Wolf Trap Residency
Early Learning Through the Arts
Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts
The Walf Trap Institute is a program of the Walf Trap foundation for the Performing Arts, a world-renowned cultural organization with programs that reach millions on the local, national, and international level. Located just outside of Washington, D.C. in Vienna, Virginia, Wolf Trap is a national park dedicated to the performing arts.
Founded in 1981, the Wolf Trap Institute places pofessional performing artists in classroom residencies to work with children three to five years old, along with their teachers and parents/families through the discipline of drama, music, and movement. The Wolf Trap Institute has regional programs located throughout the United States and conducts residencies and workshops in communities in this country and abroad.
Using the arts to enrich, engage, energize, enliven, and educate
The collaboration between performing artist and early childhood professionals serves to:
- enrich and motivate the teacher's professional development
- engage young children in active, creative learning experiences
- energize efforts to bring parents and caregivers together into the classroom
- enliven the classroom environment
Classroom residencies are:
- a partnertship between a Wolf Trap Institute Artist and an early childhood educator working together to produce new and effective arts activities to enhance curriculum in the preschool or kindergarten classroom
- available for one-week and seven-week periods
- an artist working with three to five year old children and their teachers
- fourteen 30-45 minute sessions per classroom
- teacher/artist planning meetings
- curriculam materials
