Virtual Exhibit

Students created artist statements in preparation for our planned exhibit Dec 21, 2009. We had to cancel due to snow so we have rescheduled the exhibit for January 8, 2010 at 4:30. Please join us in person and/or check out the artwork here on our virtual exhibit.
“The Moon and the Sun”
The sun has 12 legs and the moon has a thinking cap on. The people are climbing through the tubes and there’s a window on the top of the building. I think it was my block building. Two of the stars have glasses on them and the stars have hair on them. The people climb through so they can get in the house.
Amelia Pollio
* Special Note: You can also see this piece and lots of other wonderful artwork by kids in our community in the Children's Gazette issue of the Mount Vernon Gazette this week.

“Leaf Land”
The king and the queen and the princess are on their leaf castle. They are looking out for people that are in trouble. There’s a bridge and the bridge is the leaf so if the king and queen want to go see the princess they go across the bridge. The princess is wearing a necklace.
Amelia Pollio

“Car Town”
I want everyone to know that these are green cars and I want everyone to know that this orange and yellow and green is a roller skate that fell over. I want everyone to know tall this other stuff is just colors, just a piece of artwork.
Daniel Matheis


I want everyone to know that’s a colorful tree with leaves falling. I want everyone to know I like the sparkly colors. I want everyone to know that this is a sparkly tree, that’s a sparkly tree and that’s a sparkly tree. That’s a bush and all the rest are leaves falling in to a pile.
Daniel Matheis

This is a house with windows and this is a little person. We made prints. I want people to notice the house.
Sara Claire Chiaramonte

This is the fire truck’s sirens and this is the ambulance. The fire truck is in the garage. This is all the men and that’s the window and a letter for my name. Red ambulance those are the sirens, the wheels, and men stepping into the truck.
Jack Bacon

The black spots are stars and there is a wolf and a staircase up there. I want people to notice the house face, red eyes, yellow nose, green ears and the stairs. The little girl walks up the stairs and sees the wolf there.
Sara Claire Chiaramonte

“Patrick”
That’s a man and that’s all of the fire truck and that’s the number 84 fire truck.
Jack Bacon

This is called the solar system. It has most of the planets. Dolly discovered a new planet – Planet Dolly – it’s the purple and pink one that has Dolly on it, the person who discovered it.
Dolly Lebow

"Stripes"
Olive Regan

I copied off the shirt I was wearing that day. I mixed the colors. The background is random. I tried to use colors that I liked. I want you to notice that I used paintbrush splats in the background.
Emma Forsythe

Earth is here. Present for the Earth a big shield to protect it, things bounce off it (like rocks). Green balls protect the shield.
Emma Marsh

It’s called “The Milky Way.” It kind of looks like a kitchen and milk spilled.
Emma Marsh

In the corner (right side) is a big building. These circles that have colors in them that is a big leaf pile. The stuff in the middle, those are the small houses. I rubbed the sky with the side of the pastel over the paint. It’s like the sky is coming over the rectangles. Lots of leaf piles for everyone in the whole world, even my friends and even my family.
Natalie Goel

The scribbles are birds. The girl is me. This is a tree. And I made my name with dots. We had this (foam) and you can write something and then this (foam) makes this (print). See this pile of leaves is this part and this circle is the sun.
Natalie Goel

This is a person in the night.
Kevin Coneway

“Color”
Kevin Coneway

I chose this because Jack helped me draw it.
Olive Regan

Every single step was repeating and I used two different colors, green and blue.
Liz Goodes

Half was hanging off the page and I was surprised by how it turned out and each had a different kind of texture.
Liz Goodes

“The Dancing Paint”
I drew with pen on foam and it turned out really good because I added more and more designs.
Andrea Goodes

I had some ideas for class because we had collected leaves. I put blue and then gold over the blue so it turned out really sparkly and cool.
Andrea Goodes

I made these collages in a certain order. They are colorful. I want people to notice I used different textures of paper. My favorite paper is text-like. I used a lot of tissue paper.
Olivia Johanson

I made this fountain using different sizes of pinch pots. It took me 3 weeks to finish it.
Olivia Johanson

I collaged and then did watercolor over it. I painted it so it looked like “Hi.” I put pieces that fit there.
Emma Forsythe

The lady bug and the butterfly stayed up until midnight (dark blue indicates the night sky). It was Christmas Eve. “Why were they waiting outside?” They were looking for Santa Clause.
Emma Marsh

