Lace School Art teacher, Sally Misiora is known for her talent as an artist and her dedication as an educator in the classroom. She inspires students to create artwork through multiple points of interest. Currently, her third grade students are working on Aboriginal painting designs. To fully convey the cultural abstract, Misiora provides background knowledge of the history, art, and music of these tribal peoples. This knowledge provides students the indexing tools needed to further create and tell stories through their very own aboriginal works.
Here is more information on this particular project:
The Aboriginal tribes of Australia created these paintings as a means to tell ancient sacred tales. The first were scratched into the sand and wiped away after the ceremony to not reveal sacred secrets. As paintings were later put on canvas, these sacred elements were eliminated or hidden by dots. The symbols represent the sacred elements of the stories while the dots were a means to hide the secrets from those outside the tribe. Today, these paintings are in museums and depicted on all types of clothing and pottery for people to own. The third graders have taken original symbols to create their own story in oil pastel. Then they surround the symbols in dots with tempera paint to create these beautiful Aboriginal style art works.
All student artwork is showcased throughout the hallways of Lace School and is updated several times a year by Misiora as students progress through art genres.
An annual Art Festival in early May is the culminating activity for Lace students. Each student in the entire school will have works of art on display for parents, families, and friends to view.
