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Artists in the Heart of the Grove
Posted Mar 9, 04:03 PM
By Stephanie Corley
The past month Oak Grove Primary in Hattiesburg was visited by two artists teaching students science, math, and reading through art.
Kay Thomas, Arts Smart Visual Artist/Consultant from Texarcana Regional Arts and Humanities Counsel, visited OGP and taught students how to use scrap construction paper and their imagination to make a puppet monster from the book “Where The Wild Things Are.”
“Everywhere I go in Mississippi I see the best educational environment,” said Thomas while visiting OGP.
Thomas has traveled to several states doing action research of what makes a successful partnership between classroom teachers and artists in residence.
A local artist, Kym Garraway, also visited OGP and taught students science through
visual arts. The students painted a picture of what happens during the rain. Students
created mixed media art to show the water cycle. Garraway taught them how to make
flowers, rainbows, ponds and rivers, wildlife, clouds, and the rain. The students were
able to use their imagination of what they would see in the rain.
