The Empire State Partnerships program (ESP) was a statewide program that supported partnerships between schools and arts organizations. Funded by the state of New York (through New York State Council on the Arts and New York State Department of Education) from 1996 – 2009, the program yielded much innovation in curriculum design, document and assessment procedures.
The information, images and resources found on the archived site represent the work of dozens, if not hundreds, of teachers, artists, researchers and administrators. On this site, you may discover curriculum materials for arts learning at many grade levels, planning templates for an arts partnership, documentation of student learning, records of professional development events, and research articles, among many other items.
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- AIE Institute of Western New York and Kalfas Magnet School, Niagara Falls
- AIE Institute of Western New York and Pinehurst Elementary, Hamburg/Lakeview, NY
- ArtPeace, Inc. and School Without Walls, Rochester
- Arts Council for Chautauqua County and Jamestown High School
- Arts Council for Chautauqua County and Ripley Middle School
- Castellani Art Museum and Niagara Falls High School
- Center for Exploratory/Perceptual Art and Highgate Heights School, Buffalo
- Folkloric Productions Dance Co., Inc and Elmwood Village Charter School, Buffalo
- Genesee Valley Council on the Arts and Mount Morris Central School District
- Geva Theatre Center and School 44, Rochester
- Hallwalls and Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts
- Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc. and Frederick Law Olmsted School
- MUSE and Bennet Park Montessori School 32 & Montessori School 78, Buffalo
- MUSE and Lydia T. Wright School of Excellence, Buffalo
- New York State Literary Center and Rochester CSD
- Project U.N.I.Q.U.E./George Eastman House and School #42 & School #34, Rochester
- Young Audiences of Western NY and H. O. Brumsted Elementary School, Holland CSD
- Young Audiences of Western NY and Holley Elementary School, Holley
Central New York State Region
- AIE Institute of Central New York Community Arts Council and Mount Markham Elementary School, West Winfield
- Arnot Art Museum and Riverside Elementary School, Elmira
- ArtPeace, Inc. and Watkins Glen K – 12
- Colgate University and Hamilton Central School
- Southern Tier Celebrates, Inc. and Greene CSD
- Visual Understanding in Education and Cincinnatus Central School
Hudson Valley And Capital District Region
- Adirondack History Center Museum and Westport Central School
- Bard College and Red Hook CSD, Bard HS Early College & Kingston High School, Manhattan
- Capital Repertory Theatre and Rensselaer Middle School
- Concerted Effort and Hudson Elementary School
- CRC for Arts in Education and Ichabod Crane Elementary School, Valatie
- Foundation for the Open Eye and Margaretville Central School
- High Meadow Arts and the High Meadow School, Stone Ridge
- Vanaver Caravan and Rondout Valley Central School District
New York City Elementary School Region
- 92nd Street Y and PS 37, Manhattan
- Arts Horizons and Harlem Day Charter School
- Arts Horizons and PS 46, Bronx
- ArtsConnection and PS 16, Staten Island
- Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corp and PS 41, Brooklyn
- Brooklyn Arts Exchange and PS 24, Brooklyn
- Brooklyn Museum of Art and PS 001, Brooklyn
- Circle of Dance Repertory Co and PS 154, Queens
- City Center and PS 193, Queens
- City Lore and PS 11 and PS 78, Queens
- Community-Word Project and PS 132, Manhattan
- CREATE! and PS 13, Staten Island
- CREATE! and PS 24, Queens
- DreamYard Drama Project and PS/MS 95, Bronx
- Early Stages Program and PS 203, Queens
- Guggenheim Museum and PS 88, Queens
- Henry Street Settlement and PS 110, Manhattan
- Hester Street Collaborative, Inc. and PS 134, Manhattan
- Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy and PS 249, Brooklyn
- Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy and PS 361, Brooklyn
- Magic Box Productions, Inc and PS 84, Manhattan
- Making Books Sing and PS 315, Brooklyn
- Mark DeGarmo and Dancers/Dynamic Forms and PS 142, Manhattan
- Mark DeGarmo and Dancers/Dynamic Forms and PS 43, Queens
- Marquis Studios and PS 170, Bronx
