Programs Available through PTA/PTO

The following KVPAC Programs are available to be scheduled to come to your school as PTA curriculum support or as a PTA/PTO Arts in Education and Cultural Arts opportunity.
KVPAC supports the arts and arts education! Contact your school principal, PTA/PTO president, Curriculum Support Chairman or Cultural Arts/Arts in Education Chairman about scheduling a KVPAC Program to come to your school!

ARTS ALIVE!
This is an art enrichment course designed for children in pre-K-1st grade and for children with special needs. Art?s Alive brings a weekly rotation of popular KVPAC visual, musical and performing art programs to the classroom for an hour of lively and creative interaction. Art?s Alive! Enrichment Workshops include:
?Paint to Mozart? The workshop format is based on studies that indicate exposure to Mozart?s inspiring music has a powerful effect on a child?s mental development by stimulating right brain creative thinking, inducing relaxation, improving concentration, increasing memory skills, fostering verbal skills, and encouraging the growth of spatial intelligence.
?Let?s Pretend? invites children to involve themselves in a new world of adventure in each workshop with creative sets and costumes centered on themes which introduce singing, dancing, and acting skills. The last 5 minutes of each class features a live performance for teachers, parents and staff.
?Make A Move? is a dance workshop designed to improve balance, eye hand coordination, and develop gross motor skills by introducing children to the fundamentals of creative movement and different styles of music.
?Rock Out with Clay? We ?Shape, Wrap, and Roll? clay & learn slab building, glazing, and glass fusing techniques to produce functional ceramic art.
?Earth Art Child? is a multi-media art experience where children learn about recycling while working with work with a variety of materials including watercolor, acrylics, pastels, tempera, paper mache. Projects focus on earth-friendly recycled art (special Trash to Treasures projects) and nature crafts designed to enhance number and letter recognition.
?A Musical Life? is a series designed to expose children to the beautiful sounds of the symphony orchestra, opera, and jazz. They will create whimsical playable instruments and stage a ?classic? musical performance.
?Hands On Ceramics? is a workshop where students personalize bisque ware with special glazing techniques to create kiln fired heirloom masterpieces that many parents will treasure for years to come.
?Tell Me a Story!? draws creative inspiration from award winning children?s literature, oral storytelling tradition enhanced with crafts, puppets, and lots of imagination to encourage reading readiness and a love of the written word.
Art?s Alive! Programs can be booked individually or as an eight-week rotation This program is available for children with special needs and to children in grades Pre-K-1st.

LET?S PRETEND!
Instead of taking the class on a field trip?schedule the field trip to come to your class! Let KVPAC?s MOVING COMPANY PERFORMING ARTS FOR CHILDREN take your students to The Wild West, The African Jungle or Hawaii! Children will enjoy a imaginative and cultural experience. Cute costumes, silly songs, creative dances. This is wonderful introduction to drama and the theater arts! $150 per classroom- designed for pre-school-Kindergarten. Subsidies are available to new and qualifying PTAs.

DAY AT THE IMPROV
Turn the classroom into a comedy routine! Students learn the art of improvisation in this hilarious off the wall introduction to the theater arts. This program is great way to introduce new students and teachers as each discover their own hidden talents and undiscovered dramatic inclinations. Available to be scheduled on in-service days as a unique staff development opportunity. Also perfect Performing Arts opportunity for students in 4th-6th grade.
Cost $150 per classroom
$150 Teacher/Staff Development Workshop

OUT OF THE BOX
A large ordinary box contains all the makings for a wild & crazy time. Props, T-shirts, wigs, and lots of ?found? objects are interpreted by students into an extravaganza of staged artistic expression at the end of the course. The only rule is to use every item in the box (including the box itself) to invent an original production, costumes, and props. Teams of 4 students work with a coach trained to facilitate and channel the students? improvisational impulses into a presentation guaranteed to entertain an audience. Great for Destination Imagination crew development. PTA Performing Arts/Curriculum Support Chairman/ D.I. Coaches may inquire by contacting Kristin Spencer at [email protected] or by calling KVPAC at (281) 301-6ART extension #7
4-week program is $60 per child

PTA REFLECTION PROGRAM WORKSHOPS
KVPAC Studio time is available to support the NATIONAL PTA REFLECTION PROGRAM K.I.S.D./PTA Reflection Program Coordinators are invited to schedule a Saturday ?Reflections Visual Arts Workshop? for your school. KVPAC workshops encourage Reflection Program participation by offering students a fair work studio environment, a wide assortment of art supplies and materials along with final matting and professional shrink wrapping of each completed entry. Details are available by contacting KVPAC Executive Director, Terri Bieber at or by calling KVPAC at 281-(391) 6ART extension #6.