Susquehannock Art Club began their new year with a collaboration to unite some of the elementary student art classes and high school participants.

  The project had been decided some time before the club started, and the first meeting had been cancelled due to the winter storm. However, students in the club are excited for this unique new project and are eager to get started.

They believe it’s a good idea to do a project with the fifth and sixth graders since they are now beginning an art club of their own. With this project they hope to build young students’ motivation for art to enable them to envision what they can create years from now.

  Myers also said,“[High schoolers] will be able to learn skills in assisting. They always look to me, and it will give them a chance to turn around and teach…what they are good at.”

Photo by: Wesley Myers

  There are already some forms of art in the elementary school to inspire students to get more involved.Projects made by students in art class are also hung around the school to make it more environmentally friendly to them and to make it creative and bright for the students.

  The club is held every Thursday right after school; it’s purpose is to get students more involved with art as well as the school.

  Black and white and color murals around the school were a product of one of the club’s projects from last year, and one of the organizers for the art club, Wesley Myers, said it was to give the school a ‘splash of color, and to make it less institutional.’

  Many students at Susquehannock felt the school would better with more color and art to get more students involved and motivated.

Other projects students have made this year or the previous ones in art club are theirs to keep or possibly place in the upcoming art fair.