Artist in Residence

Last night was the kids’ Artist in Residence Art Show.  Over the last couple of months, they have been working with a local artist (Stacy Harris) to create grade level murals.  She chose a photo for each grade and cut it into little squares.  Each student got to paint one square of the picture on the canvas.  The 6^th grade recreated Mr. Barker’s barn, 4^th grade did Kirt’s Drive-In, and 2^nd grade painted a moose.  Kindergarten didn’t copy a picture; they just got to use a bunch of different materials to decorate one square on their class collage. 

For the other part of the experience, she taught each grade (except Kindergarten) about a master painter and had the students replicate one of their paintings (6^th grade Picasso’s Woman with Yellow Hair; 4^th grade Senecio by Paul Klee; 2^nd grade Monet’s Water Lilies Red).  The teachers picked four paintings from each class to be displayed at the art show and both Emily’s and Elise’s paintings were chosen.