District opens doors with art
With a few quick staples, Mary Fair Whitlatch helped another art teacher cover one wall of the Natrona County Public Library with construction paper. The teddy bears, made by kindergarten art students, wore brightly colored cardboard overalls and happy smiles.”I think in our society, art has an intrinsic value,” said Whitlatch, who teaches art at Verda James Elementary and for Alcova and Red Creek students. “We don’t feel like we have to justify it.”Elementary art teachers and parents spent Wednesday hanging student art work on every available surface the public library offered. Portraits, paintings and drawings lined the walls, hung from the ceiling and wrapped around poles.In a few short hours, the library was nearly ready for the opening of this year’s Natrona County School District Elementary Art Show.Art is on display today through May 8.Creating art is much more than just an hour of fun for students, teachers said.
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