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Tilles Center and C.W. Post Partner with
Lincoln Center
to Foster Arts Education in Area Schools
May 5, 2000 -- Tilles Center for the Performing Arts and the
C.W. Post Institute for Arts & Culture in Brookville, N.Y.,
have joined forces with Lincoln Center Institute to expand Lincoln
Center's unique arts education program on Long Island. The C.W.
Post Campus of Long Island University will work closely with
Lincoln Center staff in eight Long Island schools, with the goal
of ultimately offering the program to schools throughout Nassau
and Suffolk Counties.
The one-year pilot arts education program is designed to ensure
that local school children and their teachers have the opportunity
to experience the riches of music, art, dance and theater. The
School Partnership Program will involve Tilles Center, C.W. Post's
Hillwood Art Museum, C.W. Post's School of Education and C.W.
Post's School of Visual and Performing Arts, as well as The Nassau
County Museum in Roslyn, the Heckscher Museum in Huntington and
Nassau BOCES. This is the first time the Lincoln Center Institute
is working so closely with a Long Island arts organization.
Based on the aesthetic education philosophy and practices
of the Lincoln Center Institute, the program is designed to foster
student encounters with the arts. This approach starts by introducing
students to performers and artists in classroom workshops. A
visual or performing artist will help students experiment with
forms of art that relate to a performance they will attend or
an exhibit they will visit. The main goal of the Lincoln Center
program is to help students understand and appreciate the arts.
Scheduled to launch in July with a four-day workshop for 60
Nassau and Suffolk school district teachers, the program will
bring a variety of performances and works of visual art to Pre-K
through 12 students and teachers in the Freeport and Manhasset
school districts. Hands-on activities will help students develop
insight into professional music,
dance and theater performances. The July teacher workshop will
be held at Lincoln Center and Tilles Center.
"The collaboration with Lincoln Center will help consolidate
many elements of our existing education program," said Andrew
Berger, director of Education & Outreach for C.W. Post's
Tilles Center for the Performing Arts and former Artistic Administrator
of the Lincoln Center Institute. "It is a proven framework
for providing high-quality arts education to schools throughout
our area," he added.
Key elements of the program include recruitment and training
of teaching artists; presentation of performances in music, dance
and theater; the identification of art exhibits, particular paintings
or architecture for the program's visual arts component; and
plans to tie summer training with class studies during the school
year. During the pilot year, Lincoln Center artists will facilitate
those classes, while training local artists to facilitate programs
in the coming years. Program organizers are now recruiting local
artists to serve as apprentices.
The C.W. Post Institute for Arts and Culture seeks to make
the arts and culture central to the lives and education of both
the public and Long Island University students, faculty and staff.
It fosters exchanges and collaborations among C.W. Post's Tilles
Center, the Hillwood Art Museum, the School of Visual and Performing
Arts, the School of Education and the College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences.
For more information about the pilot program sponsored by
the C.W. Post Institute for Arts & Culture and the Lincoln
Center Institute, please contact Andrew Berger at (516) 299-2388
or email andrew@tilles.liu.edu.
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