On Saturday, April 6, 2013, Stephen Palmer, a Junior at Benjamin E. Mays High School, was awarded 1st place for the Peachtree Road Farmers Market graphic design contest. Palmer’s winning design was a peach rising over the city skyline. Stephen and his graphic arts teacher, Ms. Shirley Guiteau, attended the Peachtree Road Farmers Market opening […]
Saint Patrick’s Day was full of green and learning! Our second grade team started the day with an exciting lesson on fractions using a delicious green cake and cupcakes. By the end of the lesson, students were able to state with confidence what a fraction is, “…equal parts of a whole.” Our Kindergarten team ended […]
The South Atlanta High School hosted a performance of the play “The Boycott” on February 28, 2013. The cast numbered over thirty actors, actresses, singers and dancers and the play highlighted events surrounding the bus boycott in Montgomery Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement. “The Boycott” intermixed personal and group dynamics along with music, dance […]
The Capture Project is a technology – based education program with a focus on language arts enrichment and social responsibility via the documentary arts. The visual media outreach program developed within The Creatives Project umbrella will also stimulate youth empowerment and community enrichment. The program will be customized to provide Perkerson Elementary School students with […]
Grady was 1 out of 10 high schools in America to receive a $2,000 Custom Culture Grant by VANS to create a street art inspired mural on campus. This street art will be a student-driven project led by John Brandhorst, Department Chair of Fine & Performing Arts at Grady. Brandhorst will collaborate with local professional […]
“Scrooge Around the World” was performed at Perkerson Elementary School and is a contemporary version of the classic Scrooge play. In this version, contemporary musical artists who represent the Ghosts of Holiday Past, Present and Future visit Scrooge and warn her to change her selfish ways. Each ghost takes Scrooge to different places around the […]
The Urban Youth Harp Ensemble, which is closely affiliated with the Carver School of the Arts, had a feature story broadcast on CBS News Sunday Morning on December 16, 2012. APS music educator Roselyn Lewis and principal harpist for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Elisabeth Remy Johnson founded the Urban Youth Harp Ensemble in the year […]
Christopher Estes, Principal at Lenora P. Miles, hosted afterschool rehearsals for two new plays written by elementary students that were presented during the Young Voices with New Visions Short Play Fest on the Alliance Black Box Theatre stage in Woodruff Arts Center on Saturday, November 17, 2012. The two plays featured were “Mrs. Roosevelt and […]
The South Atlanta Educational Complex kicked off National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) with a series of author visits. On October 24th, Stephanie Perry Moore and Derrick Moore, authors of the popular Lockwood Lions series visited the school and spoke with students in the school of Computer Animation and Design (CAD) about the importance of reading and their […]
Animation director Peter Ramsey recently spoke to the students at the South Atlanta High School of Computer Animation and Design. Mr. Ramsey is currently directing DreamWorks Animation’s Rise of the Guardians. Rise of the Guardians is an epic adventure that tells the story of a group of heroes – each with extraordinary abilities. The feature film is based […]