Food. Wine. Jazzy music. Great conversation. Fabulous art.
The First Annual RCS Art Show was a hit!
Lots of local and regional artists’ work were in the show and the school created an art page for the artwork. The page will remain active on Rainbow’s website for two more weeks, so if you were thinking about buying a great work of art, you still have a chance!
If you were able to attend the event, and tried the food, it was incredible! Tina Crain catered the food and if you need a caterer that uses the finest quality food for delicious taste, check out her website, Chestnut Flats.
Here’s a sampling of the amazing food:
Sweet figs – so creamy and delicious
There was gluten-free pumpkin bread, and other delectable finger foods:
Bite-sized pumpkin bread
The beauty and quality of all the art was simply exquisite. People were able to have conversations around many of the art pieces.
Conversation around the arts
Delicate and vibrant, the artwork truly was the highlight of the event.
Acro Bag by John Littleton and Kate Vogel
Darrah, a Rainbow parent, facilitated the event and worked hard to put it all together.
From the website, to the food, to the setup, she stepped up to the plate and created an event that everyone enjoyed. A specialย thank you goes out to her for all the hard work she did.
RCS also wants to extend its gratitude to Wicked Weed, and Jeffie Cilano for the white wine.
Fine wine, grapes and fall themed beer were the order of the day
50% of all the art sales support the RCS Combined Campaign. The other 50% goes directly to the artists.
Many RCS parents and families came to the event, as did folks from the greater Asheville community. Thank you to everyone who supported the event!
From there, each grade performed a song or dance in honor of grandparents everywhere.
Third Grade honors grandparents with a song
The performance culminated with sixth grade doing a dance with music inspired by the culture of India.
Sixth grade performs a dance
Then, everyone returned to their classrooms where all grandparents had an opportunity to see how students were learning, and what they were doing in the classroom.
Grandparents in 4th grade
Take a look at even more photos from the day. We hope our grandparents were pleased – and of course, parents and grandparents alike are welcome on campus anytime!
We would like to give a big shout out to two RCS parents who have been instrumental in helping to grow our ceramics program. Doug Smith, an amazing potter and father to Clay in Omega, who has been firing student work at his studio for the past 4 years.
He has donated many pounds of clay to our school, and has been advising our art teacher, Tracy, on the purchase of the new kiln.
Steve Schwarz, dad to Graham in second grade, purchased the kiln for Rainbow through his business, Mountain Glass Arts.
The funds for this purchase were raised through two school fundraisers over the past two years.
We teamed up with Zoeโs Kitchen here in Asheville and Art By Me out of Charlotte.
Many thanks to all of you who participated, we could not have done it without the support of our wonderful Rainbowย community!
Art By Me Fundraiser
Great News! We are gearing up for another Art by Me fundraiser.
This school year our goal is to have artwork arrive in time for the winter holidays.
Please be on the lookout out for information and updates.
As the school year gets underway, we’re learning about what opportunities staff and students participated in over the summer.
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Rainbow’s music teacher, Sue Ford, attended something called the Sister Singers Network Festival at the University of Illinois, Champagne/Urbana this summer.
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There she had the honor of hearing a song that she wrote called “Heal Me” ย by a mass chorus of 250 women.
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Women’s Chorus singing “Heal Me” a song Sue Ford composed.
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“Heal Me” by Sue Ford was recorded by Womansong a few years ago. Listen to the audio version:
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She also performed with Womansong of Asheville as well as facilitated a workshop called “Rhythm for Singers”.
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The video below shows Sue playing the banjo to one of the mass chorus songs, “I Come From Women” by Amy Carol Webb:
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We’re so proud of Sue!
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But also, if you’re a current or former Rainbow student, family member or even staff, we want to hear your news! Contact us and let us know.
