Artist residency at Lincoln Elementary School for the Arts coming to a close
(02/15/19) For the past six weeks, developmental cognitive disabilities (DCD) students, as well as all second and third graders at Lincoln Elementary School for the Arts in Anoka have been hanging out with some amazing pirates.
Monkey Mind Pirates has had a six-week artist residency at the school that wraps up Feb. 15, and according to the school’s curriculum integrator, Diane Aldis, it has been giving students creative tools to find calm through an innovative approach combining mindfulness, playfulness, yoga and music, and most importantly, puppetry.
Lincoln and the Anoka-Hennepin School District earned a $32,000 grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board to support the project, which includes the residency, as well as an upcoming family workshop and a community performance including the students set for the spring.
Monkey Mind Pirates is a program from Z Puppets Rosenschnoz, a Minneapolis-based performing arts company that combines arts with education.
The date for the spring community performance is still to be determined.