The Oculus Press RR1 Box 690, Grafton, NH 03240, Phone 603-523-7997
Oculus Press Home || Resume || Shows, Competition & Popular Etchings || Images for Products || Catalog || Order Form || Experiencing the Arts || "Art Curriculum Overview [pdf]"

Experiencing the Arts Performance History School Year 2003 -04


Number Attended - Date - Location - Event
21 5/14, Hood Museum Art in the East and West, AVA Gallery, 7 contemporary artists.
48 5/1, Peak Community Event, Melodrome concert, Lebanon Opera House (27 patrons plus Exp. Arts).
500 4/16 All School, Black Bear Moon drumming with 21 Exp. Arts, and 43 Chorus students performing.
37 4/16 Mrs. Breach's AP English class joined Exp. Arts, and MAP students, for the Reduced Shakespeare Co.
64 4/12-16 Resident Artists from Black Bear Moon work with 21 Exp. Arts and 43 Mascoma Chorus students.
36 4/6, Exp. Arts, MAP and 11 from Indian River Middle School, Freedom Train, Lebanon Opera House.
35 4/1, Exp. Arts, JAG, MAP, students attend The Flight Project, modern dance, Hopkins Center.
10 4/29, Lorie Andersen concert, Hopkins Center, students, faculty, parents, (ticket endowment fund).
200 4/ 30, Wreckless Abandon animation assembly, Hartford Career & Tech. Center.
21 4/30 Ahn Trio, Lebanon Opera House
21 3/21, 28 + 4/5/04 Experiencing the Arts students participate with guest jeweler Joseph De Robertis
40 Fall, 2003, 19 Experiencing the Arts students, Spring 2004, 21 Experiencing the Arts students
4 3/9 New Shanghai Circus, Lebanon Opera House (ticket endowment fund).
33 3/12, 8 Home School students, MAP, & Experiencing the Arts "Harlem Gospel Choir."
39 3/11 Ms. Patterson's History & Experiencing the Arts, "They Came for me, Remembering Anne Frank."
97 2/13 Canaan, Dorchester, Enfield, Grafton, Orange, Community Reggae Dance, Mascoma High School.
10 2/29 Bela Fleck & Edgar Meyer, Lebanon Opera House, (ticket endowment fund).
458 2/11 students and faculty attended all school assemblies, La Guitar Quartet (school less class on field trip).
42 2/11, Exp. Arts, JAG, MAP, and Job Quest, students attend Theatre of the Deaf at Lebanon Opera House -- continuing to Vermont to watch glass blowing demonstration & tour at Simon Pierce Glassworks.
42 2/5, Portfolio, Art 2, Exp. Arts, docent tour of "Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990's," Hood Museum of Art.
46 10/03, Mascoma Art & Indian River Art students & faculty attend Scholastic Art Show, Bedford, NH.
500 11/6 students attended all school assemblies, Fences.
500 12/10 students attended all school assemblies, Kunsun Ensemble, also numerous Indian River students.
30 12/11, attended Thursday, Kennedy Center's opera The Emperor's New Clothes.
38 1/15, attended the Doug Varone and Dancers (Experiencing the Arts, MAP students and JAG students).
13 11/14 Indian River students joined Experiencing the Arts field trip to hear Wayfaring Strangers.
100 11/8 attended Inner Visions reggae, Peak Community Event & Fund Raiser.
32 11/7, from Advanced Placement English Joined Experiencing the Arts for August Wilson's Fences.
14 11/5, Art 2 students joined Experiencing the Arts a presentation by guest artist Peter Bramhall.
19 10/17, attended Africa on Display, (Experiencing the Arts, MAP students).
80 10/6-10/03 students participated for a week with guest artists Deborah Andersen.
2 10/6-10/03 faculty participated for a week with guest artist Deborah Andersen.
500 9/29 students attended all school assemblies, Coyote's World.
30 9/25 attended Hachioji Kuruma Ningyo Puppets, Followed by a tour of Coming of Age in Ancient Greece at the Hood Museum P.M. - 2:30 PM (Experiencing the Arts, MAP students and JAG students).

