Church Street School for Music and Art
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The Church Street School for Music and Art, located in Tribeca, New York, is a non-profit school for the arts established in 1990. It offers a variety of courses for children, teens, and adults principally in music but also in studio arts and related fields.[1]
History
[edit]The Church Street School was founded in 1990 by Lisa Ecklund-Flores and Lauri Bailey. The school enrolled 150 students with two instructors in its early years. Although it offers programming for all ages, its main audience is children. The school relocated several times to accommodate a growing student body and teaching faculty and to adapt to the increasingly expensive conditions of lower Manhattan. As of 2016, the school had 55 teaching artists-in-residence.[2] Ecklund-Flores, who is also a professor of psychology at Mercy University and was an academic consultant for Blues Clues, stepped down as the Church Street School executive director in 2021.[3] At the time, the school was noted to serve approximately 20,000 families in the New York Metropolitan area.[4] The current executive director is Dr. Christina Placilla.[5]
Pedagogy
[edit]The Church Street School bases its work in the pedagogical theories of the Dalcroze eurythmics and has been cited as engaging a significant, potemtial alternative model to traditional music education.[6][7] At the same time, the school also houses the Tribeca Jazz Institute which is a more traditional, jazz education conservatory for gifted, pre-college students interested in pursuing performing careers.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "PROGRAMS". Church Street School. Retrieved 2023-11-21.
- ^ "Tribeca Citizen | Spotlight: Church Street School for Music and Art". Tribeca Citizen. Retrieved 2023-11-21.
- ^ "Tribeca Citizen | Church Street School founder will step down this summer". Tribeca Citizen. Retrieved 2023-11-21.
- ^ "Celebration for Church Street School's Co-Founder and Longtime Director | Tribeca Trib Online". www.tribecatrib.com. Retrieved 2023-11-21.
- ^ "Dr. Christina Placilla". Church Street School. Retrieved 2023-11-21.
- ^ Oppenheimer, Mark (2013-09-16). "Stop Forcing Your Kids to Learn a Musical Instrument". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved 2023-11-21.
- ^ "ABOUT & POLICIES". Church Street School. Retrieved 2023-11-21.
- ^ "TRIBECA JAZZ INSTITUTE". Church Street School. Retrieved 2023-11-21.
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