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Show Escalante Artist Gives Program To Students ESCALANTE - Lively and animated Lucy Wall-ingford, Escalante's artist-ln-residence for two weeks, amazed students and teachers alike at Escalante Elementary as she developed a budding creativity In Escalante students In only the short two weeks she spent teaching her specialty art. weeks in Escalante teaching elementary students special art skills under the "Artists-ln-Education" program, an arts resource program for educational settings. Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Utah Arts Council and the participating organization, the program places professional artists of all disciplines in educational settings for residences which vary from two weeks to four-and-one-half months. Educational settings include elemetnary and secondary schools and other institutions, many of which work with . handicapped chidlren. This was Escalante's first opportunity to participate in the program and studens were excited and interested at their introduction to new art skills. During their first week with the talented professional who resides in Moab, the students created a large mural for their classrooms. Students from kindergarten through sixth grade had an opportunity to participate. Students in each grade selected a separate subject for their mural, from famliar farm settings, to jungles, circuses and communities. Their setting was painted onto the large mural as a background for their subjects which were made from uniquely colored and textured scraps of paper, crumpled and squeezed into unusual shapes and dyed with bright colors. Students cut their animals, people, and builings, trees and other shapes from their dyed scraps and glued them onto their murals for a very unusual result. During their second week of art, students worked on mirror image protraits. First they sketched their own portrait on paper with a cardboard backing with artist Wallingford showing them how to outline a portrait. Then they glued a variety of materials into place on their portrait creating a raised, textured surface. Ink was placed on each raised portrait which was then used to print a portrait a mirror image of the original. |