LCAP had a guest artist/certified art teacher conducting three sessions which included all children from the school – grades, k-3rd.  Although these sessions emphasized art production these sessions also included art aesthetics (art of different cultures) art criticism (looking closely at works of art) and art history (learning about important artists.)  All children in the school participated using a wide variety of contemporary media and methods.

  Giant Comes to Town

Examples of lessons taught in this school’s “All Day Art Day” sessions  included:

Ojibwe Sandpainting

Full Size Self Portrait: Draw and Collage

Mountain Name Design Sketchbook

 Cat on a Rug: Drawing and Pattern Metallic Marker

Hundertwasser: Colorful Collage Mural- Part One/Painting and   Part Two/ Cut and Collage

Mexican Bark Painting: Spring Birds: Oil Pastels

Basquit: Expressive Printmaking Collaborative Mural

Wells Township School  is located 80 miles southwest from Marquette, MI  in Arnold, Michigan, an extremely isolated part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The one school in this district offers classes for elementary students  who have little access to the arts due to the isolation of the area.   Due to budget cuts in this economically challenged area this school has no elementary art program.  These art enrichment classes are vital to the youth of this area allowing them exposure to a creative arts experience taught by art teachers/ working artists.  This program was made possible by private donations and the MCACA/NEA.