Art In Action Day

Each year, Avoca West hosts an Art in Action as a way to help students develop creativity, critical thinking, self-expression and cultural awareness through various art curriculum. Students from K to 5th grade master an art project under the guidance of a local artist and parent volunteers get to help out. Past year’s art stations included hands-on experience with watercolors, abstract acrylic painting, still life, digital portraits, jewelry making, dance, glow stick photography, mask painting and collage scrapbooking.


ART IN ACTION DAY – THANK YOU!

The gym at Avoca West was buzzing with creative energy on February 27th during the PTC-sponsored Art in Action Day! This year's 10 stations included hands-on experience with watercolors, jewelry making, color spinners, magnet creation, soft pastel drawings, fashion illustration and car designs, dance, yarn weaving, spirograph designs, and loom band bracelet making.

Thank you to the Avoca administration, staff and PTC for supporting and accommodating this event. Thank you to the instrumental and PE departments for giving up their spaces for a day.

Special thanks to these local artists and studios for partnering with Art in Action this year:

Glenview School of Arts

Summer camps and year-round art classes available. Please visit www.GlenviewSchoolofArts.com for more information and how to enroll.

Mary Gaspar
Mary Gaspar is a local Wilmette fine artist and proud Avoca mom who creates original watercolor and acrylic paintings from her home art studio. She likes to paint abstract art and modern watercolor botanicals. You can view her beautiful work and learn more at www.MaryGasparArt.com.

tastyColor: Jiali Yu

Our very own Avoca parent, Jiali Yu, runs tastyColor, an online art education platform for children with in-person classes at their studio in Wilmette. As a visual artist, Jiali’s philosophy is for students to make drawing a daily habit and express their voice through visual art media. To learn more about art classes, please visit www.tastyColor.com. Her artist website is www.JialiYu.com.

Thank you to the following parents and staff who ran a station this year:

Kelly Eggleston, Maggie Risi, Lauren Rivera-Haire, Sara Shepard, Lauren Tromp, Carl Prouty, and Barbara Vogelstein

And a great big thank you to the following school staff and volunteers who also helped make this event possible:

Eva Rios, Tyler Bell, Dawn Zigmond, Emily Davoren, Nieves Fernandez, Kristina Firestine, Lisa Friedland, Ellen Gradman, Erin Loder, Jess Lue-Lai, Saira Majid, Shoshanna Reynolds, Joanne Rousseau, Alina Sharon, Erinn Smith, Caroline Sylvestre, Marina Tarasova, Liubou Tochka and Jenn Prouty.