Winter 2015 Grantees

Music and Arts Non-Consumable Equipment grants

Grantee: Leslie Sokal-Berg from Barrow Elementary
Award Amount: $3,255
Summary: All kindergarten thru 5th grade students will use a collection of large-scale percussion instruments to learn how to create rhythmic and melodic patterns and learn how to create simple songs that they will perform.

Grantee: Didi Dunphy from the Lyndon House Arts Center
Award Amount: $3,050
Summary: Purchase equipment needed to launch a stop-motion animation and video program for fourth and fifth grade students.  Youth will create scenes, characters, stories and storyboards and experiment with lighting techniques and camera angels to produce two-dimensional and three-dimensional media products.

Grantee: Rachel Osborne from Whit Davis Elementary
Award Amount: $1,630
Summary: All kindergarten thru fifth grade students will use ukeleles to learn how to perform on instruments alone and with others, how to read and notate music, how to improvise melodies and variations, and the importance of chords in music.

Grantee: David Osborne from J.J. Harris Elementary
Award Amount: $1,615
Summary: 174 fourth and fifth grade students will use ukuleles to learn musical skill development such as how to read and play chords, melodies, and strumming patterns.  These skills will then transfer to more advanced guitar learning. 

Grantee: Carolene Walker from Alps Road Elementary
Award Amount: $749
Summary: Kindergarten thru fifth grade students will be aided in their ability to learn two-dimensional and three-dimensional art techniques and processes by observing the techniques projected on a screen via a wireless document camera.  All students will be able to follow along with an unobstructed view as the techniques are being demonstrated by the teacher or visiting artist.

Grantee: Susie Criswell from Whit Davis Elementary
Award Amount: $265
Summary: First and second grade students will use different musical instruments and drums to learn "musical math."  Students will use music to learn math concepts such as patterns in skip counting and how to read an analog clock and grasp the measurement of time.
 

Music and Arts Programs and Experiences Grants

Grantee: Yinka Stuckey from Barrow Elementary
Award Amount: $1,710
Summary: 110 first grade students will visit the Center for Puppetry Arts and see a live performance about the rainforest.  The show will help introduce students to live performance as a type of literary and informational text.  Students will tour the Center and create their own puppets. 

Grantee: Ann Turner from Wild Intelligence
Award Amount: $1,336
Summary: Students from Whitehead Road Elementary will participate in an afterschool arts-based exploration of nature program at the Garnett Ridge Awesome Clubhouse @ La Escuelita.

Grantee: Jay Wucher in collaboration with UGA's Hugh Hodgson School of Music and Barnett Shoals, Oglethorpe Avenue, Timothy Road, and Whit Davis Elementary Schools
Award Amount: $990
Summary: Low-income fourth and fifth grade students from the four elementary schools will actively participate in the CCSD After School Band Program which is lead by Hodgson School of Music staff. 

Grantee: Lisa Crumley and Gina Jackson from the Athens YMCA
Award Amount: $730
Summary: Youth in kindergarten thru fifth grade will participate in an afterschool arts programs where they will create art using a variety of materials and mediums.  The program culminates with an end-of-year art show for families and friends.

Grantee: Jonathan Dolce and Nicole Akstein Corbi from the Athens-Clarke County Library
Award Amount: $522
Summary: Fourth and fifth grade students from Fowler Drive and J.J. Harris Elementary schools will join an afterschool shadow puppetry program.  Youth will build a permanent shadow puppet stage and create and perform a full-length culturally-relevant shadow puppet production for the community.
 

Fall 2014 Grantees

Music and Arts Non-Consumable Equipment grants

Grantee: Rachel Osborne from Whit Davis Elementary
Award Amount: $2,966
Summary: Purchase drums, bars, and recording devices for students to compose, arrange, perform, and critique their own music

Grantee: Kristen Lynch from Alps Road Elementary
Award Amount: $2,089
Summary: Purchase the Global Beat set of seven Orff instruments

Grantee: Lori Ragsdale from Chase Street Elementary
Award Amount: $1,630
Summary: Purchase 30 ukuleles with the supporting equipment and student method books

Grantee: Melanie Powers from Whitehead Elementary
Award Amount: $1,630
Summary: Purchase 30 ukuleles with the supporting equipment and student method books

Grantee: Brent Blalock from Winterville Elementary
Award Amount: $1,349
Summary: Students will use Photoshop to create digital art, increase their knowledge of multimedia design technology, and understand some of the skills needed for technology-based art careers

Grantee: Leslie Sokal-Berg from Barrow Elementary
Award Amount: $756
Summary: Purchase two drum sets that include a timbau, tubano, and djembe

Grantee: Sara Hoggatt from Timothy Road Elementary
Award Amount: $477
Summary: Purchase three multi-sized tubanos
 

Music and Arts Programs and Experiences Grants

Grantee: Claire Coenen from Experience UGA in collaboration with all CCSD Elementary Schools
Award Amount: $2,310
Summary: All 500 CCSD 3rd grade students will attend the Experience UGA live theater performance of "The Parrot" by the UGA Children's Theater Troupe

Grantee: Steven King from Whit Davis Elementary
Award Amount: $1,187
Summary: 3rd grade students will use puppet shows, videos, lifelike plant and animal molds, and wall murals to learn their nine-week Habitat of Georgia unit

Grantee: Jay Wucher in collaboration with Barnett Shoals, Oglethorpe Avenue, Timothy Road, and Whit Davis Elementary Schools
Award Amount: $990
Summary: Enable low-income 4th and 5th grade students from the participating schools to actively participate in the CCSD After School Band Program

Grantee: Cyndy Piha from Fowler Drive Elementary
Award Amount: $850
Summary: 3rd grade students will tour Lyndon House Art Center and attend small group studio production sessions where they create their own art under the guidance of local artists

Grantee: Dan Smith from Gaines Elementary
Award Amount: $700
Summary: Comic book artist will host a two-week artist-in-residence program to help 4th graders develop their language arts skills related to developing characters, plot lines, and complete narratives

Grantee: Rosemary Milsap in collaboration with Whit Davis and Gaines Elementary Schools
Award Amount: $526
Summary: Facilitating theater and improv workshops for youth in the afterschool program

Grantee: Wesley Glosson from Cleveland Road Elementary
Award Amount: $525
Summary: Use art to depict the growth and changes in a student-produced garden

Grantee: Lane Guyer from Winterville Elementary
Award Amount: $500
Summary: Use art to teach the 1st grade social studies standards connected to the role of American folktales and historical American figures

Grantee: Dawn Phillips from Winterville Elementary
Award Amount: $299
Summary: Use dance to teach 2nd grade science standards including the principles of motion and force and the life cycle of living organisms
 

Professional Development Grants

Grantee: Rachel Osborne from Whit Davis Elementary School
Award Amount: $364
Summary: Purchase annual Orff-Schulwerk music educator membership and attend the annual American Orff-Schulwerk Association National Conference

Grantee: David Osborne from Judia J. Harris Elementary School
Award Amount: $279
Summary: Attend the annual American Orff-Schulwerk Association National Conference