Workshops and Residencies

Sheila teaches workshops and conducts residencies for students from grade 3 to graduate school and for professionals.

"Overall, this has been one of the best classes that I have taken at Duke! Sheila Kerrigan has created a class that holistically builds up each student and combines the arts, social issues/analysis, leadership, and personal/group development."

• Collaborative Creative Process for Performers
• Community-Based Performance; Where Art and Activism Intersect
• Community-Based Art for Social Change

For High School & College Students &Professionals:

For Adolescents

• Creating Original Performance

• Integrating Theatre Arts, English & Social Studies in Grades 4-8
• Creating a Cooperative Classroom Through Drama in Grades 4-8

"This was one of the most passion-filled, personable (or personally honoring) & pragmatic workshops/conferences I have attended."

For Teaching Artists:

• Integrating Your Art with the Curriculum

• Mime
• Juggling

• Collaborative Creative Process
• Mime

• Communicate! Cooperate! Mime!
• Mime & Poetry Writing
• Mime & Narrative Writing
• Exploring Figures from Local, State, or NationalHistory Through Drama

In November, 2009, Sheila team-taught a mime-and-writing residency for fourth graders at Winget Park Elementary in Charlotte, NC, through the ArtStart program. One teacher she worked with wrote:

"My students are adding more details to their written work. They are reading with more expression....My students were highly engaged in the activities..., I did not have any misbehaving in the class...I had 100% attendance during my artstart residency for the majority of the time."