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STARS Residencies

2022-23 School Year : $1,428,100

Residency

School City/Town Grant
“e” Inc. Boston $6,100

Kids Green Their School: to teach 8-lessons on Habitats across the World, covering seven distinct types of world biomes and a local schoolyard.

John D. Philbrick Elementary School, Boston

Abner Gibbs Elementary School Westfield $5,350

Makerspace Build-Along: Artful Mechanisms: for grades 2-3 to work with teaching artist Jay Mankita to build ‘artful mechanisms’ – mechanical linkage and automata toys made from ordinary objects.

Academy Hill School Springfield $3,550

Shakespeare in the Classroom: to bring middle school scholars from grades 6, 7 and 8 together to study and then perform a modified version of a play by William Shakespeare.

Actors’ Shakespeare Project Boston $6,100

Shakespeare Symposium!: to invite BDEA students into a theatre ensemble to rehearse/perform a devised piece, centering their creative voices in response to a Shakespeare text.

Boston Day and Evening Academy, Boston

Actors’ Shakespeare Project Boston $6,100

The Language of Theater: for a school residency with Actors Shakespeare Project artists to activate text through theater techniques for Brighton’s ESL students, facilitating language development.

Brighton High School, Boston

Al-Hamra Academy Shrewsbury $6,100

“Building Cozy Communities” Puppet Residency: for students, grades K- 3, to design, build, and learn how to perform puppet characters that are inspired by “Cozy Community” content.

Alfred Zanetti Montessori Magnet School Springfield $6,100

Sonido Musica: to provide ensemble music instruction for three classes of elementary school students to develop musical skills and support social-emotional, academic and creative growth.

Amanda Garcia Dracut $5,200

Beverly High School mural: to bring grade 11 and 12 art students of Beverly High School together to create a mural with artist Amanda Garcia to celebrate identity.

Beverly High School, Beverly

Amherst Regional High School Amherst $6,100

Conjunto de Bomba: the Generational Transfer of the Afro-Puerto Rican Drumming and Dancing: to partner with Brendalíz Cepeda to support the “passing of the torch” to the next generation of the Afro-Puerto Rican drum and dance ensemble at ARHS.

Amy Kotel Northampton $5,950

The “What Matters” Performance Project: to bring together students ages 11-13 to create performance art using dance, theater, puppetry, video work, poetry, and set design and create performance pieces based on issues that matter to the students.

Northampton Public Schools, Northampton

Amy Xotyeni Lawrence $5,350

The Evolution of African Dance: Connections in Music and Dance: for a professional dancer and educator from Cape Town, South Africa to lead African Dance, music, and history with 72 students, grades 5-8, at Arlington Elementary School.

Arlington Middle School, Lawrence

Andrew Prazar Topsfield $2,500

4th Grade Open Space Project: to teach 4th grade students about local ecology and the importance of community open spaces through visits to town-owned land in Groveland with Andrew Prazar.

Dr. Elmer S. Bagnall Elementary School, Groveland

Andrew Prazar Topsfield $4,450

Healthy Ecosystems, Healthy Communities: to integrate three grade levels in a study of ecosystem health on land adjacent to the school, led by Andrew Prazar of North Shore Nature Programs.

Dr. John C. Page School, West Newbury

Anna Hendricks Gill $3,400

Dance to the Music: to provide kindergarten students dance programming which connects music, dance, culture and their own embodied and aesthetic experiences.

Fisher Hill Elementary School, Orange

Anna Hendricks Gill $3,100

Dancing Together: to provide first grade students dance programming which will build and strengthen the relationships between students, teachers and entire 1st grade community.

Hillcrest Elementary School, Montague

Anna R. Sobel Shutesbury $2,650

Puppetry and Folktales: for puppeteer Anna Sobel to work with third grade students to enhance their studies of the ocean by developing their own puppet show based on a Native American myth related to the ocean.

Sunderland Elementary School, Sunderland

Anna R. Sobel Shutesbury $3,850

Puppetry and Folktales: for an arts integration puppetry program for 2nd grade students at Deerfield and Conway Elementary schools to explore a South African folktale, adapt it into a puppet show, develop improvisation skills as they invent their own lines based on the original story, build their own puppets, and learn manipulation techniques to bring the story to life.

Deerfield Elementary School, Deerfield

Anthony Burrell Boston $6,100

Breaking Barriers: Using Dance as a Super Power: for students to have an opportunity to use Dance as a healing modality, by connecting the young scholars to music, social dance, and storytelling.

Match Charter Public School, Boston

Art Resource Collaborative for Kids Boston $5,650

ARCK Creators Program: to support the academic and social-emotional needs of K-5 students by implementing multi-disciplinary arts-integrated projects.

William Blackstone Elementary School, Boston

Art Resource Collaborative for Kids Boston $5,650

ARCK Creators Program: to support the academic and social-emotional needs of K-5 students by implementing multi-disciplinary arts-integrated projects.

Mario Umana K-8 School, Boston

Arthur D. Healey School Somerville $5,950

“Imagination Station” Expanded Puppet Residency: to use puppetry, music, and art to deepen kindergarten students’ understanding and application of the social emotional skills needed to recognize and celebrate diversity.

Augustine C. Whelan Elementary School Revere $6,100

Change is Simple at A.C. Whelan: to provide student’s with hands-on programs centered on STEM and sustainability, teaching student’s their connections to the environment while boosting learning outcomes in core learning subjects.

Barnstable Community Innovation School Barnstable $3,850

Stories from Our Neighborhood: for storyteller, critically acclaimed children’s author and educator to work with students and teachers in Grades 1-3 by using the book, “Stories from the Neighborhood” as a model to teach the importance of their stories and how to tell them.

Bates Elementary School Salem $4,300

Change is Simple at Bates Elementary: to provide student’s with hands-on programs centered on STEM and sustainability, teaching student’s their connections to the environment while boosting learning outcomes in core learning subjects.

Beachmont Veterans Memorial School Revere $3,850

Change is Simple at Beachmont Veterans: to provide student’s with hands-on programs centered on STEM and sustainability, teaching student’s their connections to the environment while boosting learning outcomes in core learning subjects.

Beatrice H. Wood Elementary School Plainville $6,100

A Look Inside the Human Body: to bring real scientists to the Wood School to work with the sixth grade classes in exploring six different systems of the human body and how they work together.

Bellingham Public Schools Bellingham $2,800

Jazz Improvisation for All: for an artist residency and workshops with Lisa Linde, focusing on jazz improvisation and culminating in a jazz concert with our jazz ensembles which would be open to the public.

Bellingham High School, Bellingham

Bentley Academy Innovation School Salem $6,100

Our Minds, Our Hearts, Our stories — Nuestras mentes, nuestros corazones, nuestras historias: to bring two grades of Bentley Academy Innovation School together to participate in a process of creative discovery, culminating in the development of a mural that honors the school’s diverse individual and collective identities.

Berkshire Arts and Technology Charter Public School Adams $6,100

Anything Goes: for teaching artist Malia’kekia Nicolini to work with 40 high school students on the choreography for the musical “Anything Goes.”

Berkshire Museum Pittsfield $6,100

MoMU Program: to bring the museum experience directly to Berkshire schools, sparking opportunities to examine, experiment, and explore through object-based learning.

Craneville Elementary School, Dalton

Berkshire Museum Pittsfield $6,100

MoMU Program: to bring the museum experience directly to Berkshire schools, sparking opportunities to examine, experiment, and explore through object-based learning.

Robert T. Capeless Elementary School, Pittsfield

Berkshires’ Academy for Advanced Musical Studies North Adams $3,250

Clarksburg Elementary Students Learn from BAAMS: to bring instrumental music education, improvisation and music composition to students grades 4-8 ending with a culminating musical event.

Clarksburg Elementary School, Clarksburg

Berkshires’ Academy for Advanced Musical Studies North Adams $2,500

Abbott Memorial Elementary Music Students work with BAAMS’ Faculty: to bring instrumental music education, improvisation and music composition to students grades 4-8 with Berkshires Academy for Advanced Music Studies, culminating in a musical event with students from several schools to collaborate and perform original music.

