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2011 “The Year in Review and Looking Ahead” Presented to the Board of Directors by NSAA Founder Sheri Bestor
Monday, January 2nd, 2012The NSAA Arts Mill Announces “At the H-Art of Giving”
Friday, October 21st, 2011
Contact: Sheri Bestor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Email:sherib@northshoreacademyofthearts.org
The NSAA Arts Mill announces “AT THE H-ART OF GIVING”.
Celebrate wellness and the arts by 2 local organizations, North Shore Academy of the Arts and Unified Body Wellness Institute, for an evening of fine dining, sample wellness experiences and wonderful holiday shopping!
This event will take place on Wednesday, November 9th, 2011 from 5:30-9pm.
(Grafton, WI) The NSAA Arts Mill in Grafton (1300 14th Avenue, Grafton, WI 53024) is pleased to announce a special event featuring fine dining & holiday shopping. “At the H-ART of Giving” is an event featuring an organic vegetarian meal. Dinner is $25/per person.
Schedule of Events:
•5:30-6pm: Relax with complimentary sample experiences of massage and reiki.
•6-7:30pm: Sit and enjoy a vegetarian meal and cash, organic wine & refreshment bar with peaceful, live music.
•7:30-9pm: Complete your holiday shopping with locally-made and fair-trade gift items, wellness gift certificates and raffles.
•Browse and shop for art work created by professional, local artists in the Arts Mill Boutique and Gallery.
To reserve your space, call:
NSAA @ 262.377.3514 or register online www.northshoreacademyoftgearts.org
(please specify any dietary needs when you purchase your ticket)
Don’t miss this special evening to prepare for the holidays while supporting organizations whose missions are to educate and serve the community in wellness and the arts. If you can’t attend the dinner but would like to shop, it will be opening to the public at 8pm.
The North Shore Academy of the Arts is a Wisconsin not-for-profit organization dedicated to offering high caliber opportunities in the performing, visual and
literary arts to all ages. To learn more about this organization, visit them on-line at: http://northshoreacademyofthearts.com/
Unified Body Wellness Institute, Inc. is dedicated to inspiring individuals and communities through educational and wellness programming. For more information on this organization, visit them on-line at: http://www.ubwellinstitute.org/
For more information on NSAA’s Arts Mill , check out our website at:
http://www.theartsmill.org
If you would like more information on this event, or to schedule an interview with Sheri Bestor, please email her at sherib@northshoreacademyofthearts.org.
NSAA and Balancing Arts to Offer Sunrise, Moonrise and Teen Yoga
Monday, June 13th, 2011
Sunrise Hatha Yoga Classes
July 6, 13, 20, 27 6-7am
Moonrise Hatha Yoga Classes
July 6, 13, 20, 27 8-9pm
Teen Yoga Classes
July 6, 13, 20, 27 4-5pm
Class Sizes are Limited–Must pre-register. Pro-ration available
Located in the beautiful historic Arts Mill Gallery on the river
Sunrise and Moon Rise Series
Relieve stress and relax, gain strength and flexibility on a new level, and achieve overall balance for well-being. This practice is designed to balance the body, focus the mind and recharge the spirit, unifying body, mind and breath. Each class consists of gentle movements, classical asanas and breathing exercises to foster the creative energy within.Individualized to meet each person’s needs within the class.
Instructor: Sheri Bestor, RYT, MA Instruction/Curriculum
Sheri Bestor is a certified yoga instructor and Founder of Balancing Arts Studio and North Shore Academy of the Arts. She is a lifelong learner and a teacher of various disciplines and ages for over 20 years.
TY ( Teen Yoga)
Teens, this class is for you, even if you don’t feel flexible or haven’t tried yoga! Come and enjoy time with your friends while we focus on developing strength, balance and flexibility. In a down to earth atmosphere, we’ll move through asanas, breathe, focus, balance, relax and have fun! The theme for each class will allow teens to inner reflect, while equipping them with skills to relax and relieve stress. Taught by Sheri Bestor, long time Producer and Director of Stagekids Productions, she has much experience working with teens, both on the mat and off. Bring a friend and you each get the series of classes for $44 (that’s only $22 each!)
