August 2014 Newsletter

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1 Contents Summer Camps July Summer Camp Registration/Enrollment Classes MSOA Heart Project Paint Kit Orders Event Calendar Mandatory Orientation Satellite Schools 2014 SUMMER CAMPS Romans 8:28 All things work together for good to those who love Him and are called according to His purpose. August Summer Camp Right-Brain Seminar Teacher of the Month Prayer Requests Director s Notes Website: [email protected]

2 Fall 2014 Registration/Enrollment Enrollment is open! Check out our Thursday/Friday Fall classes at Drawing 101, 201, & 301! Composition, Watercolor, Painting, Animal Drawing, Portrait, Computer Classes, Claymation, Lego Animation, Performing Art Classes and more! Take five classes once a week for only $130/month! Contact Lisa Barnes [email protected] for any registration or enrollment questions CREATE FILM CLASS Hands on Film class will be taught by a team of teachers, who aim is to put the camera in your hands and shoot. The class will be divided up in small groups, who will plan from the beginning how to the end their story. The class is one hour long, followed by a second class for those who wish to learn how to edit film. The team of teachers will be there to make sure each team has the techniques down, and help needed to make a strong film. The students will follow a basic guideline. Students interested in the film class must be interviewed and accepted into the class. Limited Enrollment: If interested contact Evie Fishkin at [email protected] Thursday Drama Class Thursday Drama taught by Barbara Steely, who will give drama students small vignettes that they will perform at the end of the term revue. Barb has been involved in drama ministry. She is very creative, enthusiastic, and is a very fun teacher. Computer Animation Want to step up from basic computer animation? Ask about our more advanced animation class. World View The World & Art How art effects our culture, and how we can make a difference! Taught by Evie Fishkin & Jacob LaTray 2

3 Need an MSOA Paint kit? Send your order to Megan Reid at Logo by Sean McGee For whatever reason, we haven t gotten enough Heart Projects videos for the contest. If there are videos on lines with enough likes, we will honor this contest. It ends the 21st of August. COLLEGE INFORMATIONAL MASTERS SCHOOL OF ART WILL BE ANNOUCING SOON, TWO NEW INSTRUCTORS HIRED TO HELP IN THE PAINTING AND PORTRAIT CLASSES. Art supply prices are going up, and we want to do everything possible to keep the cost at the lowest price possible. The paint kits are $45.00, this includes paints and brushes. Brush Sets are $15.00 which includes, a fan brush, round brush, flat brush, fluffy brush and detail brush. If you purchase brushes on your own, be careful not to pick up watercolor soft brushes. You do not have to purchase paint kits through the school. Use your Michael coupons, Blicks or other art stores to get the best price. Be careful about off brands that contain more water than pigment. Mark Your Calendar! Upcoming Important Dates and Events September 2 nd All School Orientation September 4 th Thursday School Fall Term Begins September 5 th Friday School Fall Term Begins See our Event Calendar on our website: 3

4 PLACE YOUR AD HERE! Contact Lisa Barnes for more information Salem Satellite School Orientation: Monday, Sept. 22 nd If you live in the Salem area and would like to attend our satellite school contact Guin Szczepanski at Mandatory School Orientation Fall 2014 To make a successful school year, we need our families to team up with the teachers and staff. It is important to ensure communication is good, and we are all on the same page. We cannot do this without parental support. Thank you for your part. Portland Orientation: Tuesday, Sept 2nd Foundational Studies Orientation - 5:30pm College Orientation - 7:00pm Location: Sunnyside Church/Clackamas OR Westside School Summer Camp, You will be able to take classes such as Painting, Cartooning, Lego Animation, Pen & Ink, Watercolor, Color Pencil, Drawing 101 & 201, and Animal Drawing! Free Right Brain Seminar & Drawing Workshop! Rescheduled: September 13th Struggled taking test, you scan read, or have problems remembering what you read? Have you been labeled dyslexic or A.D.H.D. Maybe you are a right-brain genius! Take a test and learn you or your family s brain dominance. Learn how to get along with left-brain people! How to educate a right-brain child & more! Learn basic drawing principles to strengthen your right brain. Understand global brain thinkers the road to success. Limited Enrollment register [email protected] March 2014 Newsletter 4

