Oppenheimer Grant Funds Tea Party

Former teacher and current arts & education patron, Ted Oppenheimer and Foundation, generously granted our art department the funding to study and celebrate the history and art of tea and the teapot. We constructed panels for a mosaic mural, while each student created a teapot and cups from which we sampled teas from around the world. Students performed live music, baroque to contemporary, while we ate food from hand-made serving dishes and sipped teas. Thank you to the Oppenheimers for their amazing generosity and support to make school a creative and fun place.

Wood-Firing 2009

On the day our portfolios were finished, we went on a celebration fieldtrip to Galena to do a wood firing and a salt firing. We had SOOOOOOOO much fun camping for the weekend and stoking the kiln all night. Students made incredible food....Yum. Thanks for the tamales Aurora & family...We had great chaperones, too. Thanks to Mr. Couty, Mr. O'Carroll, Ms. Melendez, and Ms. Arter. They not only supervised so we could take the trip, but they brought art activities, stories, and camping expertise.
Jay Strommen led the workshop and he was a wealth of information and insights about art, ceramics, and firing. We plan to go there every year!!! The kiln will be cooled this weekend; we can't wait to see the work.
Click here to see pictures from the weekend.