Hi,
Thanks for stopping by to check out this blog. As time goes by your editor, Diana Carter, hopes to add news about upcoming events and about what you, as SOTA students and SOTA parents, can do to participate or help out art events.
You may or may not know that cutbacks over the summer and in previous years mean that SOTA middle school students will only get visual arts instruction as part of their "arts rollovers." That means just six weeks of visual arts in seventh grade and six weeks in eighth grade -- less than many other schools offer that are NOT devoted to the arts.
It's important that parents band together to advocate for more instruction and help bring about other art opportunities through volunteering. In creative writing, we've been doing this for a couple of years, offering "retreats" and readings outside of school to provide more exposure to this particular art. We were even able to bring in a visiting writing for programming during the school day. Let's put our heads together and see what we can come up with for our visual artists!
There's obviously a place for protesting and criticizing district policy and budget strategies. It's my hope, though, that the SOTA Artist community will come together to find positive solutions to the challenges our school faces in visual arts.
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