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CREC Students Learn About Art by Sharing
(Hartford, CT) Students enrolled in the creativity in the community course at CREC’s Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts High School have been busy sharing their artwork with others.
Under the instruction of Nancy Doherty, students develop an appreciation for the arts within both the school community and the larger Hartford community. During the course, students look at websites for museums around the world and study specific works to learn about design, composition, and color. They also collaborate to learn how images, word, dance, and music can benefit and enhance other art forms.
This year, students participated in the Global Art Project, a program that allowed them to share art with students from India. CREC’s students made collages out of tissue paper to illustrate their personal ideas of peace. The designs were later made into a large prayer flag and sent to student artists in India. In return, the students in India will send a gift to CREC.
Creativity in the community students also painted clay garden pots for this year’s Center for Children’s Advocacy Spring for Kids event and wrote short messages in each. The pots were table centerpieces at the event, which was held this month at Infinity Hall in Hartford, and they were auctioned off at the end of the evening.
As the school year comes to a close, students are working hard to complete another final project. They are painting scenes of Hartford for the dining room at Avery Heights, a local senior living facility. The paintings will be professionally framed and then installed in the dining room. An art opening will be held on June 3 to mark the occasion.
