Artists

Liz Pelton has been a member of Baltimore's Full Circle Dance Company since 2001. Pelton teaches at Morton Street Dance Center. Her early training was at North River Arts Ballet and Boston Ballet in Massachusetts. She performed in Boston, Chicago, Washington D.C., and New Haven before coming to Baltimore. She is a graduate of Georgetown University. Pelton works with the entire 2nd grade class during her monthly performance workshops, and with Lab students from Wednesday art-making for two workshops. Based on one of their curricula, the students would learn how to use body language to imitate different animals’ behaviors and movements. Pelton will have eight workshops in later 2013 and early 2014. In each session, Pelton communicates with students about their dance and performance, and encourage students to express themselves.

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Nancye Hesaltine has been member of the visual arts faculty at Park since 1999, teaching first through third grades. She is a graduate of The University of Maryland with degrees in art education and curriculum and instruction. In her twenty-sixth year of teaching, young children continue to inspire and influence her artwork. This autumn, during art classes with second grade, she explored the concept of water. Children's discoveries for mixing colors and varying brush strokes became a painterly waterfall, hanging in the art room. Hesaltine was also delighted by children's drawings of how they visually expressed their thinking about water moving from a source like a well, lake or reservoir to their homes.

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Julia Kim Smith is an inter- and multidisciplinary artist whose work explores issues of identity and memory--and the social and political landscape. Her work is exhibited nationally and internationally, and she is an A.I.R. Gallery National Artist, Brooklyn, New York. Smith works with the entire 7th grade class in a series of 10 workshops, developing ideas from a book from the 7th grade Language Arts curriculum, Lois Lowry's The Giver. Through these workshops, Smith shares her methods of art making with students and helps students create mini-installations. Based on the experience of the workshops, Smith will create an installation that responds to this project.