MHS Art Teacher Collaborates with MES and MHS Students to Revisit Childhood and Learn Essential Skills
The Creature collaboration is a joint effort by Murray Elementary third grade students and Murray High School art students.
Under the direction of Emily Chipman, MHS art teacher, the third grade students designed a creature from their imagination and wrote a detailed description about it. MHS art students then created the creatures and brought the elementary students imagination alive by making stuffed animals.
Once they were all completed MHS students delivered the creatures in person to MES elementary students. “The best part for me is for my students to see that what they made means something. Especially, to the child who created it. I love the connections that are made through this project,” Chipman said.
Chipman said she enjoys watching her high school art students reclaim a piece of childhood and remember what it’s like to be a child and enjoy making imaginative things. However, Chipman said she is also teaching essential skills. “I now have 137 high school students who now know how to sew. I have had a few boys come and tell me they have fixed holes in their hoodies because they now know how. This project is the highlight of the semester for me.”