Let's Celebrate Art

The multi-media piece “Monarchs and Milkweed” comes alive with many different materials to create a 3-D picture of Monarch butterflies flitting above a milkweed patch. The bright black-and-orange fabric butterflies dance above stalks of milkweed wrapped in green pipe cleaners and felt adorned twisted paper leaves, and topped with bright pink spotted fabric blossoms.

Bright paper and tempera paint come together in the collage art picture of “Magic Moth.” Layers of hand-painted and cut paper are combined to create a fantastical moth with delicate antennae. The moth flies on a background of hand-stamped orange paper with a narrow turquoise border.

Take a peek undersea with the 3-D sculpture “The Cool Shark and Friends.” Look through a porthole made of layered blue-painted paper plates into an underwater world made of blue and aqua pom poms. In the background, colorful paper tropical fish and a sea jelly look on as a white clay shark cruises on by.

The fanciful portrait, “Dancing in a Dream” features an abstract background painted in blues, greens, and brown, over which a ballerina dances en pointe wearing an intricate 3-dimensional tutu made of many layers of folded tissue in a rainbow of colors. These colors are matched by decorations in the dancer’s dark hair, creating a beautiful reflection of color.

The adorable hand-sculpted trio of clay pups in “Best Friends” are sure to steal your heart. This charming group consists of 3 dogs--one in brown and black, and two in black and white, lying down with paws out in front, just begging for a game of fetch.

Soak up the sunny world of “Christmas Cactus.” This painting on canvas board features a bright orange-and-yellow background and a sandy brown ground from which grow dark green and black paint and pipe cleaner cacti topped with vivid pink paint-and-dried-flower blossoms.

It’s difficult not to reach out and touch “Iris the Sea Turtle”! This whimsical plush turtle is crocheted in soft pink, turquoise, dark purple, lavender, and yellow chenille yarn. Her big button eyes look up as if to say, “let’s play!”

If you thought Mama bears were fierce, you hadn’t yet seen “A Mother’s Purpose.” In this 3-D diorama, a model T-Rex stands on a sand-and-moss base, ferociously guarding a nest made of green ribbon, filled with silvery eggs. She is surrounded by green painted hills and blue and purple pipe cleaner flowers. Watch out, egg thieves!

Textures abound in this Untitled clay sculpture bowl. The white bowl with shiny clear glaze features small stamped circles all around the outside. The bowl’s rim is studded with colorful beads in green, pink, purple, and gold, and it sits on a bright chartreuse green felt base.

"Different is Beautiful" is a shiny ceramic relief sculpture based on the tale of the Ugly Duckling. Its bright yellow frame is adorned with purple and green glazed flowers, raised orange dots, raised S-shaped curls, and raised braille characters. The raised picture inside the frame shows a pond with one brown duck, one smaller yellow duckling, and a grey and black duckling emerging from a brown and white shell. There are green plants around them, and above is a blue sky with white mountains and clouds.