Join us in creating a temporary art installation of the Great Lakes in the sand. The image will be illuminated at sunset 8:11pm.

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Join us in creating a temporary art installation of the Great Lakes in the sand. The image will be illuminated at sunset 8:11pm. Percussion and Vocalization by Strawberry Moon Singers Illumination by overpass Light Brigade Inspiration by local community and spiritual leaders. Activation coordinated by DanceCircus. Documentation by doc/UWM. We encourage biking or walking to…

WATER MEASURES

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coming from a shoreline to you.                      Explore the geography of the Great Lakes, how it formed and how it continuesto be reformed. Put on your shore shoes and join SPLASH DANCE Reduex — dance to the flash mob video, SPLASH DANCE .                        Watch out for the perils to fresh…

Arts @ Large Residency at Milwaukee Environmental Sciences School November 8-December 19, 2013 and January 14-17, 2014

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Artist-educator Betty Salamun and Milwaukee Environmental Sciences School teacher Melissa Howard used the Urban Land Ethic to create a performance program for the unique needs of Melissa’s first grade classroom. Students learned about how to: Make the Invisible Visible, and, Understand How Nature Sustains Life through the water cycle of precipitation, percolation and evaporation. Students explored energy differences, such as…

2012 Kosciuszko Montessori School Arts @ Large residency with K-3 to 5th grades

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Students explored the 7 Basic Movements (jump, turn, fall, roll, balance, travel, gesture): upper primary students worked with haiku poetry; lower primary used weather systems to create dances; K-3 to K-5 learn the differences between frog jumps (big push with the legs, then land and balance) and rabbit jumps (reach hands out, jump feet in)…

Woodlands Elementary School Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s A.C.E. Program with 6th graders

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Artistic Director Betty Salamun annually works with Woodlands middle school students in eco-arts residencies. Retiring science teacher Carol Double suggested a dance linking the school’s Adopt-A-Beach program and illustrating the beauty of Lake Michigan. In 2013, 15 boys and girls learned a section of Betty’s dance “What I know about Lake Michigan” (from Wade in…