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Arts Club

2024-2025 Chairs: Felix Lin and Dora Chan

artsclub@medinapta.org

Arts Club is a creative haven. Kids explore colors, shapes, and textures.

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GENERAL INFORMATION

Art Program for K-G2:

The Creative Clay(Fall): Play Course for K-2 students introduces young children to the wonderful world of clay art. This course focuses on the basics, allowing students to explore the tactile nature of clay through simple and fun projects like rolling, pinching, and shaping primary forms. By creating their small animals and shapes, children will develop their fine motor skills and begin to express their creativity and imagination in a safe, encouraging environment. This course is perfect for sparking an early love for art in young learners.

World Travelers(Winter): Painting Our Planet course, K-2 students will embark on a creative journey worldwide using their paintbrushes. Each session introduces them to a different country or region, where they’ll learn about its landscapes, landmarks, and cultures. Through painting, children will recreate these global wonders, enhancing their artistic skills while fostering curiosity and appreciation for the diverse beauty of our planet.

Cartoon Creators(Spring): Drawing with Imagination course, K-2 students will explore the basics of cartoon drawing by creating their characters and stories. Children will learn to bring their imaginative ideas to life through simple shapes, lines, and expressive faces through unique cartoons and short comic strips. This course encourages creativity, storytelling, and self-expression while helping young artists develop foundational drawing skills in a fun and engaging environment.

Art Program for G3-G5:

Illustration Storybook Design(Fall): Course is designed for aspiring illustrators and storytellers who want to bring their creative ideas to life through beautifully illustrated storybooks. Learn the fundamentals of drawing and illustration, including creating simple characters, scenes, and objects using various techniques in a fun and easy-to-understand way. Discover the joy of storytelling by developing your own stories, characters, and plotlines. Focus on character creation, drawing unique and expressive characters, and giving them personality through illustrations. Explore color and composition to make illustrations vibrant and engaging, and learn basic composition skills for balanced and appealing pages. Enjoy interactive and fun learning with activities that keep young minds engaged and excited, encouraging creativity and self-expression in a supportive environment.

Mastering Clay Creations(Winter) course for grades 3-5 is designed for students ready to take their clay artistry to the next level. In this intermediate course, students will learn more sophisticated techniques like coiling and slab building, allowing them to create detailed sculptures and functional objects such as pots and bowls. The course encourages students to think critically and creatively while tackling more complex projects, like designing thematic pieces or crafting intricate figures. Through this process, students will enhance their artistic skills, attention to detail, and ability to bring their imaginative ideas to life. Our Creative Art classes aim to inspire students to express themselves through various artistic mediums. Students will engage in drawing, painting, mixed media projects, and collaborative murals. These activities will enhance creativity, improve fine motor skills, and encourage self-expression in a fun and supportive environment.

Printmaking Pioneers(Spring): During the Creating Art with Prints course, students will dive into printmaking and learn techniques such as stamp making, nature printing, and mono-printing. Through hands-on activities, they’ll explore transferring their designs onto paper, creating unique and repeatable art pieces. This course encourages creativity, experimentation, and the development of new skills, allowing students to produce their collection of expressive and textured prints.

Info Night

Arts Club, Languages Club, and Robotics Club are co-hosting an Info Night is on Tuesday, September 10th, 2024, 5pm-6pm* at the Medina Elementary Cafeteria. The club chairs will share information about their club and answer any questions. Please join us! Both parents and students are welcome to attend!

*This page previously incorrectly listed the info night time as 6pm-7pm. 5pm-6pm is the correct time. Sorry for any confusion.

Registration

Registration opens: Monday, September 16th at 12:30pm

How to Register: Arts is for PTA members Only. Please purchase/renew your PTA annual membership before registration day. Otherwise you cannot find the registration form. Find the Arts registration form in My Family's Forms/Paperwork once registration opens. Complete the form and payment. You can choose to send a check. If the spots you want are all sold out, please join the waitlist.

If you need financial assistance to pay the club fee, please choose the "pay by check" option when checking out, so your registration will not be delayed. Then, contact our counselor Ms. Geck (gecke@bsd405.org) to initiate the process.

IMPORTANT: To register, you must agree to all Arts policies on the registration form. Read the policies.

Arts program is a year round program now. One registration covers the whole school year.

Cost: $995

The registration fee covers instruction, materials, and supplies. All necessary materials and art supplies included (paints, brushes, paper, books, markers, colored pencils, ink, clay, etc.).

Club Meetings

Club meetings begin September 30th and run on Mondays, 2:45pm-4:00pm through May.

Tentative meeting dates are listed below, but all dates are dependent on room availability. If we must cancel Arts Club, we will email parents with as much notice as possible.

Month	Days
Sep	30
Oct	7, 14, 21, 28
Nov	4, 18
Dec	9, 16
Jan	13, 27
Feb	3, 10, 24
Mar	3, 10, 17, 24, 31
Apr	14, 21, 28
May	5, 12

Reflections Art Program

The Reflections Program is a National PTA arts competition for students from pre-K through grade 12. The purpose is to provide an opportunity for students to use their creative talents by expressing themselves through their own original works of art in response to a theme.

2024-2025 Submission Deadline: TBA

The winners' artworks will be advanced to Bellevue Council level and have a chance to advance to state and national level. Our students made it as a state finalist in 2022-2023!

