Utica, NY.For 19 years, the Arts in Education Institute (AEI) of the Stanley Center for the Arts has been offering arts integration and aesthetic education for the benefit of teachers, teaching artists and students. With help from funders, including NYSCA, they seem to be fostering an oasis dedicated to community building and process.
The institute programs performances and exhibitions and relies on a roster of local teaching artists to help regular classroom teachers link artistic experiences to larger educational goals. If you want to get involved, Coordinator Serena Belmont has all the answers at (315) 724-1113 or sbelmont@cnyarts.com.
Meta: Samuel Clemens wowed Utica on his tour of the lecture circuit in 1870. In a letter home he describes how he transfixed the crowd and brought the house down by doing nothing:
I stood patient & silent, minute after minute...till my roused good-nature passed from my heart & countenance to theirs along a thousand invisible electrical currents & conquered their reserve, swept their self-possession to the winds, & the great house "came down" Like an avalanche!"
Recently, I reread Clemen's sly piece The War Prayer.
It felt timely and just a bit painful.
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