Announcement:

The middle school and upper school theatre program is proud to announce our spring musical, Once Upon A Mattress!  This fun and fanciful musical is based on the classic tale, The Princess and the Pea.  Auditions will be held in late January, and performances will be in mid-April.  Stay tuned for more information!

New Art Galleries are on Artsonia

Please go to Artsonia.com 

for new art galleries K-12

Nick Becton

Percussion Outreach at UAMS

A select group of Intermediate and Advanced percussion students will be traveling to UAMS on December 3rd to perform a Christmas concert for patients and their families.  The steel band concert will take place from 12pm-12:45pm and will feature a number of Christmas favorites, as well as a demonstration and hands-on opportunity for the patients.  We would like to thank Erin Gray and the UAMS Volunteer Services office for inviting us to come and play.  

The Middle School and Upper School theatre program performs The Diviners this weekend!  Come see our students tackle this powerful play!  Performances are Thursday, 11/14 and Saturday, 11/16 at 7:00pm, and Friday, 11/15 at 4:30pm.  Admission is $5 for students and $10 for adults. 

Steel Band Performs at ASO "Beethoven and Blue Jeans"

Join the Episcopal Steel Band for a tailgate party with the Arkansas Symphony this weekend!  The Steelcats will be performing before each of the ASO’s Beethoven and Blue Jeans concerts, Saturday 6pm – 7:30pm and Sunday 1pm – 2:30pm.  Any ticket to the ASO concert grants free entry to the tailgate party and all the festivities. Markham street will be blocked off, pit-masters will be cooking up brats and Diamond Bear will be providing refreshments for the adults.  Join us for a great time with the Arkansas Symphony! Call the ASO box office at 666-1761 for tickets and more information.

Percussion Studio Update: October 2013

Percussion Students with Guests Norman Weinberg
and Rick Dimond

Percussion Studio Update:  October 2013

The weather is cooling off but the percussion class and steel band performance schedule is just starting to heat up!  The steel band has already performed at a Hendrix College football game, given a concert performance at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in North Little Rock, and partied with the crowd at the Heights Third Thursday celebration.  Dr. Norman Weinberg visited all the percussion classes for a week-long residency in September, culminating with a beautiful performance of Toru Takemitsu's Raintree.  Below is a list of our upcoming performances.  We hope you can make plans to join us!  

1. Friday, October 25th and November 8th, 7pm:  Introduction and Beginning Classes perform at the home football games.  Come help us cheer on the Wildcats!
2. Thursday, October 31st, 9:20am:  Beginning and Introduction to Percussion classes will perform in MS/US Chapel.  We will feature our African Drumming ensembles.  You don't want to miss it!
3. Wednesday, November 6th, 10:45am:  Introduction to Percussion class gives a "Hands-On" chapel performance at the  Lower School.  Lower School students will enjoy playing African djembes, shekeres, gankogui (double bell) and other fantastic instruments, as well as getting on stage to sing and dance.  
4. Saturday-Sunday, November 9th and 10th:  Steel Band performs at Arkansas Symphony Beethoven and Blue Jeans tailgate party; 6-7:30pm Saturday, 1-2:30pm Sunday.  Tailgating has never been so much fun!
5. Tuesday, December 3rd, 12pm:  Steel Band performs Christmas music at UAMS for patients and families with a lunch-time concert! 

We hope to see you soon!

Harvestfest 2013 Homes for Haiti Sale

Episcopal students helping customers

Our ornaments

We have amazing, dedicated, passionate, smart students at Episcopal Collegiate School and we prove it all the time.  Harvestfest was no exception.  Under the student leadership of Junior Riley Blair we secured a booth at Harvestfest to help us sell our colorful Homes for Haiti.  Three shifts of over 25 student volunteers from our middle school and high school worked our booth.

We had a great crowd and students helped by steering customers into our booth and other students told people about our project.  We shared how long we have been raising money for Haiti and how we created our pins and ornaments.  Everyone was impressed by how articulate our students spoke about the project and how passionate they were about the work. 

