VSAC and CHAC recognized a shared need and created a shared opportunity.
Start with the Arts | Arts for All | Express Diversity | Classroom Tours and Visiting Artists | The Bridge Project | Cookies y Leche Art Workshops| Super Kids
Listed below are 8 workshops offered through VSAC or CHAC. Each module has the state standards listed and each is available at either location. Both organizations currently offer great opportunities for kids and by partnering with each other we hope to reach a wider group of students. For more information about CHAC please visit their website at www.chacweb.org
Cost for workshops are $3 - $4 per student. Scholarships are available.
VSAC Workshops
Start With the Arts
CHAC Workshop
Age Range: 3-7 years-old, preschool-First Grade
Time Frame: One hour sessions
Program Description:
Start With the Arts is a unique combination of literacy, family involvement and strategies for experiencing the arts: visual arts, drama, dance and movement and music. Start With the Arts provides an arts based learning approach to literacy and contains. Each unit is divided into four common themes that run throughout early childhood. These include: All About Me, How I go From Here to There, Feeling Hot, Cold and Wet, & The World Around Me.
Activity:
The activities mentioned above explore commonly taught theme areas in early childhood. Students will participate in dance, drama, music or creative movement. Each activity has a literacy component and visual arts component.
Learning Objectives & Standards:
• Express thoughts and feelings about things that are special and meaningful.
• Develop confidence in sharing ideas about self and artwork.
• Build vocabulary about drawing, collage and texture.
• Students recognize and use the visual arts as a form of communication.
• Students know and apply elements of art, principles of design, and sensory and expressive features of visual arts.
• Students know and apply visual arts materials, tools, techniques, and processes
Arts for All
Age Range: 3-9 Years-old, Pre K to 3rd Grade / Grades 4th – 8th Grade, 10-14 years-oldd
Time Frame: One hour sessions
Program Description:
Arts for All utilizes art tools designed so that participants with limited movement or lack of fine motor skills can be successful in using what mobility they have to create, paint, draw, print, and more. The tools incorporate the use of one’s wheelchair, walker, arms, or legs as part of the creative process. Individuals can make prints, draw with chalk, or use pogo paint poles, all while working on mobility skills and coordination, creativity, expression, and self esteem.
Activity:
Shapes and Lines- in Motion: Explore beginning print making with special attention to shapes and lines.
VSA arts Workshop
Learning Objectives & Standards:
Visual Arts/Dance/Movement:
• To recognize lines and shapes as elements of art.
• To understand lines and shapes as an element of form and movement.
• Perform a dance that uses shapes and lines.
• Create prints using lines and shapes.
• Create a mural that represents lines and shapes in motion.
Mathematics:
• To analyze characteristics and properties of two-and three-dimensional geometric shapes.
• To specify locations and describe spatial relationships using representational systems.
• To use visualization, spatial reasoning, and geometric modeling to solve problems.
Read about the All About Me workshop and the Shapes and Lines in Motion workshop.
Express Diversity
Age Range: 8-16-years-old, 2nd to 12th Grade
Time Frame: One hour sessions
Program Description:
Express Diversity is a series of modules, activities and resources to expand students’ sensitivity and awareness of the importance of every individual. The focus is disability and the arts—infused in such a way as to promote discussion and new insights. The five different activities in the Express Diversity include: Introductions to Disability, People First, Communities for Everyone, Important Contributions, & Inventions and Independent Living.
Activity:
Inventions and independent living: This activity looks at technology from the standpoint of problem solving. Discussion and activities are designed to help student discover how experimenting and adapting have served to find solutions to problems.
Learning Objectives & Standards:
• Identify problem-solving techniques.
• Identify adaptations and assistive technology that support people with disabilities.
• Create an imaginative solution to a fictitious problem experienced by a person with disabilities.
• Students relate the visual arts to various historical and cultural traditions.
• Students analyze and evaluate the characteristics, merits, and meaning of works of art.
Read about the program Express Diversity Creative Inventions
CHAC Workshops
Classroom Tours and Visiting Artists
CHAC Gallery is available for educational classroom visits and the gallery can also arrange visits and demonstrations from visual artists, musicians, dancers and storytellers.
The Bridge Project
The Bridge Project is a collaborative effort lead by the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Social Work and the Denver Housing Authority to address social issues facing the Denver metro area with the belief that education is the key to leading an individual away from poverty and into self-sufficiency. CHAC artist, muralist and Bridge Program volunteer educator Jeremy Ulibarri works with public housing children twice a week on multi-media art projects that utilize science, architecture, and mathematics to engage and inspire the children that attend. The ultimate project goals are that Bridge participants will achieve their academic potential and graduate from high school with the resources to earn a college or associate degree, gain occupational training, or succeed in employment.
Cookies y Leche Art Workshops
On the third Saturday of every month, community children are invited to attend CHAC’s Cookies y Leche “Cookies and Milk” Art Workshops. Each session presents the children with enjoyable educational art projects along with refreshments. Classes are lead by CHAC member artists and include terrific seasonal hands-on projects such as Christmas Ornaments, Valentines Hearts, and Calaveras “Sugar Skulls” - a traditional Mexican ornament/treat used for “El Dia de los Muertos” (Day of the Dead). Cultural activities include making paper retablos, saints and altars.
Super Kids
Super Kids is a collaborative after school program for at-risk youth in Denver. Cristo Rey Lutheran School and CHAC offer bilingual kids a chance to get one on one tutoring sessions enriched by art, music and computer programs. Students meet every Wednesday afternoon during the school year for a nutritious meal while working on their homework with mentors and practicing their English speaking and writing skills. The students then participate in music, visual art and performance activities lead by a CHAC member artist.
