Artists on Tour

Artists on Tour brings a variety of arts experiences directly to you. The finest local teaching artists in the region come to your school/organization and enhance learning with programs that vary in culture and art form. All programs are available year-round. For additional information, contact the CAA Education & Community Engagement Department at (513) 977-4116 or education@cincinnatiarts.org.

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Artist Roster

A. Ruth Creations

A. Ruth Creations employs creative writing and visual art to promote a positive self-image and encourage reading and writing.

  • Grades: PS-12
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Band in a Bus

Band in a Bus's experienced teaching artists combined with a modernized music curriculum provides a rocking experience for students. Let’s build the biggest bucket band ever!

  • Grades K-6
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Bach and Boombox

Enjoy a variety of great music—from Bach played on a cello to contemporary pieces ‘played’ on a boombox—while understanding their musical connections.

  • Grades: 3-12
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Cincinnati Opera Educational Opportunities

Cincinnati Opera’s mission is to enrich and connect the community through diverse opera experiences. They seek to use our art form to encourage critical thinking, creative expression, and collaboration, and to inspire everyone to explore their aesthetic appreciation through meaningful experiences with opera.

  • Grades: PreK-12
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Crystal Clear Science

Crystal Clear Science inspires learners of all ages with hands-on, minds-on science experiences that explain the world and our place in it. 

  • Grades: K-8
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Cultural Center of India

Cultural Centre of India explores India's artistic cultural of dance and music and its rich history.

  • Grades: K-Adult
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Friends of Music Hall

Visit Music Hall for an interactive learning experience, or bring Music Hall to your classroom with virtual presentations and hands-on activities about this National Historic Landmark.

  • Grades: 3-6
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Kathy Wade

Renowned Jazz singer Kathy Wade's programs use music to convey important lessons about mastering skills and respecting others.

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Kelly Richey

The multi-talented Kelly Richey has been an entrepreneur since her late teens despite being dyslexic, which made reading difficult resulting in low self-esteem. As a certified Life Coach and a certified writing facilitator for Women Writing for (a) Change, Richey helps participants confront and overcome their own struggles through the writing process.

  • Grades: 7-12
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Omope Carter Daboiku

A trained cultural geographer, Omope Carter Daboiku tells stories to enhance understanding of culture and place. Omope is a member of the Ohio Teaching Artists roster.

  • Grades: 3-12
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Napoleon Maddox

Napoleon Maddox is a true hip-hop ambassador! He works as a writer, producer, human beat-box artist, vocalist and DJ. 

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Pam Temple

Pam Temple is a singer-songwriter with the award-winning Americana music group Wild Carrot, healing artist, and certified facilitator with Women Writing for (a) Change® and SoulCollage®.

  • Grades: 4-12
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P. Ann Everson-Price

Experience P. Ann Everson-Price's interactive performance about historical events that influenced music from Jazz to Motown. 

  • Grades: 4-Adult
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Patsy Meyer Music Adventures

Emmy nominated Vocalist/Percussionist, Patsy Meyer, is a trained Music Together teacher. Her innovative sessions provide engaging, fun-filled cross-curriculum learning within a framework of music and movement. 

  • Grades: PS-12
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Pones: Laboratory of Movement

Pones: Laboratory of Movement promotes dance as a starting point to explore creativity, self-expression, and tranforming ideas into action. 

  • Grades: K-12
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The Space Painter

These engaging juggling demonstrations impart important lessons about tolerance, test-taking skills, and positive family values.

  • Grades: K-8
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Stan Ginn

Experience an interactive performance of found-object instruments to demonstrate musical and scientific concepts.

  • Grades: PS-8
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Toca Madera

Toca Madera performs music of Latin America and the Caribbean, taking listeners on a journey from the mountains of Peru to the beaches of Brazil, and the streets of Cuba.

  • Virtual program only
  • Grades: PS-12
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Wild Carrot

Wild Carrot performs American folk music and offers songwriting workshops based on a class’ curriculum.

  • Grades: K-8
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Zak Morgan

GRAMMY® nominated and Universal recording artist Zak Morgan's unique brand of children's music delivers songs and poems with wit and charm that inspire and tickle the funny bones of children and adults alike. Morgan’s writing is filled with rich vocabulary and wordplay, and he uses music and humor as vehicles to encourage children to read books, use their imaginations, and believe in themselves

  • Grades: K-5
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The Cincinnati Arts Association and its Education and Community Programs

are supported [in part] by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS EDUCATION SPONSORS

 

Ameritas; ArtsWave; Charles H. Dater Foundation; The Cincinnati Herald; Eleanora C.U. Alms Trust—Fifth Third Bank, Trustee; Fifth Third Bank; Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc.; The Hearst Foundation; Greater Cincinnati Foundation; The John A. Schroth Family Charitable Trust (Edward V Arbaugh III); Local 12 WKRC-TV; Louise Taft Semple Foundation; The Luther Charitable Trust—Narley L. Haley & Fifth Third Bank, co-trustees; Ohio Arts Council; The Otto M. Budig Family Foundation; Paolo A Modern Jeweler; P&G Fund; Pepsi; The Stillson Foundation; Summerfair Cincinnati; TriHealth; Tri-State Chevy Dealers; The Western and Southern Financial Fund; The William O. Purdy, Jr. Foundation; WOW Windowboxes