Folk Arts Festival

This year during Maymester session, the Butterfly and Seashells classes decided to do a three week exploration of folk arts. It began with study of cave art as historical evidence of humans’ desires to represent their everyday lives through art. The children examined, researched, discussed, experimented with, and produced a lot of art! The study culminated in a Folk Arts Festival opening attended by many families and campus/community friends. As docents, the children shared decoupage, stenciling, tin ware, paintings inspired by Grandma Moses, silhouettes, a wooden village, and painted furniture and toys they created. Probably the most challenging of their efforts was a collaborative reverse painting on glass that will now become part of our permanent collection!