Sample Schedule:

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​​June Session​

9:30-9:50- Free Play

9:50-10- Morning Meeting

10-10:30- Movement

10:30-10:50- Snack/Story

10:50-11:20- Art

11:20-11:30- Transition

11:30-12- Nature Play

12-12:30- Lunch/Sprinkler​

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August Session​

12:30-1- Creative Project/Guest Artist

1-1:30 - Games

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Each day begins with free play in the classroom. After a morning meeting, kids head into the dance room for creative movement and yoga, exploring range of motion, rhythm, musicality, and expression through age-appropriate games and improvisation. After snack and story, we move into a process-based art class where children experiment with painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. The focus is always on creativity, not perfection.

We spend time outside every day on our enclosed playground, with slides, playhouses, cars, and a sand and mud kitchen. Lunch is together on the grass in the courtyard, with an optional sprinkler on warm days.

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The August group stays for an extra hour of creative projects, games, and guest artists.

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About the Instructors:​​​​​

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Lucia Rich (she/her)

Director/Movement Lead Teacher is a somatic and expressive arts educator, yoga instructor, collaborative theater artist and mother devoted to the practice of embodiment through her personal practice and teaching for over 20 years.  Collaborations in dance, theater, clown and puppetry have taken her across the US, Canada and internationally, including Bulgaria, Turkey, Scotland, Italy, England, Germany and France.  Lucia founded Embodied Arts & Wellness in 2023, guiding adults, children and families to return home to their body through the sacred and creative arts. ​

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Elizabeth Montinile (she/her) Lead Art Teacher (June)  was born in Puerto Rico and currently resides in Dobbs Ferry, New York. From a young age, she has always been creative, working across as many mediums as possible. One of her favorite mediums is photography, and she graduated from the Hallmark Institute of Photography in 2012. During her time at Hallmark, Elizabeth discovered not only a deep love for photography but also a passion for working with children, particularly through portraiture. This experience led her to pursue an education in early childhood, and she is now a teacher at Elmwood Day School. While Elizabeth loves teaching, she missed being actively involved in the arts. When she is not teaching, Elizabeth can be found in her studio at Bethany, where she creates her mosaic jewelry pieces.

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Anna Adler (she/they) ~ Lead Art Teacher (August) is an artist, educator, cultural worker, and mother, functioning at the intersection of life and art. She maintains an interdisciplinary creative practice of image and object making, teaching, curating, and community building. Her work has been shown in a myriad of places and spaces, including NYC, Detroit, Prague, and Berlin, to name a few. 

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Hailey Circalese (she/her) ~ Assistant Staff (June & August)

This is Hailey's second summer working for Summer Art & Movement  Series. She is currently studying Early Childhood Education at Westchester Community College, and her previous experience includes working at a daycare for school-aged children, assistant teacher in a Pre-K classroom, camp counselor, and tons of babysitting experience for kids ages 1 to 13. Working with kids is her passion and she loves creating a fun, safe, and inclusive environment where every child feels supported and encouraged to be themselves. She loves music and especially enjoys bringing creative play, outdoor games, and arts & crafts into the mix whenever she can.

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Dr. Amir Khosrowpour (he/him) ~ Musical Guest Artist (August) - Piano/Improvisation

Amir is a New York based artist who performs, composes, and collaborates on performance art, theater, dance, puppetry and clown pieces, short films and music videos. He is on the music faculty at Horace Mann School in NYC.​

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Enrollment Policy:

Minimum enrollment is 6 students/session. In the event that we do not meet the minimum enrollment we will send out an email prior to the start date and you will receive a full refund.

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Refund Policy:

By registering your child, you are reserving a spot in one of our summer sessions. Classes have limited space in order to give your child the best experience possible and to keep the integrity of our teaching and creative work. Spaces are difficult to fill last minute, therefore refunds are not guaranteed. See below for last days to receive full and partial refunds. ​

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Important Dates:​

May 1st- early bird pricing ends for June.

May 25th- last day to receive a full refund for June.

June1st - last day to receive a 50% refund for June.

June 15th - early bird pricing ends for August.

July 27th - last day to receive a full refund for August.

Aug 3rd - last day to receive a 50% refund for August.​