Art Class

Today was the final art show for the class the kids were taking at one of our local colleges.  I had 5 kids enrolled this year, everyone from kindergarten to eighth grade.  These classes are very affordable way to provide the kids a chance to work with higher quality art materials and ideas. The classes are taught by art education majors working on getting classroom experience. This means all we have to pay for is materials and the rates top off at 3 kids, any others are free.

Because most schools are cutting their art classes and art departments, the teachers are being taught how to incorporate art as a part of other disciplines. The projects usually focus on cultural awareness in some way or computer graphics.

I did not manage to get pictures of each kid with their individual projects but I did take pictures of most of the projects.  Sean carved an Enterprise which most folks at the art show loved.  Kieran worked on computer images.  Katie and Liam did sculpting projects.  Abby's projects focused on animals this year.  There are 3 sessions during the class and each session focuses on making one single large project so everyone brings home 3 completed items.

The Marian projects were made by Gabe today at his preschool class.  He'll join the bigger kids next year but this year he just had preschool once a month.  He seems to have loved it.