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01 Mar 2021

Cincinnati’s Stories

August-June

Greenacres Arts Center shares  Cincinnati’s rich and exciting history each season with a different local story. Join us for the day and walk away with pride for Cincinnati’s history, arts, and culture! This program’s content changes in fall, winter, and spring, so you can visit one, two, or three times.

  • Fall: The history of The Camargo Hunt and Julius Fleischmann Jr., who built and lived in what is now Greenacres Arts Center. 
  • Winter: Rookwood Pottery and Greenacres Arts Center’s connection to it.
  • Spring: Louis and Louise Dieterle Nippert, who founded Greenacres and left positive impacts all over the Queen City.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • DN.4.3PE Demonstrate leadership when working alone, with partners, and in small groups to improvise and solve movement problems.
  • MUS.4.4PE Play a variety of classroom instruments, alone and with others while demonstrating various proper techniques (Fall).
  • MUS.4.7RE Explore music created by Ohio artists and determine how their works were influenced by their Ohio roots (Spring).
  • VA.4.1CO Explore artists and works of art that impact the history and culture of Ohio.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • SS.4.8 Many technological innovations that originated in Ohio benefited the United States.
  • SS.4.10 The economic development of the United States continues to influence and be influenced by agriculture, industry and natural resources in Ohio (Winter, Spring).

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.C2.1.b Identify reasons for making positive contributions to the school and community.

Vocabulary:

history, context, impact, environment, community, values

01 Mar 2021

From Story to Stage

August-June

Storytelling is best known from the pages of a book. Visit the Arts Center to become a part of the transformation from words on a page into acting on the stage. Full of characters and creativity, test your imagination with performance, and bring new life to telling a story.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • TH.2.1PE Create movements and voices of characters to communicate feelings and ideas in dramatic or theatrical contexts (e.g., skits, puppetry, pantomime, improvisation and storytelling).
  • TH.2.2PE Explore and demonstrate various design components of a scene (e.g., draw a picture from the stories, create live sound effects and identify clothing items appropriate to the character).

Ohio English Language Arts Standards:

  • ELA.RL.2.5 Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.E4. 1.a Recognize that new opportunities may have positive outcomes
  • SEL.E4. 2.a Identify physical and emotional responses to unfamiliar situations

Vocabulary:

character, setting, conflict, script, blocking, backdrop, stage presence

01 Mar 2021

Arts in the Natural World Series: Exploring Natural Materials

August-Oct; March 15th-June

Nature provides endless inspiration for expression. Be prepared to get your hands dirty as we experiment with natural materials and our creativity! Programs in the Arts in the Natural World Series seek to demonstrate intersections between the arts and the world around us. This program only operates in warmer months (August-October 31; March 15-June).

Fine Arts Standards:

  • VA.2.2CR Combine materials to explore personal artistic ideas.
  • DN.2.3PE Collaborate with peers to create movement studies and informal dances.
  • TH.2.2PE Explore and demonstrate various design components of a scene (create live sound effects and identify clothing items appropriate to the character).

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • SS.2.8 Cultures develop in unique ways, in part through the influence of the physical environment.

Science Standards:

  • Sci.2.LS.1 Living things cause changes on Earth.
  • NGSS: 2-PS1-1 Matter and Its Interactions: Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.A4. 2.a Demonstrate confidence in the ability to complete simple tasks and challenges independently, while expressing positive attitudes towards self.

Vocabulary:

nature, resources, imagination, inspiration

01 Mar 2021

Collaborative Storytelling

August-June

We work together in many ways every day. Join us at the Arts Center to work as a group of artists to tell stories through team building and the visual and performing arts.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • VA.1.2PE Engage with materials and tools to develop artmaking skills.
  • MUS.1.1CO Explore how music communicates feelings, moods, images, and meaning.
  • DN.1.2CR Explore structured improvisations and movement phrases within a central theme.

English Language Arts Standards:

  • ELA.RL.1.7 Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
  • ELA.SL.1.1 Participate in collaborative conversations about grade 1 topics and texts with diverse partners in small and larger groups.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.E1. 2.a Identify strategies to solve a problem

Vocabulary:

collaboration, teamwork, character, setting

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