In this drop-in program designed for children on the autism spectrum and their families, explore works of art in sensory-friendly experiences in the galleries and create your own art in the studio.
For families with children ages 6 and up.
Don’t forget to register and download the social narrative!
Musicians come together to perform classics from their homes and raise the spirits of all those affected by the pandemic. We may be socially distant, but not disconnected. Watch and listen to the inspiring strains of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy and other performances that both soothe and stir the soul. If you are so inspired, create an artwork as a response to the music and share it here!
Socially Distant Orchestra Performing Ode to Joy
Earth Day Festival- How-to from Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, first celebrated in 1970. Tune in here to the Staten Island Museum’s website on Saturday, April 25, 2020 at 12pm to join the celebration, watch the videos, and do some wonderful activities to celebrate our Earth!
The Staten Island Children’s Museum is an absolute jewel located in Snug Harbor on Staten Island’s North Shore. While it is closed for now, the museum continues to offer activities to our community and beyond! Click on the links below to view how to videos from the teaching artists of the Staten Island Children’s Museum. Don’t forget to share pictures of your work and your comments!
James Corden and The Broadway Cast of Dear Evan Hansen – Performed Remotely
Like everyone these days my routine is broken, everything seems uncertain and up in the air, normal is not really normal and we are all trying our best to do what we do from the safety of our homes, without being together. Every day I read comments from my students and I see how they are struggling to do learning at home without the benefit of their teachers and paras being physically present, how they miss their friends and how things are just different and maybe scary right now. Our students would have been having performances, tech and science and social studies fairs, the Borough Arts Fair, the carnival and a host of end year trips and prepping for graduation. Our personal lives are on “pause” and that is how it has to be for now. When you read how heartbroken and lost so many people are, it is our human nature to run to their aid. While many of us are unable to be that physical presence right now, we are still able to reach out to other via the “miracle of technology” as my mother calls it.
In trying to bring some normalcy back to my teaching, like everyone else, I have been trying to maintain all those connections that we have throughout the school year, our cultural partners, our artists in residence, our school community. I decided to look back at one of the programs so dear to my heart, our Urban Voices program through the Metropolitan Opera Guild, that has brought so much joy to me personally over the years. Working backwards from this year, You Will Be Found was the ensemble finale that our students covered last year. I can see every child’s face in my mind’s eye and pick out their voices and even those shy kids who tried to hide in the back and not sing, I saw you and I understand how hard it is sometimes to do new things and put yourself out there, because adults feel that way sometimes too. Yesterday, I was talking to Mr. Xander, who also misses our kids and we were talking about this song. I loved it then, I love it still, I miss my real family, my work family, and my school kid family. Hope to see you soon, but remember you can always, always reach out. Virtual hugs, Ms. Seminara
You Will Be Found with James Corden and the Broadway Cast of Dear Evan Hansen
It’s a beautiful day and the perfect time to check out all the blooms at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. It is cherry blossom season, but that is not all. Visit the garden here and check out activities you can do at home. Brooklyn Botanic Garden – Families
When you’re done, sketch some of those beautiful flowers, trees, and plants. Don’t forget to add color! And share your art!
For Japanese Garden virtual tourJapanese Garden Virtual Tour
For Cherry Blossom virtual tour Cherry Esplanade Virtual Tour
Explore one of the most iconic buildings in the entire United States, the Guggenheim Museum! Follow me and the link to step inside the amazing architecture that is the Guggenheim, and then feel free to explore! Guggenheim Virtual Tour
You are stuck in the house – what to do when all of that school work is done? Check out Mommy Poppins website for the best virtual events for families around town. Mommy Poppins – Best Virtual Events . If you like what you see, leave a comment so I know what you visited today!
Check out Lincoln Center Live every day for some awesome programs, pop-up classrooms for remote learning, and performances. Visual Arts, Dance, Music, it’s all here! lincolncenter.org Visit the link or add them on Facebook or Instagram @lincolncenter to check out pop up programs every day!
I was always inspired by the street art I would see everywhere, the murals on buildings, the creative poetry and the colors! I bet you didn’t know that street art (aka graffiti) goes back to even Roman times, when people would scratch images or messages into the walls of buildings, “sgraffito” and even further back than that, to the cave art, where even a child’s hand print is high on a wall, telling us that an adult must have helped the child reach. Follow me and this link to the Tate Modern in London. It’s closed to the public right now, like everything else, but it’s open for us here! Let’s make some street art and share it to Tate’s online gallery and share it with me! Take a picture, put it on the blog, leave a comment or compliment for each other! Let’s have some fun! Tate Street Art
The Students' Studio 
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