This year's theme is:

"Accepting Imperfection"

Reflections - Categories

Pre-Kindergarten through grade 12 students are encouraged to submit original works of art in one or more of the following categories:

Dance Choreography – originally choreographed dance composition.
Film Production – original works, with or without sound, of animation, narrative, documentary, experimental or music video/film.
Literature – works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, prose, drama, short stories and lyrics.
Musical Composition – original musical composition, with or without words.
Photography – color or black and white, included techniques: photogram, negative sandwich, and multiple exposure.
Visual Arts – drawing, painting in tempera, oil, acrylic, watercolor & t-shirt paints, computer generated art, two-dimensional collage, printmaking, needlework & leather tooling.

Special Artist Division: Students with disabilities may receive special accommodations by entering the special artist division and are encouraged to enter any category.

Reflections - How to Participate

Please follow ALL steps below:

1. Create your piece of art - make sure your art follows the rules

2. Take a high-resolution photo or scan,

TIP: When taking a photo of visual art to upload, make sure the entry is in good light, camera is aligned straight with artwork, and crop everything else out.

3. Label the art work as: category_grade_firstname_lastname_artwork. e.g. visualart_2nd_John_Doe_artwork

4. Statement: Write about how the piece relates to the theme in 100 words or less.

5. Download and fill in student entry form (link coming soon), save as PDF file with naming: category_grade_firstname_lastname_entryform.pdf.

6.Complete the Entry form online here (link coming soon), including the artwork following above format; write about how the piece relates to the theme in 100 words or less.

2023-2024 Entry rules for each category (links for 2024-2025 coming soon):

For more information, please visit the Reflections pages from:

WA State PTA

National PTA

Past Years

2023-2024

Fall 2023 Offerings:

Winter 2023 Offerings:

Spring 2024 Offerings:

Policies

Updated: September 11, 2024

FEES: For a student to participate in any after-school club, there cannot be an outstanding balance on the family's PTA's account. Tuition and all outstanding fees must be paid in full by September 30th, 2024 (or by the next class date if registering after September 30th). If you do not pay all fees by this deadline, your child will be withdrawn from Arts Club and a 5% tuition processing fee will be added to your account.

To remain enrolled in Arts Club, families must timely pay any Medina PTA fees (not just club fees) incurred during the course of the school year. You understand that failure to pay fees on time may result in your student being withdrawn from the club with no refund.

ELIGIBILITY: Our afterschool clubs (including Arts Club) are ONLY for CURRENT-ENROLLED Medina students with ACTIVE Medina PTA membership. Your child must be enrolled with Medina Elementary school at the time they are attending the club and you must have a valid Medina PTA family or individual membership for the 2024-2025 school year. You agree that if your kid is not currently enrolled with Medina Elementary school OR you do not purchase PTA membership by the first class, your child will be withdrawn from all afterschool clubs with no refund.

REFUNDS: If parents withdraw before the first class starts, they will be charged a 5% of tuition. If they cancel before the second class, the fee is 25% of tuition. After the second class, no refunds will be given for any reason.

PROCESSING FEE: Any student registration for an afterschool club that you cancel will incur a 5% processing fee. This includes cancelling a duplicate registration (e.g., when the parents sign up the same child twice for the same club) or cancelling one registration to sign up for a different Medina PTA club on the same day. The 5% fee applies for all transaction types (credit card, cash, or check).

BEHAVIOR:

Intentional violent behavior directed at another individual during the club (including another student, teacher, coach/instructor, parent, or volunteer) and resulting in physical harm is grounds for immediate removal from that club without refund. Medina PTA retains the discretion to remove this student from all other enrolled afterschool clubs/programs and prevent this student from registering for future afterschool programs in the same school year.

Parents and students are expected to behave respectfully to each other and the coaches/instructors:

If the club chair determines that a student’s behavior is disruptive during the program/club, or the student is consistently disrespectful, a warning will be issued to the student and parent. After the warning, a second offense will result in removal of the student from the club with no refund, unless the club chair decides to issue a second warning. The chair my also require the parent to provide full-time adult supervision of the student for the duration of the club. The adult supervisor must be a PTA member and have a BSD background check. A third offense will result in removal of the student from the club program with no refund.
If the club chair determines that a parent’s behavior is disruptive or consistently disrespectful, a warning will be issued to the parent. After the warning, a second offense will result in removal of that parent’s child from afterschool clubs with no refund.
At the discretion of Medina PTA, any withdrawal due to disruptive or disrespectful behavior may also affect the family’s ability to register for future afterschool programs.

PICK-UP: Our parent classroom volunteers are required to stay until the last child is picked up from class. Please respect our volunteers’ time by picking your child up promptly at dismissal time unless your child is staying at Medina Elementary with the Boys & Girls Club. If you wish to permit your child to sign him/herself out from class and walk/bike home, you must complete the Medina PTA Permission Slip for Self-Checkout of Afterschool Clubs 2024-2025 found on our website, and return it to our Arts Club Co-Chairs. Repeated late pickups may result in withdrawal from Arts Club with no refund, and you may forfeit the ability to register for future afterschool programs.

ABSENCES: If your child will not be at Arts Club, you must email artsclub@medinapta.org prior to that day’s class start time. You understand that two unexcused absences may result in removal of your student from the club without refund.