CRESTVIEW — Creative juices are flowing as students embrace the annual school art show tradition to express themselves.
As Antioch and Riverside Elementary and Crestview High School students prepare for upcoming shows, Northwood Arts and Science Academy's May 3 annual ArtWalk was a feast of such creativity.
Multiple arts will be featured May 12 at Riverside Elementary School, school clerk Beth Bryant said.
“We’re going to have tons of visual arts and we’re working to have more things added,” Bryant said. Music, drama and art from other schools and community organizations will augment the evening, she said.
VISUAL AND CULINARY ART
At Crestview High School’s May 17 art show, held this year at the Crestview Public Library, culinary arts meet visual arts as students under Chef Chuck Tingle dazzle patrons’ taste buds while artworks, including county school art show winners, delight the eye.
Then, two days later, Antioch Elementary School combines visual and performing arts, with students playing the recorder and other instruments while attendees admire at least one piece of art by every one of the 881 Aviators.
In addition to individual student art, each class also will present a class-wide project, third-grade teacher Michelle Simmons said. Plus, works inspired by marine life muralist Robert Wyland line the halls. A silent auction of student works will be in the library.
ARTWALK
Northwood’s May 3 ArtWalk filled the schools’ outdoor walkways with student projects, including portraits of famous Americans from presidents to Michael Jordan, and even the students themselves.
In the music room, the sound of violin, recorder and choral concerts showcased musically inclined students’ gifts. Fifth-graders’ violin performance of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” was an anthem for the evening.
Second-grader Carson Hoffman was particularly proud of a mosaic hanging outside his classroom that was inspired by one of his favorite video games.
“We did pixilated art where we had to draw something in pixels,” he said. “So I drew Minecraft.”
Projects frequently combined art with other academic disciplines. Students depicting Michael Jordan researched the basketball legend and wrote essays to accompany their renderings.
“The Best Part of Me” exhibit outside Erika Holt’s second-grade classroom combined photography and essay, in which students photographed their favorite body part and wrote why they like it best.
Schools have scheduled these art shows:
●May 12, 5-7 p.m., Riverside Elementary School multipurpose room
●May 17, 5-6:30 p.m., Crestview High School at the Crestview Public Library meeting room
●May 19, 5-7 p.m., Antioch Elementary School multipurpose room; silent auction in library
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This article originally appeared on Crestview News Bulletin: Crestview art shows display students’ visual, musical and culinary talents (PHOTOS, VIDEO)