Gabriel Abbott Memorial School, Florida

Berkshires’ Academy for Advanced Musical Studies North Adams $5,650

Greylock Elementary Music Students Learn from BAAMS: to bring instrumental music education, improvisation and music composition to students grades 4-6 at Greylock Elementary for four after school masterclasses at Berkshires Academy for Advanced Music Studies, with the fourth being a culminating musical event.

Greylock Elementary School, North Adams

Blues to Green Huntington $2,500

Explorations in Cuban music and history, and vocal improvisation and songwriting with Dayme Arocena: to bring Afro-Cuban musician Dayme Arocena into Holyoke High School to teach Afro-Cuban music and history and her vocal improvisation and songwriting methods.

Holyoke High School, Holyoke

Boston Arts Academy Foundation Boston $6,100

Shrek, The Musical: to bring four grades of Boston Arts Academy together to create Shrek the Musical with teaching artist Carla Martinez in order to develop a sense of how their own culture and personal experiences can be represented in the Musical Theatre genre.

Boston Arts Academy, Boston

Boston Chamber Music Society Cambridge $6,100

BCMS Teaching Artists Program at the Somerville High School: to provide weekly coaching sessions by teaching artists for the school’s string orchestra and free access for students and their families to attend BCMS concerts.

Somerville High School, Somerville

Boston Collegiate Charter School Boston $6,100

Hurricane Step Team: to bring students grades 7-12 together to build community while also teaching them teamwork, exposing them to creative expression, and teaching them about the origin of Step and the rich African American history associated with it.

Boston Community Leadership Academy Boston $6,100

Social Justice Posters: for 12th graders of Boston Community Leadership Academy to create a series of research-based social justice posters to bring awareness to issues impacting our local, national and global communities.

Boston Latin School Boston $6,100

Jazz- African American Music and its Cultural Impact !!: to provide direct instruction on jazz performance to instrumental students for the the 420 seventh grade students and learn about Bijon’s personal experiences as a Black musician.

Break a Leg Theater Works Marshfield $6,100

All-School Theater Program: for grades 6-12 to collaborate in producing two full-stage theatrical productions and a drama club performance-based fundraising event support learning objectives in the various aspects of theatrical production, including set design, costuming, sound, and lighting.

Woodward School, Quincy

Brooke High School Boston $4,000

Message Academy: to empower 9th-11th grade students at Brooke High School (BHS) with media art / media literacy skills through a series of workshops and creative projects.

Brookfield Elementary School Brockton $6,100

ImagineARTS Arts-Integrated Literacy Residency Program: to improve kindergarten level teaching and learning in literacy through music and related arts at Brookfield Elementary School.

Cantata Singers Boston $6,100

Classroom Cantatas: for professional music teaching artists to work with small groups of students to facilitate composition of a unique text and melody and empower students to envision themselves as creators.

Ellis Mendell Elementary School, Boston

Capuano Early Childhood Center Somerville $5,950

“Imagination Station creates Cozy Community” Puppet Residency: to use puppetry, music, and art to deepen kindergarten students’ understanding and application of the social emotional skills needed to recognize and celebrate diversity.

Carlisle Public Schools Carlisle $6,100

Middle School Small Ensemble Workshop/Performance: to create a performance opportunity for 5th-8th grade students of the Carlisle Public Schools to work together on small ensemble music and share it with an audience.

Carlton Innovation School Salem $2,950

Change is Simple at Carlton School: to provide student’s with hands-on programs centered on STEM and sustainability, teaching student’s their connections to the environment while boosting learning outcomes in core learning subjects.

Central Square Theater Cambridge $6,100

Page to Stage: the Justice Playwriting Project: for Central Square Theater to guide Boston International Newcomers Academy’s 11th graders to write and perform short plays dealing with ethical issues.

Boston International High School, Boston

Clifford H. Marshall Elementary School Quincy $3,850

Move with Missy – Hip Hop Dance: for 54 students from grades 2 & 3 at Clifford Elementary who will explore Hip Hop dance to develop valuable social emotional skills and creative expression.

Colegrove Park Elementary North Adams $4,150

World music, drum, dance and song cultural exploration: to bring two classes of 26 fourth grade students to learn traditional West African & Caribbean drum, song and dance with Aimee Gelinas of Tamarack Hollow & Dancer Kim Waterman.

Collaborative for Educational Services Northampton $6,100

Chaos Theory: for students to develop and share real-life empowering stories that will be interwoven with original music and choreography, ending in a final showcase.

Collins Middle School Salem $4,750

Change is Simple at Collins Middle School: to provide students with hands-on programs centered on STEM and sustainability, teaching students their connections to the environment while boosting learning outcomes in core learning subjects.

Colrain Central School Colrain $2,500

Olde Coleraine: The Colrain Inn: for our 3rd graders to create a play with music with Piti Theatre’s Jonathan Mirin about our local history – specifically focusing on the Colrain Inn, a town landmark, during the 1800’s and underrepresented stories of people connected to the Inn.

Community Music Center of Boston Boston $6,100

Violin class at Russell Elementary: for a violin class for the Russell’s 4th/5th graders with a culminating event at Multicultural night and graduation.

William E. Russell Elementary School, Boston

Community Music School of Springfield Springfield $6,100

Sonido Musica: to provide ensemble music instruction for 1 class of 6th-8th graders to develop musical skills and support social-emotional, academic and creative growth.

Baystate Academy Charter Public School, Springfield

Community Music School of Springfield Springfield $6,100

Adaptive Music Program (AMP): to provide adaptive music instruction for 6 integrated (Special Education and General Education) classrooms of students to create a foundational knowledge of music for Special Ed students, supporting social-emotional, academic, and artistic development.

Margaret C. Ells Elementary School, Springfield

Community Music School of Springfield Springfield $6,100

Adaptive Music Program (AMP): to provide adaptive music instruction for 2 LINKS (autism support) classrooms of students grade 2-5 to create a foundational knowledge of music for students, supporting social-emotional, academic, and artistic development.

Arthur T. Talmadge Elementary School, Springfield

Community Music School of Springfield Springfield $6,100

Adaptive Music Program (AMP): to provide adaptive music instruction for 2 LINKS (autism support) classrooms of students grade K-5 to create a foundational knowledge of music for students, supporting social-emotional, academic, and artistic development.

Elias Brookings School, Springfield

Community Music School of Springfield Springfield $6,100

Adaptive Music Program (AMP): to provide adaptive music instruction for 2 LINKS (autism support) classrooms of students grade K-5 to create a foundational knowledge of music for students, supporting social-emotional, academic, and artistic development.

Hiram L. Dorman School, Springfield

Community Music School of Springfield Springfield $6,100

Sonido Musica: to provide ensemble music instruction for 3 classes of 6th-8th graders to develop musical skills and support social-emotional, academic and creative growth.

M. Marcus Kiley Middle School, Springfield

Community Music School of Springfield Springfield $6,100

Sonido Musica: to provide ensemble music instruction for 1 class of 3rd graders and 1 class of 4th graders to develop musical skills and support social-emotional, academic and creative growth.

Mary M. Lynch School, Springfield

Company One Boston $2,500

HYPE MAN Digital Learning Experience: to use theater to engage 11th and 12th graders in conversations about racism, oppression, injustice, and the responsibility to speak up and act.

Jeremiah E. Burke High School, Boston

Company One Boston $2,500

HYPE MAN Digital Learning Experience: to use theater to engage 6th and 7th graders in conversations about racism, oppression, injustice, and the responsibility to speak up and act.

Josiah Quincy Upper School, Boston

Concord Public Schools Concord $6,100

A Poet’s Retreat: for a residency that focuses on Willard 4th graders & echoes the ancient Chinese concept ‘the poet’s retreat’ & explores poetry, place, & selfhood.

Willard Elementary School, Concord

Consentino School Haverhill $6,100

Stories from around the table: for the design and painting of a mural on the theme of stories from many cultures, that will be permanently displayed on the exterior of the Consentino School.

