, we are very excited to announce that the theme for the 2019-20 school year will be Windows and Mirrors. “Books are sometimes windows, offering views of […]
The Light of Discovery
By the P.S. ARTS Programs Team “The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through vast forests, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.” -James Baldwin Each year, our […]
ALL THE COLORS I AM INSIDE
By Amy Knutson, Programs Associate At the end of the past three school years, P.S. ARTS’ Teaching Artists and Education & Programs staff have gathered in Grand View Blvd. Elementary’s Art Bungalow to plan out the classroom theme for the following year. Our themes have ranged from Tree of Life – Roots and Branches (2012-2013), […]
The 2014-2015 School Year Theme: Building Bridges, Breaking Barriers
By Amy Knutson, Education & Programs Assistant Two years ago, P.S. ARTS introduced a new element to our in-school programming: a unifying theme developed by our Teaching Artists that would guide their curriculum throughout the course of the school year. The 2012-2013 theme, Tree of Life: Roots and Branches, focused on community and cultural roots, […]
P.S. ARTS Masterworks for 2013-14
By Amy Knutson, Education & Programs Assistant It’s crazy to think that the new school year and P.S. ARTS programs are officially underway! I am thrilled about what the upcoming school year has in store for P.S. ARTS (and personally, I’m still a little confused as to where the summer went). If you’ve been following […]
Exploring Our Dreams, Expanding Our Universe
By May Woo, Education & Programs Getty Intern Last year, P.S. ARTS introduced a new element to our classroom programs – a unifying theme to guide the material taught in all of our schools. The theme for 2012-2013, Tree of Life: Roots and Branches, encouraged students to focus on their cultural, familial, and community “roots”; […]
