| May 2012 | Webster Arts Magnet School, New Rochelle, NY | |
This eight day artist-in-residency project with fifth grade students will explore the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) story of Peacemaker & the Tree of the Great Peace. The project will culminate with a performance on May 22.
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| Nov 2011 | Morse School, Poughkeepsie NY | | "2011 Celebration of Lights: Workshop & Procession" |
A five day residency with 5th grade students in which each student created a unique Top Hat to wear in the Celebration of Lights procession that parades down Main Street in Poughkeepsie, NY.
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| Jul 2011 | Dutchess Arts Camp, Red Hook, NY | | "Peacemaker & the Tree of the Great Peace" |
This five day project involved 25 young people in the creation and presentation of the Iroquois story "Peacemaker & the Tree of the Great Peace".
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| Jan 2011 | Zena School, Kingston NY | | "Peacemaker & the Tree of the Great Peace" |
This two-week arts residency involved 4th & 5th graders in the creation of a theater performance based on the story of Peacemaker and how the five-nation Iroquois Confederacy came into being. Students created dozens of images, rehearsed the movement, narration and music and presented the story to the school community. The project was coordinated by the Bardavon Opera House.
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| Nov 2010 | Kreiger Elem. School, Poughkeepsie, NY | | "Celebration of Lights" |
“The BlueBird of Inexplicable Happiness” -
Fourth grade students created a magnificent bird figure for the annual Festival of Lights procession through downtown Poughkeepsie. This residency sponsored by the Bardavon Opera House.
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| Sep 2010 | Netherwood Elem. School, Hyde Park, NY | | "Peacemaker & the Tree of the Great Peace" |
"Peacemaker & the Tree of the Great Peace"- This two-week arts residency involved all students in grades 1-5 in the creation of a theater performance based on the story of Peacemaker and how the five-nation Iroquois Confederacy came into being. Under the direction of Patrick Wadden, students created large paper mache' masks of the main characters and dozens of smaller 2-dimensional images & characters. Adding music and movement to these images, the 5th grade students rehearsed the play and presented it to the entire student body, and also gave an evening performance for the community. The project was made possible by a grant from the Dutchess County Arts Council.
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| Jul 2010 | Dutchess Arts Camp, Red Hook, NY | | ""Snake Hair Pie"" |
This project involved Patrick Wadden and Dean Jones working with about 40 young people in the creation and performance of "Snake Hair Pie", a short original piece of musical puppet theater. Inspired by the story of Medusa, "Snake Hair Pie" follows the zany adventures of a young princess who loves to eat pie, pie and more pie. However, the monster Medusa is nearby and threatens the kingdom with terror. With the help of magic glasses the princess is able to confront Medusa and talk to her. It turns out that the monster was a girl who threw fits to get her way.
Dutchess Arts Camp is a project of Mill Street Loft.
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| Jun 2010 | Caroline Street School, Saratoga Springs, NY | | "How Saratoga Sprang Forth: A True Tall Tale" |
A short history of Saratogo Springs created with 4th grade students and presented to the school community. Featured a Dancing Healing Spring, many generations of settlers, and, of course, a horse race.
This residency made possible in part by a grant from the Arts Council of Saratoga Springs.
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| May 2010 | Jefferson Elem. School, New Rochelle, NY | | ""To See the Sea"" |
This project involved over 500 students in the creation of two giant collages, each measuring 30' long and 12' high, celebrating the Long Island Sound ecosystem.
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| Feb 2010 | Chambers School, Kingston, NY | | "You and Me, the River and the Sea" |
This project involved 5th grade students in a two week arts project celebrating the life and times of the Hudson River Estuary.
Sponsored by the Bardavon Opera House.
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| Nov 2009 | Clinton Elem. School, Poughkeepsie, NY | | "Celebration of Lights" |
A residency in which students help build lanterns and other processional images for the Celebration of Lights parade on Friday December 4.
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| Nov 2009 | Greenville School, Scarsdale, NY | | ""Henry Hudson & the River That Discovered Him"" |
A project with students creating a series of collage panels inspired by the Hudson River Estuary.
