Snow City Arts programs move online in April, 2020. Access your favorite teaching artist’s workshop, find instructional art making videos for all ages, and enjoy being creative and learning!
Facilitated by multidisciplinary Teaching Artists, the Snow City Arts Virtual Learning platform includes instructional videos intended to enhance each learner’s art-making abilities in creative writing, dance, media arts, music, poetry, and visual arts.
Each workshop is comprised of a video and accompanied by an instruction guide that outlines learning objectives, Illinois State Common Core and Arts Learning standards, as well as reference materials that center ALAANA artists, media, art histories, and geographies. Aligned with SCA best practices, each instruction guide includes several tools and techniques that educators, parents or caregivers may apply to provide differentiated instruction for learners with diverse cognitive and physical abilities. By integrating adaptive models, SCA’s virtual curriculum is inclusive for learners with sensory sensitivities, sensory impairments (vision, hearing, verbal communication), limited mobility, and behavioral and psychological barriers. SCA Virtual Learning videos will include closed-captioning in English, and we are working to generate Spanish translations of both closed-captioning and instructional guides in April as well.
SCA’s online curriculum is well suited for young learners, K-12 students, young adults and the young at heart. Refer to these shapes when determining a workshop’s level of learning.
In normal times, Snow City Arts Teaching Artists meet with participants in person in the privacy of a hospital room or other private space. These are not normal times, and with the stay-at-home orders and social distancing firmly in place to stem the tide of COVID-19, Snow City Arts, like the rest of the world, is using alternative methods to stay in touch with our participants. We plan to use email (Google Suite); our website; scheduling site (platform to be determined); video conference platform (Zoom); and audio-only communications via mobile phones, tablets, and laptops. Snow City Arts will communicate with parents or students 18 and older utilizing DocuSign to secure releases to which you consent related to artwork, media, and school communication. These sources have been vetted for your privacy and protection and we are aware that each have their own shortfalls. Although Snow City will do its best to ensure the privacy of these communications and interactions, as with any virtual communications, we cannot guarantee with certainty that such communications will be completely private and that inadvertent, unplanned disclosures will not occur. In the event that Snow City Arts becomes aware of a breach, Snow City Arts will reach the student/family, a referring teacher if applicable, and the affiliated hospital. By allowing your child to participate, or consenting as a participant 18 or older, in Snow City Arts’ programs and engage with this technology, you acknowledge, accept and assume this risk and do not hold Snow City Arts liable for any unintended disclosures due to the use of above.
Email: veronica@snowcityarts.org
2020/04/29 - 2020/06/30
Online/Virtual Space