FAME (Fine Arts Mini Experience) is a six-year art and music program funded by the PTA to enrich Fine Arts experience in the classroom setting. Volunteer docents lead 6 in-class presentations per year, consisting of a short introduction to a composer and an artist with a hands-on art project related to the style of the artist. The 2024-2025 school year is Year 3 in the FAME Cycle: FAME Cycle.
This year, we are adapting the FAME cycle to include the following artists and composers:
Lesson 1: Renaissance (Sandro Botticelli / Gustav Holst)
Lesson 2: Impressionism (Edgar Degas / Piotr IlyichTchaikovsky)
Lesson 3: Architecture (Frank Lloyd Wright / Ludwig van Beethoven)
Lesson 4: Surrealism, Magical Realism (Frida Kahlo / Manuel Ponce)
Lesson 5: Naturalistic, Contemporary (Kehinde Wiley & Yinka Shonibare / Wiliam Grant Still)
Lesson 6: Modernism Sculpture (Ruth Asawa / Tan Dun)
For more information on the FAME program, or to volunteer as a docent, contact fame@cumberlandpta.org and include your teacher’s name.
Your FAME chairs this year are Heather Birchall, Theo Hong, and Jennifer Richardson.