Artist Residencies

For only $650 plus supplies, your school may be eligible to receive a two-week residency plus up to 10 additional hours of teacher professional development from your residency artist. Normally, this would cost $1,750. All schools are encouraged to apply. If selected, your school will be required to participate in teacher professional development and provide evaluations.

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Performance Assemblies

November 14-18th is Children's Book Week!
ReadAlot Theater: Sir ReadAlot combines the arts of acting and storytelling with the discipline of oral interpretation. With the use of props, costumes and audience participation, reading and literature come to life in a variety of excerpts from classical and children's literature as well as original material. Students will be entertained while observing how to effectively communicate the spoken word. Grades K-12.
Celebrate Children's Book Week, November 14-18!
Special price: $250 if scheduled for the month of November.

Celebrate December with Dance!
Joint Forces Dance Company (recent winner of the Guggenheim Award and internationally renowned!) performs and educates about disabilities and dance, leading audiences to explore and uproot misconceptions and prejudice while encouraging cultural and artistic diversity in the performing arts. Students watch entertaining, humorous dancing with Emery Blackwell, who has cerebral palsy, and pioneering choreographer Alito Alessi. In a question and answer session, students learn about disabilities and performing arts. Grades K-12.
Special price: $250 if scheduled for the month of December.

Dance Theatre of Oregon introduces a variety of dance forms in Dance: From Concert Stage to Broadway to Hollywood. This assembly introduces ballet, modern dance and musical theatre-derived jazz dance with excerpts from Romeo and Juliet, The Pajama Game, West Side Story, and Triskelion. Grades K-12.
Special price: $250 if scheduled for the month of December.

Watch for other monthly performance assembly specials throughout the year.

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If you are interested in any of these opportunities please contact us.

SchoolArts is supported by funding from the National Endowment for the Arts: Arts for Learning, Oregon Arts Commission, Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation, Target Stores, Chambers Family Foundation, Collins Foundation, Wegelin Arts Fund, Symantec, private contributors, and participating schools.