If you’re looking for a one of a kind, interactive ART school assembly experience to welcome your students back to school this year…

… or maybe to kick off PTA Reflections or celebrate September’s National Arts In Education Week in an incredibly engaging and interactive way…

… or perhaps your school has a Principal with extremely high standards for quality school assemblies that use classroom time wisely and have a proven track record among other elementary schools…

… then this will be the most exciting message you’ll ever read.

And chances are your school, or others in your district, have experienced and enjoyed my interactive assembly programs over the past 20 years.

Going into the 2024-2025 school year, I will still be performing on campus, in person, as well as continuing to offer my incredibly engaging, entirely LIVE virtual school assemblies when and where appropriate.

Now – if you’re new to scheduling school assemblies, let me tell you a little about this awesome ART experience, how and why it works, and how we can make it happen for your students this year.

First thing you gotta know is…

This is no typical school assembly where your students passively sit and watch a presenter do a magic trick, perform a play, or do stunts on a bicycle and attempt to relate whatever they’re doing to the current national buzzword… character building, bullying, literacy, you know… whatever’s “hot” right now.

Instead, during this directive drawing ART assembly, every single one of your students are going to be…

All of students will arrive to the MP Room, cafeteria, or auditorium with a pencil, 3 sheets of blank white paper, and a book or binder to use as a lap desk and they sit on the floor.  Yes, even the Kindergarteners!

Using these supplies, your students are going to be kinesthetically involved the entire time and this active participation is key to making the information really stick!

Also because of this continual involvement, your teachers are going to be able to peacefully participate during the assembly as well instead of policing the crowd as they have to in every other typical assembly.

I’ll be up front, using a document camera, projector and large screen to lead your amazing artists through a series of three step-by-step whimsical, fun, age and grade appropriate drawing lessons.

This unique approach allows me to work with any size group, and rest assured… I’ll still be using my semi-world-famous mega-effective group teaching strategies to insure everyone will be able to successfully complete the drawings!

While we’re drawing your children will learn dozens of specific tips, tricks and techniques they apply immediately to their drawings and can take back to the classroom and use later on.

In fact, each lesson covers at least 8 and often 10-14 California Visual Arts Standards and even a few… Common Core Math Standards!

We cover a LOT of content in this assembly – and teachers routinely praise the extensive use of geometric shapes, 3D forms and other math vocabulary during the shows.  They say it gives the kids a new cross-curricular perspective of how math and geometry relate to The Arts. (After all, art is an extension of math and science!)

During the pandemic my draw-along school assembly proved to be a match made in heaven for the virtual platform.

Teachers and I simply logged into a Zoom meeting… and projected it up onto their classrooms screens, while students safely sat at their desks and followed along with the drawing lessons.

But make no mistake – nothing was or is prerecorded.

This means, it’s never feels like “Oh hey kids, watch this video...”

It always still feels like an awesome assembly experience for your students.

This is an absolutely wonderful option for schools outside of California who I am unable to easily visit in person.

Now, whether you schedule an in person, on campus visit or some virtual assembly fun…. the real magic of this assembly is seen afterwards when your kids go home, with a handful of three refrigerator-ready pictures they drew and a feeling of artistic accomplishment in their smiles as they show n’ tell their moms and dads…

Giving your children that sense of artistic accomplishment, pride, and self esteem boost is what this school assembly is really all about.

You can imagine how much parents appreciate this.  Their kids finally come home from school with not only a story to tell, but pictures to prove it from an incredible assembly.

I’m not shy when proclaiming this is the best school assembly experience you can give your students.  No other assembly is more engaging, entertaining, or practically and instantly educational.  And, it’s earned thousands of positive reviews from teachers and Principals over the past 20 years.

In fact, the higher your Principals’ standards are… the more they will love this assembly.

And if your PTA supports the ARTS… you literally cannot find a better option.

It’s that good.

The easiest way to get in touch with me is simply by filling out the email form below and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.