Arts and Experiences
Dance Theatre of Harlem
Teaches students about Black History, the Diaspora, social awareness, global history, and movement. “Through performances, community engagement and arts education, the Company carries forward Dance Theatre of Harlem’s message of empowerment through the arts for all."
Barn Arts New Inca Sun
New Inca Son is a band with a mission: to preserve its indigenous heritage and to instill, particularly in children and young people, an understanding and appreciation of this special culture from Peru and Bolivia. New Inca Son performs and educates, offering hands-on workshops, interactive concerts, and residencies for students in schools, colleges, libraries, and performing arts centers nationwide.
Hall Art Foundation
Andy Warhol "small is beautiful" exhibit,
May 2023-February 2024
Reading Elementary School is fortunate to have access to a world-class contemporary art collection, the Hall Art Foundation, on an adjacent property. Teachers and students are able to walk next door, crossing a bridge over the North Branch of the Black River, to view rotating exhibitions of drawings, paintings, prints, multi-media pieces, film and video installations with a knowledgable docent. An outdoor sculpture park and hiking trails provide opportunities to picnic, explore, create art "en plein air" or simply sit and take in the scenery.
Sculpturefest
In October, we visited Sculpturefest, an outdoor sculpture park on the property of Charlet and Peter Davenport in West Woodstock, VT. The changing installations feature a wide selection of small and large scale works by numerous regional artists. Visual Arts teacher, Lisa Kaija, prepared a scavenger hunt to encourage RES students to observe carefully as they explored.
Saint-Gaudens and Sean Hunter Williams
Students visited the park to explore the exhibits and to create art with Sean Hunter Williams.
Musicians Morgan Toney and Keith Mullins visit!
On Tuesday, May 9, 2023 Morgan Toney and Keith Mullins visited RES to share their fusion of music. Click here to see a snippet of their performance at RES.