Kings County Arts in Action
October 2021 Edition
Brought To You By Kings County Office of Education
Our Purpose
Arts Education Throughout Kings County
Corcoran High School Visual Art Programs
Hanford High School Artwork
Hanford High Choir Programs
JC Montgomery Stories with Style 2.0
Through a series of lessons, students learned about the history of hip hop and its impact on society both in the past and today. Students analyzed lyrics and art work for literary devices and thematic messages. They had the opportunity to create visual art with Urbanists Collective artists Joanna Sanchez and Erik Gonzalez. They learned to create beats on their devices from producer/artist Josh "OPTX" Levine and received mentoring in writing rap pieces from Josh and rapper Black Aesop of Living Legends. The Music Forward Foundation spoke to the students about marketing their work. At the end of the series, students were challenged to create original, collaborative pieces about problems facing our community. The teaching artists selected the piece they felt best met the challenge. It can be seen below. The lessons are available for free use throughout the region. For more information contact info.vapa@kingscoe.org. Additional Stories with Style projects created at JCM can be found on the JC Montgomery YouTube channel.
JCM is also a proud recipient of a Hip Hop Education and Equity Initiative planning grant, which will be used to develop an Arts, Media, and Entertainment pathway at the site.
Students at JCM also recently entered the Unsung competition put on by BreakFree Education. This organization provides educational support to schools serving system impacted youth. The song submitted is a top five finalist. Winners will be announced in the next few days.
Parkview Middle School Artwork
Pioneer Middle School Art and Poster Submissions
Liberty Middle School Marching Band and Color Guard
Akers Arts
From Mr. Fraley, art teacher at Akers Elementary, which is part of the Central Union Elementary School District:
It has been a fun and exciting start to our school year with students back in the classroom at full capacity. As you know it is so much better to teach, especially the arts, face to face in the same room.
We began the year at Akers School with a couple of lessons about Color Theory and about the Olympics, with this being an Olympic year (postponed from 2020) and the upcoming Winter Olympics. We talked about artwork that has been done at the Olympics and looked at the work of LeRoy Neiman. Also included are a few examples of pumpkins done in oil pastel as we have transitioned into form and color in the Fall.
Hanford West High School Choir and Musical Theatre
California Choral Directors Association CENTRAL REGIONAL HONOR CHOIR students
Ashveer Maman, Dustin Mayberry, Madelyn Campos, Hannah Sierdsma
VAPA Arts Resources for Educators
The Kings County Office of Education VAPA website has resources and information about the arts in Kings County.