The students and their work will welcome audience members to the Purchase Performing Arts Center on Nov. 16 for our performances of "Mutual Strangers: Henry Hudson & the River That Discovered Him"
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| Nov 2009 | Garrison Union Free School, Garrison NY | | ""Henry Hudson & the River That Discovered Him"" |
A project with students creating a series of collage panels inspired by the Hudson River Estuary.
The students and their work will welcome audience members to the Purchase Performing Arts Center on Nov. 16 for our performances of "Mutual Strangers: Henry Hudson & the River That Discovered Him"
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| Nov 2009 | Davis Elementary School, New Rochelle, NY | | ""Henry Hudson & the River That Discovered Him"" |
A six day project with students creating a series of collage panels inspired by the Hudson River Estuary.
The students and their work will welcome audience members to the Purchase Performing Arts Center on Nov. 16 for our performances of "Mutual Strangers: Henry Hudson & the River That Discovered Him"
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| Nov 2009 | Davis Elementary School, New Rochelle, NY | | ""Henry Hudson & the River That Discovered Him"" |
A six day project with students creating a series of collage panels inspired by the Hudson River Estuary.
The students and their work will welcome audience members to the Purchase Performing Arts Center on Nov. 16 for our performances of "Mutual Strangers: Henry Hudson & the River That Discovered Him"
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| Oct 2009 | Davis Elementary School, New Rochelle, NY | | ""Henry Hudson & the River That Discovered Him"" |
A six day project with students creating a series of collage panels inspired by the Hudson River Estuary.
The students and their work will welcome audience members to the Purchase Performing Arts Center on Nov. 16 for our performances of "Mutual Strangers: Henry Hudson & the River That Discovered Him"
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| Oct 2009 | Davis Elementary School, New Rochelle, NY | | ""Henry Hudson & the River That Discovered Him"" |
A six day project with students creating a series of collage panels inspired by the Hudson River Estuary.
The students and their work will welcome audience members to the Purchase Performing Arts Center on Nov. 16 for our performances of "Mutual Strangers: Henry Hudson & the River That Discovered Him"
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| Aug 2009 | Dutchess Arts Camp, Red Hook, NY | | "First Morning of the World" |
Inspired by the Dreamtime paintings from the Aboriginal peoples of Australia, workshop participants created giant group paintings that become the backdrops and images for a performance piece about birth/life/death and finding water in the desert.
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| Feb 2009 | Chambers School, Kingston, NY | | "The King and Queen of Mardi Gras" |
In this ten day project fifth grade students studied the history of Mardi Gras and other community celebrations. They created 10'tall puppet figures ---the King and Queen of Mardi Gras--- and also a 20' long dragon. These became the main characters in a skit presented to the school. They were to also participate in a local community Mardi Gras parade. Unfortunately the parade was canceled.
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| Jan 2009 | Woodstock Day School, Woodstock, NY | | "Vitamin D & Democracy: A Visual Poem in Black & White" |
This six-day residency project with upper school students (coinciding with Martin Luther King Day and the inauguration of President Obama) explores the history of democracy in the US and the struggles of African Americans to participate in their government. The project culminates with a performance at WDS on January 23 at 1:45pm.
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| Dec 2008 | Clinton Elem. School, Poughkeepsie, NY | | "This Little Light of Mine" |
Fourth grade students explored the physics of light, photosynthesis, electricity and then created a giant paper mosaic that was part of an evening parade down the streets of Poughkeepsie.
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| Mar 2008 | Greenwood Lakes Middle School, Greenwood Lakes, NY | | "In the Country of the Imagination" |
This residency project will use the works of early 20th century avant-garde painters, writers, and composers---in particular Wassily Kandinsky---as a starting point to understand how artists respond to their historic moment. Students will then work with Arm-of-the-Sea teaching artists to create an original performance event incorporating painting, music, poetry, movement and puppetry
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| Nov 2007 | Oakwood Friends School, Poughkeepsie, NY | |
This four day residency involves a workshop production of The Great Tablecloth with middle and high school students. The piece was first created in 1988 and inspired by a poem by Pablo Neruda. Student will create vignettes for the show and present it to their school community.