- Marquis Studios and PS 37, Staten Island
- Metropolitan Opera Guild and PS 10, Brooklyn
- Metropolitan Opera Guild and The Ridge Street School, PS 10K, PS 152K & PS 95Q
- Midori & Friends and PS/IS 180, Manhattan
- Nassau County Museum of Art and Park Avenue School, Westbury
- National Dance Institute and PS 163
- Orpheon Inc./The Little Orchestra Society and PS 122, Queens
- Planting Fields Foundation and Sousa Elementary, Port Washington Schools
- Queens Museum of Art and PS 144, Queens and JHS 190, Queens
- Sonora House and Kensico Elementary, Valhalla
- Sonora House and Montessori School 27, Yonkers
- Studio in a School and PS 213, Queens & PS 309, Brooklyn
- Visual Understanding in Education and PS 159, Bronx
- Young Audiences New York and PS 205, Bronx
- Young Audiences New York and PS 89, Brooklyn
- Young Dancers in Repertory Inc and PS 149, Brooklyn
New York City Middle School And High School Region
- American Symphony Orchestra and East Meadow High Schools, Long Island
- BRIC Rotunda Gallery and Juan Morel Campos Secondary School, Brooklyn
- Bronx Museum of the Arts and Bronx High School for the Visual Arts
- Center for Urban Pedagogy and The Academy of Urban Planning, Brooklyn
- Dance Theatre Etcetera, Inc. and South Brooklyn Community High School
- DreamYard Drama Project and MS 118, Bronx
- Early Stages Program and JHS 145, Bronx
- Epic Theatre Ensemble and Chelsea Vocational School, Manhattan
- Epic Theatre Ensemble and Talent Unlimited High School, Manhattan
- Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation, Urban Arts Partnership and the Facing History School, Manhattan
- Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts and JHS 189, Queens
- Groundswell Community Mural Project and Brooklyn High School for the Arts
- Hudson River Museum and Riverside High School & School 23, Yonkers
- IDEAS and 811, Brooklyn
- InCollaboration and MS 223, Bronx
- InCollaboration and PS 79, Manhattan
- Irondale Productions and Bushwick Leaders High School
- Irondale Productions and Satellite Academy, Manhattan
- MCC Theater and Validus Preparatory Academy, Bronx
- New York City Opera and West Side Collaborative MS, Manhattan
- Periwinkle Productions Inc and JHS 125, Bronx
- Roundabout Theatre Company and Bronx Theatre High School
- Roundabout Theatre Company and Curtis High School, Staten Island
- Rubin Museum of Art and Liberty High School
- Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation and Lyons Community School, Brooklyn
- Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation and PS 371, Brooklyn
- SCO Family of Services and MS 821, Brooklyn
- Urban Arts Partnership and MS 131, Manhattan
- Urban Arts Partnership and New Design High School, Manhattan
- Vital Theatre Company and Brooklyn Theatre Arts High School
Former Partnerships
- 92nd Street Y and PS 57, Manhattan
- ABACA Coalition and Satellite Academy, Manhattan
- AIE Institute of Central New York Community Arts Council and Greene CSD
- AIE Institute of Western New York and Gaskill Middle School, Niagara Falls
- AIE of Western New York and Grover Cleveland High School in Buffalo
- Albany Institute of History and Art and Albany City School District
- Albany-Schenectady League of Arts and Schenectady Fine Arts School, Schenectady High School
- Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Buffalo Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts
- American Ballet Theatre and the Frederick Douglass Academy in Manhattan
- Antique Boat Museum and Cape Vincent Elementary School
- Antique Boat Museum and Guardino Elementary School, Clayton
- Antique Boat Museum and Guardino Elementary School, Clayton and Cape Vincent Elementary School
- ArtPeace, Inc. and East High School, Rochester
- Arts and Culture for Oswego County and Oswego City School District
- Arts Center of the Capital Region and Schalmont Central School District
- Arts Horizons and PS 11, Brooklyn
- Arts Horizons and PS 18, Brooklyn
- Arts in Education Institute of the Central New York Community Arts Council and Remington Elementary
- ArtsConnection and PS 38, Brooklyn
- Artsgenesis and IS 237, Queens
- Artsgenesis and PS/IS 66, Brooklyn
- Ballet Hispanico and PS 98, Manhattan
- BRIC Rotunda Gallery and IS 49, Brooklyn
- Bronx Arts Ensemble and PS 156, Bronx
- Brooklyn Arts Exchange and Brooklyn New School
