"TEMPLE HILL CHIHULY CHANDELIER" ARTS INCLUSION ART AWARD MARCH 4,5,6, 2025

TEMPLE HILL ELEMENTARY CREATED A CHIHULY CHANDELIER DURING AN ARTS INCLUSION ART AWARD IN MARCH. Kim Soule, Artist led the students through a study of the artist, Dale Chihuly and the beautiful glass that he creates. Then the students recreated the look of glass by coloring clear water bottles with permenant sharpies and cutting the bottles in a spiral cut so that the artist and STEAM Teacher, Kay Drury could attach to a Chicken wire sculpture to create a chandelier.

"ART GIVES YOU WINGS" ARTS INCLUSION - SPECIAL INITIATIVES ART AWARD AT SIMPSON ELEMENTARY FEBRUARY 24,25,26,27 2025

"ART GIVES YOU WINGS" IS AN ARTS INCLUSION - SPECIAL INITIATIVE ART AWARD AT SIMPSON ELEMENTARY THAT TOOK PLACE ON FEBRUARY 24,25,26,27, 2025. Each student in a school of 730 created a feather by tracing a template, cutting out the feather and using black sharpie to add lines and designs then watercolor to paint the feather. Each feather was then added to the wings to create a beautiful interactive mural!

KENTUCKY EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S CONFERENCE - "KENTUCKY BARN QUILTS" WITH CO PRESENTER DALA SPARKS

Kim Soule, Artist and Dala Sparks, Speech and Language Pathologist with JCPS Louisville presented at the Kentucky Exceptional Childrens conference Nov. 25, 2024. They presented the Arts Inclusion Art Award project that they had both taught during the fall at Shacklette Elementary. All teacher participants were able to create their own example of a 2x2 barn quilt on styrofoam to take back to their own classroom! Dala shared many examples of inclusion and adaptation that was used during the project.

SELF PORTRAITS AND MIXED MEDIA! HART COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL November 19,20,21, 2024

Hart County High School students participated in an ARTS FOR ALL KENTUCKY ARTS INCLUSION ART AWARD "SELF PORTRAITS AND MIXED MEDIA" It was fun to see the artists grow and learn as they created! On Day 1 the visiting artist, Kim Soule shared slides about creating a self portrait and explained that the background would be painting, collage and assemblage....so LOTS of choices! The students were very receptive to the idea of so much choice! The process as well as the finished products were amazing!

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