Time/Days: Wednesdays
Sunrise: 6-7am
Moonrise:8-9pm
Teen:4-5pm
Cost: $44 for the four week series. ($11 per class-if you can’t make a class, let us know and you will receive a pro-rated rate) Special Offer: Sign up with a friend or family member and you each receive the whole series for half the price!
Located at 1300, 14th Ave. Grafton Wisconsin in the Arts Mill. The North Building on the Third Floor.
To register call: North Shore Academy of the Arts, Inc. 262.377.3514
Or register online at www.northshoreacademyofthearts.org
For more information visit: www.balancingarts.net.
Create your own class! Contact Sheri to set up a small group class for your friends and family that fits your group’s schedule.
Also available: Private and semi-private. Contact Sheri-262.719.4633 with any questions or to schedule a session.
Arts project with Homestead students spotlights foster care, youth who must leave system at age 18
Monday, April 25th, 2011
By Linda J. Steiner
If you ask Grace Meehan, student leader of Mequon High School’s Kids4Kids, why her group is doing a collaborative arts project with children who are in foster care or youth aging out of the system, she’ll tell you it’s because there are a lot more similarities than differences among young people.
“People might have a bad connotation about kids in foster care,” she said, “but they’re still young like us, and they have bright futures.”
Kids4Kids, which raises money for and tries to increase awareness about foster care, has been involved since early this year in an undertaking called Project 3mpower. The project aims to build awareness in the public and camaraderie and self-confidence in the young people involved by artistically telling the story of foster life.
Under the guidance of instructors at the North Shore Academy of the Arts in Grafton, the Homestead students have been working along with children and young adults served by St. Aemilian-Lakeside, a 161-year-old social services organization in Milwaukee.
They have been creating a variety of artworks from painting and pottery to song, dance, drama and poetry. The works will be showcased at a culminating public event May 15 from 3:30 -5 p.m., at the Arts Mill Gallery & Boutique, 1300 14th Ave., Grafton.
The project hopes to change the way the public understands and responds to the needs of foster youth. The name 3mpower comes from the goal of empowering three populations: foster and non-foster kids and the public.
“This helps them to see it’s not a bad thing to be in foster care,” said Jeanetta Watson, who is part of a St. Aemilian-Lakeside Independent Living Services (ILS) program that helps youth leaving foster care successfully transition to adulthood. Jeanetta worked at the last session, April 10, on a painting that will illustrate many of the emotions she experienced while in foster care.
“They seem like a nice bunch of kids,” she said about the Homestead students. “They want to participate and they wanted to learn about my experiences in foster care and how I felt about it,” she said.
Some of her experiences were met with surprise, said Jeanetta, who was in nine foster homes from the time she was 3 until she was 16. “But we talked about how you’ve got to not worry about the bad, think of the good, and go from there.”
Another young woman in an ILS program, Kaitlin Harris, said the questions posed to her were good because, “a lot of people don’t know what it’s like to be in foster care, so I pretty much told them everything: going house to house, being in shelters. And everybody’s experience in foster care is different.”
“It’s a great opportunity, because some of the kids (in foster care) still don’t have resources, places to go,” said Jeanetta. “There’s a need to speak out.”
Grant Brogan, a Homestead freshman, said he got involved in the project because it’s fun. “And it’s a way to reach out to a different community and to help others. And you’re making new friends.”
A 9–year-old boy named Julio who is being assisted by St. Aemilian-Lakeside’s Family Preservation Services, said it was pretty cool working with Grant. “He looks like Justin Bieber!” he said with a laugh.
“No matter where you grow up, we all have common interests, and it’s good to find those common interests,” said Patrick Tucker, also a freshman at Homestead.
