“Young at Art” Features Roncalli Student Talent
(April 15 - May 20, 2010)

The Dacotah Prairie Museum filled the Lamont Gallery and the adjoining space with over 200 works of art. The artwork was courtesy of the talented students in the Roncalli school system, grades 1 through 12. The exhibit, called “Young At Art”, was open for viewing until May 20, 2010, on the 2nd floor of the Museum.

The artwork represented the total classes 1st – 6th, and the junior high and high school art classes of grades 7th – 12th. Each student had one piece of original art to show but the variety was almost endless. 1st graders experimented with shape designs and made colored drawings of lions in their various environments. 2nd grade artists focused on action drawings of horses and watercolor resists of unique snowflakes in a rainbow of colors. The 3rd graders constructed paper bag masks to show their emotion, soft sculpture of materials, they distorted photographs into designs, decorated gingerbread houses, drew a room and furniture in perspective and created puppets from socks.

4th graders enjoyed forming landscapes out of tissue paper, making southwest pottery and decorating it with Hopi designs, drawing buildings in perspective, creating colorful birds in sand, and figure drawing. The 5th graders began their art year with batik cards, did yarn collages, they expanded shapes by cutting them apart and re-assembling them, they transformed a twig drawing into a huge tree with their imaginations and printed stationery and envelopes with rubber bands.

The 6th graders began their art year with vivid leaf prints, they learn to watercolor landscapes, draw with dip pens and bottles of ink, use graph paper to create colored designs, and painted in acrylic and made plaster casts. The 7th graders focused their talents on watercolor paintings, they used acrylic paint, pastel, yarn and glue to make collages, and experimented with colored scratchboard drawing. The 8th graders designed ceramic dinner-wear with unique themes, used clay to design vehicles, and illustrated “random sentences” composed by chance by their class.

High school art students worked on life-sized pencil portraits of each other, drew environments in perspective, sculpted portraits in clay and used unusual materials and imagination to create their own interpretation of the 7 Sacraments of the Church.

The imagination, talent, and problem solving abilities of these students is tremendous.

For information on past exhibits in the Lamont Gallery, please click here