This year we have three students enrolled in AP art. Having this small cohort of students in a single class together is really exciting. We plan on taking numerous field trips to galleries and museums. Next week, each student is going to share a lesson based on their individual strengths. Here they are at work: It's so nice to be back! Kids bounce into the art room ready to act on their creative ideas. This fall, we've had a few "have to do" assignments across the grades.
Each year, high school students across the country enter their state's congressional art show. Then 50 pieces of high school art are selected for an exhibition in Washington D.C. This tradition was started by the former Vermont senator Jim Jeffords. This was the first year that I have entered Cabot High School students. Almost 200 artworks from 50+ Vermont high schools were on display. Our small school had high quality pieces that not only fit in but stood out among the rest of the artworks on display. Of those works, seven of them received special awards. Cabot's Evlyn Hislop was awarded a "Judges Choice" award. We travelled to Montpelier for the award show and the judge who selected her work commented on Evlyn's skill in creating a detailed pen and ink portrait and how her subtle use of color and text in her collaged background supported her content. Last spring, exciting things happened for the art students across all grade levels. I have a few photos to share of some of our highlights: the 3rd & 4th graders created recycled sea creatures for their PBL Ocean project, documentation of the infectious play and experimenting of our 5th and 6th graders who made paper, masking tape sculptures, movies and more, and high school students who showed work at the congressional art show. |