Each year the Great Neck Arts Center's ArtReach programs use the arts - theater, dance, music and the visual arts - to provide inspiring, empowering and affordable arts experiences for thousands of students, teachers, senior citizens, parents and community members throughout Long Island and Queens.

Current School District partners include:

Long Island

Glen Cove

Great Neck

North Babylon

Port Washington

Roosevelt

Uniondale

Queens

JHS 185 - Edward J. Bleeker (Flushing)

PS 31 (Bayside)

PS 98 (Douglaston)

Current Senior Center partners include:

Parker Jewish Institute of Health; Atria of Roslyn; Manorhaven Senior Center; Hadley House; Spangle Drive Senior Center; North Flushing Senior Center.

The Arts Center is proud to be an affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: Partners in Education program and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.

Are you a Teacher? PTA member? Parent? Corporate Training Officer? Teaching Artist? For more information on any of GNAC's ArtReach programs please contact Tracy at tracy@greatneckarts.org or 516-829-2570

GNAC's innovative arts-in-education offerings include:

School Programs

The mission of GNAC’s ArtReach programs in the schools is to put the arts IN education. We use all the arts forms - theater, dance, music and the visual arts - to inspire students and teachers of all ages and abilities. Our programs are designed to build community through collaboration in the classroom, help students explore connections to all core subject areas as well as to their personal and cultural histories, and help teachers become more comfortable with incorporating the arts into their classrooms. Many of our school programs incorporate the students' family members, senior citizens from community and other adults from outside the school environment to enhance the learning experiences.

Examples of GNAC's ArtReach School program offerings include:

·        After-school Arts Classes

·        Inspired Learning Arts Programs (linking the arts directly to core curriculum)

·        Artists' Residencies

·        Assembly Performances

·        Intergenerational Arts Programs

·        Oral History Film / Book Projects

·        Anti-Bullying & Tolerance Programs

·        Professional Development Workshops for Classroom Teachers

·        Gallery School Tours

·        Parent/Child Art-Making Workshops

·        Art Installations with Master Teaching Artists

·        Visiting Artists Salon Series (visual artists, authors, poets, musicians etc.)

Elder Arts Programs

Each year GNAC provides a variety of outreach programs designed specifically for senior citizens, community centers and residential living facilities throughout the region. Programming includes:

·        Music Performances (jazz, blues, classical, world music)

·        Theater Performances/Workshops (Reader's Theater, One-Act Plays, Drama Workshops)

·        Art & Music Lectures

·        Visual Art Workshops (Painting, Drawing, Mixed Media Collage, Asian Ink/Wash Painting, Ceramics, Sculpture, Photography, Photo Transfer, Crafts, Wearable Art, Textile Painting, Jewelry–making, Faux decorative Painting)

·        Dance / Movement Workshops

·        Writing Workshops (Creative Writing, Legacy writing, Journaling)

·        Gallery Tours

·        Intergenerational Arts Programs

·        Visiting Artists Salon Series (visual artists, authors, poets, musicians etc.)

Corporate & Civic Engagement Workshops

These workshops offer corporate executives an opportunity to utilize the arts as a tool to build community among their employees through a civic engagement project while also facilitating an experience for the executives that allows them to see first-hand how the arts have a positive impact on students’ learning, personal growth and skill development.

Kennedy Center Partners in Education

GNAC is proud to be an affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: Partners in Education program, a program designed to assist arts organizations in developing and extending partnerships in local school systems in order to promote the professional development of classroom teachers. We do this by holding workshops for classroom teachers on how to incorporate the arts into the teaching of core curriculum subjects. GNAC's partners in our Kennedy Center affiliation are the Plainview/Old Bethpage School District and Hofstra University. The prestigious Kennedy Center affiliation is awarded to a select few and the Great Neck Arts Center is one of only 2 such partnerships in New York State.

For more information about the Kennedy Center’s Partners in Education program, click here.

National Gallery Affiliation

GNAC is also an affiliate of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. This affiliation makes GNAC a major resource on Long Island for the Gallery’s extensive information on the great art masters. The National Gallery’s Educational Loan Programs are designed to foster awareness of the visual arts and help make the Gallery’s collections accessible to students. The Loan Programs meet national standards in the visual arts for K-12, and are designed to help students explore and discuss the work of various artists, genres of art, techniques and styles. GNAC serves as an “affiliate distributor” of National Gallery of Art educational resources, providing materials on loan and by request to schools that participate in the Arts Center outreach programs and school tours.

Both of these prestigious national affiliations provide our teaching artists and partner schools with access to tremendous resources that help enhance their programs and workshops.

WANT TO SEE SOME OF OUR PROGRAMS IN ACTION?

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For more information on any of our ArtReach programs, please contact the Arts Center at 516.829.2570.