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ARTreach - Morton Ranch Jr. High School Mural Project

ARTreach - Morton Ranch Jr. High School Mural Project from Sandy Buller on Vimeo.

This video captures a moment in history and the creation of the Morton Ranch Junior High School's STEAM Mural Project. STEAM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, ART and Math to represent that fact that whole brain education includes arts integration to incorporate a creative thinking process and higher learning.  Over 100 students worked with Master in Residence, Vicki McMillan of ARTreach and Crystal Andrus, MRJH Art Teacher in the conception, creation and completion of this 6’ x 16’ mural that will be permanently installed in the school’s main hallway. Visitors are welcome to stop by and see the mural during school hours. Morton Ranch Junior High is located 2498 North Mason Rd, Katy TX 77449.

This project was sponsored by ARTreach, non-profit arts and educational outreach www.artreachonline.org

 

ARTreach Raines High School Mural

ARTreach Raines HS Mural from Sandy Buller on Vimeo.

This is a short documentary film on the mural that created by ARTreach's Program Director/Resident Artist Vickie McMillan and the art students from Martha Raines High School during the spring of 2010.

Karen Richards is the Art Teacher at KISD Raines HS and she is always looking for new ways to engage her student’s heart and mind in fine art, she seeks out projects that will take her students to the higher level and measures her students’ improvement not just on the project outcome, but also on the changes in their attitude, outlook on the future, and work ethic. She applied for ARTreach project support when she learned the organization had received new grants that would help fund collaborative murals at underserved schools in Katy ISD. She wanted to do a special project that would capture the essence and unique student culture at Raines.

ARTreach provided an opportunity for the students at Raines to work with a professional wildlife artist and muralist Vickie McMillan as an Artist in Residence. The project concept would be developed by the students to be unique. The project would combine several teaching objectives supporting fine arts and also demonstrate how to work as a team to create collaborative work of art. It was decided that the mural should become a legacy piece to motivate future Raines High School students in their academic careers.

ARTreach "Expresso Yourself" - Photo Slideshow

On April 7, 2010 at Agave Road in Katy, Texas, the ARTreach fundraiser "Expresso Yourself" was a delightful evening and Christine Stilwell, Development Director for ARTreach, delivered the intention of the event as it filled everyone's senses with coffee. Everybody got to touch it, smell it, taste it and see it; all for a great cause.

Sandy Buller said, "Coffee, it's not just a drink".  Check out the photographs and you can see for yourself the expressive collection of art that coffee was being used in various mediums from painting to culinary.

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