Socially Engaged Arts Integration
Art
Our artists educators represent a wide range of creative skills across the artistic disciplines including theater, music, dance, film, digital and multimedia. interdisciplinary. We connect this network of artists in educational settings to include students in both studio work as well as large scale public art installation.
Advocacy
Culturally responsive teaching recognizes that the lived experiences of students and their curiosity about their own culture and the cultures of others is an incredible asset in the classroom. We approach each residency by aligning quality artistic technique with a research and themes based approach across the arts, humanities, and sciences.
Community
Cultural conscious curiosity of individual and community identities are essential to the creative process. Education programs are build around specific community needs and deliberative facilitation process that engages community stories to build greater empathy and cooperation between the individual and the community.
Program Types
Afterschool and Summer Enrichment Programs
coLAB has created regular programs designed to give students training how to artistically respond to complex issues that affect our communities. Participants take workshops in movement, voice, performance, design, writing, and production giving them the tools to become generators of their own art all while they have the opportunity to network with other artists and teens interested in similar work. These programs are built with strong partnerships with other arts and social advocacy organizations.
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Program Archive
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Our Current Education Staff
School Based Teaching Artist Residencies
Since 2010 coLAB has provided in school residencies providing in class workshops in performance, voice, movement, writing and design.
Artist Residency with South Plainfield Middle School 2023
Artist Residency with South Plainfield Middle School 2022
Artist Residency with New Brunswick Public Schools 2021
New Brunswick High School Theater Residency 2010-2019
Teacher Professional Development
coLAB Arts provides single day as well as professional development series that provides approaches and activities for arts integration and culturally responsive pedagogy work for teachers grades 3rd - 12th across all arts, humanities, and science curricula.
coLAB Arts Education In the News
Are you an educator or administrator looking for adaptive arts programming? We create programming based on need and desired outcomes, carefully partnering the artist and community. Contact us to find ways we can work with your students.