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Celebration of Youth Art - Elementary School Students

Dates: Apr 30, 2011 to May 11, 2011

Scenes from the Exhibit:
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The Celebration of Youth Art is as last year a two-tiered exhibit of work by elementary level students, and by students of middle and high school together. The Arts Center awarded ten elementary schools grants for special group projects. These grants could provide special materials, the services of a teaching artist, or both. The grants were made possible with support of The Miller Foundation and the Oregon Arts Commission. Some schools received individual grants and some schools received multiple grants.

The projects were integrated in the academic curriculum as much as possible, which means that the art produced is an inseparable part of the students learning process; students learning by “doing” on top of absorbing abstract facts.

Participating Elementary Schools & Artists:

• Lincoln Elementary School, Corvallis: Carol Soth worked with kindergarten students to create three 8x8’ trees; 1st and 2nd Graders made pan flutes with Alex Llunquige; 3rd and 4th graders made watercolors with art teacher Donna Jepsen Minyard; and 5th and 6th graders made a large map of the Unites States with Cheryl French.
• Garfield Elementary School, Corvallis: Donna Jepsen Minyard worked with students to make 60 small watercolors in tin frames.
• Jefferson Elementary School, Corvallis: Claudia Hall worked with 5th graders who created interactive checkerboards: you can play with them during the exhibit!
• Wilson Elementary School, Corvallis: Ella Rhoades lend her mosaic-making talents to the entire school in making a large tree for their lobby -- the trunk is made out of all kinds of things, coins, pieces of metal etc, while the students made ceramic leaves, even a wildcat, the school mascot, is in the tree. The tree itself will not be at The Arts Center, but for years to come in the Wilson lobby.
• Hoover Elementary School, Corvallis: Diana Ryan and Chris Neely led 2nd and 3rd graders in making clay marionettes, animals, people, skeletons as whimsical creatures.
• Franklin Elementary School, Corvallis: Fourth Graders at Franklin made two tapestries with fiber artist Jennifer Smith.
• Muddy Creek Charter School, Corvallis: The entire Muddy Creek School worked on two projects: with Shari Ame students worked on 4 mosaics in a stair step configuration; with Carol Soth the students made a papier-mâché mandala about the Mary’s Peak watershed.
• Ashbrook Independent School, Corvallis: students studied ancient writing, wrote in different script on paper, papyrus and clay tablets; the result was captured in a collage.
• Waverly Elementary, Albany: Cheryl French worked with students of Waverly Elementary to make books.
• Liberty Elementary, Albany; 4th and 5th graders painted with acrylics.