Literacy Support Systems, Inc. has assembled a team of top teaching artists in music, theater, visual arts, and dance. They have impressive backgrounds in their artistic fields as well as extensive teaching experience from top cultural institutions in New York City. The team is led by Dr. Amanda Grumet, an experienced performing artist, teaching artist, and literacy consultant.
Dr. Amanda Grumet and the teaching artists on the roster have trained teachers according to the Blueprint for the Arts and have run specific workshops on the Blueprint for the DOE.
These are the services we can provide to NYC public schools:
Integrated Arts Work:
In any of the artistic disciplines (Music, Theater, Visual Arts, Dance) we can provide integrated arts training which connects the arts to school curriculum in literacy and across the content areas. We provide demos as well as professional development to inspire teachers and to assist them in developing new skills to invigorate and enhance their standard curriculum.
Multiple Modality Teaching: Students learn in many different ways. Some learn best verbally, some more visually, and some are kinesthetically inclined. We provide workshops, demos, and professional development in multiple modality teaching, training teachers to teach using multiple art forms to teach standard curriculum.
Workshops, Demos, and Professional Development According to the Five Strands of Blueprint for the Arts:
I. Arts Making: Active experiential workshops creating in music, theater, visual arts or dance.
II. Literacy in the Arts: Workshops to become fluent and proficient in a particular art form. This could mean mastering a painting technique or forming a chamber music ensemble.
III. Making Connections: Workshops to provide social, cultural, or historical contexts within which to understand the arts. This can mean creating links to other disciplines, to historical time periods, as well as to connecting to other arts modalities.
IV. Community and Cultural Resources. Workshops are designed to connect a student with an experience or performance outside the school, to take advantage of New York City’s rich cultural resources.
V. Careers and Life Long Learning: Workshops are designed to give students a realistic grasp on opportunities in the arts, be it as a performer or an engineer in a recording studio. Career building skills used in arts activities can be applied to multiple fields of endeavor.
Selected Bios From Our Teaching Artist Roster
Amanda Grumet (Music and Theater)
Dr. Amanda Grumet is a literacy consultant and professor who has extensive classroom experience working with teachers and students from K-12 in the tri-state area. Amanda earned her D.M.A. in Vocal Performance with a minor in Opera Direction and her Master’s in Music from the University of Arizona in 1996. She has a Bachelor of Music from the New England Conservatory in Boston, and a Bachelor of Arts in French Literature from Oberlin College. Amanda is an accomplished performer. She is a classically trained opera singer and has sung diverse roles in the United States and overseas. She is a Meisner-trained actor appearing in stage and film, as well as a managed stand-up comic appearing in major clubs in New York City and on the road. Dr. Grumet has been a Teaching Artist in Music with the Lincoln Center Institute since 1998, and a Teaching Artist in Theater with the American Place Theatre’s Literature to Life Program since 2003. She is on the faculty of Lesley University’s Creative Arts in Learning Department, teaching in their Master’s Degree in Aesthetic Education. Amanda Grumet specializes in integrating the arts into standard curriculum, infusing the classroom experience with freshness and vitality for teachers and students alike. She is currently in rehearsal for a one woman rock musical she composed called “Operagirl”, which tells her story of training to become an opera singer.
Debra Pearlman (Visual Artist)
Debra Pearlman is an artist who exhibits internationally, including a
one-person exhibition in Krakow this June. Her work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, The New York Public Library, The Walker Art Center, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Artist Book Collection at The Museum of Modern Art, The Lower East Side Print Shop, where she also received a Special Edition Grant, and The Francis Greenberger Collection, among others. Pearlman’s work has been reviewed in Gazetta, Poland, The New York Times, Art in America, The Print Collector’s Newsletter, critic picks in Time Out and Art Matters in Philadelphia, The New England Art Journal, and The Chicago Sun-Times. Her prints have recently been exhibited at The International Print Center and she has recently completed a sponsored residency at Dieu Donne and been a recipient for an individual grant from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Pearlman has been a teaching artist with Lincoln Center Institute since 1989, as well as an educator for the Museum of Modern Art from 1989 to 2004. She has been a visiting artist for many institutions. Recently, she published a book for children with Prestel Publishers called Where is Jasper Johns? She received her M.F.A. degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her B.F.A. and art education certificate from the University of Massachusetts. She lives and works in Brooklyn.
Richard Mannoia (Music)
RICHARD MANNOIA, clarinetist, continues to engage audiences with a wide variety of repertoire. He has performed with such orchestras as the New Jersey Pops, New York City Opera Orchestra, Chicago Civic Orchestra, Haddonfield Symphony, and Manhattan Virtuosi. He has appeared in chamber music and recitals in Carnegie Hall, Avery Fischer Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Town Hall, BAM, Weill Hall and Merkin Concert Hall. This season Richard returns to the interdisciplinary performance collaborative, VisionIntoArt, co-creating and performing new music with theater, poetry, dance and film. Richard received first prizes in the International Glenn Miller Competition and Atlantic Wind Symphony Concerto Competition. He has been freelancing in the New York area since graduating from Manhattan School of Music and, in addition to national tours, performances have taken him to Europe, South America, Asia, Australia, and South Africa. Richard maintains a deep commitment to educational outreach and teaches and performs for the New York Philharmonic and Lincoln Center Institute. As a consultant, Richard has trained musicians and designed curriculum for many organizations including the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York City Opera, 92nd St Y, Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, Education Through Music, and the New York City Department of Education. As mentor, Richard holds positions with the Carnegie-Juilliard Academy and 92nd St Y’s Music Unlocked! Competition. He has also taught at the Professional Performing Arts High School, coached chamber music at Juilliard Pre-College, and coaches graduate chamber music at Manhattan School of Music for educational outreach performances. This season Richard continues a new project creating and producing the innovative Music Unlocked! Concerts which fuse chamber music and audience participation in non-traditional ways.
Lynn Neumann (Dance)
Lynn Neuman is a New York based choreographer and teaching artist. As Artistic Director and co-founder of Artichoke Dance Company, her work has been presented nationally and internationally since 1995. Her movement style combines a background in gymnastics with eclectic dance training, including studies in Balinese dance, tango, and contact improvisation in addition to contemporary dance and ballet. The power of the arts to effect positive change in people’s lives and within communities drives much of her work. She works with youths and adults in various capacities to promote cultural literacy and engage people in dance experiences. Ms Neuman has been a Lincoln Center Teaching Artist for ten years, teaching aesthetic education as it relates to dance and other art forms for grades 1-12 and leading training seminars and professional development workshops for educators and administrators. Ms. Neuman has initiated several education and outreach programs for Artichoke Dance Company. Performing Partnerships is an education program for youths focusing on movement performed with a partner or in a group. Building trust and community are emphasized as well as physical dexterity and skill. Move It of Loose It is a program for seniors that utilizes multiple art forms for creative self and group expression while developing and maintaining a functional body. Moving to Survive offers movement workshops for survivors of domestic violence and professional development opportunities for healthcare givers working with this population toward integrating body awareness into their work.
Ms. Neuman has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Michigan and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Temple University. She has been an artist in residence at colleges and universities across the country.
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