Above: Neary students visited the installation of the 4th & 5th grade art project at Art on the Trails. (contributed photo)
Recently, sixteen art exhibits were installed for the public to enjoy Art on the Trails this summer. One of the exhibits was the 8th annual collaborative 4th & 5th grade student art project organized by Neary School’s Art Teacher.
As I previously shared, the summer long exhibit is the 10th annual at Beals Preserve. The theme this year capitalized on the milestone, with the reflective theme “Time in the Landscape”. A press release describes:
Artists were asked to consider how the landscape changes over time due to climate, human activity, and weather. Neary art teacher Denise Johnson and her students decided to celebrate something that doesn’t change but instead marks the passage of time through its phases—the moon.
Students wrapped and wove wooden and metal hoops with yarn to create eight stylized images representing the phases of the moon. The full moon was woven using glow-in-the-dark yarn, and students are eager to see if it actually glows.
The installation hangs from a large tree limb along the main trail at site #16. Stretching more than 20 feet long and depicting the eight phases of the moon, the installation marks the eighth time Neary students have participated in this event.
264 Neary students participated in the project. Yesterday, some of the students took a walking field trip to Beals Preserve to view the installation. Below are pictures that Johnson shared:
The exhibit was installed at Beal’s Preserve on Saturday, June 13th. Art on the Trails organizers shared photos on Instagram of some of the other artists at work on Installation Day:
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Art on the Trails is open to the public, dawn to dusk, until the closing ceremony on September 13th. Read more about the other artwork in this year’s exhibit here.
When you visit, if you feel inspired, you could respond to organizers’ annual Call for Poetry. Submissions are being accepted through July 31st. Read more about that here.
