Catherine Kruus and her son Tobin, 6, check out the clay masks in the Power of Nature collection which are part of the Nature’s Transformations show in the main gallery at the Station House Gallery this month. The show features art by local students inspired by their studies and explorations in the natural world. The masks are made of clay and decorated with twigs, moss and other natural material and mounted on rough wood panels. Gaeil Farrar photo
Art work inspired by nature and created by children and teens fills the main galley at the Station House for the month of May.
The show called Nature’s Transformations was facilitated by nature educator Frances McCoubrey and features work by students from Big Lake, and Likely elementary schools, Scout Island Nature Kindergarten and Lake City Secondary Columneetza students.
Younger students incorporated a wide variety of objects found in nature to produce art on the ground that was photographed for presentation.
The show also features beautiful posters created by older students, clay sculptures, paper mache sculptures of animal heads such as beaver, fox and rabbits and more.
Each piece is numbered to correspond with the artists who are listed in a little program that goes with the show, so visitors can identify the participating artists.
Michaela Gilbert is pictured with the clay replica of a dumpster that she created for the Nature’s Transformations show featured in the main gallery at the Station House Gallery this month. Michaela, a Grade 9 student at Lake City Secondary School’s Columneetza campus said she chose to create a dumpster as a reminder for people to recycle and dispose of their waste in an environmentally friendly way. Gaeil Farrar photoSierra William with the paper mache rabbit she created for the show at the Station House Gallery this month titled Nature’s Transformations and featuring art by students created in their studies of the natural world. Sierra said she had planned to create a penguin head but the rabbit had more interesting features to create. Sierra is a Grade 9 student at Lake City Secondary’s Columneetza Campus. Gaeil Farrar photo
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