Student Programs
Deepen the arts experience in your classroom.
In addition to our Performing Arts Classroom series, Ordway offers a variety of opportunities to enhance your performance experience and extend the performing arts into classrooms.
All Grades
ARTWALK. The ARTwalk is an exhibit of children's artwork collected from schools and community organizations across the region. The public exhibit celebrates the achievements of young people's visual creativity as part of the Flint Hills International Children’s Festival, produced annually by Ordway for the Performing Arts. All young artists are invited to participate in this unique visual arts experience. The 2009 Deadline for Submission of Intent is February 24, 2009. MORE >>
ARTCONTEST. Children from across Minnesota are invited to submit original artwork for the 2009 Flint Hills International Children’s Festival ARTcontest. Artists are invited to explore their own visual representation of the theme: Flights of Fancy. One entry per grade level will be selected for feature on the 2009 Festival Poster and receive a modest cash prize and recognition at a reception honoring young artists. MORE >>
GLOBAL ARTS WORKSHOPS. Taking place during the week of the Flint Hills International Children’s Festival, these workshops with Twin Cities artists last one hour and cost just $3 per student! All Global Arts Workshops with the rest of the school performances. MORE >>
STUDENT PERSPECTIVES. Instead of leaving your fieldtrip at the theater door, take the time to hear what your students noticed about their Ordway experience. Using the Artful Tools Protocols, Ordway staff and peer coaches using the Artist to Artist collaborative inquiry model, will lead students through a thoughtful discussion on students’ observations, reactions, and unanswered questions. MORE >>
Elementary and Middle School
DIGITAL KIDS. Digital Kids brings a resident media artist into two Twin Cities classrooms to lead classes through a documentary process that focuses on the Festival as its subject. Students from Frost Lake Magnet and Webster Magnet in St. Paul and Keewaydin in Minneapolis will begin researching Festival artists in the fall and will create a documentary that captures the art forms and cultures represented in the artists’ performances. MORE >>
PUBLIC ART PROJECT. The K-12 Public Art Project connects visual art students and teachers with professional teaching artists in the area to create an outdoor public art piece for display at the Flint Hills International Children's Festival. MORE >>
High School
ARTBUILDS. Imagine, design and build with your students at this year’s Flint Hills International Children’s Festival! We invite small teams from all Minnesota middle and high schools to apply for entry in this year’s ARTbuilds project—a student-driven design program that includes conceptualization, design execution, and building implementation. MORE >>