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State of the Arts

Educators have long recognized the value of music, art, drama and writing for students’ creative development and academic success. This series highlights the many enriching ways students are experiencing the arts.

Students learn resilience by piecing together art

Kelloggsville Phil de Haan

It’s Bruno Mars and breaking glass in Room 1505 at Kelloggsville High School this fall...

‘These kids just really want to be singing’

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell

Determined to bring back choir in a safe manner, this teacher made changes to her classes based on the latest scientific research and best practices by fellow teachers...

Marching on

State of the Arts Erin Albanese

The plan is to continue regular rehearsals and to host a number of community events, to be determined...

Celebrating senior singers with a final concert, virtually

Rockford Charles Honey

Over 120 choral students in grades 9-12 will join voices in a virtual choir to celebrate the graduations of about 45 senior singers, in a prerecorded concert to be posted on the Rockford Choirs YouTube channel...

Creating art anywhere

State of the Arts Erin Albanese

A new reality of art lessons during the pandemic is the resource savviness required to make it work, technologically and material-wise...

A student’s poem of hope for a tough time

State of the Arts Charles Honey

Tanith Frank, an eighth grader at North Rockford Middle School, sounds notes of courage and determination in her poem about getting through this challenging time, together...

The show might go on

School 2.0 Bridie Bereza

Months of preparation and rehearsal suddenly seem for naught as school plays and musicals are postponed...

The Best of Jazz

State of the Arts Dianne Carroll Burdick

Trumpeter Marcus Printup brought the jazzy notes of Duke Ellington to Byron Center High School recently, where he spent a full school day with the jazz band rehearsing classics...

Looping through layers of sound with a cool new pedal

State of the Arts Morgan Jarema

A looper pedal and related equipment for the high school orchestras were purchased through a grant from the Lowell Education Foundation...

A really big yellow chair gets new colors

State of the Arts Hannah Lentz

Students in Tonya Woods’ independent study class will be decorating the 'Big Yellow Chair' for the village of Middleville throughout the month of March...

An explorer, a tropical island, a pineapple

State of the Arts Erin Albanese

The state-wide contest is in its eighth year...

WMCAT students earn high honors in art competition

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

Twenty-one GRPS students won 80 awards for photography and ceramics in the 2020 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards regional competition...

Dance power: helping girls ’empower themselves and be themselves’

Rockford Charles Honey

EmpowHER ½ Hour meets once a week during recess to let young girls feel their strength through the joy of dance...

Musicians take on anything but classical

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Forty-four students become immersed each morning in music styles ranging from bluegrass to alternative rock in the Anything But Classical Orchestra...

Artist speaks out against hate in competition

Cedar Springs Cris Greer

Four art students won top honors out of 127 competitors at the third-annual Cedar Springs High School Art Competition...

Students supplement learning with ballet, clay creatures & Billie Holiday

Grand Rapids Phil de Haan

A grant-funded partnership between Brookside Elementary and the Salvation Army Kroc Center sees third, fourth and fifth grade students make a trek twice a week through their backyard for classes in ballet, clay and jazz...

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