Celebrate the Arts Week [video added!]
Source/Author: Raffi Darrow, Ebytes Editor
April 25, 2018
Art instruction is interwoven throughout the Shorecrest curriculum. To celebrate the lessons and skills taught all year, we open the campus to the community for a week each spring during Celebrate the Arts. Artists from the Tampa Bay Area, such as singers, actors, writers, dancers and visual artists, will visit Shorecrest classrooms to share their stories about becoming an artist and to engage children in creative learning activities relating to their craft. Teach-Ins took place on April 18 in Middle School and April 20 for Experiential and Lower Schools.
Artists worked with the students for about an hour and a half (one class from 9:00 - 9:45am and a second class from 9:50 - 10:35am.) Following the Teach-in on the 20th, LS and ES students performed a selection of music about the Solar System, and parents stayed for a picnic lunch following.
Student artwork was also exhibited. Some Lower School classes took an art walk around campus to view the juried artwork on display by Middle and Upper School students. It was hard to miss the colorful superheroes created with chalk on the sidewalks around Middle School! Shorecrest was privileged to have Peter Tush, Curator of Education at the Salvador Dalí Museum, adjudicate the Upper School art show. In the Middle School the following themes were explored through art:
Artists worked with the students for about an hour and a half (one class from 9:00 - 9:45am and a second class from 9:50 - 10:35am.) Following the Teach-in on the 20th, LS and ES students performed a selection of music about the Solar System, and parents stayed for a picnic lunch following.
Student artwork was also exhibited. Some Lower School classes took an art walk around campus to view the juried artwork on display by Middle and Upper School students. It was hard to miss the colorful superheroes created with chalk on the sidewalks around Middle School! Shorecrest was privileged to have Peter Tush, Curator of Education at the Salvador Dalí Museum, adjudicate the Upper School art show. In the Middle School the following themes were explored through art:
- Fifth Grade - Looking at Things Differently
- Sixth Grade - Fantastic Beasts
- Seventh Grade - Landscape Watercolors and Characters (small figures)
- Eighth Grade - Surreal: Marvelous, Fantastic and the Grotesque
Upper School Art Awarded included:
Walker Willis '19, 3rd place, SculptureAngel Cherman '19: Best of Show
Troy Galinski, 1st place, SculptureChristina Steffens '20, 2nd place, Sculpture
Renice Dacres '19, 1st place, Ceramics
Channing Chen, 2nd place, Ceramics
Leah Monast '21, 3rd place, Ceramics
Chase Andrews '20, 1st place, Graphic Design
Kira Held '20, 2nd place, Graphic Design
Leddon Zwack '21, 3rd place, Graphic Design
Alexandra Hairston '19, 1st place, Painting
Georgia Ofenloch '21, 2nd place, Painting
Heidi Hicks '21, 3rd place, Painting
Karlei Kongsiri '19, 1st place, Drawing
Ashlee Burkett '19, 2nd place, Drawing
Heidi Hicks '21, 3rd place, Drawing
Camille Anderson '20, 1st place, Photography
Nikki Lovesky '20, 2nd place, Photography
Sylvia Smith '18, 3rd place, Photography
Performing arts were also seen all around campus. A member of the Royal Danish Ballet did movement exercises with Lower School students. Middle School rock bands performed for LS and MS. Thank you to Clearwater Jazz, especially Shorecrest alumn Steve Weinberger '92 (CEO of CJH Outreach) and Frank Williams (emcee), for an entertaining performance and History of Jazz for US.
The week was capped off by the Upper School’s spring musical, an astonishing rendition of “A Chorus Line,” dedicated to the memory and talents of the late Ari Weiss '20. Thank you to our 2018 State of the Art Patrons for supporting the show from start to finish!
Huge thanks go out to Gina White and Jennifer Manfrey who arranged for over 30 artists to be on campus for two mornings with volunteer parents by their sides and all supplies ready for them. Thank you to all the parent volunteers who assisted them or took photos and videos of the teach-in and performances. We know students and parents of all ages were inspired by this week of visual and performing arts!
A link to photo albums from throughout the week may be found here.
A link to photo albums from throughout the week may be found here.
View a video of the ES/LS Celebrate the Arts program.