This (paper with colors labeled) is just to tell which color is which. The background is pink, part of 3 leaves are yellow. The maple is pink too and the oak is pink and purple. The brown is the pine needle. The brown leaf is bent. The is is called “the oaks” because these are the oak leaves. These 3 are blue.
Rosie Stribling

“The Famous Bathtub”
It’s called “The Famous Bathtub” because most bathtubs are white but this one has red stripes around it.
Rosie Stribling

I want people to notice that there’s white paint as a background and that this pink bowl has rice in it.
Pearl Azer

I want people to notice that tere are sparkles on the page and that these are real leaves, they just look like drawings. The leaf on the left is called “Big Leaf.” This is a maple leaf. Two are hot pink. I like how it sparkles.
Pearl Azer

“The T-Rex”
I want people to know that this (the popping up yellow part) is an animal with a blanket on its back. I want people to know that this collage is sort of in the shape of a T-Rex opening its mouth. I want people to know that this loop is sort of like a rolling rock. I made pieces of paper and put glue on the bottom of it. I didn’t think it would stay but it did.
Katie Cunningham

“Dancer”
I want people to know that I used pink paint all around because I want it to look like a real ballerina. I made it with clay but the hardest part was the skirt popping up.
Katie Cunningham

“Purple Leaves” I did it all purple because I want it to be camouflaged.
Evelyn Connor

There’s a fairy in front of the house. This has a hole in the trunk of the tree that squirrels live in. The little lines are grass.
Evelyn Connor

“The Secret Hideout”
It has a lot of tunnels. When a stranger comes in they slide thru the tunnel and every tunnel leads to the middle but sometimes it looks like it won’t go. The little tiny ones have secret doors. A spy at the very top rings a bell when a stranger comes in. But watch out for bumps; you can easily get hurt.
Mary Claire O’Brien

“Nativity Scene”
It doesn’t have all the things. It just has Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus. The star is the thing on the popsicle stick. Mary’s hands are on the manger. She’s trying to rock him because he’s crying.
Mary Claire O’Brien

“The Whale and its Baby”
This is a whale. It is going to eat fish. I worked really hard on it. It’s my name kind of in cursive. I looked at it on the light table. My name didn’t turn out like I wanted and the whale is about to have a baby. And it’s about to get some school of fish to eat.
Elizabeth Augenblick Smith

“Leaf Collection That’s Blue”
It can go anyway. The way I made it 3 are upside down and one is right side up and the other way one is upside down and 3 are right side up. First we did it with pencil, then sharpie and then we painted it.
Elizabeth Augenblick Smith

“Wolf Den”
It took a long time, about 3 weeks to make. The bottom is thin and easy to break. I put sealing glue on it and then painted it. If a piece breaks off you can write with it. It was really fun to make and not all of it is done. It’s not done (not painted) on the inside. I made a wolf.
Bella Augenblick Smith

“Leaf Painting”
It took a long time to make. The biggest, the green and purple are the same leaf. First I went over it with pencil and then marker. Then I painted and the marker pops out.
Bella Augenblick Smith

“Flying Robot”
I put paint on one side and then I folded it in half.
Ryan Coneway

“Squirming Blot”
If you turn it upside down it looks the same.
Ryan Coneway

This is a tree with a flower at the bottom. This is a boat by it. I like the tree.
Cade Olson

This is a tree and this (right side) is a lake and there’s a cloud above it. The acorns are rain.
Cade Olson

“Tree”
There are real acorns. There are different textures. It’s a tree just in case you don’t know and there’s a silver leaf. I couldn’t find enough brown so I used gray for the trunk. We went outside to collect the acorns.
Grace Frerichs

“Circus”
I started with circles and I really like the idea of doing mountain lines so I did that with crayon and then I did that with paint. I really like the color green because I tested it on different paper so I did that on the background. I mixed dark green and white. I like how I mixed colors and my favorite colors I used were red, orange, blue, green, yellow and pink.
Grace Frerichs

“A Very Short Story”
Children play on the playground.
The end.
Dolly Lebow

It came from a pile of paper and glue. “The snake” is yellow. It’s creative and I found it. Blue is a log and then big piles of grass – red and green in the jungle.
Dolly Lebow

Annie Lebow

Annie Lebow