BACKGROUND
Arts Alive is an after-school arts enrichment program that grew out of parents coming together with a shared interest in enhancing the arts at Happy Valley School. This volunteer run program depends on your support.
Each session is 11 weeks and is held on Friday afternoons from 12:50 p.m. - 2:20 p.m. and is for grades 1 - 6 only.
Classes are offered on a fee for service basis and efforts have been made to keep the fees as low as possible. Tuition is due at the time of registration. Tuition includes materials.
SCHOLARSHIPS & FREE TUITION FOR CLASS VOLUNTEERS
Scholarships are available to families in the free and reduced lunch program. Reduced tuition cost is available for one student per family please.
In addition, there will be one tuition-waived spot in selected classrooms available for any parent who commits to serving as an in-class aid (from 12:45-2:45 PM) for the duration of the 11-week course. In addition, you will need to provide pick-up supervision for that class.
PLAYGROUND AND SAFETY GUIDELINES
Our main objective is to create an inspiring and exciting environment where children engage with the arts in a more in-depth way than can be achieved during the school day. To achieve this, the students involved must be committed to learning about art. Please don’t use this program as mere childcare. Additionally, we must be able to provide a safe environment and this requires the full cooperation of every student enrolled in the Arts Alive program. All school rules do apply during the Arts Alive Program. If these rules are not followed, parents will be contacted and participation in the program will be jeopardized.
Spring 2017 CLASSES
Dig it! Garden Club (Grades 1-6)
Dig it! kids will transform our school garden into a playful art space. We’ll work with paint, cloth, yarn, bamboo, ceramic, rock & wood to decorate, sew, weave, build and landscape. We’ll make scarecrows, hobbit houses, a bug hotel, pendant flags and nature art. We’ll also plant, harvest, cook (with the solar oven!) and enjoy the spring bounty of this creative living laboratory.
About the Instructor: Deborah Mcarthur has been teaching outdoor and environmental education for over 20 years. She holds a Bachelor degree in Biology, Masters in Environmental Studies and is credentialed in science education. Deborah has coordinated education programs in science centers, museums, and camps and designed curricula, exhibits, and interpretive panels. She is a lifelong homecrafter (cooking, knitting, weaving, sewing, painting, building) and an avid gardener, having taught Life Lab at outdoor science school, camps and at HVS. Her favorite place to teach is outdoors, getting feet muddy with multi-sensory, hands-on and collaborative activities. Mother of two Happy Valley kids, Deborah is excited to cultivate the student’s connection to this important part of their school.
Paper Arts (Grades 1 - 3)
Cut, draw, rip, and glue! In Paper Arts we will make fun collages, sculptures, origami, and animal masks... all out of paper! You will learn that paper provides endless possibilities. Whether making art out of construction paper, newspapers, magazines, tissue, or old drawings; we will transform sheets of paper into beautiful and unique 2D and 3D creations!
About the Instructor: Danielle Peters received her MFA in Printmaking and Paper Arts and has taught as an adjunct professor at universities across the U.S. She pulls from her academic background to create youth curriculum that make contemporary art concepts and practices fun and easy to understand! She is also the Creative Arts Director at the Boys and Girls Club where she brings youth art into the community through projects such as Moments of Transcendence at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History and the Homeless Garden Project. She also teaches private and small group Digital and New Genre Art lessons out of her Tannery Arts studio, Studio 105. Her paper installations, costumes, sculptures, and dioramas have been included in several major competitive printmaking and works-on-paper exhibitions including the Southern Graphics Council International selected portfolio exhibition, “Navigating Currents.” Peters has exhibited widely across the U.S. and abroad in countries such as Egypt, Argentina, Canada, Poland, South Korea, and Japan.
Music Exploration (Grades 1 - 3)
Hello Happy Valley Community! Do you enjoy singing or want to learn to play an instrument and read music!? In Sarah’s Music exploration class offered in this spring’s Arts Alive program we will Sing and play some favorite popular songs we all know, and learn new songs from around the world. We will do some fun rhythm games and dances to accompany the new world music we learn. We will all learn to read music in a fun colorful way with hand bells and on the piano. Everyone will learn some beginning piano in this class and those who want can also learn beginning ukulele. We will also have days where we try different percussion instruments and African drums. If you love music this is the Arts Alive Class for you!
