Artivate 2018-2019 Multicultural Arts Education Programs Brochure

September 3, 2019

2019-2020 ARTIST AND PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

Artivate is pleased to share highlights from our annual Multicultural Arts Education Programs Brochure (click to view or download) featuring Artivate’s teaching artists:

We are happy to present Anansegro of Ghana as Kofi Dennis continues in the tradition of Anansegromma of Ghana.
Cantaré and Dovie Thomason offer new preschool programs.
Arturo Ho Offers a new one-day residency option.
Bowen McCauley Dance Company, Prakriti Dance, and Smithsonian Associates Discovery Theater on Tour
offer new programs.
Barynya, Bowen McCauley Dance Company, Cantaré, Gerdan, Lesole’s Dance Project, Prakriti Dance and Step Afrika! offer larger
ensemble options, indicated by a new icon. (See Key)

Programming and pricing in the brochure are effective through June 30, 2020. To request programming, visit our website to complete a request form at Request a Program; Email us at info@goartivate.org; or call us at 301-588-7525.

2019 CULTURAL ARTS SHOWCASES

Showcase season is upon us! Don’t miss these great opportunities to see teaching artists – including many from the Artivate roster – perform and present LIVE! Showcases are an excellent way to enjoy artists in person, while learning about the wide variety of programs available to schools and communities. Our program staff will be at each event – stop by to say hello and get some extra info to help you plan!

Arts Council of Anne Arundel County Arts in Education Showcases
September 24, 2019
Studio 39 Annapolis, MD
Info: //bit.ly/349araP

Montgomery County Public Schools Cultural Arts Showcases
October 2, 3, & 7, 2019
Carver Educational Services Center Auditorium in Rockville, MD
Info: //bit.ly/2CQ5ydj

Howard County Arts Council Cultural Arts Showcase
October 11, 2019
Howard County Center for the Arts in Ellicott City, MD Info & registration: //bit.ly/2CMA8UP

MISSION

Artivate engages communities to create interactive arts experiences that inspire learning.

We offer arts-based learning to motivate and invite audiences to participate through performances and workshops representing a wide range of artistic disciplines and cultural traditions in order to captivate the imagination and activate human potential. Through our focus on education, we enable access to the arts for all, particularly under-resourced communities, throughout Maryland, the District of Columbia, and northern Virginia.

HISTORY

Artivate was established in 1995 as Class Acts Arts, the educational outreach arm of the Institute of Musical Traditions, a Maryland non-profit focused on presenting concerts which preserve and promote American and international folk traditions. Founded by community arts activist, Busy Graham, Class Acts Arts served roughly 25,000 students and teachers with 80 school programs that first year, working with seven touring artists: dancers, storytellers and musicians. Now 25 years later, Artivate facilitates an average of 1,300 programs a year, reaching more than 200,000 children, teens and families at 250 sites across the Greater Washington, DC area, providing programs for libraries, community organizations, local theaters, town festivals, and correctional facilities, as well as schools. Designed in response to a demand for high quality, ethnically diverse cultural arts programs in schools, our roster has expanded to over 32 solo or ensemble artists, one-third of whom tour nationally, and now includes theater and visual arts. Many of the artists embody their cultural heritage, including artists from Argentina, Ecuador, India, Egypt, Ghana, Ukraine, and Quebec. In addition to our partnerships with dozens of professional artists and public and private schools, we collaborate with other arts education organizations and presenters such as Smithsonian Associates, Wolf Trap National Park for Performing Arts, Hylton Performing Arts Center, M-NCPPC’s Publick Playhouse, and other local theaters to develop programming and supplement tours.

In 2000, founder Graham designed and launched Project Youth ArtReach (PYA). Initially created to address the benefit of expressive outlets for incarcerated youth, PYA has grown from one detention site with only a handful of workshops to more than 300 programs per year at some six sites annually, and now engages detained men and women as well as teens. In addition to educational workshops in visual, literary and performing arts, we provide a variety of performances (20-25 per year) for larger groups inside some detention sites. Working with the Montgomery County Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services, and The Choice Program of the Shriver Center at UMBC, Project Youth ArtReach has received local and national recognition for its excellent curriculum and meaningful impact.

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