Meet the Masters
Meet The Masters
Meet the Masters 2011-12 Co-Chairs
Sara McCarthy (Email Sara)
Lisa Massoumi (Email Lisa)
Meet the Masters is an art enrichment program brought to the school through our PTA fundraising. Five artists are highlighted throughout each year. Assemblies are held to teach the students about the life and artistic style of each artist. Each assembly will introduce the master artist to the children via slides, prints, props, and audio games. An art element will be learned with each master artist, for example: texture, shape, color, value, line, etc.
The morning of the assembly, parent volunteers attend Inservice Trainings in the Media Center (for no more than 1 hour) and are trained in an art project reflecting the work of the featured artist. (No artistic background is necessary!) Within a week of the assembly the volunteers teach the project they have been trained in, to the students, in the student's classroom.
Our schedule of Inservice Trainings for the year will take place from 8-9am on the following Thursdays in our Media Center:
September 15th: Claude Monet
November 17th: Paul Klee
January 19th: Andy Warhol
February 16th: Leonardo da Vinci
March 15th: Gustav Klimt
Volunteers will coordinate with their teachers and sign up for a scheduled time slot to teach the art lesson to their class. All of the supplies needed will be stored in the Meet the Masters Supply Closet, ready and available to teach the session. Volunteers will help prepare the classroom before the lesson, pass out supplies, assist the students in terms of direction and technique, and replenish and return supply baskets to the supply closet.
If you have any questions or would like to be added to the volunteer list, please e-mail us.
OVERVIEW
Meet the Masters is an art enrichment program brought to the school through our PTA fundraising. Five artists are highlighted throughout each year. An assembly is held to teach the students about the life and artistic style of each artist. The morning of the assembly, the parent volunteers meet in the Media Center (for no more than 1 hour) and are trained in an art project reflecting the work of the featured artist. (No artistic background is necessary!) Within a week of the assembly the volunteers teach the project they have been trained in, to the students, in the student's classroom.
VOLUNTEERS
Volunteers needed: 2 per classroom. The volunteers will sign up for a scheduled time slot to teach the art lesson to their class. All of the supplies needed will be stored in the Meet the Masters Supply Closet, ready and available to teach the session. Volunteers will help prepare the classroom before the lesson, pass out supplies, and assist the students in terms of direction and technique.
Meet The Masters has a twenty-five yearhistory of providing interactive, multi-media art education to elementary school and homeschool students worldwide. As California's leading art program, MTM has introduced Monet, Van Gogh and 35 total Master Artists to more than 2,000,000 Kindergarten thru 8th grade (and sometimes 12th grade) public, private and homeschooled students.
Bonnie Steele began Meet The Masters as a volunteer project for her daughter's sixth grade class at Del Lago School in Mission Viejo. Art education was suffering cut-backs, and Steele's intense interest in art, along with her background as a credentialed teacher and exhibited artist, sparked the idea for Meet The Masters. While teaching her program Steele discovered that sixth grade was sometimes too late to reach children. By the age of 12 some students had already decided they either had creative talent or didn't. She began to see the need to begin the program at an earlier age.
The program's popularity spread quickly, and today Meet the Masters employs 45 teachers. The program runs smoothly with the help of more than 2,500 volunteers, who also feel art is important for their children, thus donating their time to teach and learn right along with the students. Though it's roots are in California, MTM has spread to every region of the U.S. and as many as 10 foreign countries
