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Art Abounds at Our Montessori School
Montessori students bring color to a grey winter with colorful art inspired by imagination, masters and ethnic culture.
Art Abounds At Our Montessori
Yorktown Heights, NY – February 3, 2017
Winter may be defined by monochromatic shades of grey on a dreary, cold day but Our Montessori School students bring in the colors and warmth through their art. From the nursery/kindergarten classroom through the upper grades, children explore various forms of creative expression utilizing paint, pastels, watercolor and cardboard.
Nursery/Kindergarten students draw on their own imagination to create their paintings.
Juniors focused on learning the elements of art --line, shape, color, value, texture, space or a technique/skill---how to use materials, how to go about using a concept or approaching a way of drawing in a particular kind of way such as in self-portraits.
Seniors are inspired by works such as that of Brazilian pop artist Romero Britto, French Impressionist Claude Monet, Aboriginal painter Emily Kngwarreye and African masks, mud cloths and Adinkra symbols. Children not only create their own works of art, they also learn the background of artists and the history behind the art form.
Our Montessori School in Yorktown and Carmel is a private school serving children ages 18 months through sixth grade now with middle school to come. Students from over 29 different towns and villages in Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties, as well as several nearby Connecticut towns, attend the school.
Photos and text by Farah Biggs for Our Montessori School
For inquiries or to schedule a classroom visit, please contact Ms. Elizabeth Silverman at Oms9@verizon.net
Our Montessori School
P.O. Box 72
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
914-962- 9466
