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For over 18 years, the staff of ICP has been working with artists to document music, dance, craft, storytelling, foodways, and a host of other traditions maintained within their ethnic and cultural communities. The result is an extensive archive of images, recordings, and in-depth cultural knowledge. Within these archives one can find recordings of Greek music, hip-hop dance, Puerto Rican pleña songs, Asian Indian classical dance and refugee women’s stories of courage and survival; one can find images of Jewish calligraphy, urban street art, Ukrainian embroidery, Bosnian breads, and Vietnamese funeral portraits. These images and recordings form the foundation for a wide range of arts education programs. ICP’s Arts Education programs fall into three categories: curricular development, training and artist residencies. Curricular Materials Drawing upon our years of fieldwork and documentation in diverse ethnic and cultural communities, we have developed cultural and artistic profiles that feature the arts, traditions, customs and beliefs practiced by members of these communities. These profiles are the framework of a variety of curricular materials which are available to educators through our website and as stand-alone publications. These materials can be used to develop an appreciation of one’s own heritage, explore diversity within a community, expand awareness of Pennsylvania ’s heritage and history, enhance an understanding of global interconnectedness, and/or facilitate a dialogue across differences to mediate racism and discrimination. All curricular materials are connected to Pennsylvania ’s Education Standards. Folk Artists; New Roots (link on left): Targeted to middle school children, these media-rich, educational web pages provide engaging activities that increase access to newcomer communities through a discovery of their artistic traditions and practices. Our Voices: Refugee and Immigrant Women Tell Their Stories . This study guide, presented in two parts (one for teachers and one for students) draws on oral history interviews to explore the experience of coming to America as a refugee or an immigrant. What’s Your Name ?: A collection of 15 lesson plans with over 60 activities utilizing music from a compilation recording of the same name featuring 22 examples of music and songs from Pennsylvania’s diverse neighborhoods. Training For artists : AIDE (Artists in Diversity Education) -- A series of professional development workshops designed to enhance an artist’s capacity to incorporate cultural mediation with the use of their art in the classroom. Upon completion, artists become eligible for our roster of artists to conduct conflict mediation workshops and are ready to successfully apply for inclusion on PCA’s AIE roster. For teachers : Teachers can receive Act 48 credit for completing a workshop that provides lesson plans and strategies for exploring diversity through the arts; using folk, ethnic and traditional arts to augment lessons in social studies, geography, language arts, math, and science. Residencies ICP believes in the power of hands-on experiences with artists, working consistently over the course of several months and up to a full year. Our residency model uses innovative curriculum materials along with master traditional artists, to encourage student growth both in and out of the classroom. Central to our program is the role of artists and folklorists as mentors, helping the students to achieve academic success through the arts. It is designed to work with individual interests and strengths, at the same time allowing for the development of group work and community building. We believe that, like art, education is a process. The ICP residency program incorporates a layered curriculum designed to facilitate opportunities for individual students to “understand, plan, implement, and assess,” as well as achieve a greater sense of their own voice in a larger society and world.
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