Arts Night Out

For "Arts Night Out," on October 9, 2014, the Arts Team collaborated with administrative intern, Alisha Taylor, to plan a parent night at which parents and students would visit the Arts classroom for a hands on experience.  This would give parents an idea of what their children experience in Specials each day and will help them better understand the great opportunity of having their children attend an Arts Magnet and A+ school.  Students and parents visited the Arts classrooms on a rotation and were able to visit the Music Lab, Art Studio, Dance Studio, Orchestra Room, and Band Room.  We also raffled off a basket of supplies, collectables, and instruments.  It was definitely an enjoyable night of learning, performing and creating.

Music with Ms Farthing

Dance with Miss Stevenson

The Sign in Table and Basket Raffle with Ms Taylor and Mrs Baccari

Art with Mrs Gordon

PE with Mr McNeil

Band with Mrs Thomas

Specialists/Arts Team

Meet the Arts Team for the 2014-2015 School Year.

Miss Amanda Stevenson: Dance/Drama, Ms. Leslie Batten: Media, Mrs. Zenyth Thomas: Band, Mrs. Lisa Morris: Orchestra, Ms. Ann Farthing: Music Technology, Ms. Jackie Pullen: Technology, Mrs. Amanda Gordon: Art/AIG, Mr. Ross McNeil: Physical Education

School of Distinction

During the 2014-2015, our faculty, students and staff were so honored to receive the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts School of Distinction in Arts Education Award.  This award was given to 5 schools in North Carolina, and this award recognizes the commitment of the school to arts education.  Our magnet program is at the core of all we do here, and our arts programs drive much of what happens at school!  Earning this award was such an exciting time as we were featured on news broadcasts on WXII and WFMY2 as well as covered in stories in the Chronicle, Journal and school system blog.  Pictured above was our Specialists/Arts Team for the 2013-2014 school year.

Spring Extravaganza 2014

The Annual Spring Arts Extravaganza is always a big event during youth art month to wrap up the year.  Teachers prepare a display of art that reflects all the students have been learning and creating throughout the year.  In March of 2014, we were fortunate to have almost 30 students with art work on display in the Spring Extravaganza at the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts in downtown Winston-Salem.  Several of these students were able to attend the event.

This was the first year that the Extravaganza was sponsored by Modern Automotive.  They juried the exhibit and chose two winners for each level, (elementary, middle and high,) to be awarded as winner or honorable mention for that level.  Our very own Yarixel Reyes was named Honorable Mention Winner for the Elementary School Division for her pastel portrait.

Our school as a whole was awarded 5 gold seals for the exhibit.

Congratulations to all our student artists for their hard work.