About the Instructor: Be Natural Music Santa Cruz is a unique music school offering private lessons, rock and jazz band classes, performances and Summer music song-writing camp to the Santa Cruz area youth. Matthew D. Pinck began the school in 1998 and has been teaching and running it since. Sarah Newman Began working and teaching with Matt in 2012. Sarah specializes in working with the younger kids in the program ages 5-12. She teaches private music lessons, the younger rock bands and goes into the school’s to teach music classes with 12-30 students per class, grades kinder to 6th.
Cartooning 101 (Grades 3 - 6)
Cartooning 101 Teaches the basics of cartooning. Students will learn how to create characters, giving them unique personalities. The class will focus on head and body construction, proportion, and using photo references - all you need to know to create your own comic.
About the Instructor: Jon Hastings received his degree in art from U.C. Santa Cruz and has been a freelance cartoonist since 1993. He has been teaching art for over two decades. In that time, he has done the lettering for Scott Adam's "Dilbert," created the award-nominated comic "Smith Brown Jones: Alien Accountant" and the children's book "Terrabella Smoot and the Unsung Monsters." He has edited two benefit books for the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco and contributed to nearly a dozen anthologies.
Year Book (grades 5 - 6)
Come be a part of the making of the Happy Valley School Yearbook! Students will be involved in all aspects of creating their own yearbook for the 2016/2017 year. We begin with creating beautiful artwork that will be scanned into an online yearbook company. The kids will get to see their completed artwork in the book at the end of the school year. The students will be taking photos of HVS classes and activities. We will upload and edit photos (crop, adjust lighting and place into the yearbook). Students will also facilitate the 6th grade interviews and teachers classroom statements. Students will learn to proofread and finalize the project during this Arts alive course. The students get a feel for producing and completing a project as a team that they feel proud of while creating great memories at HVS!
Athena Raney is a Tech Educator (TechEd) for a public elementary school in Santa Cruz, California and a Bay Area Lead Instructor at Embark Labs. Over the last several years, she has transitioned careers as a Computer Engineer to an Educator. She partners with primary & secondary Bay Area educators, organizations, and innovative Makers to build an interactive alignment that meets academic state requirements and deeply fuels student engagement. When she is not sharing and implementing TechEd with educators and organizations, she teaches computer science fused with academics: digital storytelling with coding; digital citizenship; engineering design; merging the arts with technology; mathematics enrichment that stimulates student’s creativity, curiosity, and resilience; and so much more.
Set Design and Character Art (Grades 5 - 6)
Students who sign up for this class will be designing and creating a backdrop set for the Spring Play. In addition, students will be taught the basics of character design. They will learn how to create characters with unique visual personalities using illustration, Sculpey, comics and more.
About the Instructor: Elijah Pfotenhauer studied art and animation at Cal Art, Valencia and Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz. His works have been shown at a variety of galleries in the greater Bay Area, accross California and in Europe and Asia. He currently lives in Santa Cruz at the Art Space Tannery Lofts, painting canvas, murals and teaching mural making to students in both curricular-based and after school programs.
Moana Performance Class (Grades 4 - 6)
Love Moana, Maui, and the gang? Then this camp is for you! Act out scenes from the movie, learn dances, and sing songs such as “How Far I’ll Go,” “Know Who You Are, ” and “You’re Welcome.” What better way to spend your spring than having fun singing, and learning Polynesian dancing and acting scenes from the movie? Lindsey Chester creates a noncompetitive, safe atmosphere where kids can do what they love! Enrolled students will learn songs, and dances, as well as acting skits --- with a live performance at the end!
About the Instructor: Lindsey Chester has been teaching children in Santa Cruz County for over 16 years. As the Executive Director of All About Theatre, she's directed and supervised over 90 full scale musical productions and taught thousands of children over the years, how to explore the world of performing arts. As a mother, private voice teacher and returning teacher to The Happy Valley Arts Alive program, she is very excited to start working with the children and to have some theater fun!
Arts Alive is an after-school arts enrichment program that grew out of parents coming together with a shared interest in enhancing the arts at Happy Valley School. This volunteer run program depends on your support.