Conservatory Lab Charter School Boston $6,100

Cobra for Kids: to celebrate the game piece Cobra, created by composer John Zorn with students using the composition as a model to develop free improvisation skills; creating “pieces” of the game to be led by a student conductor using non-traditional signals and materials; and developing their own text/musical ideas/directions to get from start to finish.

Country School Weston $4,450

Percussion Around the World: for all second grade students to work with cultural partner, Dan Foote, to learn about percussion instruments around the world, including how geography plays a role in music making on the continents of Antarctica, Australia, and Africa.

Crocker Farm Elementary School Amherst $5,500

Learning from Nature’s Local Systems and Cycles: for kindergarten, 3rd, and 6th graders to practice scientific methods of observation and exploration and develop problem-solving skills through outdoor, nature-based learning opportunities in science and engineering specific to the floral, fauna, and geology of our local environment, and to share these models of understanding with their communities.

Cynthia Fisher Charlemont $6,100

Academy at Charlemont Mosaic Mural: for a school residency with students in grades 6 – 12 to work collaboratively to design and create a mosaic mural that reflects the school’s philosophy, “Find your voice, Speak your Mind”.

The Academy at Charlemont, Charlemont

David A. Ellis Elementary School Boston $6,100

Hip Hop Dance and Racial Equity: to bring hip hop dance & racial equity learning to 99 students, grades K, 1, 4 and 5 at Ellis Elementary who otherwise lack access to those topics in school.

David Hiller Natick $3,850

Hands-on Science Explorations: to give students and teachers from the 3rd grade the tools to explore a variety of scientific topics and see that science connects with their lives in a variety of ways.

Harold Johnson Elementary School, Natick

David Lane North Adams $6,100

Mask and Puppet Workshops: to bring David Lane of New England Puppet Arts into the grade K-8 classrooms at Pine Cobble School to make masks and puppets, some to be featured in the school’s spring production of “Into the Woods.”

Pine Cobble School, Inc., Williamstown

Diane Edgecomb Boston $3,100

Finding Your Voice – Telling a Story: to bring ESL Kindergarten students at Washington Elementary School in Lynn an immersion in Storytelling strengthening their expressive abilities in English.

Washington Elementary School, Lynn

Dr. Robert G. O’Donnell Middle School Stoughton $6,100

Dissections for 6th Graders: This school residency brings hands-on dissections to students at the middle school to learn about animal anatomy.

Dr. W. Arnone Community School Brockton $6,100

ImagineARTS Arts-Integrated Literacy Residency Program: to improve kindergarten level teaching and learning in literacy through music and related arts.

Drury High School North Adams $2,950

World Music Drum and Song Cultural Exploration with Tamarack Hollow: for a residency in drumming that brings together students in grades 9-12 identified as special needs and at-risk to learn music, collaborate with each other and recognize their own potential and strengths.

East Boston Early Childhood Center Boston $5,650

Art at Play with Eric Bornstein: for 155 students from grades K & 1 of East Boston EEC to explore visual arts through multidisciplinary activities, SEL skills and Cultural awareness.

Educational Options for Success at Taconic High School Pittsfield $4,450

Growing Carbon: for 16 students in specialty high-needs science classes to gain hands-on experience with field science techniques and explore the relationship between biodiversity and resiliency in the face of global climate change.

Edward P. Boland Elementary School Springfield $6,100

Sonido Musica: to provide ensemble music instruction for 2 classes, 4th grade and 5th grade, to develop musical skills and support social-emotional, academic and creative growth.

Ellison-Parks Early Education School Boston $5,650

Open Door Arts: Pride, Access, Expression and Connection through music: for a six week residency in music with Dunja Pechstein of Open Door Arts.

Everett Public Schools Everett $5,950

Willy Wonka: to bring students in Grade 5 through Grade 8 of the George Keverian School in Everett the opportunity to work with professionals in the field as they create a musical play rendition of “Willy Wonka” with musician Eric Dauenhauer and choreographer Hayley Petraitis.

George Keverian School, Everett

Excel Academy Charter School Boston $4,750

Hip Hop Street Art Culture: to engage forty students grades 5-8 in exploring Street Art Culture through logo design, creating wearable art, and socially conscious visual arts campaigns.

Express Yourself Beverly $6,100

Splash! Make Waves: for a residency for Solstice students in multidisciplinary arts with Express Yourself, culminating in a grand performance at the Wang Theatre.

Solstice Day School, Rowley

Ezra H. Baker Innovation School Dennis $3,850

Science of Massachusetts: for a school residency with 2nd grader that explores trees, how both humans and animals depend on trees, and environmental stewardship of trees with Mass Audubon educator David Shapiro.

Fenway High School Boston $6,100

Now Starring Fenway! A theater program for all!: to utilize theatre as a tool to engage students of all learning abilities at Fenway High School in developing their voices, agency, and critical consciousness to become change makers in their communities.

Fort River Elementary School Amherst $5,050

Learning Locally: Earth Systems and Cycles: for a school residency in science and engineering with the Hitchcock Center, involving local explorations and building design challenges.

Francis J. Kane Elementary School Marlborough $6,100

Amazing Animal World: to encourage 3rd grade students to explore the animal world and pays particular attention to how an animal’s unique body shape relates to what it eats, how it moves, and where it lives.

Franklin Avenue Elementary School Westfield $5,350

Makerspace Build-Along: Artful Mechanisms: for grades 2-3 to work with a teaching artist to build ‘artful mechanisms’, such as mechanical linkage and automata toys made from ordinary objects.

Friends of the Perry Boston $6,100

Music Instruction: to promote inclusive musical excellence, bolster academic learning with interdisciplinary music projects, and strengthen overall school culture through a series of in-school and community performances.

Oliver Hazard Perry Elementary School, Boston

Gardner Pilot Academy Boston $6,100

Hip Hop Dance: to support hip hop dance with Melissa Webster of Young Audiences of Massachusetts that will serve 4th graders and culminates with a showcase.

General John Nixon Elementary School Sudbury $6,100

Artist-in-Residence Mosaic Playground Improvement: for mosaic artist Joshua Winer to work with our children during the school day to think, design, and create a mosaic art installation for our playground wall.

German Gerena Community School Springfield $6,100

Sonido Musica: to provide ensemble music instruction for 1 class of 4th and 5th graders to develop musical skills and support social-emotional, academic and creative growth.

Gill Elementary School Gill $3,400

Learning is Local: Systems and Cycles in Nature: for a school residency in science and engineering, with Helen Ann Sephton, Hitchcock Center, involving local explorations and building design challenges.

Gilmore Elementary School Brockton $6,100

ImagineARTS: Arts-Integrated Literacy Residency Program: to improve kindergarten level teaching and learning in literacy through music and related arts.

Glenwood Elementary School Springfield $6,100

Adaptive Music Program (AMP): to provide adaptive music instruction for 2 LINKS (autism support) classrooms of students grade 1-5 to create a foundational knowledge of music for students, supporting social-emotional, academic, and artistic development.

Global Learning Charter Public School New Bedford $2,500

Fun Method Guitar: to bring students from grade 5-12 together to learning how to play the guitar using Felix Rentschuler’s Fun Method guitar lessons.

Hatfield Elementary School Hatfield $6,100

Makerspace Build-Along: Artful Mechanisms: for grades 4-5 to work with teaching artist Jay Mankita to build ‘artful mechanisms’ – mechanical linkage and automata toys made from ordinary objects.

Hawlemont Regional Elementary School Charlemont $6,100

The Time Capsule: to bring together grades K, 1, 3 and 5 on a performance called “The Time Capsule” created in collaboration with Piti Theatre’s Jonathan Mirin to look at stories from Massachusetts history with an emphasis on underrepresented stories.

Helen H. Hansen Elementary School Stoughton $3,250

5th Grade Chemistry Fun!: to bring real scientists into all 5th grade classrooms to lead hands-on, exciting chemistry experiments.

Heloiza Barbosa Brookline $5,050

Debate Club Audio-Documentary: to produce an audio-documentary with the students about the learning journey of the East Somerville Community School debate team.

