rom the ARTISTS WORKSHOP

March is Youth Art Month. All the art teachers in the SAU select works to hang at the Exeter Town Hall. The exhibit is open weekends in March, noon to 4:00 each day.

EKES is represented by fifth grade art work done after the pouches were finished. They drew their project as part of their assessment of that project. The requirements were to fill the page visually, add color with either colored pencil or crayon, express the texture/pattern of the woven pouch, and, of course, sign the work. The students whose work met the requirements are on display at the Exeter Town Hall through March. They are Emerson MacBride, Sarah Ricker, Amanda Cook, Ryan Dixon, Christina Cashman, Conner Conti, Gabby Harrington, Jack LaBroad, Robert Berthel, Isabelle Rice, Eliza Friend, Isabel White, Ethan Cook, Max Keegan, Sarah McManus, Calvin Bork, Dylan Senter, and Amanda Varney.  The gallery is open Saturdays and Sundays  through the 27^th; all are welcome. I always look for middle or high schoolers from EK whose work is included.

The upcoming exhibit at EKES will be the “gears project” which began on STEAM Day. Each student will be painting, coloring or collaging on a gear shape. These will be attached to a larger piece of paper to construct machines of our imaginations. They will be on display in April during the book fair and the two Wednesdays of parent conferences.

Presentations and discussions in art class have revolved around the differences of appreciating and creating 2- and 3-d art.  We built simple sculptures using blocks and drew quick sketches of them. A   peripheral component of this project is how groups within the class and the whole class work together to create objects. Two sculptors whose work is presented  at varied times during the 3-d work are Alexander Calder, http://www.calder.org/ and  Augustus St. Gaudens.http://www.nps.gov/saga/index.htm