Art Work Decorates The Wall
by Mrs. Halstead
July 06, 2008
In the last weeks of school the students and staff got to
enjoy a very unusual piece of artwork which adorned the wall at the
end of the hallway! Fifth grade students in Mrs. Halstead's
art classes at CR-B learned about Iowan artist Grant Wood this
spring. She challenged them to recreate his famous American Gothic
painting. But rather than having each student create a separate
painting, students were each given a piece to enlarge and then
recombine to make a life-size reproduction of the artwork. Students
used chalk pastels to create this 5 foot by 7 foot American Gothic that was
then assembled in the school's hallway.
