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Child Care and Learning Center (CCLC) students, staff and classrooms have quite a bit to show for their summer work.
The school’s, attendents, ranging in age from three to 11, with the help of local sculptress Maggie Morris, artist-in-residences, have nearly completed a statue for the school, a soapstone bird and triptych, a framed relief-form wall hanging.
Working at the school for four hours daily, Ms. Morris has accomplished several different activites with the children.
“The children have been really excited and have liked the idea,” CCLC executive director Rose Ann Sharp said. Ms. Morris is funded through a grant by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and through CCLC.
“What the grant has allowed for us is to have a professional artist working here,” Mrs. Sharp said, adding through this not only have the students benefited but the “staff has learned to teach art through a variety of npediums. ”
Since June, the artist has completed art exercies and conducted field trips to her gallery in Castleton and to Middle Street Artists Cooperative in Washington.
“The kids have been great,” Ms. Morris said with pride, adding during field trips the children were given experience with using such items as a air hammer, chisels and small drills.
“Even the little kids were given a
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