Many exciting things are happening across the arts at Elmwood! Once a month, an exemplary senior school artist is picked from drama, music, or visual arts to be the artist of the month and presents their work, process, and ideas in assembly. Congratulations to Daryna Mardak (Visual Art), Sadie Hanley (Music), and Izzy Morgan (Drama), who are our winners so far this year.
Dramatic Arts News
Middle school students are preparing for their production of Alice, which will show from Monday, December 16 to Wednesday, December 18.
Art classes are assisting the senior school production of Narnia by making costumes, this show will run from February 27 - March 2. The grade seven art class is creating wearable sculptures and they will participate in the play by wearing them for when the White Witch turns animals into stone. The grade ten art class has just wrapped up the costume design process, and you can see some of the photos of the characters in their costumes at the link below.
This year, we have two competitive improv teams that practice each week, one for middle school and one for senior school.
Visual Arts News
Students in all senior school art classes wrapped up their art history units by visiting the National Gallery to see artworks from their assigned eras. We had Adrian Gollner, a practicing artist, come in to talk about curation and developing concepts in artwork. Each year grades 10-12 Visual Arts students have a mini-unit on model drawing and anatomy in the fall. See photos of student artwork from this unit at the link below.
Music News
Students in grades 6-12 music are preparing for Winter Music Night on Wednesday, December 11, from 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. Students are getting excited about the spring Music Fest in Toronto, and Mr. Gummeson is preparing a lot of fun excursions and experiences for the students joining this trip!
Arts Council News
After completing the pumpkin painting for CHEO, in collaboration with Jacobson's, the senior school Arts Council is planning many events in the upcoming months.
Paint Night will take place on Wednesday, December 4, which is open to students in grades 8 - 12. Coffee House applications are now open as well. Coffee House will take place on Tuesday January 28 from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. for grades 6-12.
This year the Arts Council has decided to create an arts hoodie and to have a iron-on patch for each of the arts clubs. Students will collect patches for each Arts extracurricular they are involved in each year, to place as a collection on their sweater. Students in the middle school and senior school Arts Councils are designing the patches. We will be selling a first run of the sweatshirts in December for $50 each (tax included). Rain Liu created the winning hoodie design, congratulations Rain! The Arts Council will have an Arts Banquet in May, where we have a dinner and dance, and hand out the patches.
Check out the photos here!