Arts Education

The Hawaiʻi Wolf Trap Classroom Residency is a partnership between a Hawaiʻi Wolf Trap Teaching Artist and a classroom educator to provide professional development for teachers while helping children learn through active participation.

Experiences in a Classroom Residency focus on performing arts-integrated strategies that teachers can use to foster young children’s learning and development. Classroom experiences in the residency will support early childhood curriculum standards and outcomes.

Hawaiʻi Wolf trap

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts partners with Hawaiʻi Arts Alliance to bring award-winning arts-based teaching and learning programs to early childhood classrooms in Hawaii.The partnership creates Hawai῾i Wolf Trap, Wolf Trap’s newest addition to a growing network of 23 affiliates across the United States and Singapore that served nearly 58,000 children, parents and educators.

Hawaiʻi Wolf Trap Teaching Artists

Meet our teaching artists Chizuko Endo and Melisa O Vargas.

Chizuko Endo is a taiko drummer with over 40 years of experience.

Melisa Orozco Vargas is a performance artist who uses the arts as a vehicle to foster a deeper connection between people and ʻāina (the land/environment). Read more about her MFA thesis production, Keiki Kalo.