art i. facts – July 2013

I don’t like to do painting, but trying it made me like it. Making pictures with my body Loud blue like a big circle. Red like a bouncy ball thrown to the sky like a starburst. Scratching the air and jumping, Expressing ourselves. Last week, we led a residency...

art i. facts – June 2013

  This past year, Upstream Arts worked with students at Riverbend Education Center, a K-8 school that serves students with severe emotional and behavioral disabilities. One of our activities, Mirror Painting, involves a series of stations: one student explores...

The Power of Yes

  Yesterday, several of our teaching artists returned from working with Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE) students in the Minneapolis Public School district and told us an incredible story. The teaching artists had brought in “Yes, No, I Don’t...