Our 2015 Snow Plow Club was a fabulous hit. We had the maximum student artists with oodles of talent and ambition. They were so efficient and enthusiastic that we got our snow plow done in record time this year-3 meetings!!
2015 Winter Art Club-Federal Jr. Duck Stamp Contest
We begin our 2015 Winter Art Club Monday Feb. 2 in the art room 2:30-3:30. We will have a
guest speaker-Seth Beres- at our first meeting. He is the regional coordinator for this contest and will share with us all the interesting facts about the contest. If you are interested in being a part of this club, be sure to pick up your application form from outside Mrs. Murphy's classroom soon. They have to be turned in by Wed. Jan. 28!
We begin our 2015 Winter Art Club Monday Feb. 2 in the art room 2:30-3:30. We will have a
guest speaker-Seth Beres- at our first meeting. He is the regional coordinator for this contest and will share with us all the interesting facts about the contest. If you are interested in being a part of this club, be sure to pick up your application form from outside Mrs. Murphy's classroom soon. They have to be turned in by Wed. Jan. 28!
Louisville elementary offers two after-school art clubs each year. The Fall art club is a community based one in which the City of Louisville brings around snow plow blades for the young artists of each Louisville school to paint. There is an annual theme presented and the students come up with the original art. As soon as the snow flies they are on the roads of Louisville as mobile works of art...for as long as paintings can last on snow plow blades before they are worn off. Every year a different school has it's blade entered into the annual Louisville Parade of Lights in December. This year we had 2 snow plow blades as we had 25 artists. This year's theme was The Winter Olympics.
Our wonderful painters in this year's Snow Plow Club are hard at work, and after only one day of working on the plow blade they are more than 1/2 way done already! We thought you'd like to see the progress so far. We chose to continue the "50th Anniversary" theme for this year. We hope to have this done and post a picture of our finished blade very soon!
And here are our wonderful artists! Didn't they do a beautiful job. They were a very creative and cooperative team.
Our Spring Art Club was a contest. Every year the National Wildlife Federation holds the Jr. National Duck Stamp contest where children K-12 are invited to be a part of a contest where they are to choose a duck to draw or paint. The winner's art will be used as that year's design for the duck stamps that hunters are required to purchase to be able to hunt. The money from the stamps goes to the rehabilitation of the wetland habitats of these ducks around the country.