Dunne There

Master Artist with over 100 weeks of residencies

Possible Residency Activities
All activities are suitable for regular classroom. Maximum 30 students.

Core Group Activities (Same group at least four sessions)
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Build and learn to play one-stringed dulcimers Grade 3 and up. Appreciating musical instruments, learning to read music and follow directions.

Write, arrange and record songs. Grade K and up. Learning that everyone can create music.

Study the blues form, write lyrics, improvise on keyboards using walking bass line. Grade 5 and up. Learning to express emotion in a creative manner, learning that everyone can create music and appreciating the legacy of the blues.

Prepare music for school program. Grade K and up. Learning to work in a group, follow directions and have stage presence while building self-esteem.

1-3 Session Activities

Build tambourines and learn to dance the tarentella. Grade 4and up. Learning to work in a group, follow directions, have stage presence and build self-esteem.
Make a kitchen band and read rhythms from charts. Grade 1 and up. Learning to work in a group, follow directions, have stage presence and build self-esteem.
Make wind instruments and explore their history. Grade 3and up. Appreciating musical instruments and learning some of the physics of sound.
Coach voice and piano students. Grade K and up. Learning to follow directions, accept criticism, and have stage presence.
Explore early through Renaissance music. Grade 7 and up. Gaining an understanding of the evolution of music and how history impacts it.
Coach academic decathalon teams. Grade 9 and up. Gaining an understanding of the evolution of music and its terminology.
Enrich language classes through folk music and its influence on the classical music of France, Spain and Russia. Grade 7 and up. Gaining an understanding of the evolution of music and how history impacts it.
Build den-den daikos (), write haiku and improvise pentatonic melodies. Grades 2 or 3. Appreciating musical instruments, learning how tofollow directions and that anyone can create music .
Make sand blocks to create rhythms for a music train. Grade K. Learning to work in a group, follow directions, and read basic rhythms.
Explore operatic recitative, write raps, build jingle sticks. Grade 5 and up. Learning to appreciate the opera, that anyone can write music, to work with other people and follow directions.
Write words for student laments. Grade 4 and up. Learning to express emotion in a creative manner, developing language art skills, recognizing historical similiarities to today.

Residencies under auspices of Nebraska Arts Council
Artist-in-Schools/Communities Program

Length Location Dates

1 week Kenwood Elementary - Kearney 2006

1 week Mary Lynch and West Elementary - Kimball 2004

1 week Norfolk Catholic School 2001

1 week Gordon Public Schools 1998

1 week Rushville Public Schools 1998

144 weeks North High School - Omaha 1989-1997

135 weeks Uta Halee Girls Village - Omaha 1989-1997

1 week Lost Creek Elementary - Columbus 1995

1 week Shickley Public School - Shickley 1994

1 week Campbell Public School - Columbus 1994

1 week St. John Baptist School - Petersburg 1993

1 week Arapahoe Public Schools - Arapahoe 1993

1 week Springville Elementary - Omaha 1992

1 week St. John’s Lutheran School - Waco 1992

1 week Sumner-Eddyville-Miller Public Schools 1991

1 week Pleasanton Public School 1990

4½ weeks McMillan Junior High - Omaha 1990

9 weeks Omaha Children’s Museum 1990

1 week Fairmont Public School -- Fairmont 1989

1 week Abraham Lincoln Elementary - Hastings 1989

“Phyllis unites the passion of an artist with the sensitivity of an educator as she enlightens young rninds with a variety of musical traditions - empowering students to become active creators. Her residencies allow students to fully experience music as audience members, instrument builders, composers, and performers. Phyllis arouses her students' individual creativity while she encourages them to gather everyday themes and ideas, shape them within the framework of music and express them as an art form.”
— Marie E. Angele
former Director
Presbyterian Metropolitan Ministries of Omaha

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