Residencies & Creative Workshops — Opening Doors to Creativity
Children from a CSA Art Workshop show their excitement
Bringing Reading Alive! Through Art and Storytelling Although the program can benefit any audience, for the best results scholastically, this residency is slated for 4th - 6th grade students and/or the teachers who teach them. An experience where participants discover that everyone is creative and has special talents and unique heritage, this workshop is based on the right and left brain concept--right being the feeling side, speaking with pictures; and left being the structural side, speaking with words. A balance between the two sides creates harmony, and participation encourages increased self-confidence, which in turn affects increased scholastical performance. To save setup time, each class is held in centralized area such as a media center where students can be brought.
A. Residency “Word Pictures & Picture Words” -- Bringing Reading Alive! Through Art and Storytelling The daily workshops outlined below scheduled into: 4-Day Residency: 3 classes per day—Plus Performance on 5th day Daily workshops are 45 - 60 Minutes each • 30 students each class Total workshop & performance fees for 5-days $2000 plus travel & per diem Art supplies furnished by school Fees can be negotiated B. Workshops Day 1. Opening Doors to Creativity--Point of view, participation Day 2. Storytelling based on Heritage--Hands on Creative Writing Day 3. Left Brain/Right Brain & Achieving Balance--Demonstration Day 4. Spontaneous Visual Artwork-–Hands on Artwork Day 5. Celebration Presentation by the Ammons Sisters to school body in auditorium
These daily workshops can be performed independently at less cost
(1) Preferable: The beginning exercises in the workbook, "Catch the Spirit of Creativity," by Amy Ammons Garza and Doreyl Ammons Cain, are offered to be used in conjunction with all the creativity exercises throughout the residency. The workbook purchased in quantity from the workshop leaders is priced at $2 per book.
Also used in workshop is the storytelling book “Matchbox Mountain.” Purchase price $7.
(Note: a suggestion--the parents or the Parents/Teachers Association could purchase these books for the children/or the cost could be shared. The workbook is designed to last a lifetime.)
quantity from the workshop leaders is priced at $2 per book. 
