Arrowhead Aims to Fund New Lake Country Arts Project
Over the past summer, two teachers from the Milwaukee Ballet Company, Jenny Miller and Karl Von Rabenau, contacted Arrowhead art teacher, Sherry Moseler. Miller and Von Rabenau were interested in creating a project that integrated the performing arts and the visual arts.
“We discovered that even though we are both part of fine arts, students often don’t have much of an idea what the other disciplines in art do or how we take similar ideas and knowledge yet create different outcomes. This project is the hope of helping students and people to see the connections between all art forms and their relevance to society. We can all know information and facts, but it is what we produce that is remembered.” Moseler said.
The art students were shown many forms of inspiration from Sleeping Beauty including the animated movie, the original ballet, reading the play and original fairy tale.
Moseler said, “Students were given time to brainstorm words and ideas before turning their thoughts, ideas and words into visual representations inspired by Aurora’s dream.”
Aurora is the princess in the story of The Sleeping Beauty.
Moseler also said, “The students created artwork that is anything from Classical to Realism, Surreal or Abstract. We did not limit where the students could go with their imagination,”
The artwork took the students involved in this project through the entire creative process from conception, to ideas based on a theme, into production, and finally into critique where they explain why their piece is important and relevant and the vision they had for Aurora’s dream.
The artwork is now almost complete and the choreographers from the Milwaukee Ballet are using the artwork as further inspiration for dance choreography based on this interwoven theme.
“The dancers will create a dance based off our artwork and the final performance will be here at Arrowhead with the artwork and artists present,” says Moseler.
The event will take place on May 2nd during the school day for the students and May 3rd at 7PM for the community.
The Arrowhead vocal, choir, band, theater and dance have been recently invited to join this endeavor.
“This will make the project truly an Arrowhead experience,” says Moseler. “It will enhance the end performance for our students as a beautiful expression of the arts.”
The money raised during the event will be used to fund future projects in the fine arts. This money is raised through a website called KickStarter, where there is information about the event and where donations can be made. The project has hopes to raise $8,500 and has currently raised $2,700. There are 27 days left to raise money. To donate or to learn more you can go to this website: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1318993930/lake-arts-project-presents-auroras-dream
Bonnie Laugerman, the director of curriculum at Arrowhead High School, said, “This is really exciting. It speaks to the potential that Arrowhead has in creating an arts experience for our students in the future.”
“I would like to thank our administration and school board for being such avid supporters of the Lake Country Project: Aurora’s Dream. It is with their support that we are able to open up these types of opportunities to our students at Arrowhead,” says Moseler.
Moseler also said, “This is a wonderful collaboration of the arts and really ties together all forms of expression in art. We are so pleased that this opportunity has helped our students see what can be created and that what we create has a lasting effect on the community and quite possibly the world.” “For the students, If not this project, maybe in their future, but now they understand the process and believe in the hope of creating lasting art.”
