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Artists in Schools & Communities

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PPS Summer B.O.O.S.T.

PCA&M is proud to partner with Pittsburgh Public Schools’ Summer B.O.O.S.T. Program to offer multi-disciplinary arts programming to PPS students enrolled in this no-cost, summer learning program held at three regional locations around the city. The B.O.O.S.T. acronym stands for:
Building Positive Relationships
Opportunities for Exploration
On Track for Your Future
Supporting Academic Success
Thriving in a Fun Environment
B.O.O.S.T. replaced the previous PPS summer program, Summer Dreamers Academy, with which PCA&M had partnered since its inception in 2010. B.O.O.S.T. runs June – July for students who have completed kindergarten through 7th grade.
Meet some of our amazing Teaching Artists who facilitated PPS summer programming through the years and read about what students were immersed in each week in some of their Weekly Newsletters. (We love seeing the proud, smiling faces of students, and so do the parents/caregivers of the students when we internally distribute the weekly newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of these students and their families, it is PCA&M policy to obscure the faces of students unless we have a photo media release form signed by a parent/caregiver!)

B.O.O.S.T. Highlights

Interdisciplinary Teaching Artists Joanna Abel and Claire Sabatine explore visual arts, dance/movement, and theater through their engaging camps Alphabet Animal Safari and Ready, Set, Create. Participating Alphabet Animal Safari students are inspired by children’s literature and explore literacy and language with a wide range of artistic media including colored pencils, paint sticks, and collage materials. Students in Ready, Set, Create use literature, theater games, and improvisation to delve into social-emotional learning, mindfulness, and creativity.

Summer Dreamers Academy Highlights

Interdisciplinary Teaching Artists Lindsay Woge, Courtney Robson, and Joanna Abel took kindergarten students on an artistic adventure during summer 2019’s Imagination Exploration camps at Camp Arlington and Camp Obama. Each artist infused their campers’ afternoons with an array of creative art endeavors including drawing, painting, collaging, dancing, moving, writing, and journaling.

Teaching Artist Claire Sabatine of Jumping Jack Theater engaged kindergarten students in creative play, drawing, painting, collaging, dancing and movement, and puppet making centered around exploring animals and nature in Creature Camp at Camp Arlington.

Teaching Artist Laura Jean McLaughlin shared the magic of ceramics with second graders in Clay & Mosaic Extravaganza at Camp Obama. Campers created and composed journals, learning daily about a famous artist, and created clay sculptures and rattles, and collaborated to create a camp mosaic to be installed at the school site. What a summer!

Click here to see an interactive presentation from Imagination Exploration at Camp Faison from Summer 2014 and Teaching Artist Lindsay Woge.

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