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We're so excited to be back in touch with you via this website!  We have a few wrinkles to iron out, but we're looking forward to the chance to keep in touch more often!  Hope you're all enjoying this lovely Spring weather.  We'll be in touch soon! - C & B

Art in Education

 

One-Day program options:

 

A day of Workshops:

 

An entire day of either Colonial Life, Storytelling: It’s YOUR turn, or My day at Lumber camp.  Please refer to the workshop descriptions for time requirements.  Just one topic per day please, as they all require different equipment/clothing

 

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Colonial Life – See first hand what life was like in upstate New York in the middle 1700’s!  Chris will come to your class dressed as his relative John Shaw who fought with Roger’s Rangers during the French & Indian War.  Armed with the equipment and weaponry of the period, Chris will show the class how to start a fire with a flint and steel, tell time with a sundial compass, and introduce the technology that was required to fire a flintlock musket.  From his three cornered hat down to his Iroquois center seam moccasins Chris brings the past to life right in your classroom!  This workshop takes approximately one hour per class, if you would like Chris to bring a replica period flintlock on school grounds, a note from the Superintendent is

required.

 

 

 

 

Storytelling: It’s YOUR turn!

 

This workshop starts out with Chris telling one of his premier Adirondack Tall Tales that will have the class, (and probably the teachers too!) rolling in the aisles with laughter!  Then as the title implies, It’s YOUR turn, as Chris leads the class through the telling of their own “round stories”.  The round story technique has long been used to introduce young storytellers to the craft, and challenges their verbal, memory, and imaginative skills!  We guarantee you’ll be surprised at who shines during this workshop!  This workshop takes about 45 minutes per class.

 

 

 

My day at Lumber Camp

 

The year is 1846, and your whole class has signed on with the Shaw Lumber Company!  Each child will choose a job as it would have been “back in the day”, and Chris will show them the antique logging tools they would have been working with back then. He’ll explain each job, and even barter with them about their “pay”!  Chris’s years as an artist in residence at the Adirondack Museum at Blue Mountain Lake enable him to transport the whole class back in time for an experience they’ll remember for a long, long time! This workshop takes about an hour per class.