East Somerville Community School, Somerville

Henry B. Burkland Elementary School Middleborough $6,100

Makerspace Build-Along: Artful Mechanisms: to support grades 4-5 working with teaching artist Jay Mankita to build ‘artful mechanisms’ – mechanical linkage and automata toys made from ordinary objects.

Henry L. Higginson Elementary School Boston $6,100

Kids Green their School – Astronomy: to investigate our solar system: the system’s creation, how gravity effects each planet, why each planet is unique, and why earth has life.

Henry P. Clough Elementary School Mendon $5,050

Let’s Write Trickster Tales: to help 4th graders at Clough develop literacy, narrative skills, and social-emotional awareness by writing original fiction with storyteller Motoko.

High School of Commerce Springfield $6,100

Sonido Musica: to provide ensemble music instruction for 3 classes of 9th-12th graders to develop musical skills and support social-emotional, academic and creative growth.

Highlands School Danvers $6,100

Change is Simple at Highlands Elementary: to provide student’s with hands-on programs centered on STEM and sustainability, teaching students their connections to the environment while boosting learning outcomes in core learning subjects.

Hilltown Cooperative Charter Public School Easthampton $6,100

Celebration of Ancient Greece: for an interdisciplinary residency on Ancient Greece with storyteller, scholar and musician Nick Kachulis.

Hingham High School Hingham $3,250

Stamps and Stoneware: to support local artist Emily Russ in working with the Hingham ceramics studio for a workshop series that introduces students to the process of stamping wheel-thrown clay.

Hoosac Valley High School Cheshire $3,250

Environmental Science, Outdoor Leadership, and Environmental Education with Tamarack Hollow: for a high school residency in an Environmental Science, Outdoor Leadership, and Environmental Education program led by naturalist guide Aimee Gelinas of Tamarack Hollow.

Huckleberry Hill School Lynnfield $3,250

Coastal Habitat Program Series with Mass Audubon’s Joppa Flats: to bring the second graders together to investigate the characteristics of live marine organisms and compare the properties of ocean sediments through a hands-on program.

Hull Parent Teachers Organization Hull $5,350

Crocodile River Music West African Immersion: to bring the entire school together to experience African dance and African drumming to celebrate how differences unite together to create a new positive experience.

Lillian M. Jacobs School, Hull

Hyman Fine Elementary School Attleboro $5,650

Science of Massachusetts – Trees: to connect students and teachers in four second grade classrooms to the local trees in their own schoolyard as a resource for learning through outdoor journalling and exploring the students’ questions and discoveries with Mass Audubon.

Imani Wallace Sunderland $6,100

The Social Justice Poetry Institute: to bring together a group of 6th grade students at The Academy at Kiley to engage in a weekly enrichment program with opportunities for students to grow and acquire important social, emotional, cognitive, and physical skills as well as the leadership and social skills needed for academic pursuits and career development.

The Academy at Kiley, Springfield

Ipswich Middle School Ipswich $6,100

Change is Simple at Ipswich Middle School: to combine STEM education infused with sustainability to teach 6th grade students about renewable energy, climate change, and innovative technical solutions to future environmental challenges.

James A. Garfield Elementary School Revere $6,100

Change is Simple at Garfield Elementary: to provide students with hands-on programs centered on STEM and sustainability, teaching students their connections to the environment.

Jay Mankita Amherst $6,100

Makerspace Build-Along: Artful Mechanisms: for grades 3, 4, and 5 to work with a teaching artist to build “artful mechanisms”, such as mechanical linkage and automata toys.

Greater Commonwealth Virtual School, Greenfield

Jean Appolon Expressions Malden $6,100

Haitian Folkloric Dance Workshops and Professional Performance: to work with Andover High music students to experience Afro-Haitian dance, develop choreography and celebrate Haitian culture.

Andover High School, Andover

John F. Kennedy Elementary School Brockton $6,100

2nd Grade Engineering Challenges: to bring five hands-on, minds-on engineering challenges to every 2nd grade classroom at the Kennedy School, led by STEM educators from SEED, Inc.

John F. Kennedy Elementary School Boston $6,100

Creative Identities: Empowering Young Makers Through Craft: to bring quality woodworking artists and programming to two grades of JFK Elementary students, empowering them and building their identities as makers.

John F. Kennedy Middle School Springfield $6,100

Sonido Musica: to provide ensemble music instruction for 2 classes of 6th graders to develop musical skills and support social-emotional, academic and creative growth.

John F. Kennedy School Somerville $6,100

“Imagination Station” Puppet Residency: to use puppetry, music, and art to deepen K students’ understanding and application of the Social Emotional skills needed to recognize and celebrate diversity.

John J. Duggan Middle School Springfield $6,100

Sonido Musica: to provide ensemble music instruction for 2 classes of 6th graders to develop musical skills and support social-emotional, academic and creative growth.

John O’Bryant School of Math and Science Boston $4,750

Don’t Recycle That Box Yet! Camera Obscuras in the Physics Classroom: to include 3 physics classes in an exhibit of images and expository writing based on work with handmade camera obscuras and teaching artist Janice Rogovin.

John R. Fausey Elementary School West Springfield $5,800

Water Wonders in the Schoolyard: for a school residency that allows students to discover water’s significance for both the natural world and their own community.

Jonathan A. Keezing Amherst $6,100

Puppets In The Classroom: to allow students to experience the process of a full creative arc — imagining and making puppets, creating a skit, practicing and performing.

Robert K. Finn Ryan Road Elementary School, Northampton

Joseph G. Pyne School Lowell $5,950

Cambodian Okarinas and Tiles: to brings grades 3-5 together to create tiles with the theme “Flora and Fauna of Cambodia,” and for grades 7-8 to create Cambodian Okarina’s.

Joseph R. Dawe, Jr. Elementary School Stoughton $6,100

Chemistry is Everywhere!: for bringing real scientists into all 5th grade classrooms at the Dawe School to lead hands-on, exciting chemistry experiments.

Josiah Quincy Elementary School Boston $6,100

Kids Green their School – Zero Waste: to work across Josiah Quincy School to bring 8 lessons on recycling & repurposing materials from foods, plastics, materials, etc.

Joy of Music Program Worcester $6,100

More to Hear: Voices of BIPOC composers: for music students to learn about the important musical heritage of BIPOC composers through performance and presentation.

Burncoat Senior High School, Worcester

Justin Jimenez Boston $5,050

Latin Rhythms @ Charles Sumner School: to feature MetaMovements artists teaching Latin dance to Charles Sumner School students and families to create culturally enriching experiences.

Charles Sumner Elementary School, Boston

Kevin O’Grady School Beverly $6,100

Playing With Music Improvisation: for students to actively engage in music activities to cultivate self-expression using body, voices, and instruments to interact with peers.

Kittredge Elementary School Hinsdale $3,250

Life Cycles and Weather in the Berkshires: to connect 3rd grade students with an earth and life science specialist from Mass Audubon for a series of in-person explorations.

Kristin Capezio Norwood $4,150

Celebrating Cultural Diversity and Excellence in Education: to connect culturally and linguistically diverse students in grades 5-8 to contemporary, urban art and design through the work of mural artist and MA resident, David Taylor.

B.F. Butler Middle School, Lowell

Lanesborough Elementary School Lanesborough $5,050

Life Cycles and Weather in the Berkshires: to connect 3rd grade students with an earth and life science specialist from Mass Audubon for a series of in-person explorations.

LaunchSpace Orange $6,100

Create, Innovate and Experiment with Robots!: to bring three grades of the Swift River School together with LaunchSpace Instructors to create, innovate and experiment with robots.

Swift River School, New Salem

Lawrence High School Lawrence $5,500

The Wiz – National Performing Arts Festival: for students from the LHS Advanced Musical Theater class have been accepted to perform in the 2023 National Performing Arts Festival at Universal Studios, Orlando. Forty students will compete in the festival against theater programs from across the nation. They will be performing a 20-minute montage from the musical The Wiz as well as performing solo and duet pieces in alternate competitions at the festival.

