InsideOut

My name is Jake Bagshaw. I am a 29 year old S.F. native who has a love for screen printing. I was inspired by an elective class in high school and have been printing ever since. My goal has been to develop a lesson plan and be able to present and teach this amazing art form to senior citizens in rest/care homes around the city as a exciting form of creative and restorative therapy of sorts.

A professionally performing ensemble, the Cypress String Quartet spends about half its resources reaching out to students and community members through various programs. The Cypress Quartet's student work ranges from providing "non-music" and "music" students access to creativity and chamber music as well as training in chamber music. The Cypress is building chamber music audiences in younger generations--for both classic and contemporary music. Whatever level at which students see and hear the Cypress Quartet, they are sure to find their concerts and presentations fascinating and fun.

City Studio’s programming offers the context of Bay Area urban sites and community facilities as a new kind of laboratory for artists’ research, practice, and social interaction as part of students’ coursework. City Studio’s Year-Round Program for high school students was created by the San Francisco Art Institute in partnership with Opportunity West in Richmond and the West Contra Costa Unified School District, the East Bay Asian Youth Center in Oakland and Horizon’s Unlimited in San Francisco and made possible by generous early support by the Walter & Elise Haas Foundation. The Year-Round Program is supported in part by a grant by The James Irvine Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, Omnia Foundation, the Comer Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, Wells Fargo Bank, Adobe Foundation Fund at Community Foundation Silicon Valley, and SPARK Community Partnership Program.

Understanding Cultures uses world music to improve literacy and social studies.  Music in the Schools Today (MUST) offers Chinese, African, Afro-Caribbean, Filipino, Flamenco and Native American music and movement, incorporating Putumayo and Folk Art International curriculum materials. Achieving through Music is a therapeutic music intervention program targeting at-risk youth.  Through drum circle exercises and instrumental instruction using guitar, violin, drums, etc., MUST facilitates increased self-esteem, respect for authority and community, and career interests in youth.

VTS is a remarkable professional development program for teachers and a powerful, student-centered curriculum for students using visual images to foster students’ capacities to observe, think, listen, and communicate. VTS asks students to: look carefully at works of art, talk about what they observe, back up their ideas with evidence, listen to and consider the views of others, and discuss many possible interpretations in a respectful manner. The program promotes cultural and educational equity and provides teachers with a powerful tool to close the achievement gap.

Leap's mission is to stimulate imagination and creativity in Bay Area children by bringing visual and performing artists and architects into the classroom for extended residencies.  Leap artists and architects team with teachers to design participatory projects that augment and amplify the school's curriculum.  Our purpose is to interweave all aspects of learning with the creative process.

California College of the Arts (CCA) supports arts learning for children and youth through its Extended Education programs, including Teacher's Institute, Pre-College and Young Artists Studio programs.  Through the Center for Art & Public Life, CCA offers professional development programs that support innovative teaching in art and arts-integrated instruction.  CCA also provides classroom support for local art teachers who mentor students from CCA as teaching artists. The Teaching Artist Program is a work-study training program for CCA students interested in teaching in K-12 schools.  Students in this program work closely with and are mentored by experienced art/art-integrating teachers in K-12 classrooms for 3-7 hours per week.