The Third through Eighth Grades are working on the Annual Veterans Thanksgiving postcards that will be given to the Veterans at Thanksgiving. These postcards will go all over the state of Alaska. Last year the students made 100 cards thanking the Veterans for their service to our country. We were asked to make 600 for this year, and we are finishing them now. Our final count was 821.

The postcards for the Veterans are an offshoot of the Postcards of Hope, a global project started by William Scannell, who attended PNA. The Art Department also participates in Postcards of Hope, and will be sending hand drawn postcards to Washington, D.C.

In each of these art forms, the students discuss what happens when someone receives a card and realizes that someone is thinking of them and wishing them well. It is a good feeling to know we can do so many things to build a world community through art!

All the classes have been preparing imagery for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The Eighth Grade is making life-size figures out of cardboard. Other classes are drawing and painting portraits of Martin Luther King, Jr. The Sixth/ Seventh Grades Art Class are designing a sculptural mobile.

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In classes we have been learning our foundations in art: Line, Shape, Value, Texture, Color Theory and Perspective. There is so much to accomplish this year! Every student will learn both the abstract and the practical side to being an artist. I am teaching the philosophy of teaching art so that everyone knows the basics of being an artist-teacher. It is great fun!