A huge Jaguar THANK YOU, WAE community, for showing up at the Art Walk one week ago in support of our school and The Orchards shopping plaza! We hope you all had fun and enjoyed some local fame with pride!

It took a village to pull it all together, and we're so appreciative. Special thanks to our incredible art teacher Kristin Kyono (shown attached collecting autographs at our big event), and the biggest thank you to our now famous artists --our  kids!!! Heartfelt thanks to all the volunteers who mounted, labeled, hung, re-hung, applied extra tape to our art, and more! (Actually, it's not over yet... we still have to take it all down on Thursday morning, 12/19! Can you help? Please sign up here!)

And thank you to our fantastic families for showing up! Check out our social FB and Insta pages tonight for more fun photos from our big night out last week!

Meanwhile, we're still tallying our earnings from our grand event night vendor givebacks and will share the full amount as soon as it's complete. In the meantime, we'd like to let you know that The Orchards will be donating $3,000 to our school simply for our participation in this event! So please do show your thanks to The Orchards for their help coordinating our exhibit, hosting our grand event night, and for their generous donations by continuing to eat and shop at all of their stores. (And when you do, be sure to mention that you're from Walnut Acres!)

And finally, we are most grateful to The Orchards merchants listed below who proudly displayed our art, gave us free goodies, and especially those marked with an asterisk below for donating back to our school from sales last Wednesday. We appreciate you!: 

*The Kebab Shop

*Thai Thani

*Sourdough & Co.

*Chip Cookies

Jack's Urban Eats

Mike Hess Brewing

MOD Pizza

*Elements Massage

*Lash Lounge

*Mathnasium

Primrose School

Radiant Waxing

 We love our neighborhood merchants! Thank you, Orchards plaza!