05/18/09
Annual Arts Night grows beyond Middle School walls
An expanded Arts Night for 2009 was a success at Cape Elizabeth Middle School and Pond Cove Elementary School.
Marguerite Lawler-Rohner, art teacher at the Middle School, reported on the Arts Night expansion to include Pond Cove students to the School Board at their meeting May 12, 2009.
Arts Night was held this year during the evening of April 29, 2009.
"By joining the two schools together and having parents have the opportunity to see what goes on K-8, I thought it brought out more positive time for parents to reflect on what goes on in school," Lawler-Rohner said.
Arts Night began three years ago as a showcase of Middle School arts curriculum - from music to sculpture to drawing and painting. This year, for the first time, Pond Cove School students also exhibited their work, and a chorus of Pond Cove voices held up the musical end of the evening.
"It was probably the largest turnout we've had," Lawler-Rohner said.
The evening also included numbers from the Middle School jazz band.
Also back this year, but expanded to include Pond Cove kids, was a student bazaar, where students set up tables to sell some of their crafts and help fund framing of the school's permament art collection.
Lawler-Rohner thanked the parent volunteers to helped hang student artwork throughout the schools, and particularly Suzanne McGinn and Lisa Gent for their organizing efforts.
In turn School Board Chairman Trish Brigham lauded Lawler-Rohner and school staff for their vision and initiative. "I think it was the biggest and best ever," Brigham said.
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