A. Ruth Creations
A. Ruth Creations engages participants with creative writing and visual art to promote a positive self-image and to encourage reading and writing.
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What's the Word? Read!
Curriculum Connections: Creative Writing, Visual Art, Language Arts, Music, Social-Behavioral Skills
Join acclaimed visual artist/poet Annie Ruth in an interactive performance of music, poetry, storytelling, and song. What's the Word? Read! emphasizes the value of reading, literacy, and positive self-expression. Annie Ruth utilizes her visual art to help participants see beyond the surface of the lessons she imparts. Excellent program for Reach Out and Read Month or to complement existing literacy or reading programs.
Recommended Grades: PreK-3
Maximum # Participants: adaptable to group needs
Length: 30 minutes
Cost: $650 first session / $400 each additional
Maximum # Sessions per Day: 2
The Pen Stroke is My Voice
(Writing What I Experience and See in My World)
Curriculum Connections: Creative Writing, Visual Art, Music, Social-Behavioral Skills
The Pen Stroke is My Voice utilizes creative writing, music, and visual art to help participants find and share their individual voice, while promoting inclusion and positive self-expression. Participants will work with acclaimed visual artist/poet Annie Ruth to create poetry or prose that reflects their experiences. Each participant will be given a workbook in which to reflect and write about the visual prompts. The teacher will be given a resource packet with visual prompts and a sample lesson plan for future use.
Recommended Grades: 4-12
Maximum # Participants: 30
Length: 45-60 minutes
Cost: $650 first session / $400 each additional
Maximum # Sessions per Day: 2
On Her Shoulders - Multi-Arts Workshop
Curriculum Connections: Creative Writing, Visual Art, Music, Social-Behavioral Skills
Annie Ruth's On Her Shoulders - Arts Workshop is an extension of her 16 painting series 'On Her Shoulders', which explores the struggles and triumphs of Black women. The On Her Shoulders Arts Curriculum is an education curriculum that cultivates critical thinking and interpretation of the visual arts. Each student will receive a small art card set during Annie's visit, and the teacher will receive a full set with a printed guidebook.
Recommended Grades: 6-Adult
Maximum # Participants: 30
Length: 45-60 minutes
Cost: $650 first session / $400 each additional
Max. # Sessions per Day: 2
Make-It, Take-It! Visual Art Workshop
Curriculum Connections: Visual Art, Social-Behavioral Skills
Annie Ruth’s Make-It, Take-It Visual Art Workshop is a flexible, hands-on creative experience designed for schools, organizations, community groups, and special events. It can accommodate individual groups or larger audiences through an event-style or rotating-station format. Participants explore color, texture, symbolism, imagination, and positive self-expression while creating an original piece of artwork they can complete during the session and take home.
Projects may include painted mini-canvases or canvas magnets, inspirational smooth-rock painting, mixed-media collage, bookmarks, affirmation art, and other small seasonal or theme-based crafts. Activities can be adapted to complement a curriculum, program goal, event theme, age group, available time, and number of participants. All projects are designed to be engaging, manageable, and successful for participants with varying levels of artistic experience.
Recommended Grades: PreK - Adult
Maximum # Participants: adaptable to group needs
Length: adaptable to group needs
Cost: $650 first session / $400 each additional
Maximum # Sessions per Day: adaptable to group needs
Artist Visits and Residencies are also available. Please email education@cincinnatiarts.org for more information.