Each session is 11 weeks and is held on Friday afternoons from 12:50 p.m. - 2:20 p.m. and is for grades 1 - 6 only.
Classes are offered on a fee for service basis and efforts have been made to keep the fees as low as possible. Tuition is due at the time of registration. Tuition includes materials.
SCHOLARSHIPS & FREE TUITION FOR CLASS VOLUNTEERS
Scholarships are available to families in the free and reduced lunch program. Reduced tuition cost is available for one student per family please.
In addition, there will be one tuition-waived spot in selected classrooms available for any parent who commits to serving as an in-class aid (from 12:45-2:45 PM) for the duration of the 11-week course. In addition, you will need to provide pick-up supervision for that class.
PLAYGROUND AND SAFETY GUIDELINES
Our main objective is to create an inspiring and exciting environment where children engage with the arts in a more in-depth way than can be achieved during the school day. To achieve this, the students involved must be committed to learning about art. Please don’t use this program as mere childcare. Additionally, we must be able to provide a safe environment and this requires the full cooperation of every student enrolled in the Arts Alive program. All school rules do apply during the Arts Alive Program. If these rules are not followed, parents will be contacted and participation in the program will be jeopardized.
Spring 2017 CLASSES
Dig it! Garden Club (Grades 1-6)
Dig it! kids will transform our school garden into a playful art space. We’ll work with paint, cloth, yarn, bamboo, ceramic, rock & wood to decorate, sew, weave, build and landscape. We’ll make scarecrows, hobbit houses, a bug hotel, pendant flags and nature art. We’ll also plant, harvest, cook (with the solar oven!) and enjoy the spring bounty of this creative living laboratory.
About the Instructor: Deborah Mcarthur has been teaching outdoor and environmental education for over 20 years. She holds a Bachelor degree in Biology, Masters in Environmental Studies and is credentialed in science education. Deborah has coordinated education programs in science centers, museums, and camps and designed curricula, exhibits, and interpretive panels. She is a lifelong homecrafter (cooking, knitting, weaving, sewing, painting, building) and an avid gardener, having taught Life Lab at outdoor science school, camps and at HVS. Her favorite place to teach is outdoors, getting feet muddy with multi-sensory, hands-on and collaborative activities. Mother of two Happy Valley kids, Deborah is excited to cultivate the student’s connection to this important part of their school.
Paper Arts (Grades 1 - 3)
Cut, draw, rip, and glue! In Paper Arts we will make fun collages, sculptures, origami, and animal masks... all out of paper! You will learn that paper provides endless possibilities. Whether making art out of construction paper, newspapers, magazines, tissue, or old drawings; we will transform sheets of paper into beautiful and unique 2D and 3D creations!
About the Instructor: Danielle Peters received her MFA in Printmaking and Paper Arts and has taught as an adjunct professor at universities across the U.S. She pulls from her academic background to create youth curriculum that make contemporary art concepts and practices fun and easy to understand! She is also the Creative Arts Director at the Boys and Girls Club where she brings youth art into the community through projects such as Moments of Transcendence at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History and the Homeless Garden Project. She also teaches private and small group Digital and New Genre Art lessons out of her Tannery Arts studio, Studio 105. Her paper installations, costumes, sculptures, and dioramas have been included in several major competitive printmaking and works-on-paper exhibitions including the Southern Graphics Council International selected portfolio exhibition, “Navigating Currents.” Peters has exhibited widely across the U.S. and abroad in countries such as Egypt, Argentina, Canada, Poland, South Korea, and Japan.
Music Exploration (Grades 1 - 3)
Hello Happy Valley Community! Do you enjoy singing or want to learn to play an instrument and read music!? In Sarah’s Music exploration class offered in this spring’s Arts Alive program we will Sing and play some favorite popular songs we all know, and learn new songs from around the world. We will do some fun rhythm games and dances to accompany the new world music we learn. We will all learn to read music in a fun colorful way with hand bells and on the piano. Everyone will learn some beginning piano in this class and those who want can also learn beginning ukulele. We will also have days where we try different percussion instruments and African drums. If you love music this is the Arts Alive Class for you!
