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Art Show brings color and life to CCPS

May 23, 2023
in Education, Local Stories
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The pre-K students made creative colorful butterflies with their hands.
The middle school had pictures lined up on both walls of the many artistic drawings the students had done during the year.

Pam Dudding

Contributing writer

All Photos by Pam Dudding 

 

Regardless of which door visitors entered at McCleary Elementary School or Craig County Middle School and Craig County High School, color, beauty and talent lined the walls and rooms everywhere. 

 

Ladened down two walls were the ceiling tiles that students had drawn their paintings on over the years, which had to be taken down due to fire codes. The artistic talent is evident at Craig County High School.

McCleary and the middle school welcomed everyone with a free cupcake which were all decorated in different colors like the paint buckets and paint splotches on their tablecloth. It seemed everyone wanted one to start their art tour. 

 

Also, the kids got to put their name in for drawings to win art supplies like, Cracklin’ Clay kit, 3D string art, marbling paint kit, rock painting, glow rocks, IlluStory, colored Crayolas and more. 

 

From pre-K to fifth grade, the students’ art pictures decorated every wall, top to bottom. 

 

Pictured is one of the ceiling tiles from the students at Craig County High School.

The children seemed so excited to show their families and friends their art, as they pointed with grins as wide as the Mississippi. 

 

From creative handprint butterflies designed by the pre-K students, to leaves, donuts, snowmen, pumpkins, water lilies, lighthouses, cactus and people’s faces, the elementary students shown through on their artistic talent. 

 

The middle school added to these subjects, some abstract art and shadow painting. 

 

The high school went first class with their snacks, as they had their culinary class cook appetizers. Some were chicken Caesar crostini, peanut butter sandwich cookies, walnut pecan pie bars, garlic caprese crostini melts, garlic cream cheese rangoons and crab rangoons, just to name a few. 

 

Kindergarten through fourth grade students drew pictures of a variety of subjects which were displayed on the walls outside of their classrooms.

People were lined up trying to choose what to taste, coming back for more as the students were happy to tell them how they made them and what was in them. 

 

The high school had artwork everywhere, as they also had multiple ceiling tiles previous students had painted that were no longer allowed to be displayed in the ceilings. 

 

There were artistic photographs, pictures done in a variety of paints, pens, pencils and clay artwork as well as wooden pieces of art and much more. 

 

There was a music concert in the auditorium as music teacher Alyssa Schulke had her different music classes perform. 

 

The high school students’ art is displayed in an art room, including paintings, photographs, clay molding, wooden art and much more.
The music department added a concert to the evening as each of Alyssa Schulke’s students played a series of songs. “They worked hard and did an incredible job!” Schulke said.

“I am so incredibly proud of my students and their performances this evening!” Schulke shared. “They may be small in number, but they worked hard and did an incredible job. I am so blessed to work with such great kids!” 

 

In the cafeteria, there was a free hot dog dinner awaiting everyone with a cookie dessert. 

 

Still, the emphasis was on the artwork of each child in all of the schools. 

 

The high school culinary arts class made desserts to serve at the Annual Art Show. The class shared that their favorite was the crab ragoons. Pictured are front row are Austin Hickson and Skyler Rodrigues, second row – Ashlyn Keen and Maggie Mays, third row – Dan Cox, Rebecca Cox, Madelyn Hash and Mickey Ramirez.

Families cheered their children and others as well as each child would glean as their photograph was taken with their pieces of art. 

 

Art teacher Sierra Frazier shared that she loves her job at Craig County Public Schools as it doesn’t seem like a job to her. “It was a wonderful turnout! I would just like to thank everyone who came out to support our art, music and CTE programs,” she said. 

 

She leads by example at CCPS for her students to be creative in their own way. She teaches them many avenues of art and the Annual Art Show displayed how much talent is hidden within the students there. 

 

At the end of the show, drawings were called out for the door prizes and the kids that won were elated. 

 

Although it takes a lot of effort to put on a function such as this, the outcome, the joy and the encouragement that it gives each child seems worth it, multiple times over. 

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