Juanita participated in the 10^th annual ImageMovementSound collaboration with Rochester Institute of Technology, Eastman School of Music, SUNY Brockport, SUNY Geneseo and Nazareth College. Listen to a recent profile of Juanita’s work entitled Dear Diary broadcast on WXXI-AM.

Our long-standing faculty member Dr. Oh Kon Cho, professor of theatre, continues to teach his popular puppet classes.

Dr. William Hullfish, associate professor of theatre, is always active on the community scene. As an expert on the Erie Canal and canal songs, he was recently featured on Channel WXXI’s production of 15 Miles on the Erie Canal, which aired in March. He also provided the soundtrack for the hour-long documentary.

Leslie Thompson, assistant professor of art, has been collaborating with Indian Landing School in Penfield to teach a Colonial quilt project as the culmination for the Colonial American history unit. She wrote the complementary curriculum and will lead children in the study of the historic importance of quilt making.

Both Leslie and Arts for Children Director Diane McGhee are two of 40 world scholars invited to participate in an Oxford Round Table at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, to discuss international issues of education and policy related to the dramatic split between arts and humanities, and science and mathematics.

Diane has also been invited to co-direct a pilot project for The Performance Lab in Minnesota and the New Jersey Department of Education to train pre-service arts specialists to use interactive technology in arts education. This project was funded by the prestigious DANA Foundation.

And finally, Diane recently returned from Kenya, Africa where she visited schools and delivered resources for children and teachers. Supplies were collected in part by program secretary Sandy Ayers and her husband Chris, who lead a cub scout pack in Elba. The boys packaged 350 bags of crayons, pencils and notepads along with news and picture postcards of themselves. The Kenyan schoolchildren are eagerly writing to their new friends in New York.