Lee Academy Boston $4,750

Boston Nature Center Residency: to bring together the Lee Academy 3rd graders with the Boston Nature Center to build understanding about the importance of trees within a community.

Lee Elementary School Lee $2,500

Dynamic Dance: to offer all 4th grade students at Lee Elementary School a hands-on learning experience that covers their grade-specific energy standards through dynamic dance and investigative science.

Lee Middle and High School Lee $2,500

The Role of the Drum in Francophone Cultures: to give students a hands-on opportunity to learn about drumming in French-speaking West-African and Caribbean cultures.

Leeds Elementary School After School Programs Northampton $6,100

Puppets In The Classroom: to allow students to experience the process of a full creative arc — imagining and making puppets, creating a skit, practicing and performing.

Leeds Elementary School, Northampton

Liars & Believers Cambridge $2,500

Liars&Believers Puppetry and Devising Residency: to bring Liars & Believers to 9th and 12th grade students from City on a Hill Charter School to build puppets, create plays, and develop collaboration skills.

City on a Hill Charter School, Boston

Liberty Preparatory Academy Springfield $6,100

Sonido Musica: to provides ensemble music instruction for one class of 9th to 12th grade students to develop musical skills, promote social emotional, academic, and creative growth.

LightHouse Holyoke Holyoke $6,100

Bicycle Engineering: to bring artist and maker space entrepreneur Joshua Newman to LightHouse for a bicycle project that blends art, physics, engineering, and health, while helping develop autonomy and independence for our youth.

Lilja Elementary School Natick $6,100

School Mural: for the artist in residence to work with all the students to draw their ideas about their neighborhood and natural life of our town in four different seasons, then to turn their pencil drawings into a large ceramic mural.

Lincoln Magnet School Springfield $6,100

Adaptive Music Program (AMP): to provide adaptive music instruction for 2 LINKS (autism support) classrooms of students grade K-5 to create a foundational knowledge of music for students, supporting social-emotional, academic, and artistic development.

Littleville Elementary School Huntington $4,900

Nature’s Superheroes: Our Amazing Wildlife: to explore life cycles, adaptations, and survival of some of Massachusetts’ amazing wildlife.

Louis F. Angelo Elementary School Brockton $6,100

ImagineARTS: Arts-Integrated Literacy Residency Program: to improve kindergarten level teaching and learning in literacy through music and related arts.

Lyric Stage Company of Boston Boston $6,100

City Stage Program: to use theater techniques and activities so students can explore classroom curriculum and ways to make connections to themselves and the world.

William McKinley School, Boston

Lyric Stage Company of Boston Boston $6,100

City Stage Program: to use theater techniques and activities so students can explore classroom curriculum and ways to make connections to themselves and the world around them.

Joseph P. Tynan Elementary School, Boston

Malcolm White Elementary School Woburn $6,100

SCiLL at Malcolm White Elementary: to provide students with hands-on programs centered on STEM and sustainability, teaching students their connections to the environment while boosting learning outcomes in core learning subjects.

Manthala George, Jr. Elementary School Brockton $6,100

ImagineARTS: Arts-Integrated Literacy Residency Program: to improve kindergarten level teaching and learning in literacy through music and related arts.

Margarita Muñiz Academy Boston $6,100

El Sistema-Inspired Music Program at Margarita Muniz Academy: to provide individualized and small-group instruction to students playing flute, trumpet, trombone, euphonium and tuba.

Maria Fong Cambridge $2,500

Screen Printing Self: to provoke high school students to express their personal and social identities visually, learn to design a visual artifact, and screen print it on a flag in order to celebrate our individual and collective understandings of self.

Excel Academy Charter High School, Boston

Martha Chason-Sokol Everett $6,100

Tape Together – Creative Sculpture: to bring a special art experience to the students of the Devens School to create both personal and collaborative sculptures that tell stories in order to deepen community connections.

Devens School, Everett

Mary A. Dryden Veterans Memorial School Springfield $6,100

Sonido Musica: to provide ensemble music instruction for 1 class of 4th graders and 1 class of 5th graders to develop musical skills and support social-emotional, academic and creative growth.

Mary E. Baker School Brockton $6,100

ImagineARTS: Arts-Integrated Literacy Residency Program: to improve kindergarten level teaching and learning in literacy through music and related arts.

Mary Jo D. Maichack Lenox $6,100

Playing with Folktales for Joyful Literacy: to engage the children in the joy and playfulness of the performing arts (storytelling, songs, acting and dance) with world folktales by immersing them in the practice of speaking expressively and listening respectfully and colminating in a performance for caregivers and guests.

Thomas M. Balliet Elementary School, Springfield

Mary M. Walsh Elementary School Springfield $6,100

Adaptive Music Program (AMP): to provide adaptive music instruction for 2 integrated (Special Education and General Education) classrooms of students to create a foundational knowledge of music for Special Ed students, supporting social-emotional, academic, and artistic development.

Mashpee Public Schools Mashpee $6,100

Afro-Caribbean Music Workshops: to bring high school students together to perform Afro-Caribbean jazz and Afrobeat with common objects.

Mashpee Middle-High School, Mashpee

Mass Poetry Boston $6,100

Poet-in-Residence Program: to bring Jarvis Subia, a Latinx poet and performer with ten years of 10 youth arts & literacy education experience and a Masters of Education from Harvard (2022), to EMK for sessions with all 380 students.

Edward M. Kennedy Academy for Health Careers (Horace Mann Charter School), Boston

Mass Poetry Boston $6,100

Lit Out Loud: to bring award-winning spoken word poet and slam coach Crystal Valentine to New Mission High School, adding a performance component to an already robust, yearlong poet-in-residence program featuring accomplished poet Wendy Drexler.

New Mission High School, Boston

Mass Poetry Boston $6,100

Performance Poetry at Salem High: to spur students’ interest and understanding of poetry by guiding them to read, interpret, write, perform and explore a variety of texts and forms, including Shakespearean sonnets and contemporary lyric and narrative poems.

Salem High School, Salem

Mass Poetry Boston $6,100

Lit Out Loud: to bring Latinx poet to Salem Academy Charter to work with 300 ELA and ELL students, grades 9-12 and to empower students (many coming from low income families, or struggling to overcome ELL challenges) to find their voices and pursue their dreams.

Salem Academy Charter School, Salem

Mather Elementary School Boston $6,100

Kids Green Their School – Habitats Around the World: to support in-school & after-care students in investigating the living systems that underpin seven existing biomes of the planet.

Matthew Pollock Boston $6,100

HARVEST: A collaboration of urban farming and public art » Una colaboración entre huertas urbanas y arte público: to bring students into the gardens of the school’s outdoor classroom to learn to grow & care for plants & express ideas using visual art & storytelling.

Dante Alighieri Montessori School, Boston

Meredith Charles Clinton $6,100

Social Emotional Curriculum Support through Theatre: to work with students and teachers using theatre as a curriculum support tool within the classroom to increase understanding of subject matter, as well as provide students with a means to express and demonstrate that learning creatively.

Marguerite E. Peaslee School, Northborough

Merrimack Valley Community Music School Andover $5,800

Middle School Band: to introduce band instruments to middle school students who have never had the opportunity to try them.

Emily G. Wetherbee School, Lawrence

Mildred H. Aitkens Elementary School Seekonk $6,100

Our first school mural: for all 555 students in our school to co-create our very first mural with Yetti Frenkel as our guiding artist expert, and reveal it to our community during our Annual Art Show celebration.

Mitchell Elementary School Bridgewater $6,100

SEED Science: to bring four hands-on engineering challenges to all 2nd graders at the Mitchell School. Real scientists will design and guide students through all activities, focusing on the engineering design process.

Mount Greylock Regional High School Williamstown $3,250

Panels: Using Personal Experiences to Build a Graphic Memoir: to offer middle and high school students the opportunity to express and validate their everyday lives by translating them into a graphic memoir with teaching artists Melissa Mendes, an accomplished cartoonist, and Kaye Shaddock, an art therapist.

