Arts Team Website: www.mlkarts.weebly.com

Check out the last page of this newsletter for upcoming arts shares and performances

Fine Art Department Newsletter January 2017

Artist In Residence

Evanston Textile Artist Maggie Weiss

The fabric mural and student peace art brightened the stage during the MLK Day performances! The quotes and quilting are being added to complete the piece. A great job by all! Thanks to parent Damien Hinojosa for expertly hanging the mural on our stage.

This project is made possible by grants from Foundation 65 and the Evanston Arts Council.

Rock ‘On’semble

MLK Day Dancers 7th Grade Students of Dr. Susan Lee, Chair of the Northwestern Dance Department worked with KIng Arts students on choreography for our MLK birthday Celebration. The 7th Grade Dance ensemble chose the song “Glory” to support their theme.

7th Grade

8th grade

Thank You... We would like to thank the Berger-White family for their generous donation to King Arts on behalf their beloved grandmother Sari Zarov. Their generosity has helped to support our classroom libraries and give our King Arts Library a much needed refresh. Both students and staff love the improvements.

Student Art

being auctioned at Fine HeARTS

On February 10!

Opportunities abound to bid on student art at the next King Arts fundraiser,

Fine HeARTS!

7th Grade STOP

Motion Animations Students created stop motion

animation movies with whiteboards and their iPads. They were then brought into iMovie to add sound

effects. Look out Hollywood!

Want to learn more about all of our Arts programs? Check out our

Arts Team Website

More MLK Day Dancers

7th & 8th grade dancers received rave reviews for their dance performance. Great job! The collaboration and artistry was exciting to be a part of. Keep up the Great Work!

8th Grade

Hat Optional Friday

Our Next HOF is February 3rd

Hat Optional Friday is a fundraiser for OUR library. On the first Friday of every month, students may choose to donate a dollar to our library and in return they are given a VIP bracelet that allows them to wear a hat for the entire school day. This has proven to be a very successful program. Last year we raised over $1000. 100% of last year's proceeds went toward book purchases for our library.

Shakespeare in the Courtyard Drama

Ensemble Want to explore the words

and world of William Shakespeare?

We will perform selections from many of his famous

plays all woven together with a modern twist and

performed in our beautiful King Arts Courtyard.

Students in grades 6-8 are

invited to join.

To see the schedule of rehearsals and performances

go to Ms. Querciagrossa’s webpage:

www.kingartsdrama.weebly.co

m Click on the Afterschool Enrichment tab in the menu bar Deadline to sign up is February 24th. Auditions will be held on Monday, February 27th.

Elementary Art By: Ms. Vega

1st grade artists learned about still life and pattern. They created mixed media still life. They also worked together to create a group still life painting that will be auctioned off at the Fine Hearts Auction.

Art Room DONATIONS Ms. Vega would appreciate empty paper towel rolls, empty shoe boxes, plastic containers @ 8-16oz., or even a working sewing machine. If you can donate any of these items, please bring them to room 115.

Dance in 5th and 6th grade 5th & 6th grade Team Red have completed their Dance Unit on 5th Grade=Elements of Space

and 6th grade=Elements of Dance. Ms. Sheehan has been

studying with Education Through Music and has brought some new favorite Song/Games to the dance class experience. “Penny song” and “Uncle Joe”

are current favorites.

More Elementary Art By: Ms. Vega

4th grade artists have been studying architecture. The have designed their own buildings. Next they will be constructing the 3-d models out of cardboard!

3rd grade artists have been creating fish and other underwater creatures using line and pattern. Then they made foam fish stamps that will be used as a class art project to auction at the the Fine Hearts Auction.

Want to learn more about all of our Arts programs? Check out our

Arts Team Website

Battle of the Books is an exciting opportunity for our fourth and fifth grade students to read and report on many award winning, culturally diverse books and to compete with other King Arts students in our Spring Battle of the Books competition. This year over 40 students are participating in this reading enrichment program. For more information on Battle of the Books, visit our website.

Stories Alive performances will be

on March 22, 2017. Our deadline for stories has past and we received 102 stories and poems. WOW!!! We will do as many as we can. We will inform the authors and announce the stories by March 6th. For those of you who don't know, Stories Alive is a 7th grade Drama ensemble directed by Ms. Querciagrossa where students act out stories and poems written by students in the King Arts community. This is the 10th year of the ensemble. We strive to encourage our emerging writers to create.

MUSIC MLK Assembly

Both elementary and middle

school assemblies were full of awesome music. Students

worked hard for months preparing their music...

1st Grade - “I’m on my Way”

4th Grade “Happy Birthday” by

Stevie Wonder

7th & 8th Grade Guitar Ensemble

“What’s Goin’ On?” by Marvin Gaye

Want to learn more about all of our Arts programs? Check out our

Arts Team Website

7th grade Shadow Puppets in Ms. Querciagrossa’s Drama Class As a final project during our study of The Tempest by William Shakespeare

Presenting our Arts Innovation Award from the Arts Schools Network to the D65 School Board on January 23rd. HERE is the link to a great video about our partnership with Project AIM from Columbia College

Middle School Art by: Ms. Vega

Students created bas relief, mugs,

and sculptures from terracotta clay.. They have are excited to glaze the clay to make it shiny and waterproof.

Next students will be learning many different needlecraft techniques.

3rd grade MLK Day Performances

Courage Is…… 3rd Grade followed the writing prompt “what is courage?” Their poems were part of the MLK Birthday Celebration. In Dance they listened to songs from the Civil Rights Movement sung by “Sounds of Blackness” Oh Freedom, Eye on the Prize and Turn me ‘round.

Upcoming Arts Shares and Performances Stop by the arts rooms and say hello during our February Parent and Teacher Conferences on Feb. 14 and 15.

Thursday, February 23rd at 6:30 p.m. Solo and Ensemble Band Concert

Friday, March 3rd at 1:30 p.m. Evanston Dance Ensemble 2 from Dance Center Evanston performs for our students in grades 3-8

Thursday, March 16th at

1:00 p.m.

2nd grade Musical:

How to Be a Pirate

Wednesday, March 22nd at

10:00 a.m.and 1:30 p.m.

Stories Alive Drama Ensemble

performances stories and poems

written by the King Arts

Community

30th Anniversary

YEA! Saturday,

May 20, 2017

Thursday, March 23rd 6th grade Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Dance Field Trip

Tuesday, April 25th at 9:30 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. Spring Band Concert

Friday, April 28th at 1:30 p.m.

Kindergarten Arts and PBIS

share:

Giraffes Can’t Dance

Tuesday, May 2nd at 9:30 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. Beginner Band and Jazz Band Performances

Tuesday, May 9 at 6:30 p.m. Spring Orchestra Concert

Thursday, May 11 at 5:30 p.m.

(and daytime performances on

May 10, 11 and 12)

Shakespeare in the Courtyard

Friday, May 26th at 12:00 p.m.

3rd grade Pioneer and Arts

Integration Day

1st grade production of the Nutcracker a BIG success!!!