Harvestfest 2013 Homes for Haiti Booth

We learned how to explain our project, engage people to listen to what we had to say about our project, and sell our pins and ornaments. We had straight donations from customers because they appreciated the hard work we have done to help Haiti. We also received invitations to sell our pins at other events, so our good work can continue. 

 As the art teacher for this"little project" , I am so proud of how well the students represented Episcopal Collegiate School.  The warmth and genuine passion each student demonstrated to help Haiti was truly heartwarming.   We raised $1,288.25 for the Clinton Haiti Relief Fund.

Mr. Carr sharing in the days events

Our students engaged the crowd and we had faculty swing by to see us doing our work.  Mr. Carr, Mrs. Dowell, Mrs. Blair and her husband, Mrs. Bridges, Ms. Hazell and her fiancé, Mr. Whittlesey, Mrs. Honeywell and her husband with pup Daphne too. Mr. and Mrs. Kinder made a special trip to come by with the kids.  It was a great day.  I would like to thank Mrs. Ware for the card table and Mr. and Mrs. Blair for the tent, plus Mrs. Dowell for helping to set up the tent.  I would also like to thank my husband for bring us breakfast bars and cold water bottles.  We have a great community at Episcopal Collegiate School.

Wonderful work created by Episcopal Collegiate School artists at Paves the Way Hosted by The Thea Foundation

On Saturday, September 14th at 8:30 AM a group of Episcopal Collegiate School students gathered on the Clinton Presidential Library lawn.  Middle and Upper School students reviewed the sketch created by Senior Celeste Jennings to begin the chalk mural.  Students who had experience at side walk chalk art mentored the less experienced artists and the work began.

We worked in smaller groups at first to fill in the colors to bring our designs together.

Soon the mural burst into color to express our theme.  "We Danced, We United,and We had Peace and that's all that Matters."  Keith Haring figures danced across our mural along with colorful leaves, bubbles, and stars.  Our mural started in the city, went global, back to the country, then into space, and finally under the sea.

Mr. and Mrs. Stein stopped by with the dogs to cheer us on!!!

Thank you to our Seniors for your leadership and guidance.

We had several visitors stop by to see what we created.

  Thank you for sharing in our enthusiasm for Paves the Way.

The work has started and results are showing already.

Please come and see some of our finished works on display in the Upper School.

  Our large collaborative painting is hanging in the US commons area along with our graphic design Signs for our school community.    

Painting Class

Kahry Wright

The drawing class has been exploring and learning about line, value, space, and movement.  Our charcoal compositions demonstrates our understanding of space and are on the wall on your way to the US library. We have several beautiful still life drawings hanging inside the US library, the still life drawings were inspired by Paul Cezanne.

Ivy Cox

Rainey Jones

Stay tuned for more wonderful works on display in the Upper School showcasing our Visual Artists.

New School Year!

The hallways filled with voices and smiling faces this week.  We loved seeing our students again and getting ourselves organized into a new routine.  The "VIBE" is good and we are all looking forward to a great school year.  Back to School Night is just around the corner and we hope all the parents of our students take the time to see what we have accomplished so far.

Middle School Back to School Night

August 20

7-9

Upper Back to School Night

August 22

7-9

Welcome Back to the Fine Arts Program at Episcopal Collegiate School

Hope you all have enjoyed many adventures this summer and have refreshed your creativity for the new school year.  We all have been busy recharging our batteries and preparing new and exciting lessons for you.

We have a new Visual Arts Teacher - Ms. Brown

Please welcome her to the Middle School. 

 Ms. Brown will be teaching the Middle School artists and some of the Upper School Foundations of Art classes.  

Looking forward to seeing all of you.

New and final works from the Media Art Class

Pamela Rgers

Talented Photographers demonstrate their knowledge and creativity.

