About Dixie
Arts Council
(DAC)
The DAC is made up of volunteer parents, teachers and staff, with a mission to bring the Arts - theater, music, fine arts, and folk arts, to our children, integrating them into the traditional curriculum and classroom instruction in order to educate the whole child. Contact Arts Council Chair Susan Parkinson for more info.
Dixie UnpluggedFriday Festivals
DAC
Arts Council Chair
Secretary
Art Show Curator
DAC Website Editor/Producer
Dixie Doodle Coordinator
Teresa Mastreani
Theater Arts & Assembly Contact
ART
Art Teachers
Theater & Movement
Music & Movement Teacher
K-2 Grade
Theater Arts Teacher
3-5th Grade
Music
Art Room:
Please Contact: Claire McDowell or Joan Gray.
Please contact DAC for more info.
Arts Council
Update
June 2010
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The Dixie Friday Fest crowd lined up for popcorn and enjoyed the jazz tunes performed by the very gifted, Thea Cristman, and Mike Schulist her piano accompanist and teacher of the Miller Creek Middle School’s Jazz Ensemble. What an wonderful to end a busy school week! Our hats-off to Lynnsey Urbaitel for organizing the Fests! [See More Pics] [See Video Clip]
The Dixie Art Council Student Variety Show DVD is still in production by DAC volunteers. We hope to distribute them the last week of school. Please contact Maya Bartolf for more info at bartolf@comcast.net
Coming Soon!
9th Annual Student Variety Show
DVD
Join Us at our
Next DAC Meeting
6/7 at 8:15 a.m.
in Art Room E7
SUMMER Vacation !!!
8/23 1st day of school
DHSC Parent Coffee
8:15a.m. in MPR
Visit our DAC table!
Something
Fishy
Dixie Students Play in Dixie District Music and Chorus Festival
May 12, 13 & 25
[See 5th Grade Band Video Clips]
DAC’s Website
Please let us know when your class preforms, so we can upload the pics and clips to our On Stage page. Please contact Maya Bartolf with any content suggestions, or forward appropriate digital images and/or content to be posted monthly.
Dixie 3rd Grade Art Show at Art Works Downtown
May 14 - 21, 2010
Happy Summer!
DAC bids farewell and congratulations to Dixie’s graduating 5th Grade Class of 2009. We will miss their creative spirits, and hope they will return to perform with the Miller Creek Music/Chorus programs next Fall. Thank you to our INCREDIBLE DAC volunteers, and all of our AMAZING parent volunteers for a successful year of art, music and theater! We appreciate your hands-on efforts in helping in the art rooms; and assisting in theater rehearsals and supporting our many DAC programs. We hope you will join in the fun and the creative madness next FALL! A HUGE thank you to our super supportive Dixie community and for the many generous CANDO gifts that fund these essential programs.
Class of 2010 Leaves Their Mark on Dixie with the Legacy Tile Project
Tim Bartolf, Graduating 5th grader, glazes his 2010 Legacy Tile . See more tiles In the Art Room.
Our graduating 5th graders will leave their creative mark on Dixie with a unique public art project made by their entire graduating Class of 2010. Each student will create an individual clay tile with their unique design or personal message. In celebration of the 5th Grade Graduation, the Class of 2010 Legacy tiles for the entire grade were mounted this week on the concrete risers in the outdoor amphitheater adjacent to our library. We hope you will check them soon! This is the fourth year of this popular class project, and it is a wonderful legacy for each graduating class at Dixie. A HUGE thank you to Scott Driggs, a parent volunteer who helps each year even though his children are no longer at Dixie! You are the BEST! Our hats off to Bill Hansell and Susan Parkinson for installing the tiles each year! [See our PhotoGallery in the Art Room]
Dixie students enjoy the variety of creative expression in the
2010 Student Art Show held during Open House in May.
2010 Annual Student Art Show!
Dixie students were proud to see and share their art work with family and the Dixie community at the 2010 Student Art Show held during Open House on Wednesday, May 26. After touring individual classrooms at Open House, Dixie families gathered in the MPR to see the art work of our very creative students in grades K - 5th. Our Annual Student Art Show serves as meeting place for all, and showcases the entire scope of our Fine Arts projects for grades K -5th. We give our deepest appreciation to the many talented student artists, art room parent volunteers and our inspired art teachers, Claire McDowell and Joan Gray. Thank you to our tireless art teachers, Ms. McDowell and Ms. Gray for their inspiration and Herculean effort to mount the show. Our hats-off to our DAC art show team: Maya Bartolf, Teresa Mastreani, Maia McGehee, Stacey Norton, Noel Olson, Heidi Paul Haggerty, Eric Schultz, Nina Cunnan, Maija Threlkeld and Susan Story. HUGE thank you to the INCREDIBLE Dixie parent volunteers who helped to move chairs, hang and pack art for many, many, many hours. And many, many, many, thanks to the Dixie bakers for making such delicious treats for the Bake Sale--especially to the Yu family for making their terrific bake sale signs! We made $360 to support our programs for the arts at Dixie!
Read more and see more pics and photo galleries>
Dixie and the Marin Arts Community Celebrate our 3rd Graders’ Creative Expression
Over 30 Dixie families came out to support our 3rd grade artists at their exhibit opening of Something Fishy at Art Works Downtown in San Rafael, on Friday May 14. The evening celebrated their mixed media fish and aquatic creatures made from recycled materials. Our 3rd graders were excited to see their fish and creatures become part of a larger expression of an aquatic environment, and also share their work with gallery visitors. The evening was an enriched experience for all, and was attended by not only our Dixie community and our super dedicated art teachers, Claire Mc Dowell and Joan Gray, but also many visitors from the Marin arts community. This year their exhibit was part of the monthly Art Walk Night on Fourth Street where galleries stay open late and also resident artist studios were open at AWD. Our 3rd grade artists, also had a great time with their families exploring the many open artist studios and learning from the variety of artists in residence at AWD. [Read More]
[Opening Photo Gallery] [Exhibit Photo Gallery]
Congratulations to our 3rd Graders!
Congratulations to our 3rd grade students for their AMAZING Theater Arts performances at Friday Assembly on May 27. Each 3rd grade class performed 2 native American creation myths for an audience of friends, teachers, and family. “This year 3rd grade students will be focusing on learning and understanding acting skills and techniques instead of focusing on a HUGE class production.” says Ryan O’Donnell, Dixie’s new Theater Arts Instructor. “The kids will really learn the art of storytelling through the acting basics like voice and gesture. They will carry the show.” Super acting 3rd graders! Our hats-off to our Ryan O’Donnell for his innovative approach to teaching drama this year!
[See selected Video Clips]
Thank you Dixie Bakers!
Kala and Tyler Yu made Bake Sale signs to support arts programs at Dixie!
