ENTA’s Busy Winter 2019

We’re happy to be on Spring Break — it’s been a BUSY time!

It’s been a busy and wonderful start to 2019 for ENTA at the Rhinebeck and Red Hook Schools. Many thanks to ENTA artists Martha Tobias (dance/movement & visual art), Mimi Graminski (visual art), Emily Houpt (theatre), Sarah Bissonnette-Adler (theatre & visual art), and Pat Sexton (theatre). And, our special guest artists James Ransome (illustrator/author) and Lesa Cline Ransome (author).

Here’s what we’ve been up to — lots of STEAM programs (with the help of the Rhinebeck Science Foundation), as you will see:

Embody Art: Anatomy & Figure Drawing at Red Hook High School (February). This program brought live models into the art rooms for students to sketch. Students also worked with a dancer to explore their own body movements and understand their skeletal and muscular systems and how movement creates exciting shapes to draw. Models Eliot O’Clair and Grayson Silver brought so much fun to this program.

Embody Art: Anatomy & Skeleton Sculpture at Bulkeley Middle School (April) gave 7th grade science students a variety of recycled materials to make life-size skeletons. Students handled, labeled and connected every major bone in the body to create their skeleton sculptures. Funded by the Rhinebeck Science Foundation.

Embody Art: Anatomy & Muscle Sculpture at Rhinebeck High School (January) allowed students in HS Anatomy classes to explore muscle groups by creating small sculptures of the muscular system. Students handled, labeled and connected (origin point & insertion point) of all the major muscle groups. Such wonderful bodies created. Again, thank you to the Rhinebeck Science Foundation for funding for this program!

Books on the Boards (March) — bringing stories to life with Mill Road School 1st & Pre-1st students in active theatre performances for an invited .

And — we kicked off A Book’s Journey in early April at Chancellor Livingston School’s 4th grade. Our 14th year with this program at CLS. This wonderful 2-month long program takes students through the entire arc of writing & illustrating their own original books, with visits from authors, illustrators and designers. Includes hands-on book design and a visit to Oblong Books & Music in Rhinebeck to learn about marketing books. Students have created some wonderful works over these past 14 years.

After the break, we will finish the school year with our Geometry & Landscape Drawing with Mill Road School’s 3rd grade, more Embody Art programs at Red Hook High School, and — again, thanks to the Rhinebeck Science Foundation — we’re bring a new program to Chancellor Livingston School’s Kindergarten about Animals & their Habitats.

Happy to be so busy …. what can we bring to YOUR school?