InsideOut

Trash Mash-Up is a community art project. Using disposable materials, collected before they enter the waste stream, participants construct “Maskostumes” which are original pageant masks and costumes inspired by traditions from around the world. This project reduces waste and inspires people to see each other and our environment in a new way.

A professionally performing ensemble, the Cypress String Quartet spends about half its resources reaching out to students and community members through various programs. The Cypress Quartet's student work ranges from providing "non-music" and "music" students access to creativity and chamber music as well as training in chamber music. The Cypress is building chamber music audiences in younger generations--for both classic and contemporary music. Whatever level at which students see and hear the Cypress Quartet, they are sure to find their concerts and presentations fascinating and fun.

Classroom visits, field trips, outreach events and professional development led by book artist/instructors introduce bookmaking as a way of fostering literacy and nurturing artistc expression, while creatively incorporating topics across curriculm. Sample projects, always tailored to grade level and specific classroom themes, are online at the SFCB Youth Programs web page, www.sfcb.org/php/yp.php and on the Teacher Features blog, www.sfcb.org/teacher-features. 

RayKo’s expertise is in all things photography.  We offer affordable photo-based workshops and facility rentals for school groups, after school programs, community groups, non-profits and arts institutions. RayKo is a comprehensive rental photographic facility with black and white and color darkrooms, digital labs, studio, a gallery space and an photographic education center. We can help teachers and administrators utilize photography as a tool for teaching.  In studying photography, students can expand their visual vocabulary, learn about narrative, art history, critique, chemistry and even mathematics!

Folk Art International has an extensive resource loan program that is available to teachers and adults who work with youth in community settings.  Arts based and integrated curricula are available in the visual arts, social studies, English, literature, writing, and science.  The resource binders include background information, teaching suggestions, and student activities, and are targeted to grades K-8.

Concerts for Kids is the Symphony's oldest education program, providing the sonic and visual experience of a live orchestra to schoolchildren. In advance of the concert, study guides and CDs are provided.  Music for Families is a weekend matinee series that provides children and parents with the opportunity to share in an educational and entertaining series that provides children and parents with the opportunity to share in an educational and entertaining series of stimulating, participatory music encounters.  Pre-concert materials are mailed to promote music engagement at home.

San Francisco Symphony's "Learning Website" is an online interactive educational resource serving children and their families through interactivity, animation, and tools for the creative exploration of music making.  The site is located at www.sfkids.com

Arts integration workshops for teachers, artists and youth. Focus on theater and performance.

Off-site workshops and on-site tours treat you to an inside look at ancient and contemporary indigenous life around the world.  Slide shows, authentic artifacts, and art activities foster cultural awareness and bring history, math, science, and social studies alive. 

Produced by KQED Public Television, Spark is a weekly television program about artists in Northern California. Spark's Education Platform, "SparkEd," provides resources for K-12 Educators including DVDs and curriculum guides for teachers based on short documentaries about local artists.

Leap's mission is to stimulate imagination and creativity in Bay Area children by bringing visual and performing artists and architects into the classroom for extended residencies.  Leap artists and architects team with teachers to design participatory projects that augment and amplify the school's curriculum.  Our purpose is to interweave all aspects of learning with the creative process.