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| Jul 2007 | Newburgh, NY | | "The Newburgh Peace Project" |
Arm-of-the-Sea artists took part in a five-week inner city arts workshop this summer in Newburgh, NY, in which a diverse group of teenagers and adults explored issues that divided and united us all. Musicians Joakim Lartey and Jamiles Lartey together with director Patrick Wadden helped the group transform its far ranging discussions into shapes, sounds, colors, motions, and a story line. Slowly, over the course of many sultry nights, a play took form.
As Sophia Woods, the project's founder and indefatigable catalyst, put it: "We came together, mostly as total strangers, with a longing in our hearts to escape the barbed wire boundaries of class, race, and religion to sit united at one table. We asked ourselves: How can we help young people to experience peace and to choose it over violence? All of us live in or near Newburgh. Many of us are distraught by its poverty and violence. We wanted an outlet for all our urgings to make it better and to create some new thing. We thought: Let's have a summer program right in the broken heart of Newburgh and work for peace, starting with ourselves and our city. We began to make plans with Arm-of-the-Sea. We discovered it was like putting an artists' colony on an active volcano."
This initial experiment culminated in a powerful, moving performance to a standing-room-only audience at the Ritz Theater Lobby.
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| Mar 2007 | NY School for the Deaf, White Plains, NY | | "Our Bodies, Our Cells" |
This seven day residency with hearing impaired middle school students involved printmaking and painting images inspired by different kinds of cells in the human body. The students then created dances of brought the giant cell images to live in a performance for their entire community.
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| Feb 2007 | Saratoga Springs, NY | | "Waldorf School of Saratoga Springs" |
"Thinking Like a Watershed" -a week long arts & ecology residency with high school students.The project culminates Friday March 2 at the Music Hall in Saratoga Springs with an evening performance by the students followed by a public forum about local water issues.
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| Dec 2006 | Muddy Brook Elem., Great Barrington, MA | | "American Indian Stories from the Northeast" |
Each of the four sections of third graders took a story and created a puppet play. Stories included: "Nanbush and the Ducks", "How the People got Fire", "Turtle Island", and "Skunny Wundy & The Stone Giant".
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| Nov 2006 | Clinton School, Poughkeepsie, NY | | "Celebration of Lights Parade" |
A five day project creating giant processional figures for Poughkeepsie's Celebration of Lights Parade. Unfortunately a storm caused the parade to be cancelled.
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| Sep 2006 | St. Patrick's Academy, Catskill, NY | | "Rip Van Winkle Revisited" |
A new take on Irving's classic tale.
Students created some of the visuals and then rehearsed and presented a free public performance.
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| May 2006 | Three schools in the Adirondack Park, Wells, Lake Pleasant & Piseco, NY | | "Seasons of the Wild" |
In a project exploring the meaning of "The Wild" , students at three schools in NY's "Forever Wild" Adirondack Park region created animal masks including deer, beaver and trout & then worked together to present a large-scale performance event for the community. Made possible by a grant from the Adirondack Arts in Education Partnership
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| Nov 2005 | Clinton School, Poughkeepsie, NY | | "Festival of Lights" |
Arm-of-the-sea artists worked with students to create lanterns and processional figures for Poughkeepsie's annual Festival of Lights parade held on Frday, Dec 1, sponsored by the Bardavon Opera House and the City of Poughkeepsie
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| Jul 2005 | Rural and Migrant Ministry summer camp, Newburgh, NY | | ""The Joy & Justice of Eating"" |
Youth from migrant worker families created two shows, presented in Spanish and English. One of the shows was a workshop version of what later became Arm of the Sea's touring production "La Cosecha / The Harvest"
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| Jun 2005 | New York School for the Deaf, White Plains, NY | | ""America as a Cultural Mosaic"" |
A study of culture and pattern with middle school students, and the creation of a large mosaic installation.
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| May 2005 | Kingston High School, Kingston, NY | | ""Our Block"" |
A project based on differentiated learning models. Patrick Wadden worked with art students on paintings and shadow screens for a performance about a Kingston neighborhood.
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| Apr 2005 | Springhurst Elem. School, Dobbs Ferry, NY | | "" The Spanish Conquest of Mexico"" |
5th grade students creating a “toy theatre” production telling the story of invasion of Mexico by the Spanish. The two-dimensional pupper figures were based on Aztec manuscripts and drawings from before and after the Spanish invasion.