About the Instructor: Be Natural Music Santa Cruz is a unique music school offering private lessons, rock and jazz band classes, performances and Summer music song-writing camp to the Santa Cruz area youth. Matthew D. Pinck began the school in 1998 and has been teaching and running it since. Sarah Newman Began working and teaching with Matt in 2012. Sarah specializes in working with the younger kids in the program ages 5-12. She teaches private music lessons, the younger rock bands and goes into the school’s to teach music classes with 12-30 students per class, grades kinder to 6th.
Cartooning 101 (Grades 3 - 6)
Cartooning 101 Teaches the basics of cartooning. Students will learn how to create characters, giving them unique personalities. The class will focus on head and body construction, proportion, and using photo references - all you need to know to create your own comic.
About the Instructor: Jon Hastings received his degree in art from U.C. Santa Cruz and has been a freelance cartoonist since 1993. He has been teaching art for over two decades. In that time, he has done the lettering for Scott Adam's "Dilbert," created the award-nominated comic "Smith Brown Jones: Alien Accountant" and the children's book "Terrabella Smoot and the Unsung Monsters." He has edited two benefit books for the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco and contributed to nearly a dozen anthologies.
Year Book (grades 5 - 6)
Come be a part of the making of the Happy Valley School Yearbook! Students will be involved in all aspects of creating their own yearbook for the 2016/2017 year. We begin with creating beautiful artwork that will be scanned into an online yearbook company. The kids will get to see their completed artwork in the book at the end of the school year. The students will be taking photos of HVS classes and activities. We will upload and edit photos (crop, adjust lighting and place into the yearbook). Students will also facilitate the 6th grade interviews and teachers classroom statements. Students will learn to proofread and finalize the project during this Arts alive course. The students get a feel for producing and completing a project as a team that they feel proud of while creating great memories at HVS!
Athena Raney is a Tech Educator (TechEd) for a public elementary school in Santa Cruz, California and a Bay Area Lead Instructor at Embark Labs. Over the last several years, she has transitioned careers as a Computer Engineer to an Educator. She partners with primary & secondary Bay Area educators, organizations, and innovative Makers to build an interactive alignment that meets academic state requirements and deeply fuels student engagement. When she is not sharing and implementing TechEd with educators and organizations, she teaches computer science fused with academics: digital storytelling with coding; digital citizenship; engineering design; merging the arts with technology; mathematics enrichment that stimulates student’s creativity, curiosity, and resilience; and so much more.
Set Design and Character Art (Grades 5 - 6)
Students who sign up for this class will be designing and creating a backdrop set for the Spring Play. In addition, students will be taught the basics of character design. They will learn how to create characters with unique visual personalities using illustration, Sculpey, comics and more.
About the Instructor: Elijah Pfotenhauer studied art and animation at Cal Art, Valencia and Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz. His works have been shown at a variety of galleries in the greater Bay Area, accross California and in Europe and Asia. He currently lives in Santa Cruz at the Art Space Tannery Lofts, painting canvas, murals and teaching mural making to students in both curricular-based and after school programs.
Moana Performance Class (Grades 4 - 6)
Love Moana, Maui, and the gang? Then this camp is for you! Act out scenes from the movie, learn dances, and sing songs such as “How Far I’ll Go,” “Know Who You Are, ” and “You’re Welcome.” What better way to spend your spring than having fun singing, and learning Polynesian dancing and acting scenes from the movie? Lindsey Chester creates a noncompetitive, safe atmosphere where kids can do what they love! Enrolled students will learn songs, and dances, as well as acting skits --- with a live performance at the end!
About the Instructor: Lindsey Chester has been teaching children in Santa Cruz County for over 16 years. As the Executive Director of All About Theatre, she's directed and supervised over 90 full scale musical productions and taught thousands of children over the years, how to explore the world of performing arts. As a mother, private voice teacher and returning teacher to The Happy Valley Arts Alive program, she is very excited to start working with the children and to have some theater fun!
Spring 2017 FEES
$175 per student, $75 per student on free and reduced lunch (only one reduced tuition per family, please). Please note that your registration is not considered complete until payment has been made.
$175 per student, $75 per student on free and reduced lunch (only one reduced tuition per family, please). Please note that your registration is not considered complete until payment has been made.
