Visual Arts Newsletter

The VA Student Leadership Team continues to work hard to make the VA department great with their collaboration and amazing ideas. Check out their finalized goals/visions/slogans for each committee and the exciting work they are doing:

The fundraising committee has their first ever event during the Winter Art Exhibition on the evenings of the Holiday Spectacular (December 17th & 18th prior to the shows from 5:30-6:30pm). This committee has created grade level themes for the Basket Raffles, as well as a list of items they would like to include in each basket. They are collecting items from each grade level's families to create the baskets for the fundraiser. Stop by and see the AMAZING artwork that will be displayed in the lobby at BISFA, and while you are there, participate in the basket raffles! Don't forget to bring cash to buy raffle tickets. You are going to LOVE the baskets!!!

Tickets will be: 1 ticket for $1.00, 7 tickets for $5.00, and an entire arm length of tickets for $10!

You can put your purchased tickets all in one basket or spread them across all the baskets, however you would like.

The grade level themed baskets are listed below, and each link will take you to the donation sign up sheet. The student leaders are counting on your help to pull off their great idea! We have also included a fundraising letter in case you would like to ask any local businesses for a donation.

• 9th Grade - Great Game Basket
• 10th Grade - Movie Night Magic
• 11th Grade - Amazing Art Supplies
• 12th Grade - Winter Mystery

Thank you to the Student VA Leadership Fundraising Team for all of your brainstorming and hard work to make this Basket Raffle fundraiser amazing!

AND a great big THANK YOU to all the families that have already donated items to this student-led committee, and to those that are going to donate soon to build these baskets! Because of you, the VA department will receive 100% of the profit from this basket raffle fundraiser, and 4 lucky people will be taking home baskets filled with AMAZING things!! We appreciate your help! You should have received an email with information on how you can sign up to donate items for your student's grade level basket, and the information was also posted by Mr. Geiman in the student's Google Classroom. Items can be dropped off as soon as possible at BISFA, but no later than December 15th so the fundraising committee has time to stuff the baskets. The sooner we have the items the better!

• Slogan~ We Have the “FUN”ds!
• Mission~ To raise money for the visual arts department.
• Vision~ To have available funds for trips, including larger ones.

It's almost time to show the VA staff how much they are appreciated. Pretty soon we will be sharing what happened on the first "appreciation day" with everyone, but right now the committee needs to keep it a secret 😍

• Slogan~ Give to Others Who Care
• Mission~ Make staff feel appreciated.
• Vision~ VA staff feels appreciated.

This team decided to merge the social media committee, the newsletter committee, and the Student Service Learning committees all into one big group because all of those related to communicating what is happening in VA at BISFA with those outside of the school! At the last meeting, this team created an Instagram account, which has been approved and will be monitored by Mr. Geiman! They are very excited to start sharing all of the amazing things that are happening in the VA classes!

Jump on their Instagram page bisfavaofficial and follow them so you don't miss anything and are "in the know". Share their page with your family and friends so their number of followers will grow and the posts will reach many, many people! Upcoming posts will include information about the Basket Raffle and Winter Art Exhibition. You don't want to miss those two things coming up on December 17th and 18th before the Holiday Spectacular in the BISFA lobby. Pictures this team takes and information on projects will be shared on their Instagram page as well as in our VA monthly newsletter. Great work team!!

• Slogan~ Av Arte Est Vita "From Art Comes Life"
• Mission~ To showcase our visual arts department to the community within and outside of the BISFA community.
• Vision~ To keep the community informed about BISFA visual arts.

Keep your eyes and ears open... Something is in the works and you will be hearing about the upcoming get-together soon!

• Slogan~ Connecting our Community
• Mission~ To help VA students get to know each other better (outside of school)
• Vision~ To foster relationships between grade levels.

As always, feel free to reach out to us if you need anything.

Kristi Bachtell: kristib71@hotmail.com

Stacy Morris: rasberrypetal1@gmail.com

VA Parent Liaisons

We are excited to announce the spring visual arts field trip. Students will have the opportunity to see two amazing museums in Baltimore on March 12th. We will be visiting the American Visionary Arts Museum and The Walters Art Museum. Buses are being paid for by the arts department at the Board of Education, and we are thankful for their support to help reduce the cost of the trip. With the support from you for our "dinner out" fundraisers so far this year, we will be able to cover the cost for students to visit the museums, which means this trip will be FREE for our students.

There will be some room on our buses for chaperones. The cost will be $12.00 for chaperones.

If you are interested in coming along on our spring trip, please make sure you have your volunteer form on file at BISFA, as well as the mandatory Kroll Form which requires a copy of the front of your driver's license. If you already have completed these two forms during THIS school year, you do not need to do it again this year. All you will need to do is fill out the chaperone interest form when we share it with you towards the end of January. We will notify selected chaperones by the beginning of February and we will send you more information about the trip in the next few months..

We are excited to announce that Jacklyn Nguyen's holiday card image has been selected as the program cover for this year's Holiday Spectacular! Congratulations Jacklyn!

Speaking of holiday cards, did you see the INCREDIBLE holiday cards that the students made this year for the annual holiday card fundraiser? If you missed them, please take a few minutes and check them out in the link below. You will NOT be sorry. We have such a creative and talented group of visual artists at Barbara Ingram!

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1fmxEaFfAl-ICQ2v3CQ4hbJAPYjH8AAq4QlMT3tO4kBw

Below you will also find lots of pictures of students working on the decorations for the Winter Visual Arts Exhibition lobby display!

News from Mr. Geiman:

Grade 9 - Foundations of Art

Students are continuing the unit on aesthetics, exploring and questioning what and how art is defined within our culture. They are focusing now on how we specifically categorize and add value to art and art objects. We hope to begin creating the holiday snow flakes for the front window winter holiday display.

Grade 10 - 3D Studio II

Students have chosen to create figurines of their classmates. The little winter themed figurines will be placed around the senior's holiday village as part of the front window winter holiday display.

Grade 10 - Portfolio - Ongoing

Grade 12 - 3D Studio IV
Students are creating and decorating cardboard and gingerbread houses for the front window winter holiday display.The gingerbread houses are being funded through the City of Hagerstown's Holiday Cheer Grant and thanks to the Barbara Ingram School for the Arts foundation, the candy decorations have been funded through their Call to Action fund. A big shout and thank you to the City of Hagerstown and the Barbara Ingram School for the Arts Foundation!

Grade 12 - AP

Students are working independently on projects driven by their personal investigation inquiry. Students just completed their fourth work of art. Our focus artist this week will be Andy Goldsworthy.

Click the blue link button above to find out all about the upcoming art contests and student service learning hour opportunities. There are many things happening this time of year!