I am so excited to announce that earlier this school year we were awarded a grant through the MCACA - Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs to fund a school-wide project called Art for the Sky. Daniel Dancer is the founder of Art for the Sky and has completed this project at hundreds of schools all over the country and a few international projects. Our Art for the Sky project is scheduled for the second week in June. Daniel Dancer will be at our school Wednesday June 8th – Friday June 10th with our “Sky Art” day schedule for Thursday 9th.
A video like this https://vimeo.com/119596234 will be created for our school community too. For more information, you can visit http://www.artforthesky.com/htm/howitworks.htm or Art for the Sky on facebook to see the most recent projects.
I am asking the families to discuss this experience with your children at home. I want us to work together a community to spread the excitement and build anticipation for this opportunity. We will be the 1ST SCHOOL IN MICHIGAN to participate in an Art for the School project. I anticipate our story may be covered by the local news media.
I’d also like to form a committee of parent volunteers to help with logistics preparing for our guest artists arriving and also some parents to help on the day of the event. Please read and research the information below and email me at [email protected] if you are interested in helping. Originally, t-shirts for the students were written into the grant, but after discussing this further with Danial Dancer, he requires t-shirts be environmentally friendly, organic cotton, which increases the cost beyond our means. T-shirts are not necessary for the project, but if anyone has any companies or businesses that may be interested in sponsoring this aspect of the project, please contact me. Again, this is not necessary, but I’d hate to find out later on that we missed an opportunity simply because I didn’t ask.
"Art For the Sky is a unique, team building activity for schools and special events that helps dissolve boundaries that often exist in our daily lives. These enchanting creations are a whole-body way of stimulating our imagination to see the elusive "big picture" and help us understand our interconnection with one another and all life."