"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 Jersey

Here's what you're in for...

• Two engaging age-appropriate live performances with Mark Kistler.
  
  
• 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 500 at a time!) sit at lunch tables or in theater seating, poised ready to draw in 3-D.
  
  
• Using an overhead projector, television/VCR, comptuer animation projector, dry-erase board and microphone, Mark Kistler guides your students through an extraordinary imagination-building experience. Your students learn how to draw in 3-D while enjoying Mark's stories of goal setting and dream conquering inspired by his real-life adventures of teaching, scuba diving, sailing, hot air ballooning and flying throughout the world. This "how-to-draw" assembly is an experience your students will never forget!
  
  
• Students complete four 3-D drawing lessons and get inspired to write and illustrate their own personal dream quest 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! Yes, even 8th graders will volunteer enthusiastically!
  
  
• At the conclusion of the drawing lessons, Mark gives your school several DVD classroom follow-up drawing lessons, along with his best selling "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 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 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!

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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 students 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 with a 30 minute follow-up autograph/book signing session.

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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.

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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 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.

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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. Students 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!

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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!