Teaching Experience


Since 1989 Andrew Drury has led over 100 workshops and residencies on junk percussion, composition, and performance in festivals, schools, community arts organizations, Native American communities, museums, prisons, and in rural communities in Nicaragua and Guatemala, and elsewhere. In 2000 he was identified as "one of America’s 255 most skilled and experienced community artists" by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.
 
 
 
Drury has been Artist-in-Residence with the Washington State Arts Commission (1995-99) and with Very Special Arts Washington (1997-99), the Manhattan New Music Project in the New York City Schools (since 2002). While working with Music & Arts Center for the Handicapped he translated drum exercises into Braille, and led a band of blind and sighted musicians performing original music in venues around Bridgeport, Connecticut. For six months in 2000 he was Artist-in-Residence with the Oneida Nation on their reservation in Wisconsin, thanks to the program, "Artists & Communities: America Celebrates the Millennium," sponsored by the White House Millennium Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.

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"He facilitated one of the most unusual, original, and successful projects ever presented (at the Seattle Children’s Museum’s Imagination Station)."
Sarah Robertson Palmer, Seattle Children’s Museum

"He did an exemplary job managing the class and delivering some very exciting curriculum to the students. …If your school has a chance at having this marvelous musician as a guest artist—go for it, you’ll be glad you did!"
Stephen Brown, Teacher, Graham, Washington.