Artistic Collaboration Across Schools

 Here's a guest post from Abbie Bowker, visual arts teacher at CVU. 

Abbie Bowker's three sections of Ceramics recently completed a collaborative art project with Lorien Leyden's Hinesburg Community School first graders. The first graders were asked by their art teacher, Lorien Leyden, to make up a "creature" including a drawing of that creature and some other attributes (where they live, what they eat, what they like, etc.). 

The young students sent these along to the CVU students as a type of "call to action" as they needed to then turn around and make something inspired by those artworks. Ms. Bowker's CVU students chose to make a wide variety of things out of clay for their first graders as a "response" to the "call to action" - the creature itself, or the house it lives in, boots to keep their feet dry, food to eat, etc. 

CVU students visited HCS on Friday 4/29 to deliver the artwork. Apparently the first graders started screaming with excitement when they saw the bus! As you can imagine, the exchange was adorable with smiles all around! We hope the project will be featured in an upcoming CVU show, including footage of the delivery. Here are a couple of photos to whet the appetite.