All School Arts Residencies at Linwood Monroe Arts Plus

Linwood Monroe Arts Plus has received $51,000 from the MN State Arts Board funding residencies for each student in our school during the 2011-12 school year.  We are the only school in St Paul to receive a State Arts Board Grant this year.

The following are the teaching artists selected to work with our students this year:

Kindergarten: 10 day Folk Music & Literacy residency with Ross Sutter in December.   Gathering Performance will be at our Linwood Campus on December 16^th.

1^st Grade: 10 day Visual Arts residency with Susan Armington in January. Gathering Performance & Exhibit will be at our Linwood Campus on January 20th.

2^nd Grade: 10 day Folktales, Masks & Drama residency with Rhonda Lund in November. Gathering Performance will be at our Linwood Campus on Wednesday, November 23rd.

3^rd Grade: 10 day Indonesian Dance & Culture residency with Tri Strisno in collaboration with the 8^th grade Gamelan residency in October & November. Gathering Performances in the big gym at Monroe on November 4^th at 10:30am & 3:00pm.

4^th grade: 15 day Opera residency with Composer Stephen Houtz, Technical Design Artist Malia Burkhardt and Linwood Monroe Teachers. Students create & perform an original Opera in January/February. Performances will be in the auditorium at Monroe in the evening on February 9^th and 2 daytime performances on February 10^th.

5^th Grade: 10 day American Indian Dance/Cultural Studies residency with Larry Yazzie in January.

Gathering Performance will be at our Monroe Campus on January 20th.

6^th Grade: 10 day Theater residency with T Mychael Rambo in November. Gathering Performance will be at our Monroe Campus on Tuesday, November 22nd.

7^th Grade: 15 day Mural residency with Marilyn Lindstrom in December. Gathering Exhibit will be bat our Monroe Campus on Thursday, December  22^nd.

8^th Grade: 10 day Indonesian Gamelan residency with Joko Sustrisno in collaboration with the 3rd grade Indonesian residency in October & November. Gathering Performances in the big gym at Monroe on November 4^th at 10:30am & 3:00pm

NEW THIS YEAR:  Each grade level will host a “studio day” when family members may come to school and join in the arts learning for a day with their child.  Each grade level will send home information on upcoming “studio days” for each arts residency.

Each residency will culminate in a Gathering performance or exhibit- check out the calendar on this website for details! 

Funding is provided in part by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and private funders.