CELEBRATING CULTURES! PUPPETS, WATERCOLOR FLOWERS, SOCCERBALLS AND MURALS APRIL 17,18,21,24, 2025

MARVELOUS MIXED MEDIA! BOWLING GREEN JUNIOR HIGH APRIL 14-16, 2025

FISHY, FISHY, PAINTINGS AND MURALS! JENNINGS CREEK ELEMENTARY MARCH 14,15, 16, 2025

FISHY FISHY, PAINTINGS AND MURALS! Jennings Creek Art students had 2 sessions each of Fishy, Fishy. During the first session we drew fish on a long rectangular piece of paper and then traced the pencil lines with a black sharpie. The 2nd session with each group of students was to watercolor their fish projects and have a turn to paint the murals. The murals have pre painted black lines and are representations of the students work.

SIDE BY SIDE - INCLUSION STYLE! PAINTING A SELF PORTRAIT WITH MIXED MEDIA MARCH 21, 2025

Jennifer Sims and I presented a workshop at the National Art Education Association National Convention in Louisville, KY. The participants were given a copy of the students artwork. The student art was created during an arts inclusion art award. The students selected to participate were all students with special needs. The participants all worked through the 3 processes the same as the students had done during the school project. The teachers who participated then donated the pieces back to be given to the students. Their work will become a part of a side by side virtual exhibition. Teachers who participated said that they loved the project and would be implementing similar type programs at their school.

"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.