On March 14 the students of Springfield High School Arts Academy hosted their tenth annual Festival of Art: Revolution.
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SHS students stage a revolution–in the arts
Springfield High School juniors Ben Pennel and Jeremy Moore play a pop duet during the SHS cabaret last week.
Springfield High School juniors Ben Pennel and Jeremy Moore play a pop duet during the SHS cabaret last week. Photo by Catherine Moore
As of Tuesday, March 20, 2012 -11:47 a.m.
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Springfield — On March 14 the students of Springfield High School Arts Academy hosted theIR tenth annual Festival of Art: Revolution.
The visual art from art classes of Lisa Murray and Anne Katomski included paintings, sculptures, mixed media, revolutionary cubes, tees, and dreamers.
The collaborative arts academy classes included exhibits resulting from a visiting bookmaking artist, Elissa Campbell.
Sue Fog's Humanities and Art Civ classes, Michele Farrar's sopomore English classes, Lisa Robart's ODP class, Margaret Gultekin's Pre-Vocational Skills Class, and Dave Slivka's U.S. History classes all participated in the workshops and the results were artistically exhibited at the festival.
Yuliya Ballou's Russian and German Students and Amanda Frank's Human Biology students created displays.
The festival opened with a cabaret style of small ensembles and moved into a full conccert, directed by Music Director, Jim Chlebak which included students in chorus, Madrigals, Concert Band, glee club and Wind Ensemble.
Rebecca Skrypeck's drama class performed a one act play in the auditorium and the Anime Club followed the performance in a dance titled Hare Hare Yukai.
Plenty of refreshments were available. The Class of 2014 provided drinks, The class of 2013 had a "Dollar Cafe" and the German Club had crock pots of chile, stews and soups! The most popular food item, it seemed, was Friendly's who scooped out various flavors of ice cream along with vouchers promoting THE upcoming fundraiser to benefit the Springfield High School Post Prom 2012 to be held March 25-31.
For vouchers to support Post Prom, please contact cmoore@ssdvt.org or Lmurray@ssdvt.org.
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ReplyDeleteIf you met these boys, you'd know they're doing just fine!
ReplyDeleteWhy are we as taxpayers spending $10,000 for an art academy and lying off staff?
ReplyDeleteBecause the art academy also teaches the Vermont academic proficiencies in math, science and English.
DeleteTo upset people like you. This is actually a big conspiracy just to make you mad.
ReplyDeletere: "Why are we as taxpayers spending $10,000 for an art academy"
ReplyDeleteBecause we folks that studied math, physics, chemistry, engineering, medicine, got our degrees and learned technical trades, then worked like hell, sacrificed, saved, and invested, now need someone to mow our lawns, paint our houses and serve tables when we go out to eat often.
Besides, it keeps teachers employed that went to liberal arts schools.
Ah yes the citadel of conventional thinking, that is why our factories in town are just booming because we had so many proficient technically trained people return to Springfield and made it zing.
DeleteYou need to read a book called A Whole New Mind by Daniel H. Pink. The days of manufacturing are over, and the so called white collar jobs are disappearing too. The demand more and more is for people who are creative and artistic. Yep the demand for so called right brainers, the artists the creative type, the visionaries is higher then it has ever been. Personally I do not think that schools are putting enough money towards the arts, instead they are cutting these programs out. If you want to cut the waste in schools. They should look to cut out sports. I am not saying sports are bad, they do teach some good things, but the benefit for the students future is minimal. Sure a few students here and there will be able to get scholarships to put them through school, but the for the majority of these kids it is just another thing they add on tho their already busy schedule.
ReplyDeleteWe can thank NCLB for the failure to invest in the arts. And Jared you are absolutely correct.
Deletere: "The demand more and more is for people who are creative and artistic."
ReplyDeleteBy who? Surely no enterprise that works for a profit to fund a payroll.
Employers need a wide variety of employees. This includes creative thinkers. Today we call them creative types; in the olden days we called it Yankee Ingenuity.
DeleteActually you are wrong 4:11 AM Annonymous. The many of the higher paid and coveted jobs now have art and design components. The other opportunities in manufacturing are shrinking, we need to get over the mill mindset.
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