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Sadler Arts Academy is a K-8 Arts Magnet School designed to give students the opportunity to learn through creative instruction, using the arts as a vehicle for motivation and learning. We are open to any student in grades K-8 in Muskogee Public Schools on a space available basis.
Evidence of quality teaching at Sadler:
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Academic Performance Index of 1434, the district's hightest
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Best student attendance rate in the district
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Best teacher attencance rate in the district
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Seven National Board Certified Teachers
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1998 OK Arts Alliance Award Winner
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Three Oklahoma Foundation For Excellence Medal Winers (1998, 2002, 2009)
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1999 Reader's Digest Hero in American Education
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1999 Governor's Art Award
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2002-2003 National Walmart Teacher of the Year
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2003 Okalhoma Teacher of the Year
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2007 Kate Barnard Youth Advocacy Award Winner
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2008 Finalist for Oklahoma Center for Non-Profits, Excellence Award
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2008 Milken Award Winning Teacher
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2008 Two "Fund for Teacher" Winner
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2009 Muskogee City Foundation Grant Winner
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2009 Governor's Art Award
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2010 Kennedy Center "ON Location" Project Grant Winner
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2010 JImmie Johnson & Lowe's Toolbox Grant Winner
Sadler Arts Academy
800 Altamont
Muskogee, Oklahoma 74401
(918) 684-3820 (918) 684-3820 Maudye Winget, principal
What is a magnet school?
A magnet school draws students through its emphasis on a specific area of interest. Sadler Arts Academy attracts students by emphasizing the arts.
Location
Located near the heart of historic, downtown Muskogee, Oklahoma, at 800 Altamont, Sadler Arts Academy affords a variety of student performance and exhibiton opportunities in and around the city.
Entry Criteria
Entry is based on a desire to come, and not on special abilities in the arts. Sadler is not on a quest to see what our students can do for the arts, but rather to use an arts-rich education to foster a love of learning. In accordance with school board policy, a simple screening process for attendance, discipline, and leadership is part of the criteria for determining entry to Sadler Arts Academy.
A formal, but simple application involving both student and parent participation is available. To apply, complete an application and send or deliver it to Sadler.
Sadler Arts Academy is a recipient of funding from the Phil E. Kirschner Foundation, The Reader's Digest, The Oklahoma Arts Council, The Muskogee Area Arts Council, The Oklahoma Education Technology Trust, the Oklahoma Business Circle for Arts Edcucation, the Oklahoma Center for Non-Profits, The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, and Jimmie Johnson and Lowe's.
Does Sadler teach a different curriculum?
Sadler Arts Acadmey is responsible for the same curriculum as all other public schools in Oklahoma. However, all content areas (reading, math, language, science, and social studies) are taught through the arts. In addition, students cycle through the school's special arts learning labs: dance and crative movement, visual arts, and vocal music.
In addition, Sadler Arts Academy has cutting edge, SmartBoard technology in every classroom. Sadler has been the recipient of over $100,000.00 in technology grants from the K20 Center in Norman over the past few years.
Sadler Core Beliefs
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The arts provide a solid base for student learning, as the arts address all learning styles in a format that students find meaningful.
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All children possess talents and gifts.
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Kindness and respect are Sadler's watch words. Our motto is "Be kind to each other, tenderhearted, and forgiving."
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Students are best served in a loving supportive environment.
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When a student is at his/her optimum, learning, assessment, and motivation become part and parcel to the instructional task at hand.
Sadler Special Events
Sadler students in grades 2-8, have the opportunity to audition for Sadler's annual production of Nutcracker, which is presented 5 times during the Christmas season, and has become more than a school show. It is seen by an audience of approximately 3000 each year, and is a community event.
In addition, Sadler students are afforded many off campus trips to museums and other points of interest not as rewards, but as part of our regular learning opportunities.
Arts Recruitment Camp
(for students accompanied by parents)
Sadler will offer an arts "mini" camp for prospective Sadler students and their parents on February 2, 2010 from 5-6:30. The PTA will serve a light supper and the principal will entertain questions from parents and prospective students. A brief tour of the building will also be given. If you wish to make a reservation , please call 684-3820, and ask for Beverly Dorn. The deadline for reservations is January 25, 2010.
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Testing
Very soon our 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th graders will be taking the state mandated Oklahoma Core Curriculum Tests at Sadler, as will all other school children in those grades in Oklahoma. For the past several years, our students have had the highest test scores in our school district. This would not be possible without the hard work and dedication of our teachers, and the support of our parents and community.
We want to do well again this year, and feel that we will, parents, with your help. Please make sure that your child is either eating breakfast at school (which is free to all students) or eating a healthy breakfast at home before coming to school. Please support us in our efforts to prepare our students for the "test," by encouraging reading at home, and by talking with your child abot the necessity of hard work and good behavior at school.
Mrs. Winget will be scheduling an individual conference with every student who will be taking the test this year to offer her encouragement and support for their success.
High School Pre-Enrollment
Last Wednesday, the Freshmen and Senoir counselors came from Muskogee High School to visit with the 8th grade students about pre-enrollment for their freshman year at MHS. Student had their enrollment forms picked up the next morning.
A Freshmen orientation meeting has been rescheduled for Tuesday evening, February 2 from 5:30 to 6:30 at MHS.
A mandatory meeting for honors students is scheduled for February 4 at MHS Fine Arts Auditorium at 6 pm. Any student wishing to take honors classes will need to attend with a parent.
Parent/ Teacher Conferences
Second semester parent, teacher, student conferences will take place at Sadler Arts Academy February 4 -5, 2010. February 4 will be a regular school day with conferences starting at 4 and lasting until 7. On February 5, school will not be in session and conferences will begin at 9 am and last until noon. Mark these dates on your calender.
