Addison Independent, Monday, May 16, 2016 — PAGE 13
Festival of Berthe Morisot, Henri Matisse, (Continued from Page 1) the doors are thrown wide open for Claude Monet and others. parents and others to come see the Also in the gym, Robinson Elart, hear the bands and choruses, and ementary School’s display includes attend guest-artist performances. mixed-media masks with names Anchoring the annual Arts Festival like “Snowbird Can Make Snow” is the K-12 all-ANeSU art display in and “Day and Night Eagle,” a series the Mount Abe gym, which runs the of startling and elegant black-andgamut from kindergartners’ first daubs white prints of flying pigs, lizards, of tempera paint to a special section owls and narwhales, and a huge where each student in the Advanced “Bob the Chicken” assembled from Placement Studio Art class are given mixed media. a solo panel on which to mount the Colorful jellyfish hang in the Brisbest of the year’s work, tol Elementary School complete with an artist’s “Creative area, next to clay sea statement. creatures in jewel-tone people and “The gym is transcolors. Rows of artwork creative formed from a sweaty, include everything from squeaky, echoing gym- thinkers public service posters nasium to a gallery — it contribute to that declare “Firemen even feels quiet, there’s Are Your Friends” to a our culture, our a stillness and, even as wall of Egyptian masks. BRISTOL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL students tour the Mount Abraham Union High School gym, which was economy and students are going in, A collection of Abenaki there’s a kind of a rev- our enjoyment name shields flutter from turned into an art gallery last week for the Addison Northeast Supervisory Union Fine Arts Festival. The gym was filled with ANeSU student art for the three-day event. erence,” said Chesley- of life.” the lobby ceiling with Independent photo/Trent Campbell Park. — art teacher images and names like collaged from painted paper and of teaching in what these students tial race. Thursday’s performances Strolling through the Bruce Babbitt “Flashing Peregrine Falhave created. And today when art included the rap group A2VT from gym, the variety of projcon,” “Dancing Girl,” overdrawn with pastels. The MAUHS display has every- teachers are often scrambling to Winooski, which brings together ects, arts media used, and “Hunting Bobcat.” styles and subject matter scattered In the Beeman Elementary School thing from “Warthog Jeans” logos work at several schools just to have young men who immigrated to Veraround the room is truly astounding. area, an assorted flock of Vermont from a graphic arts class to felted a full-time position, it is a real mo- mont from Africa. As they dance, In the Lincoln Community School birds hang from a birch limb. There animals to ceramic fountains where ment of celebration and a reminder rap and sing — in a mix of English, Swahili, Somali and other African corner, for example, larger-than- are Mexican Day-of-the-Dead prints, the water spurts out of a crocodile’s of the power of art.” languages — the young men tell life-size colorful self-portraits hang cheerful and quirky sewn-felt mon- mouth to an intricately inlaid wood- PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS In bringing in professional art- what it was like to leave their home above the bleachers, while nearby sters, painted silk hangings, and col- en table from a woodshop class giant papier-mâché bees hover above lages that juxtapose two fighting bull to metal-worked scorpions, bees, ists to perform, lead workshops countries and make a new home in and demonstrate how they work, the United States. a giant beehive. “I think bees are moose and a warthog or that show an wasps, cockroaches and butterflies. While Allred and Chesley-Park the festival works to achieve a balA performance and workshops by nice because they make honey but owl whose feathers blend seamlessly I think they are kind of mean how into the rough, variegated bark of a said the festival is an opportunity to ance of styles and subject matter master taiko drummer Stuart Paton showcase the incredible students, it from different art forms that will were a particularly big hit (see story they sting people,” says one of the tree. students’ statements “flying” alongMonkton Central School’s display also showcases the hard work of the reach youngsters of different ages on this page). and interests. For example, Bread Artists demonstrating their workside the bees. And in a corner, photos boasts rows of funny gnomes with schools’ art teachers. “You see the teacher behind these and Puppet Theater of Glover on ing methods included both Bridport of students dressed as famous Im- peaked red hats, wide-mouthed cepressionist artists are posted beside ramic monsters and rows and rows students as you look at the work,” Wednesday performed an avant- painter Dustin Dattilio and Bristol (See Artists, Page 14) the students’ paintings in the style of the world’s happiest snowmen Chesley-Park said. “You see the art garde piece on the 2016 presiden-
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