Arts in Education Partnership

The Gateway Arts in Education Partnership forges dynamic collaborations between the educational and arts communities to bring the arts and arts-centered learning to students, educators and administrators. The Arts in Education Partnership is based upon the renowned Lincoln Center Institute model of arts integration in which a work of visual or performing art becomes a text for arts-based learning in many areas of the curriculum.
 
The Partnership begins with the Institute, a five-day, two-credit summer professional development course for educators held in Pittsburgh (dates and location varies). This training is followed by a school-year unit of study that includes an in-school performance or field trip and a four-day artist residency in the classroom. 

The Partnership package includes

• Attendance for 3-5 teachers, administrators and/or arts specialists at the professional development workshops.   
• Act 48 hours for teachers who complete requirements.
• Works of visual or performing art that will serve as the focus for a unit of study in the classroom.
• Artist residency component—teaching artists plan with educators to co-teach workshops before and after the artistic experience with each educator, engaging the students in hands-on activities and extending the activities into other areas of the curriculum.

The descriptions of the Focus Works of Art for the 2010-2011 school year are below.

  Gateway Arts in Education INSTITUTE Enrollment Form

Registration Deadline: June 1, 2010

Visit GatewayAIEP.org for more information on the 2010 INSTITUTE or call 412.362.6982.

Lilly Abreu and Trio

Focus Work of Art 
2010-2011 Arts in Education Partnership 

Lilly Abreu is one of Brazil’s greatest cultural assets, a versatile artist with numerous appearances as a recitalist and soloist with orchestras and chamber ensembles in France, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, United States and Brazil.  

She is on the roster of the Pittsburgh Opera and is also an accomplished popular music artist, performing regularly some of the greatest tunes of the Brazilian repertoire. She has just released a CD of Brazilian Popular Songs entitled BRASILEIRA, and with the Grammy nominated string quartet Cuarteto Latinoamericano, she recorded the CD BOSSA.  

Lilly currently teaches Voice at Carnegie Mellon University and Portuguese at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her Bachelor’s of Music from Federal University of Goiás (Brazil) and a Master’s in Voice Performance from Carnegie Mellon University. 

Photograph by Eliezer Barros and Amy Rodgers

Charles "Teenie" Harris

Focus Work of Art

2010-2011 Arts in Education Partnership

Charles “Teenie” Harris (1908-1989) began documenting life in his hometown of Pittsburgh, especially the vibrant Hill District, in the 1930s. His body of work spans forty years and is one of the most in-depth photographic records of African-American life in the 20th century. 

Charles “Teenie” Harris, American, 1908-1998, Group portrait of 1952 city of Pittsburgh marbles champ Joseph Parker wearing crown in center, runner-up Melvin Lewis on left, and director of Manchester Recreation Center Stephan Bodnar on right, leaning over marbles on floor, May 1952, black-and-white, Kodak safety film, Carnegie Museum of Art, Heinz Family Fund, 2001.35.6461.