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.

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.