Windows to A Multicultural World
African-American and African Diaspora Arts & Culture Programs
for K-12 Field Trips and School Engagements
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Our "Windows to A Multicultural World" program provides African-American and African diaspora history, art and culture curriculum for grades K-12. Our program includes educational content, lesson plans, curated resources, recorded, live-streamed and on-site arts engagements led by our team of trained Vermont teaching artists of African descent. |
Click on the video above for a snippet of our Windows to A Multicultural World program intro. Our new remote learning platform provides a cost-efficient alternative for our usual school field trips to the historic Clemmons Family Farm in Charlotte, Vermont and our on-site arts engagements in your school's classrooms. We offer six separate modules with a range of age-appropriate engagements for grades K-12 that are grounded in African-American history and African diaspora art, culture and geography.
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Our Teaching Artists
The Clemmons Family Farm has an established network of more than 165 Vermont artists who self-identify as Black, African-American, African origin, or of the African diaspora (e.g. Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Brazil). All of these artists are Vermont residents. Most of the arts and culture programs we offer are facilitated by our trained teaching artists, culture bearers and scholars who are registered members of our network. Our programs engage students in experiences that foster the development of their positive identities and empathy as citizens of a multicultural world. |
Our collaborating artists include dancers and choreographers, film makers and photographers, musicians and singers, poets, playwrights and actors, storytellers and spoken word artists, costume designers, painters, weavers, culinary artists, makers and more!
Each of the six windows in our Windows to A Multicultural World program is developed to meet specific learning objectives and to address selected Core Curriculum Standards for the State of Vermont. Our modules also incorporate equity literacy and social justice learning standards, and ground our arts and culture engagements to the anchor learning standards of the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards (NCCAS). We work with teachers and schools to tailor our African-American/African diaspora arts and culture programs to your educational goals both in the classroom and through place-based learning on a rare African-American owned historic farm in Vermont.
With our team of Vermont artists of African descent, we will support the efforts that parents, teachers and schools are already making to help their students acquire the skills, attitudes and exposure to multicultural settings that they need to reach their full potential as citizens of the world.
With our team of Vermont artists of African descent, we will support the efforts that parents, teachers and schools are already making to help their students acquire the skills, attitudes and exposure to multicultural settings that they need to reach their full potential as citizens of the world.
Helping All Children Become World Citizens
H.3, the Ethnic and Social Equity in Schools bill, which will soon officially become Act 1, is a new law in Vermont that ushers ethnic studies into our statewide educational standards along with policies that promote ethnic and social equity in public elementary and high schools. Our "Windows to A Multicultural World" field trips and school classroom engagements are designed to help schools to get a head start on meeting these emerging standards.
H.3, the Ethnic and Social Equity in Schools bill, which will soon officially become Act 1, is a new law in Vermont that ushers ethnic studies into our statewide educational standards along with policies that promote ethnic and social equity in public elementary and high schools. Our "Windows to A Multicultural World" field trips and school classroom engagements are designed to help schools to get a head start on meeting these emerging standards.
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Above: Musician, composer and storyteller Michael Dyke is one of the talented collaborating Teaching Artists who lead the planning, design and implementation of the Clemmons Family Farm's 'Windows to a Multicultural World' K-12 arts and culture programs.
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Above: Clemmons Family Farm's teaching artist Mikaylan Diallo teaches kindergarten students African-American step dancing. Children also learn about the origins of this traditional dance in South African gum boot dancing.
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To learn more about our Windows to A Multicultural World Program and to book one or more of our teaching artists, please email us at contact@clemmonsfamilyfarm.org
or leave us a message at (765) 560-5445.
or leave us a message at (765) 560-5445.
"Windows to A Multicultural World" Professional Development Workshop for Teaching Artists
From May 25-30, 2020, while our people, our nation and the world struggled with the quadruple pandemic of the coronavirus, racism, police brutality, and now civil unrest, eighteen members of the Clemmons Family Farm's team of K-12 teachers and teaching artists participated in daily two-hour Zoom sessions in our "Windows to A Multicultural World" professional development workshop. We worked to create meaningful arts engagements to teach African-American history and culture to young people through the lens of Window 1: "Traveling while Black". Our arts engagements for young people are an important part of the complex solution to undo entrenched systems of oppression and racial inequities and create a more just and welcoming multicultural world.
Below are excerpts of some of the presentations given during the workshop, which include an overview of the Windows program by Lydia Clemmons, a presentation by Kirya Traber about Black Musicians on Tour during the Jim Crow era, and a coaching session between Margaret Bass, one of the Farm's African diaspora history mentors
and Michael Dyke, one of our teaching artists.
From May 25-30, 2020, while our people, our nation and the world struggled with the quadruple pandemic of the coronavirus, racism, police brutality, and now civil unrest, eighteen members of the Clemmons Family Farm's team of K-12 teachers and teaching artists participated in daily two-hour Zoom sessions in our "Windows to A Multicultural World" professional development workshop. We worked to create meaningful arts engagements to teach African-American history and culture to young people through the lens of Window 1: "Traveling while Black". Our arts engagements for young people are an important part of the complex solution to undo entrenched systems of oppression and racial inequities and create a more just and welcoming multicultural world.
Below are excerpts of some of the presentations given during the workshop, which include an overview of the Windows program by Lydia Clemmons, a presentation by Kirya Traber about Black Musicians on Tour during the Jim Crow era, and a coaching session between Margaret Bass, one of the Farm's African diaspora history mentors
and Michael Dyke, one of our teaching artists.
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To learn more about our Windows to A Multicultural World Program and to book a teaching artist, please email us at contact@clemmonsfamilyfarm.org or leave us a message at (765) 560-5445.
