Thinking about Peace

This year, one of the themes the students learned about was the different ways that art can communicate a message. The fourth grade and the second grade looked at the idea of communicating a message of peace.

Fourth grade studied the art of Edward Hicks and several of his Peaceable Kingdom paintings.

The students were asked to think about peace - in their life, in the community and in the world. They wrote their own message of peace and used it in the border of their artwork. For their artwork, they were required to choose two animals that would not normally get along and represent the animals existing peacefully together.

Here are some examples:

Featured Artist: Tommy

Featured Artist: Kendra

Second grade students were asked to think about peace in a different way.

Each student finished the sentence, "Peace is......" and created the artwork to illustrate their sentence.

Featured Artist: Aidan