Our Lady of the Lake Shows off Artistic Ability
The spring art show at Our Lady of the Lake School was a huge success. With over 200 attendees and over 300 participants, the show featured projects from each student at the school. Students studied different artists and worked together on large scale collaborative projects.
Grades 1 & 2 created a Chihuly Tower, inspired by glass artist Dale Chihuly.
Grade 2 created Kandinsky Circles, inspired by Kandinsky's concentric circle color studies.
Grades 3-8 created Chihuly Chandeliers, inspired by Dale Chihuly's glass chandeliers, made from recycled water bottles.
The kindergarten class created miniature Chihuly chandeliers made from pipe cleaners.
Grades 5 & 6 studied Jackson Pollock and applied his method of art making to paint on canvases which were then attached together to form a cube and hung from the ceiling.
There were also many cross-curricular projects that were on display including music and art in which the students created playbill covers that they redesigned. In the areas of social studies and art, students created Egyptian sarcophagi, in which the students constructed small scale sarcophagi after learning about Egyptian culture in social studies.
Students also displayed their own creative pieces of art at the show. Maggie Carroll created a newspaper dress and Elizabeth Smith contributed three pieces of pottery.
In addition to all of these wonderful works of art, the church hall was also filled with performances by the choir, third grade recorders, and band every 10 minutes. The art show was filled with people oohing and ahhing over the work and performances. The students present were beaming with accomplishment as they showed off their work to family and newcomers.
The church hall wasn’t the only place booming with art. The school was covered wall to wall with students’ art. The walls were colorfully decorated, and the halls were alive with excitement. The fifth graders added to this excitement by holding live performances of wax museum artists. The students wrote short biographies about an artist and dressed up to portray them. Artists included Taylor Swift, Jimmy Buffett, Roald Dahl, Betty White, and many more.
Jennifer Millett
Teacher at Our Lady of the Lake