Another school year is almost finished and I’m busy with the end of the year art activities. We recently had 6th grade orientation for next year’s sixth graders. I put up an art display for that. I’m putting up another display for the board meeting and orchestra concert on the 18th. The show that I really look forward to is the annual art show at the Sturges Young Civic Auditorium. I just set up that show Monday night. Two of my students helped me set it up. Every year I always think about how I’m going to put this together and every year I am filled with excitement at the talent my students exhibit. This year was no exception. I always think I don’t have enough variety of quality work to fill the show and of course I end up with enough to fill two shows.
There are about 140 artworks in the show by around 90 students. Both two dimensional and three dimensional works are represented. There are pencil drawings, colored pencil, watercolor, acrylic paintings, collage work, sumi-e painting, scratch art, sculpture, pottery and both oil and chalk pastel. This is but a few of the shots that I took.
The show will be up through May 24th. I encourage anyone that is in the Sturgis area to stop in and see it. Here are some more three dimensional artworks.
As I said these are just some of the many artworks in the show. Be inspired by the young people with artwork represented here. I am. I love working with these young students. It is a thrill to see them develop their artwork under my tutelage. I take great pride in what they accomplish and great ownership in the work that I do to get them to this level of development. As I have said in past posts, “You got to have art!” I can’t imagine my life never having explored the field of art and art education.