MULTI-ARTS PROGRAM
May 2002
Participating Sties: YO Mercer, Fairview, and Back on Track
Workshop Venue: YO Mercer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Sometimes students can best excel when challenged to handle more than they think they can. With this Multi Arts Program and its variety of disciplines (ranging from the performance activities of Drama and Hip Hop to the hands-on areas of Visual Art and Journalism), the students experienced a wide choice of interests, discovering connections between subjects that they might not have recognized before. Three teaching artists working together ran this simultaneous arts center, allowing students to be guided by their interests, contribute their strengths, and stretch themselves beyond their own expectations. Having the major arts disciplines in one room inspired students to see
connections between different mediums of creation.

  

 

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Siri Kroesen(Visual Arts)

Siri has a BFA from the Cocoran School of Arts in Wahsington DC and an MFA in painting from Portland State University. Siri loves the art classroom and has many years of teaching experience.

Anthony Manuel(Hip Hop Dance)

Anthony has traveled to various parts of the world studying and gaining a sense of the sociological effects of dance in communities. He founded the Fusion Dance Company in 1996, whose mission is to combine cultural and traditional dance forms all over the world to further promote dance as a Universal Language.

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"An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of the arts lies in the recognition that art is power, an instrument of communion between the self and all that is important, all that is sacred."-- Peter London

Meg Lippert(Arts Journalism)

Meg is a published writer and teaches writing at the University of Washington Extension Program. She has taught at schools and colleges in New York and Seattle. In addition to her work as a writer and teacher, Meg is a professional storyteller, performing in schools, libraries, and festivals throughout the country and abroad.