Cindy Truong, Talented Art student from Loranger High, shows her painting for Global Wildlife at the recent Art Exhibit at the Hammond Regional Arts Center. Cindy is a student of Kitty Faulkenberry, Talented Art Teacher.

Jake O'Neil, sixth grader at Loranger Middle School,  displays his clay sculptures at the Talented Art Exhibit at the Hammond Regional Arts Center.  Jake is a student of Talented Art Teacher Kitty Faulkenberry.

Woodland Park Elementary Magnet students are winners at Tickfaw State Park's Annual Art Contest. Pictured from left to right are Kendrick Harvey (1st place), Siobhan Lee (2nd place), and Marlene Martinez (3rd place). These Kindergarten students are under the direction of Visual Arts teacher, Jennifer Disher. Their artwork was all Louisiana based themes, ranging from drawings of the state capitol building to alligator inspired landscapes. The students' artwork will be on display all year at Tickfaw State Park's Nature Center in Springfield, La.

Sharon Sledge's Talented Art Students learned about Eric Carle, the author and illustrator of many children's books, but especially, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Students learned about Eric's process of creating his own paper by painting watercolor or acrylic on tissue paper and then creating a collage of an animal with selected parts of the hand painted paper.  Each student in Junior High and High School selected from colorful animals like tree frogs, geckos, butterflies, or flamingos.  Elementary school students created roosters from their hand painted tissue paper.

The students learned about  the properties of warm and cool colors, created 1/2 of their paper using warm colors and 1/2 using cool colors, trying to create texture with brushes, sponges and other objects. The neutral paper, used for the rooster's body, was created by combining warm and cool paint. They learned  that warm and cool colors, when combined,  create a "neurtal" tone.

 

Pictured are Hammond High School Senior, Taylor Peters and her "buddy" Makayla Jenkins in Ms. Sedley Brown's kindergarten at Hammond Eastside Elementary.

Kitty Faulkenberry's high school Talented Art students painted portraits of children. The framed paintings were gifted to the children during the closing reception of the  exhibit at the Hammond Regional Arts Center. A grant of $2,400 from the Brown Foundation funded the special "Service Learning" project.

Loranger High and Ponchatoula High school students also particpated in the project as well as Ms. Stacy Hall's 1st graders at Tucker Elementary. There were 45 portraits on display.