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Photos by Lois Bernstein
Using the drawing lessons from his LIVE Elementary School Assembly programs (Mark visits over 100 schools a year!), Mark Kistler has just completed production of 26 NEW episodes of his children's how-to-draw Public Television series. Produced at Ferris State University in Grand Rapids Michigan, these NEW episodes are scheduled to be released to Public Television stations across America in Spring 2009!
Mark Kistler's Elementary School Visits are a "MUST SEE" event! Just ask some of his former students/viewers...
- Miley Cyrus - "Hannah Montana"
- Rex Grignon - Supervising Animator "Shrek," "Madagascar" and worked on "Toy Story"
- Ward Makielski - "Leapfrog Toys", "The Incredibles Interactive"
- Tim Decker - "The Simpsons" & Disney Interactive
- Dan Fraga - Marvel Comics
- Ray Bradbury - Author
Miley Cyrus (Disney's Hannah Montana) "Super! I wish I had Mark Kistler's drawing lessons when I was 10!" Ray Bradbury |
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Assembly Program Mark deeply believes that learning how to draw in three dimensions builds a child's critical thinking skills while nourishing self-esteem. His positive messages on self-esteem, goal setting, dream conquering, environmental awareness, and the power of reading have sparked millions of children around the world to discover their awesome individual potentials. |
"Mark! I cannot express how excited the students were after your assembly! You left them with enthusiasm for drawing! By far the BEST assembly we have EVER scheduled!"
Pat Georgi
Tuckerton School
Tuckerton, New JerseyHere's what you're in for...
- Two enchanting live performances with Mark Kistler. One assembly for grades K-2, and another for grades 3-6. Fresh new lessons every year!
- Students arrive at the assembly equipped with special lesson plan paper, pencil, and a book to use as a lap desk.
- Mark Kistler has the group (up to 5,000 at a time!) sit on the floor or in theater seating, poised ready for drawing action!
- Using an overhead projector, television/VCR, chalkboard, and microphone, Mark Kistler guides your children through an extraordinary imagination adventure. Your students learn how to draw in 3-D while Mark tells stories of great galactic adventures, journeys to the bottom of the sea, time-traveling odysseys back to the land of the dinosaurs, and forward into time with pencil power! This "how-to-draw" assembly is an experience your children will never forget!
- Students complete four 3-D drawing lessons and get inspired to write and illustrate their own children's books!
- During this exciting assembly adventure, many students and teachers from the audience are invited to come up and draw the lesson in front of the entire school!
- At the conclusion of the drawing lessons, Mark gives your school several DVD classroom follow-up drawing lessons, along with his best selling childrens "How-To-Draw" book. Mark's DVD's and books are proven tools to keep your students' enthusiasm and excitement for art growing all year long!
- As additional classroom follow-up, Mark invites the teachers to use his 50 animated online art lessons, and his 300 live video art lessons, available online here on this website. Your students' drawing skill can continue to grow with Mark's online lesson tutorials for years to come!
- Teachers who wish to have their students' wonderful 3-D art work displayed on your school's website, or in Mark Kistler's online Genius Student Art Gallery are encouraged to scan and email artwork to your school's web master and to Mark Kistler's web site. Their drawings will be displayed in international cyberspace for all the world to see and applaud!
"Mark! I can not thank you enough for the wonderful assemblies you did for our school...I was extremely happy with everything, from working with you and Chris all these months, to the actual program. The teachers did nothing but rave about the assemblies!... the Family Night was a huge hit as well...what a crowd! ...an evening program attendance record..."
Marty Miracky
North Plains School
Minot Air Force Base
Minot, North Dakota
- Many of the 100 elementary schools Mark visits each year choose to pre-sell his popular childrens drawing in 3-D books. This is a wonderful opportunity for students to own autographed copies of Mark's books.
Schools will receive Mark's best-selling "How to Draw in 3-D" book. Teachers and students are encouraged to duplicate pages for assembly follow-up drawing lessons.
- Schools are also encouraged to duplicate Mark's DVD classroom titles for hours of classroom follow-up instruction. Schools are encouraged to duplicate these videos for additional library check-out copies.
"Mark truly brought his drawings to life during our assembly; and made sure every student felt included, special, and artistic! Whether it was "Pencil Power!!" with the younger students or the Genius Pledge with the older students, everybody (staff included!) felt energized and empowered after leaving the assembly. Mark's heart for children, and for art, shows in every drawing he does. He is definitely a wonderful man to have boost-up your students and help them to "Draw! Draw! Draw!....definitely the best elementary school assembly I've seen in my career.
