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Western Pennsylvania Wolf Trap

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Gateway to the Arts' Western Pennsylvania Wolf Trap program provides innovative arts-in-education services for children ages 3-5, their teachers and families.

Ed-institute_logoThe objective? To encourage early childhood educators and caregivers to regularly use performing arts to help young children learn basic skills. Drama, music and movement experiences not only support physical, cognitive and socio-emotional development, but they create active, joyful, child-centered learning environments!

Gateway is proud to be one of 16 regional affiliates of the internationally acclaimed Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, and the only one in Pennsylvania.

Western Pennsylvania Wolf Trap includes summer professional development for Early Childhood educators and a seven-week classroom artist residency.

  Wolf Trap Professional Development Institute Information Sheet

  Western Pennsylvania Wolf Trap Description and Application Form 

  Western Pennsylvania Wolf Trap Professional Development Institute Registration Form 2010

To receive information on how to enliven learning in your early childhood classroom with a Wolf Trap residency, please contact Carol Wolfe at 412.362.6982 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

The Wolf Trap Institute is a program of the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, in partnership with Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts located outside Washington, DC in Vienna, VA.

 

 

 

 
 

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  • March 15, 2010
    Call for Artists


    Gateway to the Arts is now seeking professional performing artists and/or teaching artists in all art forms interested in engaging pre-K-12 grade students in their arts discipline and/or Gateway’s models of arts integration. While seeking candidates across all disciplines, we are very interested in arts and technology integration. Interested artists must have professional references and clearances.



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Latest Updates

  • May 17, 2010 
    Announcing the Family Performance Series

    On Saturday, June 19, at 3 pm Gateway to the Arts will launch its first ever Family Performance Series at the tent in Schenley Plaza in Oakland with a showcase by performing artists Delta Blue. The newest ensemble to be added to our roster, Delta Blue invites children and parents to dance the cakewalk, tap, sing and twist along with them, as they perform classic tunes that highlight the history of African-American music and dance. The set is the same performance program that is touring to schools.


  • April 17, 2010 
    Root American Music Award

    On Friday March 26, Gateway to the Arts awarded the second Root American Music Award, named after musicologist and former Gateway Board President Deane Root, to Boyce Campus Middle College High School teacher, Joanne Krett. The award recognizes an exceptional teacher who has participated in the Center for American Music at the University of Pittsburgh's Voices Across Time program, designed to assist teachers from different disciplines in incorporating American music into their curricula. Krett, an English teacher, uses music and lyrics as primary learning material, as a tool to connect to the humanities overall and to engage her students more deeply in the curriculum.  

    In addition to this recognition, Joanne and her students also received a free performance program by the acoustic blues duo Wiggins and Harris sponsored by Gateway in cooperation with Calliope: Pittsburgh Folk Music Society