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| Jan 2005 | Clinton & Smith Schools, Poughkeepsie, NY | | ""Tale of Two Tribes"" |
An extended residency focused on conflict and resolution. Created a full-stage production, which was presented by over one hundred students at the Bardavon Opera House, a regional performing arts center.
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| Aug 2004 | Rocking the Boat, Bronx, NY | | "" Bronx River Rhapsody"" |
Inner city teens participating in an outdoor rowing and water monitoring program created a show about their experiences on the Bronx River and presented it in Spanish & English to their community. This was part of AotS's "Thinking Like a Watershed" arts & ecology workshop, funded in part by a grant from the US EPA.
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| Jul 2004 | Rural & Migrant Ministry summer camp, Newburgh, NY | | ""One River, Many Streams"" |
A two week artist residency with young people from migrant farmworker families. Created a journey tale about immigrants in a new land. Sponsored by Rural & Migrant Ministry
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| Jul 2004 | Peace Camp, Poughkeepsie, NY | | ""Thinking Like a Watershed"" |
Middle school students in Poughkeepsie participated in a summer arts & ecology workshop tracing teh pathways of water through the urban landscape. The project included a field trip to the municipal water treatment plant.
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| May 2004 | Marbletown Elementary School, Stone Ridge, NY | | ""Thinking Like a Watershed"" |
Students created a performance based on their study of the Rondout Creek watershed.
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| Mar 2004 | Greenville High School, Greenville, NY | | "“Quetzalcoatl’s Children”" |
Created a giant puppet figure of Quetzalcoatl, the mythic feathered serpent of ancient Mexico with High School sculpture class. Then put together a performance with students based on legends and history of Mexico
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| Dec 2003 | Clinton School, Poughkeepsie, NY | | "Night, Light, Sight" |
Exploring the physics of light and the physiology of sight with inner-city fourth graders to create large "strolling street paintings" for Poughkeepsie's Festival of Lights procession. This was the fourth AotS residency in Poughkeepsie City schools facilitated by the Bardavon Opera House.
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| Sep 2003 | Woodstock Elementary, Woodstock, NY | | "Spin Cycle Circus" |
Theme of change. Students created eighteen giant round paintings that were wheeled on stage to tell the universe story and evolution of life on earth.
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| Aug 2003 | Rural & Migrant Ministry Day Camp, Newburgh, NY | | ""Yo Soy / I Am"" |
Residency for young people & teens from farmworker families. All participants created stunning large-scale self portraits. The culminating performance was presented in Spanish & English a church hall. It drew from the ancient Mayan Popol Vuh story in which the Lords of Death are outwitted by a pair of quick-thinking hero-twins, as well as contemporary immigrant experience.
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| Jul 2003 | Free Spirit Nature Camp, Westown, NY | | "Tonkamoose Watershed Homecoming" |
Participants helped create coyote, deer & beaver masks together with giant totemic puppet figure for culminating pageant, which was performed in a hay barn.
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| Jun 2003 | Zena School, Woodstock, NY | | "Thinking Like a Watershed" |
A 10-day project with fifth graders exploring the natural & social history of the Sawkill Creek, which flows past the school. Funded by the Catskill Watershed Corporation.
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| May 2003 | Rondout Middle School, Accord,NY | | "Everyman" |
Middle school students rehearsed a puppet version of the medieval morality play "Everyman" and presented it as part of a Middle Ages fair.
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| Mar 2003 | Marbletown School, Stone Ridge | | "Coming to America" |
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| Jan 2003 | NY School for the Deaf, New York, NY | | "Coming to America" |
After studying the work of Romare Bearden, Ralph Fassanella and Jacob Lawrence, hearing-impaired students created collages and puppet images to tell a story of immigration, past & present.
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| Dec 2002 | Clinton School, Poughkeepsie, NY | | "Festival of Lights" |
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| May 2002 | Hutchinson Elementary, Pelham, NY | | "To See the Sea" |
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| May 2002 | Marbletown School, Stone Ridge | | "Song of India" |
An introduction to Indian culture and history. Students made paper collages of elephants & other puppet figures. The performance told the story of the non-violent resistance movement that eventually freed India from British rule.
