Week 5: Nature Art with Our First Guest Artist

Last week we had a very special visitor, NYC-based artist Meghan Blair Fitzgerald, who lead us in delightfully creating art from nature in our own backyard. Meghan explained that she's recently ventured into new territory: after a year of living and painting in the Big Apple, she feels drawn to create art in parks and on hikes using found natural objects to sculpt and paint.  The kids explored conventional art elements like line drawing, contour, hue, and composition with unconventional materials such as sticks and dirt, rocks and leaves, acorns and cat-tails.

  

The artists transformed our backyard into a sculpture garden, featuring delicate stick sculptures, balanced rock sculptures, "windchimes" hanging from the oak tree, a river of oak leaves and a river of acorns, reed weavings, and a huge line drawing in the dirt. Check out our art gallery!