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Bethel Park elementary students learn animation from artist in residence by Almanac Staff Writer Terri Johnson

February 5, 2013

As part of the new Arts to the Core residency program, Gateway teaching artist Paul Kruse is spending five weeks teaching a fourth-grader class at Franklin Elementary School how to make a short animation film.

 

Homewood artist works with Penn Hills kids to create ‘autobiographical quilt’ by Penn Hills Progress Editor Patrick Varine
October 3, 2012

Through a partnership with Family Support of Allegheny County and with grants from Target and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Gateway artist Tina Williams Brewer completed a five-week residency with children at the Lincoln Park Family Center.

Are you excited about what a teaching artist could do to activate learning in your classroom or teach you and your students a new art form or skill? Gateway can partially match your funds through our Pennsylvania Council on the Arts’ Artists-in-Residency grant!

Here’s what to do:

1. Take a look at the artist residency options on our website for inspiration about what can happen in your school or community.
2. Review  the “ Guidelines and Procedures ” and “ Evaluation Documentation and Assessment Agreement ” to better understand some of the parameters of the program.
3. Complete and submit the “ Artist Residency Request Form ” below.

Questions? Contact Desiree Davis Lee at 412.362.6982 x 220 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

 

Art Brings Families Together by McKeesport Daily News Staff reporter Jennifer R. Vertullo
August 23, 2012

Gateway to the Arts' teaching artists have been working in family support centers across the county this summer, building residencies around Mem Fox's book "Whoever You Are." This article features the activities at the McKeesport Family Center.