Mountain View School Easthampton $5,950

Circle of Life: to connect Mountain View 3rd-graders to the natural world through science and environmental education activities focused on local flora and fauna.

Muddy Brook Regional Elementary School Great Barrington $3,850

Staying Alive! Life Science in your Backyard: to support 4 classes of Muddy Brook’s 4th graders in an exploration of traits and heredity as evidenced in plants and animals. Students will learn about traits, trait variation, and heredity with their schoolyard as a laboratory for learning. They will demonstrate their learning as they build puppets with FCI’s teaching artist, Meghan Orbek.

Nashua River Watershed Association Groton $3,850

Watershed Discovery at Clinton Elementary School: to bring NRWA Scientist and Educator, Mary Marro, together with eight classes in Clinton Elementary School to provide hands-on science labs for all fourth-grade classes to enhance 2016 Massachusetts Science and Technology Framework requirement.

Clinton Elementary School, Clinton

NEARI School Easthampton $6,100

Adaptive Music Program (AMP): to provide adaptive music instruction for 3 classrooms (1 elementary, 2 middle/high school) of Special Needs students to create a foundational knowledge of music for students, supporting social-emotional, academic, and artistic development.

New England Adolescent Research Institute School Day Program, Holyoke

New England Classical Singers Andover $3,850

Collaboration: New England Classical Singers and Methuen High School Choral Dept.: to bring together NECS and the Methuen HS chorus with professional musicians to prepare and present Schubert’s Mass #2 in G in a free concert at Methuen HS.

Methuen High School, Methuen

New Hingham Elementary Regional School Chesterfield $4,600

Inclusion Improv: to offer three sessions of “Inclusion Improv” afterschool for grades 1 – 6 to deepen improv skills while learning about principles of inclusion.

North Adams Public Schools North Adams $2,500

Get ARTcentric After School!: to connect North Adams Public Schools students with local Berkshire artists and provides them with high-quality artmaking experiences after school.

Brayton Elementary School, North Adams

Northeast School of Ballet Reading $2,500

Dance as Community: Past, Present, and Future: to connect TECCA High School Students with dance professionals to foster community and impart messages of inclusion, self-worth, and connection.

TEC Connections Academy Commonwealth Virtual School, Walpole

Northshore Recovery High School Beverly $6,100

Splash! Make Waves: for a residency in multidisciplinary arts with Express Yourself for students in active recovery, culminating in a grand performance at the Wang Theatre.

Oldham Elementary School PTO Norwood $6,100

Shine Bright Workshops: for a three visit workshop series on how to use yoga, managing emotions, art as a meditation tool, and journaling to manage stress, anxiety, fear, peer pressure, and being overwhelmed in every day life through.

John P. Oldham Elementary School, Norwood

OnStage Newburyport $2,650

Esperanza Drama Club Residency: to bring 5th through 8th graders at Esperanza together to work with theater artist Mara Flynn of Theater in the Open to build confidence and community using improv, ending with a performance.

Esperanza Academy, Lawrence

Orchard Gardens School Boston $5,200

Lights Up at Orchard Gradens!: to bring middle school students at Orchard Gardens the opportunity to work with alumni and lighting designer Jayson Bones Colon to train our future lighting designers to light up their own community art show and give them skills to enter the field of technical theatre, build confidence, and provide a hands-on tech experience.

Our Sisters’ School New Bedford $6,100

The Last Right Whale: for Wicked Queer Puppet Theater to work with the 7th and 8th grade classes to create an original short play about climate and community using sustainable materials to create giant puppets that the students will build and operate.

PaintBox Theatre Holyoke $6,100

Write Now!: to help children experience and explore narrative writing and teaching them writing techniques which can be used in all future writing.

Dr. M.R. Kelly Elementary School, Holyoke

PaintBox Theatre Holyoke $6,100

Write Now!: to help children experience and explore narrative writing and teaching them writing techniques which can be used in all future writing.

Lieutenant Elmer J. McMahon Elementary School, Holyoke

PaintBox Theatre Holyoke $3,100

Write Now!: to experience and explore narrative writing and teach them writing techniques which can be used in all future writing.

Lambert Lavoie Elementary School, Chicopee

Palmer High School Palmer $5,500

Wow Watersheds!: to support 6th graders at Palmer High School to explore local watersheds, the impact of climate change, and to determine some solutions.

Patrick Belmonte Beverly $6,100

Change is Simple at Abraham Lincoln Elementary: to provide student’s with hands-on programs centered on STEM and sustainability, teaching student’s their connections to the environment while boosting learning outcomes in core learning subjects.

Abraham Lincoln School, Revere

Paul F. Doyon Memorial School Ipswich $6,100

Welcome to Doyon “school”: to bring all students from kindergarten through fifth grade at Paul F. Doyon Memorial School together with the artist, David Fitcher, to create a mosaic mural that will be displayed on the front exterior of the school.

Paul R. Baird Middle School Ludlow $6,100

Sonido Musica: to provide ensemble music instruction for one classroom of 6th-8th graders to develop musical skills and support social-emotional, academic and creative growth.

Paul Revere Innovation School Revere $6,100

Change is Simple at the Paul Revere Innovation School: to provide student’s with hands-on programs centered on STEM and sustainability, teaching student’s their connections to the environment while boosting learning outcomes in core learning subjects.

Pauline Agassiz Shaw Elementary School Boston $6,100

Kids Green Their School – Astronomy: to show students in grades K-1 our solar system, why the sun gives light, what the eight planets do, and why Earth is unique.

Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter School Chicopee $6,100

Photography and Cinematography Through a Social Justice Lens: to use the skills taught in photography and cinematography classes to create public projects that address social justice issues.

Peabody Personalized Remote Education Program Peabody $5,650

Makerspace Build-Along: Artful Mechanisms: for this virtual school to have grades K-8 work with teaching artist Jay Mankita to build ‘artful mechanisms’ – mechanical linkage and automata toys.

Petersham Center School Petersham $6,100

Puppets In The Classroom!: to allow students to experience the process of a full creative arc: imagining and making puppets, creating a skit, practicing and performing.

Phoenix Academy Public Charter High School District Springfield Springfield $3,250

Arts & Literacy Residency with Phoenix Academy: to engage students and the Phoenix academic community in social, emotional and literary development by utilizing meaningful team building, media analysis and literary resource material, through published poetry, short stories, informative videos, infographics, original content creation, opportunities to share, and guided prompts for reflection and exploration.

Phoenix Academy Public Charter High School Lawrence Lawrence $6,100

Clay Exploration at Phoenix Lawrence: to bring in a local Lawrence ceramic artist, Y-Binh Nguyen, to teach high school students basic clay forms and give them a foundational understanding of the medium, while simultaneously supporting their social-emotional development.

Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School Hadley $6,100

Puppets In The Classroom!: to support students in experiencing the process of a full creative arc, imagining and making puppets, creating a skit, practicing and performing.

Pioneer Valley Montessori School Springfield $3,400

Whacky Weather: for students to explore the impact of weather and seasons on nature, discover the role of climate change, and determine some solutions with Mass Audubon.

Pittsfield High School Pittsfield $6,100

Biodiversity and Resiliency at Pittsfield High: for all 45 students in the AP and general Environmental Science classes to explore the intrinsic connection between biodiversity and ecosystem resilience in the face of global climate change in a residency titled ‘Biodiversity and Resiliency’.

Taconic High School, Pittsfield

Pittsfield Public Schools Pittsfield $6,100

Life Cycles and Weather in the Berkshires: to connect 3rd grade students with an earth and life science specialist from Mass Audubon for a series of in-person explorations.

Crosby Elementary School, Pittsfield

Prospect Hill Academy Charter School Cambridge $6,100

Flora and Fauna of the Rainforest: to bring underserved 10th grade students together with ceramic artistJulie Peck to learn about climate challenges and the Rainforest through clay.

Provincetown Schools Provincetown $6,100

The Breath of the Moon: Provincetown Harbor Public Art Collaborative: for the creation of student designed public art panels celebrating Provincetown Harbor’s ecological and cultural significance.