5 Teacher of the Month Director of Administration Color Pencil and Animal Drawing Instructor Lisa Barnes Lisa has been one of the student s favorite teachers. She is full of joy, and brings the best out of each student. You can walk in her classroom and the kids are full of giggles. Lisa also works hard in Administration. She puts a lot of hours in after she leaves the school. Her desire is that the kids will love art and do well. Lisa has been working with MSOA since Fall 2004 but has had a passion for the arts from a very young age. She started drawing from a book of animals as a child and hasn't stopped working on art since. Another one of her passions is writing, and has had a poem published in the National Library of Poetry. She is currently working on a variety of writing projects including, but not limited to, her first novel and her first children's book. Cartooning is also a passion and she now has her own cartoon strip called Lucy-Goosey, which is published on her personal website. She loves a variety of art mediums, but Color Pencil and Animal Drawing are two of her favorites. You can see samples of her artwork in the art gallery. "I feel truly blessed to be a part of Masters School of Art and I look forward to learning more how I can use my art for Christ. " -Lisa Favorite Bible Verse: Psalms 3:3 But You, Oh Lord, are a shield about me; My Glory; and the One who lifts my head. PRAYER REQUESTS 1. Good start for the school year. 2. God keeps our MSOA families safe. 3. Unity (Among Staff) 4. Healing for Evie (stage IV, wide-spread breast cancer) Targeted treatment & radiation. 5. Healing for Teresa Wold stage III breast cancer now under going chemo. 6. Pray our teachers and staff and families are healthy! 5 5

6 Evie Notes: Educating Kids to use their Creative Side of the Brain The double-dominant, and/or the right-brained individuals are generally labeled ADD, dyslexic, and similar disabilities. The disability may not be the real culprit. Rather, these geniuses restless minds broke up the monotony of rote learning by stirring up a little excitement. In spite of challenging the education system, these geniuses often succeeded because they were passionate and confident and were self-directed learners. If students have the basic nuts and bolts to learning, they will have the tools to be successful. It all starts with three necessary components: passion, self-respect, and applied learning. Passion is the drive that gives them the energy to reach their goals. Self-respect is valuing themselves and feeling worthwhile, loved and confident in their gifted abilities. Applied learning (self-directed) is the adventure of discovering information and working hard to reach their goals. This is important to all brain dominance types, and particularly to the right-brainers who base much of their learning on emotion and experience. The great masters, Isaac Newton, Einstein, Faraday, and artists such as Rembrant were double-dominant, meaning they had a good left and a good right brain. They were global brain thinkers. They had the ability to abstract think in symbols on the left and abstract right side of the brain in patterns and design. They had a visual picture of the abstract left such as complex math. Unfortunately most educations develop the left side of the brain. To have a solid education both sides of the brain need to be developed. It is important to give your children the opportunity to develop the right creative side of their brain. Most parents believe they are giving a good education to their kids, because their children take music lessons or sports. Music is good as the right side of the brain comes in where the need is for rhythm. But, most of music is linear learning, and mathematical. Sports is a good team activity that uses both brains, but it is not what develops the right side of the brain. To give children a good right-brain education, it is necessary to introduce them to the Fine arts. Crafts, however, is not fine arts. It is what I call a left side of the brain linear, one, two and three approach form of art. If you do this then you get this result. Creative writing, more of a free write, is a great right-brain exercise. Self-directed learners, who are fueled by passion, are more apt to develop the right side of their brain. Praise is fuel to inspire the self-directed learner. With all that said, Masters School of Art can be a good resource to inspire your children to becoming self-directed learners and to become whole brain thinkers. Classes in the fine arts, or the creative writing classes will help children to prepare for a future that involves more than just a leftbrain job. It is helping them to become global brain thinkers, and to become one of the great inventors, or leaders that our country desperately needs MASTERS SCHOOL OF ART, All Rights Reserved 7 6