Sadler Wins Kennedy Grant
Brandon Kramer demonstrates lighting techniques to students
Sadler Arts Academy is the first of ten school to participate in the 2010 "On Location" Project. The residency lasted from January 5 to January 22, 2010. The students created a retrospective documentary of Muskogee artist, Maurice Bebb.
Our eighth graders learned a lot about film production and about the late, Maurice Bebb, who lived and worked in Muskogee for many years. Mr. Bebb's widow, Kappa Bebb, gave our students and the team from the Kennedy Center unprecedented access to Maurice Bebb's papers and original artwork as well as his art studio and home.
The On Location Project bus left Friday evening, January 22 after a wonderful day of reflection and previewing of the students' film.
Parents, students, administrators, teachers, and special guests gathered in the auditorium to preview what the 8th graders had accomplished during the 13 day residency.
The audience was moved to tears by the 1 minute PSA, public service announcement, students created about the needs in Haiti. Then they saw the "raw cut" 10 minute version of the "Maurice Bebb, Muskogee's Master Artist." Finally, the audience was entertained by the reflective documentary footage the students had taken turns filming over their production crew experience.
Penny Drive
Sadler's penny drive for earthquake victims in Haiti has come to a successful end. The school raised over $1700. The seventh graders decided to donate the money to the New Community Church who will spend 100% of the money raised to purchase tents to be flown to Haiti for the survivors. These tents will provide shelter for survivors who fear entering building due to additional tremors and aftershocks.
The second grade classrooms won the ice cream party sponsored by the 7th graders.
Canned Food Drive
In response to the kindness shown to Sadler by First Baptist Church, our school sponsored a canned food drive to replenish the food pantry at First Baptist Church. The final day has been extended to Monday, February 1 due to the cancelation of school on January 29. As of Thursday, January 28, Sadler had raised more than 1700 cans of food.
Outdoor Classroom
Several retired gentlemen from First Baptist Church, Muskogee came to Sadler, Friday, January 15, 2010 to meet with the Sadler's new outdoor classroom. All of the materials for the project are being donated by race car driver, Jimmie Johnson, and Lowe's Building Supply. The men from First Baptist Church will donate their own time and energy to make this project a reality.
This spirit of giving is reminiscent of a quote by Reverend Dr. Marin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and civil rights activist, whose birthday Muskogee Public Schools celebrated, Monday January 18, 2010:
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you dong for others?'"
Awards Assemblies
Our "Academy Award" Assemblies for K- 3 originally scheduled for January 29 will have a new date and time. Please watch for this information.
Magnet Applications
Sadler officially began recruiting manget students for the 2010- 2011 school year on Friday, January 15, 2010 at 8 am. If you know anyone who wants to send a child to Sadler Arts Academy next year, please ask them to come by the Sadler office and fill out an application.
Spring Break
March 15-19, 2010 school will not be in session due to Spring Break. Please mark these dates on your calendar. We don't want any students to show up for school when we are not here.
Sadler Spelling Bee
The Sadler Spelling Bee will take place February 3, 2010 at 1 pm in our auditorium. Classroom champions in grade 1--3 will participate in an exhibition bee, and classroom champions in grades 4--8 will participate in the official spelling bee. The winner will represent Sadler in the County Bee later in the month.
Classroom winners and runner ups are in place and studying for the event.
"How far you go in your life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because, someday in your life you will have been all of these."
~George Washington Carver
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Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns, Jr. (born May 15, 1930 in Augusta, Georgia) is a contemporary American artist who works primarily in painting and printmaking.
Johns is one of America's best-known post-Abstract Expressionists and Minimalists. His name is most associated with pictorial images of flags and numbers, Pop-Art subjects that he depicted in Minimalist style with emphasis on linearity, repetition, and symmetry. Johns completed his first flag painting in 1955, alphabet subjects in 1956, sculpture in 1958, and lithographs in 1960. Born in Augusta, Georgia, Johns grew up in South Carolina, with no formal art training but did attend the University of South Carolina for two years. In 1949 he moved to New York City but was drafted into the Army. Returning to New York, he began experimenting with styles, and "Flag", dated 1955, earned him his first major attention. It was revolutionary in that it was simply a geometric design on a large canvas, divorced from emotional or political connotation.
His flag paintings are credited as key in the development of Minimal Art in that the focus of these pieces was their linearity and uniformity with de-emphasis on the unique creative talents of the artist. For Johns, major influences on this Minimalist style were his friendships with dancer Merce Cunningham, composer John Cage, and artist Robert Rauschenberg.
Over the next few years, Johns used the same approach with other images that were traditional symbols. In 1956 to 1957, he added numbers to his paintings; in 1958, he did his first sculpture of mundane objects; and in 1960, he executed his first lithographs.
Three Flags
In 1959, his work became increasingly abstract, influenced by Surrealism and Dadaism, with surfaces complicated by combining bold colors with letters and other symbols, some of them obvious such as maps and others hard to read. He created assemblage, and from 1972, used a cross-hatching method.
He was given a comprehensive retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in 1977, shown in 1978 at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, Hayward Gallery, London, and Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo. He was represented at the Venice Biennale in 1978. In 1979 the Kunstmuseum Basel put on an exhibition of his graphic work which toured Europe. In 1988 he was awarded the Grand Prix at the Venice Biennale.
In 1997, a major retrospective of 225 of Johns' work was held in New York at the Museum of Modern Art, organized by Kirk Varnedoe. Following this, he began a new series that was much more muted, mysterious, and serene than his earlier work. The exhibition of these paintings debuted on September 15, 1999 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and traveled to the Yale University Art Gallery in January 2000 and then to the Dallas Museum of Art.
Summer
Johns currently lives in Sharon, Connecticut.
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