All children are artists.
The Unquowa curriculum provides students with regular opportunities to express themselves through visual and performing arts from the earliest ages—twice weekly in grades PreK through 5 and three times weekly in the Upper School. We see the arts as essential to a child’s development and character formation. Artistic practice bolsters academic success by increasing critical thinking skills, concentration, self-discipline, self-expression, and self esteem. The arts help children understand their emotions and teach empathy by engaging with the emotions of others. Both visual and performing arts build confidence, increase neural connectivity, and put children more in touch with themselves and the world around them.
All Right Stop, Animate and Listen…
Posted by Krissy Ponden
Sixth graders have been hard at work on one of their favorite projects of the year: stop motion animation! After learning why stop motion is still a relevant art form in the age of digital animation, students excitedly began drawing storyboards, writing scripts, creating clay models, and designing sets. We are excited to share our finished mini movies with you in a few weeks!
Making memories for Youth in India
Posted by Krissy Ponden
Seventh and 8th grade art students have been working on creating beautiful custom gifts for youth facing challenges in India. Eighth graders are painting portraits of students that will be sent to them as personal gifts through The Memory Project, an organization that works to spread messages of kindness to children around the world. Seventh graders are also participating by creating Inspiration Art with students’ names, favorite colors, and three words that they used to describe themselves. Many of these children have never received keepsakes that others have made for them, so we hope these will be special gifts that let them know that there are young people thinking of them and sending them good wishes!
Sending messages of love to The Love Quilt Project
Posted by Krissy Ponden
Sixth graders have been working on designing and coloring messages of love on fabric squares that will be sent to The Love Quilt Project. The squares will then be sewn into special quilts that are given to at-risk children living in foster care in both South Africa and the United States. The organization has donated over 1,000 of these quilts since 2011, and over 10,000 school children have participated in their creation. We are excited to have our sixth grade students’ drawings sewn into a quilt that will help give comfort to a child and wrap them in love.
6th Grade Instrumental Rocks the Stage!
Posted by David Coe
The 6th grade instrumental class brought Halloween vibes to assembly this week with their performance of “In The Hall Of The Mountain King”, enhanced by the percussion section’s creative twist of adding a cool Latin beat!
Unquowa’s Galleries are beginning to fill up!
Posted by Krissy Ponden
The 6th, 7th, and 8th graders have been busy working on their first projects of the year in visual arts, and the gallery spaces in the building are beginning to showcase their amazing work! Sixth grade has been creating detailed self-portraits filled with different aspects of their identities and words that they feel best describe them, 7th grade has been working on crafting artistic icosahedrons, and 8th grade has been designing intricate radial prints. Be sure to check out the galleries and see these incredible works in person!
View the Show – Newsies Jr!
Posted by Megan Kirk
I could not be more excited to share the video of Newsies Jr! All of the cast and crew did a simply remarkable job putting on this very challenging show! Bravo!!!!!
