King Arts
Fine and Performing Arts Team Newsletter
February 2021
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Celebrating the legacy of Dr.King through the Arts
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YEA! 2021 Opening: Saturday, May 15th |
YEA! 2021 promises to be an amazing but different art experience this year.
The D65 Visual & Media Arts teachers are working diligently behind the scenes to make YEA! 2021 possible, but your support is needed.
Please encourage your student(s) to attend art class, participate, create, and submit completed art in accordance with Ms. Vega and Ms. Wernecke's instructions by March 12, 2021.
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BLM Art Activism
King Arts Artists in Ms. Vega's Visual Arts class learned to use art as a tool for activism in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Students learned about activist artists Faith Ringgold, Nick Cave, and Teddy "Stat" Phillips, and created their own art statements. Celebrate our student art work.
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Celebrating Black History
Students in Ms. Wernecke's Media Arts Class learned about Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series Paintings, Gordon Parks' Photography and Alvin Ailey's "Cry." Visual Arts students created work inspired by Ashley Bryan's book, "Beautiful Blackbird," and experimented with Alma Thomas' artistic style.
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Dance: Biography and History on the move! |
Dr. Pearl Primus (1919-1994) was a dancer, choreographer, and advocate for African dance.
“I dance not to entertain,” she once said, “but to help people to better understand each other.”
She began a life-long study of African and African-American material in the 1940s, and developed a repertory of dances emphasizing the rich variety of African diasporic traditions.
Dance students have been learning the dance Fanga Alafia, the roots of the movements in the dance, and have created their own dance of Welcome!
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Click on the picture to see a short video of our students telling their stories. |
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Exploring Personal Story in Drama |
Students in grades 3-5 explored the story, Milo’s Museum, as part of our
Black Lives Matter curriculum in Drama class. Milo’s Museum (click on the link to hear the story!) t ells the story of a young child named Milo who goes to visit a museum and doesn’t see anything in that museum that tells her story or her family story. Milo decides to create a museum that will reflect her story.
After exploring the book, students were asked to imagine that they were going to open a museum that celebrated them and their stories. Students found objects that they would put in a museum that would tell their story. Our Stories Matter!!
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Black History Month & Women's History Month |
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Middle Schoolers in music class have been learning about and listening to women guitarists, banjoists, and bassists of color. We will continue to learn about more giants of the guitar, bass, and banjo as we enter Women's History Month. |
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Kindergarteners have been celebrating Black History Month through the integration of music and literacy. Students created songs and dances to represent the title character in Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o. We discussed the many musical sounds in our neighborhoods through Before John Was A Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane by Carole Boston Weatherford. And Trombone Shorty by Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews inspired us to sing about a few of our favorite things. Kindergarteners are very creative! (Click on the Books for links to read-a-louds!)
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Band and Orchestra=. Ms. Church- email link; Mr. Carrillo- email link
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Duke Ellington performing "Satin Doll" in 1962 |
Band students in grades 5-8 have been practicing musical works from award winning, legendary black composers during the months of January and February. Musical artists included so far are Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, Bill Withers, Duke Ellington, Earth Wind and Fire, and The Weeknd. Interactive musical excerpts are linked in the band google classroom assignments, as well as on our Band website.
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Throughout the month of February, elementary classes have focused on understanding the power and the value of diverse voice and #ownvoices perspective through books. As part of Black Lives Matter at School, we have been reading and reflecting on Black authors’ and illustrators’ voices.
Many of the books featured in our lessons were part of the Netflix series: Bookmarks:Celebrating Black Voices. To view this amazing book series at home, click the link below
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Celebrating the legacy of Dr.King through the Arts |
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