As Unique Wilson from the ILS program worked on writing a song, she said, “It’s about hope and faith, not giving up, always having hope for tomorrow being a better day.”
Unique and Joann Hogan, another former foster young person served by St. Aemilian-Lakeside, worked with Angela Mack, a performing arts instructor, on creating the song. The two young women do lyrics and melody and Angela is putting it to music.
“It takes a lot of vulnerability to write a song like this and it takes a lot of trust,” Angela said. “This is a song of encouragement to all people who feel like giving up.”
All the young people involved in Project 3mpower are looking forward to sharing their creativity with the public on May 15. The event is free and will also feature shopping at the gallery. For more information, contact Karen Johnson, division director of Community Services at St. Aemilian-Lakeside, at 414-465-5734. For more information on foster care and a variety of services to youth who must leave the system when they turn 18, go to www.st-al.org.
NSAA Founder, Sheri Bestor, Assumes Additional Title
Friday, March 25th, 2011
Sheri Bestor, NSAA Founder assumes the additional title of President and Divisions Coordination Director—Working with the long term and day to day vision of the Arts Mill and coordinating it with the vision and mission of North Shore Academy of the Arts to insure coordinated efforts for growth and success of both entities and together as a whole. Contact Sheri at sherib@northshoreacademyofthearts.org
Connecting Through Creativity
Friday, March 18th, 2011
(c) Sheri Bestor March 18, 2011
A Note From the Founder Of NSAA
Fueling creativity is among the many benefits of yoga and Unified Body Method™ classes. It begins with connecting… that of mind, body and breath. These classes have then proven for me to be a place to make other connections as well… spirit to spirit connections. It’s where I met Karen, the parent advisor of Kids for Kids, a volunteer group of young adults from Homestead High School (HHS) that work together to make a difference for those within or transitioning from the foster care system. The group was founded six years ago by Karen’s daughter, Rachel, when she and a few of her classmates learned of the plight of two local foster children.
So Karen and I connected, sharing the common bond of this class, and learning about each other–me about her involvement in this great cause, and she about my involvement in NSAA. Together, we created the 3mpower Program.
Once a month on Sundays, the Kids 4 Kids group of leaders from HHS gathers at NSAA to meet with a group of foster youth who travel north from Milwaukee’s inner city. Cooperatively, with NSAA staff, we work in all of the art’s media–exploring, uncovering, discovering–to tell the story of foster care, to empower on three levels: the HHS students, empowered to make a difference in the lives of foster youth; the foster youth, empowered to tell their story; and the public, empowered by knowledge about foster care when they will be invited to attend the final show–a gathering to share creative expression.
It has already been a tremendously rewarding experience, watching these two groups of young spirits from diverse backgrounds connect, working together through the arts. Sometimes, getting everyone engaged takes creativity, as some of these youth are struggling with basic needs–securing their next meal or a place to sleep at night. But soon after they enter NSAA’s doors, magic happens, and just for a few hours, there’s a new focus. Painting, drawing, writing original poetry, creating music, sculpting…together, these young people share the message that learning about differences connects us to how similar we all really are. Connections.
Foster Care Month is in May. Stay tuned to learn when we will present Project 3mpower’s final exhibition. I imagine if you come, you and your family may be inspired, learning a little more about a group of people who struggle without the same benefits of a close family as we do. But also about how the arts can help close a gap called diversity. We all have creativity from within, and while expressed in own individual manner, it’s a connection we hold common. No matter what language we speak, the arts are universal.
Also, you might be inspired to try a yoga/Unified Body Method™ class. It’s no doubt, a form of art. It fuels creativity. And You never know what kind of connections you’ll make. 
For Immediate Release ARTS MILL GRAND OPENING March 11
Sunday, March 6th, 2011
View the Official Press Release
THE ARTS MILL Grand Opening Event March 11
The North Shore Academy of the Arts Would Like to Invite the Community to the Arts Mill Grand Opening Event on March 11 Between 5-10pm at the Arts Mill Location.
