For the 2024-25 school year, educators can apply here to have Arts Angle Vantage writing residencies in their high school classrooms for free.
This is available to high schools in Bullitt, Jefferson, Oldham, and Shelby counties in Kentucky, and Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties in Indiana with support from the Fund for the Arts’ Teachers Arts Grants (TAG)
Teens in this year's Art of the Profile workhshop that welcomed guest artist Ed Hamilton and writer Chris Kenning. Kenning wrote a profile of Hamilton for Louisville Magazine.
Teachers and administrators must apply by Sept. 6 to have Arts Angle Vantage teaching artists/mentors collaborate with you in a writing residency that leads students through reporting and writing a review or article about a performance or visual artwork(s). Throughout this process, the mentors work with students on good writing skills, structure, style, etc. While students learn how to structure reviews and articles, they also learn ways to conduct research, interview, quote sources, and edit these pieces.
The cover of this year's Fund for the Arts' brochure for its 5x5 and Teachers Arts Grants, where Arts Angle Vantage has an entry for its writing residency.
Our programs are directly connected to core learning outcomes, and we are ready to collaborate with you to complement the work you’re already pursuing in the classroom. We use writing to build students’ analytical and communication skills while helping them to find their voice.
See page 17 of the Fund for the Arts’ TAG program brochure for more information on our residency.
The art can be at school, found on a field trip, or be a student’s choice. The residency could complement a field trip to a performance or museum or covering a performance at the school. (Performance or visual artwork is not included in our residency. The school, teacher, or administrator is responsible for identifying the arts experience, although Arts Angle Vantage will work with educators to identify them.)
Please, contact us with any questions you have.
Teens in several workshops spanning from 2020 to 2024, including one (top left) reflecting on the Speed Art Museum's art exhibit recognizing Breonna Taylor's life and death, gun violence and the Black American experience; another (bottom left) where participants reported on artists involved in the 2023 citywide HeARTS Initiative through writing and photography that culminated in an exhibit; and (right) participants in our most recent audio storytelling program, Earshot.
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