Ken Davis
Sycamore Rocks Elementary
Apple Valley, CA
- Mark Kistler has been featured on CNN, Nickelodeon, NBC-TV (Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago), CBS-TV (New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston), ABC-TV (New York, Seattle, Albuquerque), National Public Radio with Bob Edwards, USA Today, New York Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Houston Chronicle, Denver Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Baltimore Sun, San Diego Union, Seattle Times...and even spoofed on national television by the comedy crew on "Saturday Night Live!".
- Mark Kistler's alumni students resume credits include animation work on Shrek, Madagascar, Over the Hedge, Bugs Life, Ants, The Incredibles, Cars, Robots, and Marvel Comics. Other Mark Kistler alumni students have worked as NASA Space Station designers, Boeing aircraft designers, Nissan Automobile designers, architects and web site designers.
Call 888-837-2933 to schedule a Mark Kistler Program
or email schoolassemblies@markkistler.com for information!
Family Evening Drawing Program
Inspiring the whole family to learn how-to-draw in 3-D together!
(Must be scheduled with a daytime performance.)
Schools scheduling Mark's Daytime Assembly Programs now have the option of scheduling Mark's extremely successful Evening Family Program. During the student assemblies, Mark invites all the children to return that evening for another fun-filled drawing in 3-D adventure with their entire family! The result of this exciting invitation is record-breaking parent attendance in 14 states! Normally scheduled from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., this magical evening family program motivates children to draw on their boundless imagination rather than spend the average 26,880 hours (before the age of 18) watching mindless television. Even adults who constantly say "I can't even draw a straight line," will be confidently sketching cool 3-D illustrations. This delightful evening of creative magic is fun for the entire family. 60 minute workshop.
Teachers In-Service Drawing in 3-D Workshop
Motivating educators to use 3-D drawing as a powerful teaching tool. Drawing is a dynamic interactive visual vehicle, communicating how things work and how they fit together. Drawing is a means to identify important shapes and objects in science, nature, geography, and language arts. This is a hands-on fun filled information packed teacher workshop. A treasure trove of creative classroom ideas to build student thinking skills, attention focusing activities, and imagination launching student challenges! 60-90 minute workshop depending on your staff's time schedule.
Mark Kistler's School of Imagination
An on-line art school teaching kids around the world how to draw in 3-D. This on-line art academy is a powerful classroom follow up to Mark Kistler's Elementary School Assembly Day. With students in 12 countries and 3 continents, this subscription web site will be a "favorite" at all your school's computer stations. The cleverly animated, step-by-step lessons take students through exciting, theme-based imagination adventures while teaching important fundamentals of art, illustration, design, and cartooning. This content rich site is an experience your students will enjoy over and over again. School-wide subscription 12-month membership: Membership is for a full year of unlimited access to the wonderful wacky world of Mark Kistler's "Dare to Draw in 3-D!" lessons. Students and staff are encouraged to share the membership with their families on their home computers.
Our Diversity University
Many schools schedule Mark's assemblies each year. This unique, multicultural art program is a great second-year Mark Kistler follow up program. It clebrates the power of Ethnic Diversity in our nation's elementary schools. From extraordinary breakthroughs in science, technology, and medicine to our vast array of artistic expressions in music, literature, and art, Mark surveys the assembly crowd to illustrate how wonderfully diverse the group's cultural heritages are. Your school's student body makeup is a "Mini-United Nations." Mark chooses four cultures from a hat, and launches into a global journey of drawing in 3-D. This is a drawing lesson your students will treasure.
Internet Web Wizards
For schools scheduling Mark's assemblies for a second, third or fourth year, Mark Kistler's World Wide Web program is a great choice. The Internet is one of our planet's most exciting technological evolutions of the century. Children now have at their fingertips the ability to explore information on virtually any special interest area. On the web, they can find anything from career options, historical data, science breakthroughs, to millions of pages of research topics. The Internet is like having all the world libraries, museums, and research facilities at your fingertips. in this exhilarating "Cyber Journey," Mark teaches your students: 1. How to explore the Internet safely with "Cyber-kid" rules; 2. Oh! What you can do on the Net!; 3. Creating and Linking home pages; 4. Becoming a World Wide "Cyber-kid" Author/Illustrator!
Young Authors/Illustrators
This program explores the exhilarating process of writing and illustrating story books. your students learn: 1. How to generate ideas with the "Theme Game"; 2. How to create characters, locations, motivation and purpose; 3. How to illustrate the story in 3-D; 4. Ideas for self-publishing and submitting to national publishers. Drawing the illustrations for a book first, then writing the story, is an unusual yet highly effective story building technique Mark teaches. Drawing in 3-D sparks a flood of story ideas. This assembly program is the writer's workshop your students will re-use, review, reflect and remember!
Call 888-837-2933 to schedule a Mark Kistler Program
or email schoolassemblies@markkistler.com for information!
