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have the opportunity to work with the artists. The art works produced in the residency will be shared with all the students at RCES and the community in early March in a unique multi-media performance event.
The residency is partially funded by a generous grant from The Virginia Commission for the Arts, Artist-in-Education Program. This is a matching grant that requires at least a dollar per dollar match of the funds by the community and school system in which the residency occurs.
The funding match is being provided by the school division, the Curriculum Enrichment Program, the PTO, and a Headwaters MiniGrant. RCES teachers Joy Rollins, music, and Harriette Rosenblatt, art, are the project coordinators, who have devoted an enormous amount of planning time to structure what amounts to a highly organized three ring circus of activity.
Approximately 375 students (all of the second, third, and fourth graders and many of the fifth, sixth, and seventh graders) will work with one or more of the artists during the residency which began in September and will wrap up with the performance in early March.
The theme of this project, “Making Waves: A Diversity of Forms, Functions, and Feelings,” was chosen to inspire a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and approaches to contribute to a unified theme with students creating in music, visual art, dance, theater and performance.
“Making Waves” offers a broad range of possibilities for creativity in each of the disciplines as well as the disciplines in combination. Some of the ideas discussed so far include “waves of emotion” (expression of personal stories in song lyrics, poems, theater and dance vignettes); “beautiful waves” (visual, sound or movement expression of the beauty of form found in sound waves, light waves, ocean waves, etc.); “Are You On My Wavelength?” (expression in music, songs, theater, dance, and creative writing of each person’s uniqueness and the human struggle to communicate, work together, and get along); and “waves of extinction”, “waves of immigrants,” “goodbyes/hellos” (using artistic work as a means to experience events of natural, social and personal history).
In visual art workshops led by Rose Marie Prins, students will create sculptures that are capable of sound production. These will range from sculptures that produce sound as percussion, to stringed, barred, and wind instruments. They will be created from paper mache, wood, metal, and found objects.
In songwriting workshops led by Paul Reisler, students will learn the basics of sound production, composition, melody writing, and lyric writing, and will create original songs. They will work with the created instruments as well as traditional instruments.
In dance, theatre and multi-discipline workshops led by Sharon Wyrrick, students will become acquainted with both movement and dramatic skills as well as how movement and theater support each other on stage in original compositions incorporating movement, sound, visuals, music and creative writing.
Rose Mare Prins, residency visual artist, was born and raised in southern Africa. Having lived in North America for the last twenty-five years, she currently resides in
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