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PHOTO BY CHANING GREEN
Since coming back from Christmas break, students at Bramlett Elementary School have been painting and working to get ready for this year’s Brushstrokes for Bramlett. The annual art auction fundraiser raises money to benefit the school’s art program.
Brushstrokes for Bramlett
Elementary school to hold annual art auction and fundraiser tonight BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER
Bramlett Elementary School will be filling the Powerhouse with music, festivities and original artwork tonight as part of their annual fundraiser Brushstrokes for Bramlett. The fundraiser is organized every year by the Bramlett parent teacher organization in order to raise money to benefit the school’s extensive art program and keep it funded through the upcoming school year. Ashley
Windham chairs the fundraiser for the PTO. “It’s a great auction that provides for a great art program for the coming year,” Windham said. “It allows for the children at the school to do some really great artwork with better supplies.” For each of the 28 classes at Bramlett, there will be a corresponding, 20’ by 24’ canvas painting. Each painting is totally different. There are abstracts and landscapes and, due to their popularity at last year’s auction, several animal paintings. Art teacher Brittany Lloyd brings students in to
the art room just a few at a time and tells them where to paint on the canvas. They could be painting a patch in a cotton field, or a foot on an elephant or a pink swirl in a large abstract – it all just depends on the piece. By the time the painting is finished, every single child in that class will have contributed something substantial to the piece in order to produce the finished product. Each child signs their name on the back of TURN TO BRAMLETT, 11
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