4 CROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS & SCIENCES
AROUND THE SCHOOL
and calm to glorious and stressed. Elsewhere on the Norton Campus, bejeweled cardboard maquettes served as inspiration for the clay sculptures of kindergartners and first graders. Students produced these imaginative works after learning about the art of French-American sculptor, painter and activist Niki de Saint Phalle, one of this year’s “signpost” artists who serve as inspiration for students’ work in all grade levels.
LORENZO CISNEROS, fifth grade
On the bridge that connects the two wings of the Elementary School building, an array of mosaic-like paper mobiles of fanciful creatures hung from the rafters. A winged lion with a dragon’s tail, a one-eyed flying cat, a hamburger-dog and more creations by fourth and fifth graders twirled overhead. Nearby, poster-sized tarot cards by second and third graders decorated the wall. Each pencil-and-watercolor work conveyed an adjective or emotion, from ecstatic
ADRIANO ZAPATA, fifth grade
Elementary Schoolers Express Themselves Through Art