Northeast News
March 11, 2011
Lincoln College Preparatory Academy and Paseo Academy of Fine Performing Arts students covered the gamut of entertainment March 10 for An Affair of the Arts. Kansas City Missouri School District hosted the fundraising event for the district’s first-ever education foundation. Bank presidents, parents, neighborhood association presidents and others gathered at the Kansas City Marriott Muehlebach Tower banquet room to watch student talent and help raise funds for the foundation. Pictured from top to bottom: Students from the Paseo dance department perform “To Be Continued,” choreographed by Latra Wilson; Paseo eighth grader Keyon Woods, right, poses with the dress he designed and sewed, and holds up his original sketch. Woods calls the dress “fantasy couture” and said his last project was a pillow case. Woods wants to be a costume designer for Broadway. Modeling the elaborate dress is Paseo junior Taraya Johnson, who is an aspiring model; A variety of artwork was for sale at the event, featuring work of alumni and current students at Lincoln and Paseo. Pictured is a permanent marker piece by Paseo senior Luna Green; A Paseo student struts her stuff in a Kimono designed by Paseo Fashion and Costume Design Department students; Paseo Concert Band performs two pieces, “Nathan Hale Trilogy” and “Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi.” Leslie Collins