Livingston Public Library and Schools Showcase Student Art Exploring Color in March 2024

The Livingston Public Library and the Livingston Public School Visual Arts program are jointly presenting a display of artworks by elementary and middle school students. The display, running from February to April, will highlight the role of color in art. Students from Burnett Hill, Collins, and Mount Pleasant Elementary Schools have explored how color affects their artwork and the world.

Second-grade students from Collins and Mount Pleasant Elementary Schools have experimented with non-objective art. This style doesn't represent any identifiable person, place, or thing. Instead, the students have used shape, line, and color in their paintings. They have studied the non-objective paintings of Wassily Kandinsky and Reggie Laurent’s DNA series.

Fourth-grade students from Burnet Hill and Mount Pleasant Elementary have studied mandalas, symbols representing unity. They have created their own mandalas, combining them in various ways to create new designs. This activity represents the unity within a classroom.

The students have also learned printmaking, a detailed process that requires careful planning. They have used block printing ink and etched styrofoam paper to transfer their mandala designs onto paper, creating unique prints. Each mandala print is unique and can be combined with others to form a circle.

The public is invited to view these artworks in March. The students' works demonstrate the impact of color in art and daily life.

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