Students in Mrs. Mirakian’s 8A art class recently created 3-D tree sculptures made from recycled materials. The sculptures have been on display since late October in the first floor hallway outside the Art Room. To begin the recycled art project, the students first went outside to look at trees planted in different locations on the school campus. Mrs. Mirakian had the students create a 2-dimensional drawing of one of the trees they had seen, taking note of the tree’s trunk, branches, leaves, and other structural parts, and the surface area surrounding the tree trunk. The students were then given the task of building a 3-D sculpture based on their drawing and using a variety of recycled materials, such as puzzles pieces, newspaper, bottle caps, old pennies, bubblewrap, and paper towel rolls.
Recycled art is the theme of this year’s K-12th grade art program. To start off the year, several elementary classes will be creating 3-D people sculptures using plastic creamer bottles. High school students in Art I and Art Workshop will be creating mosaic art out of plastic bottle caps.