Grafton, WI, March 6, 2011: The Arts Mill, a new sister site for the North Shore Academy of the Arts, will have its Grand Opening Event on Friday, March 11 from 5 to 10pm. The general public is invited to attend the Grand Opening Event at 1300 14th Avenue in Grafton. Food and beverage will be available for purchase by Grapes and Tastes. Visitors can browse the Arts Mill Boutique which showcases the merchandise of Wisconsin artisans. Newly renovated gallery, studio and event space will be open for the public to browse as well. The community can meet the artists and celebrate this great event. Please visit http://www.theartsmill.org for more information.
ABOUT US… The Arts Mill
The Arts Mill is a division of North Shore Academy of the Arts, a not-for-profit organization offering quality opportunities in the visual, performing and literary arts. As we move into the next chapter of our growth, we have opened this satellite location to further our mission of supporting the arts. The Arts Mill is situated in the historic Grafton Mill located at 1300 14th Ave. Grafton, WI adjacent to the Milwaukee River and two blocks from our home site. The newly renovated 3rd floor of the mill will host many exciting NSAA events and is also available for our community to rent for private parties. Our 2nd floor has been renovated to house our art studios, which supports local artists in their discipline while giving the public the opportunity to view live artists at work. Within the studio space is the Arts Mill Boutique, developed to encourage the pursuit of artistic careers. It is a wonderful mix of gift items and creative accessories developed by local artists from Milwaukee and Southeastern, WI.
Funds to renovate the Arts Mill have largely been provided by Kapco, Inc. Donations are still being accepted. Kapco, Inc. has offered to match funds up to $5000. Please email Arts Mill Director Paula Christensen if you are interested in making a donation. paulac@northshoreacademyofthearts.org
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A March Message From the Founder Sheri Bestor
Monday, February 28th, 2011
Our academy, over the years, has provided learning and growing opportunities for countless individuals. We are proud to offer the canvas, the stage, and the page, for the painters, the singers, the dancers, the actors, and the writers. We take that responsibility seriously.
But as NSAA has grown, and our family of supporters has, too, I’ve personally watched the silent artists create, as well. The silent artists are those who do not put their signature at the bottom of a painting, but instead stay late into the night building scenery, take small hands into theirs to teach them how to sculpt clay, give resources so a velvety blue curtain can be bought and hung, nail raw wood into a brand new stage, put together a brochure, a playbill, a website, or a blog, write a grant, take out the garbage, pay the bills, type endless emails to parents, and work on boards and committees….
American scholar Warren Bennis said it well, “There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.”
I am grateful to all of those who have and continue to create the amazing environment for others to flourish. Starlight Night was a success thanks to the hard work of our staff and the dedication and leadership of Jodi and Steve Heston and their committee.
Together, we’ll enjoy the next decade. As our Broad Street location continues to buzz with activity of young and old artists, we’ll open our new doors at the Arts Mill for people to have a place to experience inspiration, imagination, and creation.
North Shore Academy of the Arts. Imagine, Discover, Create, Dream.
I hope to see you on March 11 at the Arts Mill Grand Opening. Thanks for your continued support.
Sheri
Hometown Support the Arts Day January 15th From 10-4
Monday, January 10th, 2011
We need your help! North Shore Academy of the Arts (NSAA) is moving closer to its grand opening of the Arts Mill. Last Saturday, dozens of amazing people volunteered to get the new site ready. We’re having another “Hometown Supports the Arts Day” this Saturday, January 15, and we hope you can help.
NSAA’s Arts Mill will feature studio space for local artists, a boutique and an entertainment venue, all in the historic Grafton Mill. We are seeking your help in all areas– cleaning, painting, and skilled labor (such as construction work) to get the site ready.
Don’t miss being a part of the transformation of this national historic site in support of the arts and a local non-profit organization. We hope to see you there!