3662 Number attending Experiencing the Arts events

813 Total number of artists and performers (by low estimate events above)
667 Number of NH artists (including 600 NH student artists at the Scholastic Art Awards show) 7 at AVA Gallery, 68 at Mascoma High School all school assembly - 64 students, 4 Black Bear Moon artists, Joseph DeRobertis, Deborah Andersen,

Experiencing the Arts Performance History School Year 2002 -03


List number of individuals benefiting:
18 experiencing the Arts students in the Fall
12 Experiencing the Arts students in the Spring
500 students attended each of four events all school assemblies
80 students a day participated with guest artists Mark Ragoneese
80 students a day participated with guest artists Richard Foye
20 students from Indian River School attended a Raku pottery firing demonstration
156 attended the Spring Peak community event
21 attended the Fall Peak community event
18 including parents attended a night Raku pottery firing demonstration and bar-b-q
18 members of the Spanish Class went to Plena Libre
40 students from Indian River School went to field trip events 20 x two trips
13 students from the portfolio class went to a field trip Clara‚s Dream at the Hopkins Center
18 students from Mascoma‚s Alternative Program went on two field trips
12 members of the Jobs for NH Graduates went on two field trips
8 members os the philosophy class joined Experiencing the Arts students to see Matrix Reloaded
13 members of Kids Count Day Care went to hear Jazz at the Hopkins Center
43 Mascoma Parents and families went to the WOFA African drumming at Lebanon Opera House
13 music students from Cardigan Mountain School went to hear Jazz at the Hopkins Center
1083 Total

Number of Artists participating first at the school itself:
8 members of Groove Alliance
1 Mark Ragoneese
2 Perry Allen Theatre
4 Advice to the Players Shakespeare presentation of
No Holds Bard"
1 Peggy Seegar
1 Dee Rogers stave puzzle designer
1 Richard Foye guest Raku potter
8 WOFA African drummers and dancers
26 Total performers at school itself

In addition: the number of performers at the events we went to:
2 9/21/02, folk music with Roger McGuinn & Special Guest
10 (estimated) 10/9/02, Latin music, Plena Libre
6 (estimated) 10/10/02, flamenco dance, Noche Flamenca
1 11/20/02, art, Jose Clemente Orozco easel studies and mural studies
10 (estimated) 12/9/02, Clara‚s Dream, jazz Nutcracker
6 (estimated) Date 1/10 Pilobolus, dance
2 Date -1/30/03, 2 Photo shows, Ambassadors of Progress & Hampton Project African & Native Americans
5 Artists showing at the AVA Gallery when we visited
10 (estimated) 3/5/03, dance and music, WOFA: Percussion & Dance from Guinea, West Africa
10 (estimated) 4/2/03, Inside the Floating World: Japanese
Prints from the Lenoir C. Wright Collection
20 (estimated) 5/16/03, art, They Still Draw Pictures: Children‚s Art in Wartime
8 (estimated) 4/16/03, jazz history and music Stolen Moments: 100 Years of Jazz
10 (estimated) 5/7/03 American Dreams Lost and Found.
3 5/9/03, Native American dance, Kevin Locke Trio.
4 5/24/03 Spring Peak Community Event - Northern Lights Bluegrass music.
107 Total artists/performers at shows we attended away from school
133 (approximately) artists were exposed the students, (26 at the school, 107 at events we went to)

NH artists participating: 10
Christopher Morse, Director
four of the Groove Alliance
Dee Rogers, Stave Puzzle designer
Mark Ragoneese
4 members of Advice to the Players

Number of communities benefiting, seven:
Canaan
Dorchester
Enfield
Grafton
Orange
Lebanon
Hanover (the Hopkins Center does benefit from our attendance)

Total number of youths participating: 884
total number less the attendees of the Spring Peak Community Event and 43 WOFA voucher users

100% the project activities were directed toward arts education all activities included members of the Experiencing the Arts class

One activity included pre kindergarten all the rest were including K-12 students and adults

64 Teachers at Mascoma attended the all school assemblies. Four faculty from Indian River School came to field trips/demonstrations

10 Administrators, the principal, assistant principal, members of the guidance department and many of the office staff and janitorial staff joined us at the all school performances