Young At Art, Mystic Arts Center

Today I received an email from another homeschooling mom who I can always count on to be in-the-know of all the local educational and enrichment happenings. Her email informed us of an upcoming exhibit, Young At Art, held by the Mystic Arts Center. They were currently seeking art by students in the elementary through high school grades, to be featured in the museum from March 6 through April 3, 2010.

Young At Art 2010: The mission of the Young At Art exhibition is to showcase the creativity of children by giving them the opportunity to hang their works in a professional gallery setting and view the work of their contemporaries. Our goal is to broaden students’ perspectives on the creative process and inform the community about how teachers use art to advance learning. The YAA Exhibition supports the Mystic Arts Center’s commitment to education and to the enrichment of children’s lives. Young At Art is open to all young people 18 and under who reside or attend school in New London County or Westerly, Rhode Island.

With that, Rilla and Max went to work on their pieces. We did 2 special crafts to submit for the exhibition. The first was a creative pizza craft made of corrugated cardboard (for crust), red paint and glue mix (for sauce), with toppings of yellow yarn (cheese), chopped green felt (peppers), red glossy circles (pepperoni), crumpled construction paper (meatballs), colored punchouts (spices). The next craft was a construction paper mosaic using black paper and punchouts in various shades of red, blue, green, yellow, and gray. Rilla was inspired to make a pony with sky and mountain background, on grass with a sun and rock.