Provincetown Public Schools, Provincetown

Rebecca M. Johnson Elementary School Springfield $6,100

Sonido Musica: to provide ensemble music instruction for 2 classes of 4th and 5th graders to develop musical skills and support social-emotional, academic and creative growth.

Rehearsal for Life Boston $6,100

Urban Improv School Residencies: to build student social and emotional skills for every stage in life through dialogue, creativity and performance.

Richard J. Murphy K-8 School, Boston

Rehearsal for Life Boston $6,100

Urban Improv School Residencies: to build students’ social and emotional skills for every stage in life through dialogue, creativity and performance.

Dennis C. Haley Elementary School, Boston

Rehearsal for Life Boston $4,300

Urban Improv School Residencies: to build student social and emotional skills for every stage in life through dialogue, creativity and performance.

Nathan Hale Elementary School, Boston

Rehearsal for Life Boston $6,100

Urban Improv School Residencies: to build student social and emotional skills for every stage in life through dialogue, creativity and performance.

Boston Teachers Union School, Boston

Rehearsal for Life Boston $4,300

Urban Improv School Residencies: to build student social and emotional skills for every stage in life through dialogue, creativity and performance.

George H. Conley Elementary School, Boston

Reingold Elementary School Fitchburg $5,800

Stronger Storms: Taking Action for Community Resilience: to foster a deeper understanding of the environment around the Fitchburg community, increase the environmental literacy of 4th grade students in the Reingold Elementary School, and deepen their understanding of how they can have a positive impact on the wildlife and humans who live there.

Renaissance Community Innovation School New Bedford $5,200

Crocodile River Music Residency: for a school residency in dance, music, storytelling, visual art, and STEM with Crocodile River Music celebrates the culture of Mali and West Africa.

Renee Kiley Hull $5,800

Flamenco: to bring all Hull High students together to promote intercultural understanding, community growth, and cultural diversity.

Hull High School, Hull

Richard L. Wilkins Elementary School Stoughton $3,250

Chemistry Fun for 5th Grade: to bring real scientists into all 5th grade classrooms at the Wilkins School to lead hands-on, exciting chemistry experiments.

Richmond Consolidated School Richmond $4,450

Dance and Drum for Physical Education: to explore drumming and dance as an athletic and character building experience.

Riverside Elementary School Danvers $2,500

Change is Simple at Riverside: to provides students with hands-on programs centered on STEM and sustainability, teaching students their connections to the environment while boosting learning outcomes in core learning subjects.

Rockland Public Schools Rockland $3,400

All Ears Jazz: to bring eight grades of Rockland students together to explore, hands-on, the arc of American music.

John W. Rogers Middle School, Rockland

Rockland Public Schools Rockland $5,500

Printmaking & Mixed Media Art: to introduce a variety of printmaking, silkscreening, and mixed media techniques that Johnny Adimando uses in both of his 2-D and 3-D works.

Rockland Senior High School, Rockland

Rockport Music Rockport $2,500

Rockport Choral Summit: to bring together all levels of choral students from elementary through high school to work towards a collaborative performance.

Rockport Public Schools, Rockport

Rollins Early Childhood Center Lawrence $6,100

The Art of Play: to bring together 10 Kindergarten learners, two from each Kindergarten class, and Tasha Cough, artist and decorative art specialist, to design, plan, and create imaginative play spaces to be painted on the bare brick and concrete of the school’s recess yard.

Sacred Heart School Elementary Lynn $6,100

Expanding Horizons Through Music (EHTM): for musician Júlio Santos to engage Gr K Sacred Heart School students in music activities that build students’ skills in early literacy and socialization.

Saint Michael School Fall River $6,100

Arts – MLK – Honoring Dr. King’s Legacy: for students to learn effective focus/ impact through collaborating with other students and subjects (Art, Math, Science, and History) creating a portrait of MLK.

Salem Public Schools Salem $5,650

Change is Simple at Witchcraft Heights: to provide student’s with hands-on programs centered on STEM and sustainability, teaching student’s their connections to the environment while boosting learning outcomes in core learning subjects.

Witchcraft Heights Elementary School, Salem

Samuel Bowles Elementary School Springfield $6,100

Adaptive Music Program (AMP): to provide adaptive music instruction for 2 LINKS (autism support) classrooms of students grade K-5 to create a foundational knowledge of music for students, supporting social-emotional, academic, and artistic development.

Samuel S. Holmstock Barnstable $4,300

The Drum Circle: to involves all grades at the Cape Cod Collaborative and offers the practice of group drumming to teach cooperation and mindfulness.

Cape Cod Collaborative STAR Program – Osterville, Barnstable

Sarah Greenwood K-8 School Boston $6,100

Engineering Challenges for 4th and 5th Grade: to bring 5 hands-on, minds-on engineering challenges to 4th and 5th grade students at the Sarah Greenwood School.

Science & Engineering Education Development Plainville $6,100

Animals- An Exploration of Structure and Function: to encourage 4th grade students to explore the animal world, paying particular attention to how an animal’s unique body shape relates to what it eats, how it moves, and where it lives.

Dale Street School, Medfield

Sheffield Elementary School Montague $6,100

Inclusion Improv: to bring three 2nd grade classes and three 3rd grade classes together to learn improvisational theater skills which build student capacity for tolerance and inclusion.

Soule Homestead Education Center Middleborough $5,050

Machines: Simple and Complex: to bring a local agricultural scientist to allow students to study the progression of machines from simple farm implements to complex 3D printers.

Mary K. Goode Elementary School, Middleborough

South Elementary School Stoughton $3,250

5th Grade Chemistry Fun!: to bring real scientists into all 5th grade classrooms at the South School to lead hands-on, exciting chemistry experiments.

South End Middle School Springfield $6,100

Sonido Musica: to provide ensemble music instruction for classes of 6th-8th graders to develop musical skills and support social-emotional, academic and creative growth.

South Shore Conservatory of Music Hingham $6,100

ImagineARTS: Arts-Integrated Literacy Residency Program: to improve kindergarten level teaching and learning in literacy through music and related arts.

Oscar F. Raymond School, Brockton

Springfield Conservatory of the Arts Springfield $6,100

Sonido Musica: to provide ensemble music instruction for 1 class of 9th-12th graders to develop musical skills and support social-emotional, academic and creative growth.

Springfield High School Springfield $6,100

Sonido Musica: to provide ensemble music instruction for 2 classes of 9th-12th graders to develop musical skills and support social-emotional, academic and creative growth.

Springfield High School of Science and Technology Springfield $6,100

Sonido Musica: to provide ensemble music instruction for 2 groups of 9th-12th graders to develop musical skills and support social-emotional, academic and creative growth.

Springfield Public Day Elementary School Springfield $2,500

Inhale Music, Exhale Life: to bring K-5 graders together to learn folkloric drums and songs.

Springfield Public Day High School Springfield $6,100

Sonido Musica: to provide ensemble music instruction for 2 classes of 9th-12th graders to develop musical skills and support social-emotional, academic and creative growth.

Springfield Public Day Middle School Springfield $2,500

Inhale Music, Exhale Life: to bring 7th graders together to learn folkloric drum and song.

Springfield Public Schools Springfield $6,100

Sonido Musica: to provide ensemble music instruction for 2 classes of 1 class of 6th-8th graders to develop musical skills and support social-emotional, academic and creative growth.

Chestnut Accelerated Middle School (Talented and Gifted), Springfield

Springfield Renaissance School Springfield $4,750

Responding to the Climate Crisis: to combine two eighth grade classes (Reading and Computer Science) with classroom partners in Haiti to explore changes in their local environments due to the climate crisis and consider issues of environmental justice, climate mitigation and community resilience, supported by a residency with the Mass Audubon’s Climate Democracy Program.

SPUR, Inc. Marblehead $4,150

How Mural Art Can Change a Community: to give students from Salem’s Saltonstall School in grades 5-8 the rare opportunity to learn how a mural is developed from start to finish, how to define the mural concept, and what materials will be used that are most suitable to withstand the elements in Salem close to the water.

