On Wednesday, November 6, CAA 6th Graders were treated to visiting artist, Rick Beyer, courtesy of the Quad City Arts Visiting Artist Series.
Rick Beyer is a best-selling author, an award-winning documentary producer, and a long-time history enthusiast. With a take on history that is both humorous and illuminating, he has appeared on CBS News, MSNBC, CNN, The Discovery Channel, NPR and Fox News. Rick wrote and produced the PBS documentary The Ghost Army, which has been honored with a CINE Golden Eagle and audience awards at several film festivals.
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CONGRATULATIONS to our 6th, 7th, 8th, & High School students who participated in this year's Fall Festivals!
The 7th Grade Integrated Arts class taught by Mrs. Hernandez chose the River Action Project for their Integrated Arts project for 1st Quarter. Students used the inspiration of Vik Muniz who uses recycled trash to make art. First, the students photographed the river and river clean up in action. Then each group chose an image to turn into a work. The students traced the image onto a large piece of paper and then collected trash along the river as the materials used to build the work. The class split into 4 groups. River Action Kids Community Partner: River Action American River Foundation Community Partner: American River Foundation Pollution Prevention Team Community Partner: Living Lands & Waters The Clean Up Team Community Partner: XStream Cleanup Each group researched their community partner organization as well as the studied about our river including its importance to our community and why we should support these efforts. Farmer's Market Fundraiser Students sold prints of their artwork and buttons they'd made to raise money for their 4 partner organization. Students raised $350! HELP IF YOU CAN!
We still have art prints for sale- please support our cause and purchase artwork. It will be available at Fall Fest, November 5th. From L to R: Ainsley, Ellerie, Sulymar & Matilda
A large part of the 6th Grade Communication & Life Skills course centers around speaking including proper debate skills, manners & etiquette, and public speaking which is highlighted by end of quarter Soapbox Speeches. Four 6th graders from the class our chosen to give their soapbox speeches for the other students and parents. Three students are chosen based on having the highest scores and one student is chosen by their peers. Peer selected speaker Ainsley spoke about autism including the different kinds of autism, symptoms of autism and bullying that happens to people with autism. Ainsley shared her own experiences with her autism and provided ways other students could support their peers who are autistic. Ainsley ended her speech with this quote, "I'm what autism looks like." Ellerie focused on the importance of healthy eating - reminding us to eat our fruits and veggies! Ellerie spoke about the overall impact healthy eating has on your health & wellbeing including lower risks of heart disease, diabetes, and depression. She spoke about the importance of taking your vitamins - especially getting enough calcium & magnesium. Finally, cutting down on saturated fats and sugars are important to a healthy lifestyle. Beginning her speech with a quote from The Lorax by Dr. Seuss, Sulymar "Suly" dove into her speech on Deforestation and its impact on our world. Suly listed all of the products that are derived from trees as well as the natural resources our trees provide including filtering our air and protecting our cities from UV rays and keeping them cool. Just 1 acre of mature trees provides the oxygen needed for 18 adults for one year. Suly talked about the small steps we can all take to help end deforestation and combat climate change. Suly ended her speech asking the students and attendees listening "Are you going to be that person who makes that small step?" Matilda "Mili" argued for Equal Pay and Gender Discrimination. Sporting a US Women's soccer jersey, Mili focused her speech on the recent fight for equal pay by the US Women's Soccer team. Mili questioned why it's called the Women's World Cup and the World Cup instead of the Women's World Cup and the Men's World Cup. Mili encouraged students to have a dialogue with their parents to vote for presidential candidates who support equal pay and motivated students to do the same when they're old enough to vote. The Creative Arts Academy rented Chris Manning the photography studio to photograph local wrestlers for promotional materials.
The Des Moines based photographer also took headshots for the 6th grade theater students and discussed his work and process with the 6th grade communication and media arts students. Students took a Figge tour that focused on the Haitian collection. This was in preparation for the collaborative studio 1 installation that students will begin in a few weeks. Students will be designing an interactive installation in conjunction with Didier Williams exhibit and the themes found in his work. Stay tuned for more details. Exhibit to open in February 2020. 7th Grade Communication & Media Arts students visited Edwards Creative Services on October 14th, 2019. Students toured their printing production facilities where they do graphic design, vehicle wraps, tradeshow displays, custom built corporate designs, and event signs. They visited with on-site graphics designer, Matt Pulford. Edwards Creative Services will be printing the large scale advent calendar designs that students created for the German American Heritage Center. These will be revealed each day starting December 1st.
A group of 7th Grade Integrated Arts students has chosen to communicate the need for adopting/fostering/volunteering/donating at King's Harvest Pet Shelter by making a video to post on the website of both King's Harvest and the CAA.
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