Art Show Features Beautiful Display Of Lower School Student Art

5/2/2018

The Fine Arts building was transformed into an art gallery during the annual “Beyond Brushstrokes” student art exhibition on May 1. The exhibit featured an artwalk with various student art installations while a display of more than 1,800 pieces of art created by Benjamin students in Pre-K through grade 5 graced the halls and classrooms of the Fine Arts building.

Benjamin students, parents, grandparents and friends enjoyed the exhibit featuring everything from paper mache ice cream cones to watercolor pandas and ceramic cats. Lower school fine arts teacher Ro Sammis says this year’s inaugural Art Walk was guided by a group of 4th and 5th graders called “The Helping Hands.”

“At the start of the art walk, our legacy canvases created by Grades 1, 2, 3 and our LS Art Club were unveiled to the public! You will see these large canvases around the campus for many years to come. A series of student-created art quotes sparkled from the sidewalk directing viewers onto the east side of our building. Kindergarten’s bright and colorful cat prints flowed right into the 1st-grade artwork displayed outside. Our classroom windows became our walls. Families meandered their way into our east entrance and were awestruck by the floor to ceiling masterpieces created by PK - 5 student artists as they continued the walk through this amazing student gallery! The two lower school art rooms were transformed into galleries as well,” says Sammis.

Friends, family and teachers enjoyed the exhibit from 3 to 5 p.m.

“Another art show in the books,’ says Sammis. “It certainly seems that we need a few more walls in our halls!”

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