Feb 25, 2025
Arts integration is a valuable tool educators can implement to facilitate language and literacy goals in the classroom while boosting engagement. Simply, music, movement, storytelling, and puppetry help words leap off the page and encourage children to explore what those words mean. For example, in “What Does That Say?” Wolf Trap Teaching Artist Morgan Sendek uses dramatic movement to interpret signs and symbols. Throughout the...
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Feb 20, 2025
Puppetry and music have gone hand-in-hand in storytelling even before “Sesame Street.” Andy Furgeson takes this medium to a whole new level with his bard-like persona, Red Yarn. In his folk-rock music, whimsical online video content, and boot-stomping live performances, Red Yarn strives to create inclusion and unity for future generations. ...
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Oct 24, 2024
Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artists Share What They’ve Learned from Their Experiences Working Internationally We are more alike than we are different. This is the observation that Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Terlene “Ms. T” Terry-Todd has made, following years of working with early educators in the U.S. and abroad and witnessing the influence of the arts in educational settings. Ms. T is one of...
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Oct 24, 2024
An Affiliate Spotlight for Singapore Wolf Trap Singapore Wolf Trap, through its sponsor organization, Singapore Repertory Theatre (SRT), has paired active arts-based learning experiences for children with professional development for early childhood educators throughout Singapore since 2019. The Institute affiliate has built a reputation for boldly creative experiences and community partnerships centered around the early childhood community, through initiatives like “Wake Up! Shake Up!”, a...
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Oct 24, 2024
Wolf Trap Foundation has a long history of nurturing new and emerging talent across its programs. Many go on to become award-winning performers and musicians, but that tradition doesn’t apply solely to the artists who appear on the Foundation’s stages—it’s also found in the bright and shining work of Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts’ Teaching Artists....
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Oct 22, 2024
“Pole pole, pole pole; go slow, go slow. Pole pole, pole pole; that’s where the animals go!” This past June, Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning through the Arts extended its reach to the East African nation of Kenya, through a partnership with Maryland and Kenya-based Kenya Connect, in collaboration with the Gupta Family Foundation. Wolf Trap Master Teaching Artist Christina Farrell and Institute Early...
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Aug 16, 2024
Wolf Trap Grants Encourages Students to Find Their Voice Through the Arts; Applications for the 2024-2025 Academic Year Open Through Sept. 15 Each year, Wolf Trap awards grants to performing arts teachers to fund innovative arts projects that help their students develop new skills, learn from arts professionals via master classes, incorporate new technology into their work, or create more expansive collaborations with other schools...
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Jun 11, 2024
Wolf Trap asked its teaching artists to reflect upon educators who made a difference in their lives, inspired their love of the arts, and helped shape the direction of their careers. Here’s what they shared: Wolf Trap Teaching Artist Ambo Tazanu shares how her high school drama teacher encouraged her to pursue theater, and consider a professional career in the performing arts. Teachers build connections...
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Jun 11, 2024
Children’s Performer Fyütch Reflects on His Experience Developing a New Commission for Wolf Trap Recently, Wolf Trap tapped Grammy-nominated children’s performer and social justice artist Harold “Fyütch” Simmons to create an original commission for Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. Collaborating with Wolf Trap’s education team, Fyütch developed a 45-minute performance work titled “Hip Hop Harmony” that included three new compositions he debuted on...
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Jun 11, 2024
Singing, dancing, dramatic play, and puppetry can help children develop foundational skills in math, science, and literacy. Musical experiences, in particular, have been shown to boost brain development in children in the areas of language and reading skills, increasing their overall literacy, according to a 2016 study at the University of Southern California’s Brain and Creativity Institute.1 Introducing instruments, songs, and chants into daily activities...
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