Visiting Artist Series
Directly connecting touring professionals with students of all ages for spectacular and inspiring learning experiences.
Inspiring the next generation of creators
The Icicle Creek Visiting Artist Series brings in performing artists from around the country who both teach and demonstrate their creative processes in the classroom and through performance. Artists travel directly to schools to meet, perform for and work with students during the week or teach a workshop at Icicle Creek and then cap off their visit with a full performance at Icicle Creek’s Snowy Owl Theater.
2026-2027 Artists:
- Whim W’HIM, October 2026
- Jose Gonzalez Trio, December 2026
- Seraf Brass Band, February 2027
- Jazz Reach, May 2027
This project is supported in part by The City of Leavenworth and Horizons Foundation
The Visiting Artist Series is suitable for various school grades and across a variety of subjects, including the performing arts, visual arts, English, humanities and even physical education. The series aims to:
- Introduce students to skills that are part of the artistic process in a participatory way to encourage students to utilize those skills in their own lives.
- Provide students an opportunity to experience the artistic process and how that process yields a product.
- Inspire students to see that they are artistic and can cultivate the arts in their lives to increase their powers of observation, empathy for others, and understanding of the world.
- Show that imagination belongs in every sphere of life and that experiences in the arts intrinsically leads to fuller lives.
- Demystify the professional artist in the performing arts, thereby making that life more accessible to students.
Artists are scheduled in a way that reaches as many students as possible across a broad range of grade levels throughout the Wenatchee Valley and North Central Washington.
For more information on booking an artist for your school, contact: shila@icicle.org
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