Arts & Education Programming

DeWitt has taught the performing arts and education all over the world. In New York City, he has taught at NYU, Pace University, Harlem School of the arts, and Queens College to name a few. He has created arts and education programming for Kean University, Tadah children’s theater, New York City Center, Central Park Conservancy, Limitless Health Institute, New York City Library, Bamss, and various other institutions. DeWitt has been teaching young people, and adults for over 25 years.

Academics & Arts Alive!

Academics and Arts Alive brings trained professional artist into New York City schools to improve student standardized testing through arts-based learning. By providing curricula tailored to the needs of each individual school, the program aims to strengthen students’ academic understanding and their ability to demonstrate that knowledge through standardized testing. In addition, the program fosters communication skills, self-expression, social-emotional learning(SEL), leadership development, and more.

DeWitt partners with Bamss Non-profit organization to produce this project.

Academics & Arts Alive!
in Angola Africa

This program brings a New York–based arts and academics program to partner with Maple Bear Angola Benfica School in Luanda, Angola. The exchange addresses a demonstrated need for arts-based youth development opportunities that foster communication skills, self-expression, SEL, cross-cultural understanding, global competitiveness, and much more. This programs seeks to use the arts to enhance academics, community growth, and global awareness. Young people in Luanda have limited access to structured arts programs that integrate, academics, and global theater practices with local cultural traditions. At the same time, arts organizations and artist in the United States are actively seeking meaningful international partnerships that promote cultural exchange, collaboration, and shared artistic growth.

This program provides students with a supportive, creative environment to not only improve their academics, but also practice communication, collaboration, leadership, and confidence-building. It will give them a competitive edge when entering the global college and business market. Meanwhile, participating

teaching artists gain exposure to new aesthetic forms, cultural perspectives, and local performance

techniques that will inform and enrich their own practice.

DeWitt partners with Bamss Non-profit organization on this project.

DeWitt's visit with Maple Bear Fall 2025

Academics & Arts Alive!
Corporate Edition

Together with public speaker and poet Mikumari Caiyhe, we have developed a series of programs designed to help corporations achieve their strategic goals through performing-arts–based practices. With extensive experience across the Arts, Education, and Corporate sectors, we bring a uniquely informed perspective that allows us to design programming that is both evidence-driven and expertly crafted.

Our approach is grounded in years of research and development in verbal and psychological communication, as well as kinesics and other forms of nonverbal communication. Mastery of these communication modalities has been shown to provide significant advantages in corporate environments. The skills gained through our programs can support successful negotiations, increase employee productivity, strengthen courtroom performance, boost confidence across departments, and much more.

Some of our workshops include:

The Law of Storytelling

Originally created for trial lawyers, then later developed for universal business practices, this workshops breaks down communication and the perception of communication.

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The Power of Why

This workshop explores how to effectively do research. What do you research and why. Researching the subject at hand is only the beginning.

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Creating a Winning Environment

This workshop explores how to create a winning environment. Our environment creates a mental and physical state of being long before a single word is spoken. How do we identify the positive and negative elements of our environment in order to create an environment conducive to the results we require.