Hometown Support the Arts Day
Saturday, January 15
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Historic Grafton Mill, NSAA Arts Mill (2nd & 3rd floors, enter through north door)
1300 14th Avenue, Grafton
Any questions, please call Paula D Christensen at 262-377-3514 or paulac@northshoreacademyofthearts.org.
North Shore Academy of the Arts Inducts Neil Willenson as Chairperson of Board of Directors
Sunday, January 9th, 2011
News Graphic Article “Chairman of the Arts” from January 18, 2011
For Immediate Release
Re: North Shore Academy of the Arts, Board of Directors
Contact: Sheri Bestor/262.719.4633
North Shore Academy of the Arts Inducts Neil Willenson as Chairperson of Board of Directors
North Shore Academy of the Arts Inc., a not-for-profit 501c3 organization located in Ozaukee County, providing quality opportunities in the arts, enters their second decade of service to the community.
“We have many inspiring developments taking place and on the horizon,” said NSAA Founder, Sheri Bestor. “One of the most exciting is Neil Willenson joining our Board. With his tremendous non-profit knowledge, people skills and overall leadership qualities, Neil will be a fantastic addition to our already strong board.”
Current Board members include former chair, Dave Fischer the CFO of Kapco, who is now the Vice President of NSAA’s board and joining the financial committee, Darrell Hofland, Village Administrator of Grafton, Mike Donahue, CPA and owner of Donahues Accounting Services, Paula Hare, owner of Hare Strigenz Design, Bruce McIlnay, Attorney, and Urszula Cholewinska. “We are pleased and proud to welcome Dave Cavil to the board as well. Dave and his wife Sara were the people who stepped forward with a contribution to close the gap and make the outdoor classroom a reality. Dave is already involved with exciting improvements to the Broad Street Facility. The addition of Dave is perfect timing with Neil taking on the Chairperson position.”
Stepping in as Chair, Neil will work with board members on fundraising and governing the organization.
”When Neil became available, Sheri and I saw it as a golden opportunity. Neil is uniquely qualified to lead the Board with his firsthand knowledge and understanding of what it takes to run a successful 501c3 organization, his training and background in arts and entertainment as well as his participation in past NSAA productions. We are extremely fortunate to be able to add such a talented individual to what is already a strong Board.”
Indeed, with 20 years of non-profit executive leadership skills as the Founder and former CEO of One Heartland, a national charity for disadvantaged children, Willenson is the perfect fit to lead our Board of Directors. Most recently, Willenson began work as the Vice President of Community Relations at Kapco where he leads Kapco’s vast philanthropic and community work.
“The dedication and experience provided by Dave Fischer throughout his tenure as Board Chair has brought North Shore Academy of the Arts (NSAA) to a new level. I am confident that Neil, who has been involved with NSAA for many years will continue the growth and leadership that Dave has provided. The combination of Neil’s and Dave’s experience and dedication will provide NSAA with a tremendous leadership team,” said NSAA’s Advisory Board Member, Les Weil, Community Volunteer.
“NSAA continues to transition in such a positive way. With the addition of Neil and Dave Cavil and the continued dedication of our other board members, our administration at NSAA will be able to focus on running the organization and programming,” said Bestor.
“It is a great honor to be invited to serve as the Board Chair of the North shore Academy of the Arts. For many years I have been an admirer of Founder Sheri Bestor and the creative and dedicated team she has assembled. As a resident of Grafton myself and a participant in NSAA programming, I know firsthand the great value that NSAA provides to thousands of people in our community. I am excited for the opportunity to help NSAA bring their bold and ambitious vision of growth to fruition. Art and arts education truly enriches lives. NSAA is a preeminent organization in making this possible,” said Neil.
North Shore Academy of the Arts is located in Grafton. Wisconsin, with two facilities. They focus on classes in the arts for children and adults, musical productions, workshops, mentoring in the arts and the soon to be opening art studios, boutique and art gallery. To learn more about NSAA or to become involved, visit the website at www.northshoreacademyofthearts.org
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