Arts showcase to be held next week at Stocking’s

Les Beaux Arts Club Elementary Art & Pottery Showcase is scheduled to run Tuesday, May 5, through Sunday, May 12, at the Stocking Ice Cream Parlor.

The art showcase will honor Clarendon Elementary students, Clarendon Junior High pottery students, and local adult pottery students.

The elementary students participated in art classes that were offered by members of Les Beaux Arts Club as part of our community outreach program for the arts. Rebecca Chesser and Chriss Clifford developed the curriculum and taught the classes in each grade level. The students studied and created art inspired by Wassily Kandinsky, Claude Monet, M. C. Escher, Dale Chihuly and Peter H. Reynolds (author and illustrator of the children’s book “The Dot”). The art club members have all volunteered in various capacities to assist in the classroom, mount art works, set up the show, and many behind the scenes activities. The club is also gifting each student with a coupon good for one small scoop of ice cream to encourage students to attend the show and bring their families in to see their work.

This semester, CJH students were offered the opportunity to participate in the ACE (Art Cultivates Enlightenment) after school program at the pottery studio, which has been permanently set up in the upstairs classroom above the Old Gym.

This collaboration with Clarendon Independent School District and Les Beaux Arts Club is another part of the club’s community outreach program for the arts.

The pottery classes are taught by Chriss Clifford, Shandy Pearson, Kailee Lewis, and Annis Stavenhagen. The students have created finished pottery projects while learning the basics of hand building and glazing.

The two Adult Spring Session Pottery classes will also be showcasing their work. These pottery classes are also part of the Les Beaux Arts Club community outreach program for the arts.

These projects are all co-sponsored in part by the Clarendon Consolidated Independent School District, J&W Lumber, A Fine Feathered Nest, and the Clarendon Economic Development Corporation.