The Carnegie is proud to partner with the schools andnon-profit organizations below to provide enriching arts experiences for kidswho greatly benefit and might not otherwise be exposed to the arts.

Covington Independent Schools

• 5th graders from Covington Independent Schools visit The Carnegie Theatre each year for a Kentucky Heritage Performance Series.  This year’s performances included Russ Childers, Appalachian folk musician and storyteller, and Madcap Puppet productions, presenting “The Magical Traveling Story Man” about life in the Ohio River Valley in the 1890’s.
• 4th graders visit the Carnegie Theatre each year for the African American Artists Performance series which this year included Bi-Okoto Drum & Dance Theatre and Kathy Wade’s Black Anthology of Music
• 3rd graders this year are coming to see Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, a found object percussion group
• This is the second year for Time Travel Television, a program where Covington 5th grade students learn to script, storyboard, create props & costumes, film, and star in their own TV clips about 20th Century inventions and inventors.
• Biggs Preschool Students visit the EducationCenter twice monthly for core content-based art experiences.
• Our Artist-in-Residence Program visits school classrooms and brings students to The Carnegie for drama, arts, and musical adventures.  This years artists included Oginga Khamisi’s African Drumming Workshops, Madcap Puppet Productions’ create-you-own puppet play residencies, and Scott Kelley’s Clay Residency.

Children, Inc.

• On Fridays, Cathedral Development Center and Gardens of Greenup Center bring their three and four year olds to the Education Center for the Preschoolers Experiencing the Arts Program.  This year’s theme is Mother Earth and her Children.

Redwood Rehabilitation Center

• The Carnegie Visual + Performing Arts Center and VSA arts of Kentucky are working with Visionaries & Voices Studios and Redwood RehabilitationCenter to create art classes and one-on-one art experiences for special needs students ages 5 through 21.  It will consist of six art classes with a VSA roster artist followed by a one-on-one art experience with a Visionaries & Voices artist. During these one-on-one art experiences, students will pair up with mentor artists to create a collaborative piece of art.  The culminating exhibition will display one student piece from the six class sessions, the collaborative piece, and one mentor piece hanging Side-by-Side.  The Exhibition will take place at The Carnegie Visual + Performing ArtsCenter from July 21st through August 14th with an opening reception on Friday, July 21st from 6-9pm.

Project Connect

• The Carnegie is working with Project Connect, anon-profit organization serving adolescents experiencing homelessness, tocreate a Video Scrapbook in a new after school program. The goals of theprogram are to give participants experience with dramatic arts and videoproduction and to help participants create something that is interesting andfun and reflects their own life experiences. This scrapbook can contain interviews, dramatic scenes, monologues,conflict resolution role-plays, rap music videos, artwork, poetry, and anythingthat will tell stories of what it’s like to live in their world.  An exhibition and premiere will take place atThe Carnegie on June 1st, 2006