Saltonstall School, Salem

St. Michael’s Academy Springfield $6,100

Sonido Musica: to provide ensemble music instruction for 2 classes of 2nd graders to develop musical skills and support social-emotional, academic and creative growth.

St. Stanislaus Kostka School Adams $6,100

Mystical Musical Motivations: to bring six grades of St. Stan’s School together to create and perform an original production with music therapist Susan Davis MT-BC focusing on the lives of male and female heroes and leaders that have enriched all areas of our culture and society.

Staff Sargent Jam Hill Elementary School Revere $6,100

Change is Simple at Staff Sgt. James J. Hill Elementary: to provide students with hands-on programs centered on STEM and sustainability, teaching students their connections to the environment while boosting learning outcomes in core learning subjects.

Stearns Elementary School Pittsfield $5,050

Life Cycles and Weather in the Berkshires: to connect 3rd grade students with an earth and life science specialist from Mass Audubon for a series of in-person explorations.

STEM Middle Academy Springfield $6,100

Sonido Musica: to provide ensemble music instruction for 2 classes of 6th-8th graders to develop musical skills and support social-emotional, academic and creative growth.

Steward Elementary School Topsfield $2,500

Signs of the Seasons: to explore how wildlife adapts to seasonal changes during the fall, winter, and spring seasons.

Streiber Memorial Elementary School Chicopee $4,300

Page to Stage: to support an arts integration collaborative project that explores and adapts a children’s literature book into a multidisciplinary performance for the entire Streiber School community.

Sumner Avenue Elementary School Springfield $6,100

Sonido Musica: to provide ensemble music instruction for 1 class of elementary school students to develop musical skills and support social-emotional, academic and creative growth.

Susan Slepetz Sterling $4,750

African Art and Drumming: for three elementary grades together to learn African drumming and to view African art with musician and portable collection from Crocodile River, then to create drums and a performance.

Venerini Academy, Worcester

Tal Shalom Shalom-Kobii Newton $2,650

Women for Peace and Social Justice: for young musicians to work with Women in World Jazz to learn about, play and perform music written by women composers.

F.A. Day Middle School, Newton

Tamarack Hollow Nature and Cultural Center Windsor $4,600

World music, drum, dance and song Cultural Exploration: for 2nd and 3rd grade students to learn traditional West African and Caribbean drum, song and dance with Aimee Gelinas of Tamarack Hollow and Dancer Kim Waterman.

Hoosac Valley Elementary School, Adams

Tamer Karatekin Chelsea $2,800

Shatranj and Other Historic Board Games as Cultural Heritage Artifacts: to introduce shatranj and several board games to students as cultural heritage artifacts.

James W. Hennigan Elementary School, Boston

TechBoston Academy Boston $4,450

Performance Through Literature: to use theatre as a tool to explore, represent, and articulate the value of community building.

Templeton Elementary School Templeton $6,100

Crocodile River Music Residency: to bring K-4 classes of the Templeton Elementary school together to learn and immerse themselves in African drumming, art, and music as a lens to explore and celebrate the West African culture.

Thomas J. Kenny School Boston $6,100

Hip Hop Dance: to support 135 students from grades K-6 of the Kenny School to explore Hip Hop dance to develop valuable social emotional skills.

Tibisay Zea Boston $2,500

A Journey through Latin America: to connect students with traditional music, dance, games, and stories from several countries in Latin America.

Rafael Hernández K-8 School, Boston

Tremont School Concord $3,550

Community Through The Lens: to allow students to learn digital photography skills and work creatively to heighten their connection to community, environment, and themselves.

Undermountain Elementary School Sheffield $6,100

MakerSpace: Making a Difference through Making!: to brings three grades of Undermountain students together to work with engineer Liliana Anatacio and artist Angel Heffernan to test the limits of technology, gain experience with hand tools used in wood-working and soldering, and explore art-making in an environment that emboldens students to stretch their imaginations.

Village School Royalston $4,300

Moving With The Cycles of Nature: to bring 5 days of dance programming connecting the cycles of nature through movement exploration, improvisation, rhythm and each child’s experience to all students at The Village School.

W.E.B. Du Bois Regional Middle School Great Barrington $2,650

MakerSpace: Making a Difference through Making!: to foster the next generation of creators by bringing three grades of Dubois students together to work with bilingual engineer Liliana Anatacio and artist Angel Heffernan to test the limits of technology, gain experience with hand tools used in wood-working and soldering, and explore art-making in an environment that emboldens students to stretch their imaginations.

Wakefield Public Schools Wakefield $2,500

Hype Man Digital Learning Experience: to use theater to engage students ranging from grades 9-12 in conversations about racism, oppression, injustice, and the responsibility to speak up and act.

Wakefield Memorial High School, Wakefield

Watertown Middle School Watertown $6,100

Revisiting Memorials: Peter Clough and WMS: to bring together students, teachers, and artist Josh Winer to update the memorial sculpture in the Watertown Middle School foyer.

Weston Public Schools Weston $5,800

Percussion Around the World: for all second grade students to work with cultural partner Dan Foote to learn about percussion instruments around the world, including how geography plays a role in music making on the continents of Africa, Antarctica, and Australia and the importance of music for cultural events such as celebrations and other life milestones.

Woodland School, Weston

Weymouth Public Schools Weymouth $3,250

Amazing Animals at the Pingree: to encourage 3rd grade students to explore the animal world and pays particular attention to how an animal’s unique body shape relates to what it eats, how it moves, and where it lives.

Lawrence W. Pingree School, Weymouth

White Street School Springfield $6,100

Bomba Classes: for students will be able to demonstrate a deeper understanding of Puerto Rican Culture and Arts through story, music, and dance and through weekly Bomba Dancing and Drumming Lessons.

Wildwood Elementary School Amherst $4,000

Learning From Nature: Our Part in the Ecosystem: for students to practice science and problem-solving skills at local sites.

William Ellery Channing School Boston $6,100

Hip Hop Dance Residency: to bring together 201 K-6th graders to explore Hip Hop dance to develop valuable social emotional skills.

William G. Vinal Elementary School Norwell $3,850

Project Beak: Bird Education & Activities for Kids: to explore seasonal bird activity focusing on ecosystems, habitats and bird adaptation for the second grade students at Vinal Elementary School, working with Mass Audubon.

Willis E. Thorpe Elementary School Danvers $6,100

Thorpe School T.I.G.E.R. 5 Mural: to bring all 300 students of Thorpe Elementary School together to create a mural that expresses the social-emotional learning principles of the school’s multi-tiered system of support—T.I.G.E.R. 5: Teamwork, Integrity, Growth Mindset, Empathy, and Responsibility.

Worcester Chamber Music Society Worcester $6,100

Neighborhood Strings: for an intensive strings program for at risk immigrant and refugee youth that fosters social justice, community involvement and integration.

Clark Street Community School, Worcester

Worcester Chamber Music Society Worcester $6,100

Neighborhood Strings: for an intensive strings program and social justice initiative for at risk and underserved youth that fosters community involvement and integration.

Woodland Academy, Worcester

Worcester Chamber Music Society Worcester $6,100

Neighborhood Strings: for an intensive strings program and social justice initiative for at risk and underserved youth that fosters community involvement and integration.

Learning First Charter Public School, Worcester

Worcester Technical High School Worcester $5,950

Hip Hop Street Art Culture: to engage 40, 9-12th graders in the Vocational Opportunities & Career Pathways Program at Worcester Tech HS to explore Street Art and entrepreneurship.

Yoron Israel Brockton $3,250

Mentorship in Jazz Performance and History: to expand high school aged students’ knowledge and understanding of jazz music. Important and relevant historical perspectives, guided listening, repertoire development and performance techniques of this great American art form, known as Jazz will be explored in details.

Brockton Champion High School, Brockton

Zumix Boston $6,100

Art Room Poets: to engage EBHS freshman in a six-week poetry workshop where each student will write and perform original poetic works.

East Boston High School, Boston

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