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2024 - 2025 Dance Class Placement Auditions

All Classes - Ballet, Modern/Contemporary, Hip Hop, Jazz

Tuesday, April 9, 2024 from 4:00 - 5:30 pm

2024 - 2025 Dance Company Auditions

Equilibrium Dance Company - Grades 9 - 12

Ensemble Performance Company - Grades 7 - 12

Wednesday, April 10, 2024 from 4:00 - 5:30 pm

SAVE THE DATE!

The spring AAA NIGHT @ THE MUSEUM event will take place Thursday, May 9th from 6-8 pm at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

Please make plans to visit the Museum and support our K-12 students who will perform in the Great Hall and throughout the Museum grounds. AAA Night @ the Museum celebrates our partnership with Crystal Bridges Museum and this spring will mark our 10 year anniversary for the event! Additionally, the National Association of Museum Schools (NAMS) will be at the event as part of their national tour. AAA is honored to be selected as one of six schools in the Nation to be chosen to host the NAMS team.

To learn more about AAA Night @ the Museum visit https://sites.google.com/artsk12.org/aaa-arts-integration/museum-partners/aaa-night-the-museum

To learn more about the National Association of Museum Schools visit https://www.museumschools.org/

Students will be awarded points for showing behavior expectations presented below in our ARTS behavior grid. We are excited to see the positive behaviors in students!

1st place Extemporaneous Speaking Level 2 Jaidhy Esparza

2nd place Extemporaneous Speaking Level 2 Lenny Bahena-Chairez

4th place Vocabulary Bee, Level 2 Saxon Bauman

6th place Vocabulary Bee, Level 2 David Adkins

Also, we would like to applaud the participation of Emma Gastineau, Max Heithaus, Luna Varney, and Cadence Carr who worked so hard for the competition.

Ms. Schultz 8th grade arts classes are currently working on creating these amazing shoes for celebrate the arts!

Songwriter / percussionist Al Lopez “Papa Rap” dropped by our collaborative arts class today to talk to our students about his songwriting process as well as to teach our students about creating new musical ideas through rhythm.

In December a competition opened for NWACC students (Emma was able to apply because she takes concurrent courses) to submit a food-themed, 12.5 x 4 ft design for a mural. Emma won and spent approx. 45 to 50 hours completing the mural, A Palatable Terrain. It is made with primer, acrylic paint, and sharpie.

Title of Piece: A Palatable Terrain

Food itself is a landscape. It encompasses numerous meaningful experiences in all ages,

and brings people together from around the world. Especially with social media, we all itch to

create and try the newest fad, whether it be cloud bread or any variation of the countless

renditions of overnight oats. Nourishment also plays a role in culture, as seen in this piece. The

chicharron stars and far off concha hills reflect my mother’s Chicano culture, but there are other

references to events that influenced me as a child. Often when looking at the sun set, I would

relate the sky to looking like cotton candy, which is why the clouds represent cotton candy and

the sun a giant lemon, both hurting your eyes and nipping sourly at your tongue. I remember as a

kid going to a pizza joint and getting a cannoli, which is seen hoisting up the pizza next to the

honeycomb hill. The waterfall is ramen noodles with soft-boiled eggs, green onions, and sesame

seeds, and is seen coming out of a bowl, the only non-edible object in the piece. Surrounding this

is a field of kale and various colored cauliflower, with broccoli and carrot trees. The mushrooms,

specifically the morels, reflect when I go foraging with my family, and how excited we get when

we find the morels, for they are so delicious and rare. Acting as cliffs and surrounding the

waterfall are lasagna, mashed potatoes, and steak. I incorporated the baked potatoes in the piece

because my youngest brother loves them, even having a baked potato bar for his second birthday

party, and when I was younger I loved them so much I did a “baked potato dance” whenever we

had them in a meal. The coconut hot springs allude to a phase I went through where I drank

coconut water consistently, and also to my Dad, who loves anything with coconut in it. The

pineapple is another reference to my Mom, who adores it, and the tomatoes showcase my second

youngest brother’s love for eating them straight from the garden. The honey is another reference

to him, for if we’re not careful he’ll simply drink the honey straight from the jar. Thus, food is

truly a reflection of culture and seasoned practice, and I’m so grateful for all it's done to bring

my family together.

Orchestra, Bass, and Collaborative arts students calculated distance of downtown locations by comparison to the high school via the speed of sound.

Arkansas Arts Academy distributes 750 pounds of food at its opening of our food pantry. Many thanks to Northwest Arkansas Food Bank , our AAA counselors and especially Chef Sheena Owens.

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Amazing performance by Arkansas Arts Academy Mr. Voltz in the Perry Ryan Theater Company Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat!

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ANA provides a $2,000 scholarship to high school seniors in Northwest Arkansas who are majoring in an art-related fields such as visual arts, graphic arts, design etc. Applications for the ANA 2024 Scholarship will be open from February thru the first of May 2024. Northwest Arkansas High School seniors planning to major in art may apply.

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