I was the lucky one on October 23! My daughter Ella and I spent a busy morning with third graders at an Austin-area elementary school for Art Days. This is Ella at the beginning of the day.
Parents spent weeks organizing and preparing for Art Days, and funded the purchase of most of the supplies, and organized visits by visual artists, musicians, actors, and authors.
My work room was all ready to go with a gallon of school glue and an 8 x 10″ canvas for each student. Ella and I brought buttons, beads, sequin trims, felt, and crocheted bits and pieces. I had lots of…let’s call them crocheted beta-flowers. They were the part of the process of designing flowers for my books. I didn’t want to throw them away, so they sat on my storage shelves for years. It’s a good thing I saved them, because look what those third graders did with the supplies!
This is “Superman with a Zipper.” See the green sequin “S” for Superman?
Ella finally got to decorate her own canvas, after helping two sets of third-graders.
Third graders, hard at work.