- Brooklyn Museum and Brooklyn Academy of Science and the Environment
- Capital Repertory Theatre and Harriet Gibbons Alternative High School, Albany
- Cayuga Nature Center and Lansing Middle School (Lansing NY) and Dewitt Middle School and Alternative
- Center for Family Life and MS 136, Brooklyn
- CEPA Gallery and PS 97, Buffalo
- Circle of Dance Repertory Company and East Meadow and Westbury Schools
- CRC for Arts in Education and Voorheesville Elementary School
- Dance Theatre of Harlem and I.S. 126 in Queens
- DreamYard Drama Project and PS/IS 218, Bronx
- Dreamyard Project and PS 306, Bronx
- eba, inc and Hudson River Academy
- eba, inc. and Abram Lansing Elementary School, Cohoes
- eba, inc. and Abram Lansing Elementary School, Cohoes
- Education Through Music and PS 160, Bronx
- Education Through Music and PS 76, Bronx
- Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center with Manhattan School for Children
- Elders Share the Arts, Inc. and Metropolitan Corporate Academy in Brooklyn
- Everson Museum of Art and Franklin Magnet School for the Arts in Syracuse
- Everson Museum of Art and Smith Elementary School, Syracuse
- Flushing Council on Arts and Culture and P.S. 20, P.S. 22 and P.S. 214 in Community School District
- Friends of the Arts Inc and California Avenue School Partnership, Uniondale
- Hangar Theatre and Ithaca CSD, Trumansburg & Lansing Elementary Schools
- Henry Street Settlement and PS 20, Manhattan & Marta Valle Secondary School
- Hudson River Museum with Riverside High School, Museum School 25 & School 23, Yonkers
- Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy and PS 139, Brooklyn
- InCollaboration and Queens School for Career Development & PS 721Q
- Irondale Ensemble Project and EBC/Bushwick HS, Brooklyn
- Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning and Robert F. Kennedy Middle School
- Jamestown City School District
- Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc. and Native American Magnet School #19, Buffalo
- Lawrence Educational Foundation, Inc. and Lawrence Middle School, Long Island
- LEAP and PS 14, Bronx
- Learning through an Expanded Arts Program and PS 6, Bronx
- Lincoln Center Institute and Frederick Douglass Academy II
- Making Books Sing and PS 255, Brooklyn
- Mark DeGarmo and Dancers/ Dynamic Forms Inc. and PS 70
- Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance and Bronx Dance Academy
- Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance and Bronx Dance Academy
- MCC Theater and Manhattan International High School
- MCC Theatre and Discovery High School, Bronx
- Mill Street Loft and Ulster County BOCES at Port Ewen Career and Tech Center
- MUSE and Oracle Charter School, Buffalo
- Nassau County Museum of Art and Port Washington UFSD, Long Island
- National Dance Institute and PS 1, Manhattan
- Project U.N.I.Q.U.E./George Eastman House and School #42, Rochester & Leary Elementary School, Rush-Henrietta
- Roundabout Theatre Company and Public School Repertory Company High School in Manhattan
- Roundabout Theatre Company and Tito Puente Performing Arts Academy, Manhattan
- Salvadori Center and MS 222 in the Bronx
- Salvadori Center and Pablo Neruda Academy for Architecture and World Studies, Bronx
- Salvadori Center and PS 22, Staten Island
- Salvadori Center and the Renaissance Charter School, Queens
- Salvadori Center for the Built Environment and Muscota New School
- Southern Tier for AIE and Greene Elementary and Intermediate Schools
- Spencertown Academy Society Inc. and Mary E. Dardess Elementary School, Chatham
- Stages of Learning and Carrie Tompkins School & Pierre Van Cortlandt Middle School, Croton-on-Hudson
- Studio in a School and PS 84, Brooklyn
- Teachers & Writers Collaborative and PS 156, Brooklyn
- Ten Penny Players and Island Academy, Staten Island
- The Waterways Project of Ten Penny Players and NYC Vocational Training Center (VTC)
- Westchester Arts Council and Highview School & Bailey School, Greenburgh CSD #7, Westchester
- Whitney Museum of American Art and Harvey Milk School/Hetrick-Martin Institute in Manhattan
- Williamsburg Arts & Cultural Council for Youth and El Puente Academy for Peace & Justice, Brooklyn
- Young Audiences of Rochester and Baytrail Middle School
- Young Audiences of Western NY and Waterfront School, Buffalo
