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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 offers 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 for the Windows to A Multicultural World (WTAMW) program 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. ​ 

Learn more about our upcoming pilot of the WTAMW remote learning platform and fill out the application to join by clicking on the button below!
Join our WTAMW Pilot!

​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 our collaborating 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. 
Helping All Children Become World​ ​Citizens

​H.3, the Ethnic and Social Equity in Schools bill, officially become Act 1, informing 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, school classroom engagements, and remote learning platform are designed to help schools to get a head start on meeting these emerging standards. ​
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.  
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.
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.

"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 in
equities 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.
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.
Our Windows to A Multicultural World K-12 Learning Program is made possible with major funding from Bay and Paul Foundations and Nellie Mae Foundation, and additional support from the Vermont Arts Council and private donations.
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Contact us at: contact@clemmonsfamilyfarm.org
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Leave us a message at: 765-560-5445

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  • What We Do
    • About Our Programs >
      • K-12 Ethnic Studies
      • Creating Healthy Communities >
        • Cancelling Miss Rona
        • A Sense of Place >
          • A Sense of Place at NEFA-CCX
      • The Agitators
      • Art >
        • A bit about the Art
        • Farm2Art Program
        • Culinary Heritage & Arts Program
      • Farm
      • Forest
      • Our Heritage
  • About
    • About Us >
      • Our Vision
      • Our Plans for the Center
    • Who We Are >
      • Jack and Lydia's Living Legacy
      • How Jack and Lydia Found and Bought the Farm
      • Holding On to Our Legacies
    • When Are We Open?
    • Press Coverage >
      • Other News >
        • 2019 Visitors Survey: Sneak Preview
        • 2018 Updates
        • 2017 Updates
        • 2016 Updates
    • What Our Community is Saying >
      • 2018 Visitor Survey Findings!
      • Feedback from other Vermont communities
    • Subscribe!
  • The Storytelling Room
    • Alone Together With Words That Heal
    • Juneteenth in the Air Program (2020)
    • 2018 To Sing of Common Things
    • Family Storytelling >
      • Farm Storytelling Channel
      • Our Storytelling >
        • Heritage, Farm & Family Stories >
          • Louisiana and Arkansas: 1800s - 1920s
          • From the South to the Mid-West: 1930s to 1950s
          • Finding and Buying the Farm
        • Vermont2Africa and Back Stories
  • Artists' Registry
    • Are You Looking for an Artist?
    • Why, Hello there, Artists!
  • Historic Buildings
    • Venue Rentals
    • Stay with Us!
    • Six Historic Buildings
    • The Barn House >
      • The Barn House Legacy
      • The Barn House Library
      • Stay with Us!
    • The Big Barn >
      • "Making History, Creating Place" Videos!
      • The Historic Water Cistern
    • The Main House >
      • About the Black Locust Trees
    • The Shop >
      • Shop Storytelling Videos
  • Please Donate!
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