Second graders in Ms. DeRice’s class at Reiche Community School have begun designing and building box stages and moveable figures as part of a Side x Side program led by teaching artist Nance Parker and integrated with a literacy and social studies unit on the Civil Rights Movement. The stages will...
The Connors Elementary School Civil Rights Team, which is led by Nesrene Griffith and Allison Lytton, is collaborating on a Side x Side mural program with art teacher Kelsey Boucher and Side x Side teaching artists Sarah Boyden, Indigo Grey, and Alicia Uth. Recently, the team enjoyed a virtual visit...
Side x Side’s Anne Ackerman presented her workshop, “Illuminated Poetry,” with help from coworkers, Meghan Scribner and Side x Side executive director, Beth Wilbur Van Mierlo, during the National Art Education Association’s CREATE 2021 National Convention last week. Workshop participants engaged in...
This winter, third grade students at Lyseth Elementary School have been participating in a Side x Side bookmaking program integrated with a literacy and science unit on weather and led virtually over Google Meet by teaching artists Gretchen Berg and Anne Ackerman. This week, the completed student...