Cherry Valley presents night of art
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Buffalo made from torn paper, kids’ interpretations of Salvadore Dali’s paintings, cheery snowmen and brightly colored tape art were just some of the art lining the walls and displayed on cubes and triangles in Cherry Valley School.
Each month each teacher chooses an artist for the class to study, be it Van Gogh, Monet or Frida Kahlo, according to Elaine Meeks, Cherry Valley principal. Artist prints hang in the classroom, and children learn art vocabulary, techniques and emulate the artist.
And each month, the entire school chooses a different media, such as line drawing, clay or collage.
As a culmination of a year’s worth of art, Cherry Valley hosts an annual night of the arts, held April 26 this year.
The Lady Bug Gallery in the school cafeteria boasted one piece of art from each Cherry Valley student, but the art didn’t stop there.
Families could wander the halls and view art by each classroom. In construction zones around the school, families could construct buildings, trees, people, vehicles or animals for Cherrytown USA, a tiny empty town with painted roads, a pond and homesites. Meeks said creativity abounded.
While the construction was great fun, it also fit right into the kindergarten and first-grade standards and benchmarks for social studies, Meeks said.
“Art night exceeded our expectations,” Meeks said, noting that hundreds of people viewed the art.
