What’s Right With Our Schools: Stove Works Art
CHATTANOOGA, TN (WDEF) – Hamilton County students took part in immersive art program at Stove Works. The results are nothing short of inspiring. Let’s take a closer look in tonight’s “What’s Right With Our Schools.”
“What you’re saying is an exhibit for a pilot program called Artworks. And it’s a collaboration with county schools right now and Stove Works. We have two ambassadors from several schools within the county. We’re hoping to spread to all the high school.
So this is the first year we’re doing it and what we’ve hope to do with this is we modeled it on an old program that the Hunter museum used to run called Art Scene. And many people out there watching this we’re probably a part of it at one time. And it was a really strong program that fostered the arts with the youth, and we want to bring that back. Give students a leg up and give them some guidance and mentorship and visual art,” Eric Keller, Exhibit Director, said.
He continues, “This is a show that we chose… they chose, the students chose a theme and it’s an outer space theme. And everyone that’s involved has a piece in the gallery.”
“I wasn’t sure what to do at first, but I knew I wanted to do like a galaxy and I want to use blues and purples so I used oil paint which… was, pretty annoying, but I got it done,” Kaylee Stanley, Lookout Valley Middle/High School student, said.
“You would take a picture of something and it’s kinda out of this world. That’s kinda what I want to imagine with this. A magical feeling. Pretty much looking into a lens of your camera,” Alex Swafford, Lookout Valley Middle/High School student, said.
Sara Yoshida, Lookout Valley Middle/High School student, said, “I was inspired by childhood imagination and creativity, sparks innovation later in life. And like the leaf here kinda flows upwards into the rocket, which kind of represents that how it create something greater than it started.”
“The six this year with having to select two students to participate in the Stove Works opportunity is definitely one of the prouder moments I’ve had in like six years of teaching. I was hesitant because I knew it would be additional work to put on them, but they really surprise me and they pulled through and I couldn’t be more proud,” Holland Johns, Lookout Valley Middle/High School teacher, said.
Keller says, “So there are 18 students this year that are sorting the program and will come back in the fall fresh and hopefully we will have more students come into the program and what we do is we’ll do workshops. We have talk to them about what it means to be an artist and how to careers in the arts you know how to put together a show how to curate a show how to hang a show and just lots of fun tips on being a visual artist.”
