NAHS Induction Ceremony
NATIONAL ART HONOR SOCIETY INDUCTION CEREMONY
Carolina High School & Academy
Chapter # 5676320
Stage: podium and microphone; charis for principal, chapter sponsor, president and vice president, guest speaker; table with black cloth, chapter pins, red/yellow/blue candles in holders, lighter, certificates. Stairs in front of stage.
Front row seats are reserved for chapter members.
7:00pm: Principal and guest speaker are seated on stage. Members enter auditorium, and process to front row and are seated. President, Vice-President, and chapter sponsor take their seats on stage.
President proceeds to podium and asks all to rise for the Presentation of the Colors and Pledge of Allegiance. (remind audience to remain standing until Colors have processed out) Once Colors have processed out, the president says to audience, “You may be seated.” President returns to seat on stage.
Principal proceeds to podium and offers welcome remarks.
Chapter Sponsor proceeds to podium and offers welcome remarks, then introduces guest speaker for evening.
Once speaker has completed, chapter sponsor proceeds to podium and introduces chapter vice-president.
Vice-President proceeds to podium. Gives explanation of elements of art to all members:
“As we have learned in our studies, all visual art is based on the Elements and Principles of Art … those building blocks upon which all imagery is created. I charge you now with them ………….
- COLOR - comes from the sun to all things on earth.
- LINE - is the edge of all things on earth.
- FORM - is the mass of all living things, and the earth.
- TEXTURE - is the surface of all things, and the earth.
- SPACE - is the void, the emptiness.
- BALANCE - the equality of all things.
- MOVEMENT - energy moving, and time passing.
- UNITY - all things working together for harmony.
Vice-President returns to seat on stage.
Chapter Sponsor proceeds to podium and introduces chapter President. Sponsor returns to seat.
Chapter President proceeds to podium, and gives *short* remarks. Asks members to stand and remain standing …. Once standing, asks them to repeat after them:
“I will, in my life, to the best of my ability, through my talents in art, help to create a more beautiful world for myself, humankind, and all living things.”
Members are to remain standing. Vice-President proceeds to table and begins to light each candle.
President says, “Take of the world its colors and forms, its lines and textures, its balance and movement, its spaces ….. Combine all of these into a unifying state of what is to be human. Give back to the world the same elements of beauty that you, as an artist, take from it. Always create beauty in the world through your talent and in your life.”
President and Vice-President takes their place among the members in the front row. Chapter sponsor them moves to table, as Principal proceeds to podium. Principal explains to members that when name is called, please proceed to stage to be presented with their certificate and pin. Once received, return to seat - but remain standing. Once all students have returned to row, all students sit together.
Principal returns to seat.
Chapter Sponsor proceeds to podium and offers closing remarks, then closes ceremony.
All are dismissed. Candles are extinguished.