“Teaching Artist: A teaching artist is an active artist whose artistry expands to include the skills, curiosities, and habits of action of an educator in order to achieve a wide variety of learning goals in, through, and about the arts, with a wide range of learners.”
teaching artistry with seniors
Storytelling with Music Strikes a Chord by Garry Bridgewater
Building relationships between the generations, and illustrating how music can bind people together, and how strong it is in our memories. We accomplished this with life writing through stories and music.
artist in residence
Work in the Calgary Board of Education as an Artist in Residence
Integrating the Arts into the Alberta Curriculum
Jube School - Open Minds - February 2018
Artist in Residence - Storytelling and Music
Abbeydale Elementary School - March 2017
5-day school residency with multi-disciplinary artists from ‘The Queen, the Bear and the Bumblebee’. Artistic exploration with: Paul Grindlay - music, Yukichi Hattori – dance, Chester Lees – visual arts, Samantha Whelan Kotkas – storytelling and music
Lord Beaverbrook High School - September 2011 - June 2012
Artist in Residence - Co-produced the arts integrated project from ‘Blue to Red’ with LBHS music director Ross McIntyre. Integrated the arts into Space science, biology, physics, chemistry, math, technology, multi-media. GRADE 10 - 12 - also brought in elementary school students from three feeder schools to work on the project with the high school students.
West Dalhousie Elementary School - January 2013 - March 2013
Artist in Residence - Integrated music and storytelling into the Kindergarten - Grade 6 classrooms. Integrated the arts into Language Arts (Virtues), Social Studies (Canadian History and World History) and Science (Space Science, Physics and Biology)
Thorncliffe Elementary School - October 2012, April 2010 (6 Kindergarten classes), June 2008
Artist in Residence - Integrated music and storytelling into the Kindergarten - Grade 6 classrooms. Kindergarten - patterns and form, composition, multiple literacies Grade 1/2 storytelling and patterns and form, Grade 3/4 Rainforest, Savannah, Desert
Killarney Elementary School - September 2010 - December 2010
Kindergarten - Grade 6 classrooms - Alberta Past, present and future, Virtues, Form and Patterns, Composers
Highwood Elementary School - October 2008
K - 6: Virtues/Music/Rocky Mountain Fairy Tales/Jazz
Belfast Elementary School - August - October 2004, April - May 2008
K - 6: Compassion first - peace follows - Community, Seasons, Soundscapes, Alberta past, present and future, Drum Circles, Patterns, Form, Africa, African Dance,
Forest Lawn High School - September 2002 - October 2002 & September 2001 - October 2001
Artist in Residence - Integrated music and storytelling into the Grade 11 special education classrooms
Richmond Elementary School - March 2001
K - 6: Canadian History, storytelling and hearing and sound.
Ranchlands Elementary School - September 2000 - May 2001 & September 1999 - May 2000
K - 6: Reading the World through the passion of story. Wetlands, Renaissance, Native Unit, Calgary Past Present and Future,
Olympic Heights Elementary School - 2001
K - 6: Math
Ethyl M Johnson Elementary School - April 2002, November - December 2002
K - 6: Alberta Past, Storytelling, Hearing and Sound.
Willow Park Elementary School - 2002
Science, measurement, multiple literacy, musical scores
Albert Park Elementary School - 1999
Grade 3 - Hearing and Sound
