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This Week: April VDOE Fine Arts Leadership PLC Meeting
VDOE is hosting opportunities for fine arts division leadership to hear from the VDOE fine arts program staff on current topics facing art education, as well as an opportunity to collaborate as a professional learning community.
The next meeting will be held virtually on Friday, April 29, 2022 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Register here. Meetings are not recorded. Fine arts division leaders who are unable to attend are encouraged to send an alternate. We hope to see you there!
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Opportunities
Arts Education Partnership Town Hall - Connect and collaborate with national arts education policy experts and key service organizations on Wednesday, April 27, 2022 from 3 - 4:30 p.m. EST on Zoom. The intended audience is anyone with arts education supervisory responsibilities at the local district level. Register Now
Film Competition - Cadence Cinema Film & TV’s KdentsTV invites students to submit entries for the Documentary + Mockumentary Film Competition and Festival. Submit original documentary or mockumentary film to inspire, entertain, and change the world.
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Great News!
Fine Arts educators and programs of Virginia public schools are being celebrated this month in communities around the state. Here are some new highlights we've run across this month. Click the headline to learn more. If you have great fine arts news to share, you can send it to kelly.bisogno@doe.virginia.gov.
- Congratulations to the Cooper Middle School Band, Fairfax County Public Schools, under the direction of Matt Baker for their performance at the 2022 White House Easter Egg Roll.
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Choral director uses music to teach compassion, inspire students - Washington Post, 4/18/22 Jordan Markwood, choral director at Rock Ridge High School in Loudoun County, Va., is The Washington Post's 2022 Teacher of the Year.
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Virginia Beach music teacher also a prolific composer - VIRGINIA BEACH — At age 9, three years after she started playing the piano, Lynne German composed her first song. She hasn’t stopped writing since — now most often for her vocal students in Virginia Beach. The Salem High School music teacher has self-published about 40 choral and instrumental songs in multiple styles for school, church and community performances.
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Abingdon High School students prepare for performances of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ - Students at Abingdon High School are busy rehearsing lines, practicing choreography and perfecting musical numbers for “Beauty and the Beast,” — the school’s first musical theater performance since 2019. “The community support has been phenomenal. Our administrators, parents, other folks, local businesses have bent over backward to help us achieve a level of success that we had previously and even go beyond that,” [Brandy Baxter, chorus director] said. “We’ve had the National Art Honor Society students from Abingdon High School paint our sets and help work on set design. The Washington County Technology Center ad design students created our program. So in addition to being a musical, this has become a learning project for multiple members of the Abingdon High School student body.”
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Montgomery Museum to exhibit art by CHS students - Carrie Lyons. “As always, art from CHS upperclassmen and Advanced Placement students will be on display, but this year teachers have chosen to pay special attention to the future of the art department, our Art I students.
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He doesn't just teach students music. He also writes them songs. - CHESTERFIELD, Va. — When the pandemic started and kids were learning virtually, a Chesterfield music teacher got inventive. Aubrey Smalls used Zoom classes to teach students how to make instruments with everyday household items. Now, the music teacher at Winterpock Elementary School is continuing that creativity by teaching the students something new, and hoping other teachers and at-home learners will join him.
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Chancellor drama teacher wins inaugural Theater Teacher of the Year award from Longwood University - A parade of beaming former students, Spotsylvania school division administrators and members of the Longwood University theater department surprised Matthew Armentrout in his classroom at Chancellor High School on Friday morning. They brought him the news that he was the inaugural winner of Longwood’s High School Theater Teacher of the Year award. “He was the single largest influence on my life as a theater person,” said Emma Masaitis, a 2018 Chancellor graduate and current theater student at Longwood, who with her sister Natalie nominated Armentrout for the award.
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High School Invitational Exhibition opens April 8 in Lynchburg’s Dillard Fine Arts Center - Artwork by area high school students will be on display Friday, April 8, through Tuesday, April 26, in the Lobby Gallery of the University of Lynchburg’s Dillard Fine Arts Center. The High School Invitational Exhibition will feature young artists from eight area high schools. Schools represented include Altavista Combined School, Brookville High School, Campbell County High School, E.C. Glass High School, Heritage High School, Jefferson Forest High School, Liberty Christian Academy, and Virginia Episcopal School.
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Henrico Schools’ ARTS Festival at Deep Run HS - Henrico Schools hosted its annual ARTS Festival at Deep Run High School Mar. 5-6. The event featured artwork from students at each of the county’s schools.
- Congratulations to Laura Mulligan Thomas and students from the Charlottesville High School Orchestra who performed at the state Virginia Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (VIAAA) conference. Many of these students are athletes as well as talented musicians!
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It's Never Too Late: Parent Orchestra Teaches New Skills and Brings Families Closer - The Parent Orchestra is the brainchild of Annandale High School orchestra teacher Annie Ray, who started the group four years ago. It’s grown every year, and it’s now so popular there’s a waitlist to join.
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Interactive Mural Brings Sidewalk To Life At Vienna School - VIENNA, VA — At Cunningham Park Elementary School, children no longer have to just walk down the sidewalk to the playground. They can hop, skip and twist through a new interactive mural on the sidewalk from the school to the playground. The Cunningham Park Elementary PTA, school leaders and children gathered Wednesday evening to celebrate the new painted sidewalk. The mural was completed by Cunningham Park art teacher Ellen Singletary.
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Bands and Orchestras in Prince William County Public Schools: Fostering Leadership and Teamwork - The Prince William County School system prides itself on providing students with a world-class education, and that world-class education extends to the county’s band and orchestra programs. The article features Ben Bernstein (Colgan HS), Michael Britcher (Battlefield HS), Anna Henke (Brentsville District High School), and Taryn Wood (Woodbridge HS).
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Thank a Teacher: Artwork captures special relationship between students, teachers for annual art contest - A Stafford County student was honored recently as one of three winners of the fifth annual Virginia Lottery Thank a Teacher Art Contest. Jocelyn Turman, a seventh grader at Edward Drew Middle School, won in the contest’s middle school category.
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Rocking chairs for tiny patients - Art and agriculture students at Dan River High School teamed up to make and paint seven small rocking chairs for children to use while being treated at Sovah Health hospital in Danville. The chairs were delivered Monday, said Ag teacher Casey Kenealy, who along with fellow ag teacher, Whitney Lindsey, and art teacher, Dan Franklin, helped spearhead the project.
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Henrico Public School students recognized in prestigious national art and writing awards - HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WWBT) - Four students from Henrico County Public Schools have been recognized in this year’s Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.
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Schools' art festival returns to Louisa County - After a two-year absence, the Louisa County Public Schools Arts Festival made its return recently. This year’s festival was held at Louisa County High School and featured thousands of pieces of artwork. The artwork was all created by students and staff throughout this past school year. The festival featured paintings, sketches, sculptures and performances by the Louisa County Middle School choir and the Louisa County High School band.
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Art service project in Virginia supports terminal patients - Anderson reached out to art teachers at Liberty Christian Academy and Jefferson Forest High School to ask if students wanted to volunteer their time to paint inspirational quotes on donated canvases to give to patients.
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Contact
Kelly Bisogno, Coordinator of Fine Arts
Virginia Department of Education
kelly.bisogno@doe.virginia.gov
(o) 804-225-2881
(fax) 804-786-1597
P.O. Box 2120
Richmond, VA 23218-2120
Michelle Milligan, Music Specialist
Virginia Department of Education
michelle.milligan@doe.virginia.gov
(o) 804-371-4919
(fax) 804-786-1597
P.O. Box 2120
Richmond, VA 23218-2120
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