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| Mar 2002 | Lenape School, New Paltz, NY | | "All My Relations" |
Native American theme and celebration of the seasons. Third grade students helped create a ten foot turtle puppet, animal masks and individual shadow puppet figures. Performance opened with enactment of Turtle island creation story of the Lenape Indians.
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| Jan 2002 | NY School for the Deaf, White Plains, NY | | "A Dream of Earth" |
Earth science-based residency with hearing impaired middle school students. They created four dozen paintings and masks. Performance focused on geologic change, fossil fuel consumption and climate change.
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| Nov 2001 | WW Smith School, Poughkeepsie, NY | | "Festival of Lights" |
Focus on ancient cave paintings. Students created two-dozen lanterns and a 12' high Tree of Life puppet figure for Poughkeepsie's annual community procession and tree lighting ceremony.
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| Aug 2001 | Creek Festival Puppet Suite, Saugerties, NY | | "The Esopus Creek Puppet Suite" |
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| Aug 2001 | Berkshire Farm Center For Youth, Caanan, NY | | "Color's Journey" |
Adjudicated teenage boys created dozens of giant, complexly-painted cardboard puppet figures and enacted a journey tale about the search for wholeness and self respect to an audience of their peers and then at a public arts venue.
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| Jun 2001 | Woodstock Day School, Woodstock, NY | | "Energy & Estuary" |
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| May 2001 | Marbletown School, Stone Ridge, NY | | "West African Arts Journey" |
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| May 2001 | Rondout Valley Middle School, Accord, NY | | "Athena" |
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| Mar 2001 | Lenape School, New Paltz | | "The One You Don't See Coming" |
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| Nov 2000 | Krieger School, Poughkeepsie, NY | | "Festival of Lights" |
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| Mar 2000 | Lenape School, New Paltz, NY | | "A Hudson Bioregion Celebration" |
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| Jan 2000 | King Magnet School, Schenectady, NY | | "Sun - Seed - Civilization" |
An exploration into the roots of agriculture and the beginnings of cities. Fifth grade students used "x-ray" vision to paint the inner workings of plants. They also ground wheat into flour and baked bread for the audience. The third AotS residency at King School funded by the NY Foundation for the Arts.
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| Sep 1999 | Saugerties Historical Society, Saugerties, NY | | "Rip Van Winkle's Dream." |
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| Jan 1999 | King Magnet School, Schenectady, NY | | "Thinking Like a Watershed" |
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| Dec 1998 | Jewish Community Center, Poughkeepsie, NY | | "A Hanukkah Light & Shadow Play" |
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| Nov 1998 | Wappingers Junior Hi, Wappingers Falls, NY | | "Thinking Like a Watershed" |
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| Aug 1998 | Berkshire Farm Center For Youth, Canaan, NY | | "Color's Journey" |
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| Jul 1998 | Dutchess Arts Camp, Poughkeepsie, NY | | "The Bear" |
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| Jun 1998 | Siwanoy School, Pelham, NY | | "Rise & Shine" |
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| Dec 1997 | M.L.King Magnet School, Schenectady, NY | | "The Hudson River Estuary" |
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| Aug 1997 | Dutchess Arts Camp, Poughkeepsie, NY | | "Waking up Big Eyes" |
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| Jul 1997 | Glinodo Center, Harbor Creek, PA | | "Waking up Big Eyes" |
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| Jan 1996 | M.L.King Magnet School, Schenectady, NY | | "The New Leaf" |
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| Jan 1994 | Fostertown Magnet School, Newburgh, NY | | "Song of Myself" |
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| Feb 1993 | LaGrange School, LaGrangeville, NY | | "Dreambones" |
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| Jan 1993 | Fostertown Arts Magnet School, Newburgh, NY | | "Dreambones" |
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| Jan 1992 | Fostertown Arts Magnet School, Newburgh, NY | | "Rise & Shine" |
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| Jul 1990 | NY State Art Park, Lewiston, N | | "The Poetry of Papier Mache" |
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| May 1990 | Rondout Community Center, Kingston, NY | | "Youth Arts Uprising" |
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| May 1986 | Oakwood School, Poughkeepsie, NY | | "Give Us This Day" |
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| Jan 1985 | St. Teresa's College, Winona MN | | "Give Us This Day" |
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