Alyssa Davis


Follow this link to more great images-Walk About with Little Friend

Nick Simmons Photography to be added to the Psychiatric Research Institute Hospital Permanent Art Collection

Nick Simmons- Junior "Fly Butterfly Fly"

Congratulations Nick Simmons

Congratulations to Upper School Media Arts Students

 Students submitted photographs for the Congressional 2nd District Art Competition and got some unexpected news.  Congressman Tim Griffin enjoyed and appreciated our photographs so much he has asked to display the following photographs in his Little Rock office and in his office in Washington D.C.

 Kiva Hanson’s “Sentier des Arbres”- Little Rock District Office

  Katie Hadden’s “Power at Night” Little Rock District Office

 Jade Pfeifer’s “Bridge at Night” in the Arkansas Washington D.C. Office

Congratulations Artists!

Art Students Helping Children in Haiti at the Cultural Festival

 BeLikeBrit Orphans

We are stepping up our connection to Haiti by painting portraits of the children at the BeLikeBrit orphanage in Haiti.  We are connected to this orphanage by our donation to help construct the building over a year ago. 

 We continue working on our Homes for Haiti project with the Clinton Museum Store but we needed a closer connection to what children and Haiti need.  We selected an orphan and began our paintings before the Cultural Fair.

Cultural Festival

BeLikeBrit Orphanage

 Ms. Schultz was given a donation of handmade photo frames created by Haitian Artists to raise money to send to the orphanage to help with the care of the children.  We sold several photo frames and as soon as each orphan has a portrait completed we will mail our paintings and a check to support the children's needs for school.  

Successful Curbside Couture Performance

View the link below for the News-

http://arkansasmatters.com/fulltext/?nxd_id=655782

Come see Little Women!

Encore Performance - By Popular Demand- Curbside Couture

Please follow the link to reserve your seats now.

Reserve Seats

We will have additional dresses in this show and it will be hosted by Korto Momolu. More Episcopal students are in the show including two lower school students.


http://www.clintonpresidentialcenter.org/events/curbside



Please pass this information on to others who would like to attend. The show is going to be different than last time so it will still be fun a second time around.

Young Arkansas Artists Show is on Display

The Young Arkansas Artists Show is on display now at the Arkansas Art Center.

The Artist Reception is April 7 @ 2:00 in the theatre.

Young Arkansas Artist 52^nd Annual Exhibition March 15- April  28 at the Arkansas Art Center

Over 500 submissions for this years juried show.   Congratulations to the Episcopal Collegiate School Winners-5^th Grade- Lucie Hughes, 7^th Grade- Tom Hopkins, and 11^th Grade- Jade Pfeifer.

Regional Art Show Reception

Central Region Arkansas Art Educators’

Art Competition

 

The awards will be presented at the

Thea Foundation Center

 

4o1 Main Street, North Little Rock, AR

 

Tuesday, April 2^nd, 2013, 6:00 – 8:00 pm

Your artwork will be on display March 28 – April 5

Featuring Art work by

Josie Hurst, Riley Blair, and John Michael Ekdahl

AYAA Winners!

AYAA Winners 2013

 

Congratulations to our winners!

Elizabeth Pack- Memphis School of Art Scholarship

1^st- Abby Harkins  Oils Expressive

3^rd- Ivy Cox  Acrylic Abstract

3^rd- Haley Hughes  Mixed Media 2-D Expressive

4^th- Haley Hughes  Mixed Media Low Relief

1^st- Celeste Jennings  Cut Paper Collage

2^nd- Caroline Stebbins  Cut Paper Collage

3^rd- Claire Jeter Sculpture Expressive

1^st- Kelsey Claybrook  Sketchbook

Honorable Mention- Colin Clemmons  Black and White Photography

Honorable Mention- Elizabeth Pack  Altered Book

1^st- Josie Hurst  Altered Book

Honorable Mention – Michael Chen  First Year Reproduction

1^st- Ivy Cox  First Year Charcoal