Merrily Boyd
K-6 Art
ACSI Art Festival
Friday, March 13th was a busy day for many students here at GRACE! Each year, GRACE participates in a variety of competitive events held by ACSI (the Association of Christian Schools International), including festivals for visual arts, band, and chorus.
Artwork by 78 GRACE K-12 students was entered in our art festival, and most of those students attended the festival on March 13th. This event is always a fun time! Students have the chance to see their work on display, attend workshops, and receive a certificate of participation as well as ribbons in the "Good," "Excellent," and "Superior" categories. This year from the GRACE students in Kindergarten through 6th grade who attended, 23 students earned a Good, 19 earned an Excellent, and 2 earned a Superior rating. Great job, students!
Students attended two workshops while at the festival. In the workshops, they followed along with an art lesson and made their own work to take home. Workshop sessions included activities like quilling (making paper sculptures with rolled up coils of paper), making masks, and a version of "Cupcake Wars"!
Many of the works of art that were entered into the Art Festival will also be seen at our Barnes & Noble book fair in Cary coming up on April 23-24 and possibly at a display at Crabtree Mall in May, so stay tuned!
Empty Bowls Fundraiser
In addition to participating in the ACSI Art Festival and other ACSI events, GRACE also hosted a March Madness for Missions event in the Raleigh campus gym on the same evening! As part of the event, we held our 3rd annual Empty Bowls fundraiser.
Empty Bowls fundraisers were started by an art teacher several years
ago and have since been held all over the US; the empty bowl is a symbol
of the many people around our nation and world who don't know where
their next meal will come from--after a meal, all that's left is an
empty bowl.
Art students in grades 6-12 spent several classes designing and glazing unique bowls. For a donation of $10 at the evening event, visitors could not only take home a beautiful hand-glazed bowl to keep forever but also received a simple meal of a bowl of soup for dinner. Thanks to our students' creativity and willingness to contribute their bowls to this cause, as well as the generosity of those who attended the event, we raised over
$1800 for Stop Hunger Now! It's a joy to see GRACE art students using their gifts to bless others in such a tangible way.
