The Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School “Fine Arts Week”, runs March 10 - March 16, and will feature student art exhibits, musicals, a national speaker and an a cappella choir from Yale to highlight the arts curriculum at the school.
“While we appreciate and focus on STEM curriculum heavily here at Saint Stephen’s, we know that the arts are a necessary addition to problem-solving, and can enhance the STEM curriculum, which is why nationally the acronym has changed to STEaM. Even if you are building a robot or a hovercraft, you need to infuse color and design into the creation,” said Dr. Janet Pullen, Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School’s Head of School. “Fine Arts Week is an integral week in combining these two philosophies and encouraging our students to explore both,” she said.
The Schedule of Events for Fine Arts Week is as follows:
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March 10: Art Show Triple Play:
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During the “Art Show Triple Play”, students fill the school with three showcases. The 2014 Spring Art Show, housed in the library on the second floor of the Holmes Building featuring art from lower, intermediate and middle school students. This exhibit will be open for viewing every day until March 21, 2014.
The 16th Annual Alexi Tucker Memorial Juried Art Show on the first floor of the Russell building features works of art from the upper school students. Alexi Tucker, a Saint Stephen’s senior from the class of 1997 and a promising artist, passed away her senior year and the memorial art show was founded in memory of her talent and legacy. The art will be on display until April 9, 2014, and winners of all awards will be announced at the reception on March 10 at 5pm.
This year, the School is introducing the inaugural STEaM Showcase. The STEaM showcase features student projects that encompass at least two of the disciplines found in the STEaM acronym: Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics, and the focus of the showcase is on how those aspects are integrated into the School’s Curriculum.
March 11: Yale's Whim’n Rhythm a cappella Group
Yale University’s Whim’n Rhythm a cappella group will visit Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School with one of its members, Kathleen Addison, ’10, who returns to campus for her performance. The world-renown a cappella group has performed in Hong Kong and the White House.
March 12: V.O.I.C.E. Spoken Word Poetry
Sarah Kay, a spoken word poet and founder of Project V.O.I.C.E (Vocal Outreach Into Creative Expression), will be visiting the School on March 12 as she performs as the third speaker in the S4 Speaker Series at the School. Her performances on March 12 are at 8:45am and 9:40am. For more information regarding these performances, please contact the main office of the School.
March 13 - 16: All-School Musical
Fine Arts Week will wrap up with the All-School Musical, a production of “Roald Dahl’s WILLY WONKA”, which will run from March 13 through March 16. Performance times can be found on the School’s website, and tickets are on sale at the Campus Center. This musical will also be the send off for Mr. Boyd, who will be retiring after 21 years of producing and directing musicals with the School.
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Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School is a private, independent, co-educational, college preparatory school in Bradenton, FL. Saint Stephen’s delivers world-class education, excellent extracurricular experiences and exciting programs like AP course work, the iPad initiative, a band/strings program, a global education program, K-12 daily foreign language program and our Marine Science Initiative, to name a few.
Saint Stephen's sits on a gated, 35-acre campus, which includes a state of the art athletic center that hosts the school’s athletic events including cheerleading, football, track and field, lacrosse, baseball, softball and tennis. At every level, from PK3 through grade 12, students are nurtured in small classes and encouraged and supported in their academic pursuits. Students benefit from programs and educational models that have proven successful by Saint Stephen’s students who are excelling today in colleges and universities around the country. Saint Stephen's is proud of its rich academic offerings that go hand-in-hand with a strong college counseling program, a wide variety of competitive sports teams, a creative fine arts program, and many service learning opportunities. For more information about our school, please visit www.saintstephens.org.
