Serving Boone, Blowing Rock, Banner Elk, and other towns of the North Carolina High Country
Founded 05-05-05
May 1, 2008 issue
Avery YO! Crossnore Program Hosts Student Art Show
Art, music and food came together on April 16 at Crossnore Elementary School’s Youth Opportunities Site for the first annual CES YO! Art Show and Celebration.
The Art Club, which has been an integral part of the Crossnore YO! Program each Wednesday this semester, was led by ASU art education majors Ashley Carswell, Sierra Parker, Sarah Warren and Tiffany Weitzen. The ASU students traveled from Boone with supplies, lesson plans and a desire to infuse a passion for creativity into the elementary school students attending the YO! program.
During the semester, students received individual sketchpads and learned techniques for working with charcoal, working in teams to create larger pictures and working with alternative resources such as magazines and clear plastic sheets. On the last day of Art Club, students traced and drew life-size replicas of themselves. Pictures were individually creative; some students focused on the detail of clothing, others on drawing faces and hands.
To celebrate the culmination of the semester, Site Coordinator Robin Adams organized and helped the YO! students put together their own art show. Students, under Adams’ guidance, helped make some of the hors d’oeuvres the day before and sent invitations to parents and to administrative CES and YO! staff.
Principal Brenda Reese stopped in to show her support, as well as Youth Opportunities Program Directors Debra Buchanan-Hughes from the 4-H Program, Bobbie Willard from the Support Our Students Program, and Jenna Crawley from the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program.
As a special thank you, the CES YO! students made poster board size thank you cards and presented them to each of the four ASU students.
Parents interested in registering their students for the YO! program or in having their student participate in the Art Club Program should call the Cooperative Extension office at 828-733-8270 and ask to speak to someone from the YO! Program. The YO! Program is the result of an ongoing collaboration between WAMY Community Action and the Avery County Cooperative Extension and 4-H.