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An elementary principal told us recently that our elementary art show has come a long way in the last few years. The elementary school hallway displays in the last week of April have grown exponentially.
The school hallways spotlighted the ingenuity of many teachers as well as the creative and well-crafted projects of their students. One school turned their hallways into the state of New Mexico where each hallway represented a different region of New Mexico from the Chihuahuan Desert and Carlsbad Caverns to the Albuquerque Balloon Festival and Roswell Alien Spacecraft Landing. Another school created a hallway that looked like a rainforest complete with sound effects of rain; along with spiders and butterflies hung from the ceiling above and lady bugs and caterpillars crawling on the ground. One school decorated their hallway with different scenes from art history like the pyramids of Egypt, the archways of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance style streets of Florence, Italy. One hall was lined with canvas pictures of the Duomo. Each classroom from all twelve elementary schools had a top student picture which was framed and displayed at the Western Heritage Museum in May this year.
In September there will be an art exhibit of all 89 school districts at the State Fair Grounds in Albuquerque. For Hobbs, this will include seven of our People’s Choice Awards from the museum show plus around fifty more pieces. The art work you see on the wall at the Center for the Arts this summer is part of the State Fair Exhibit that will be in Albuquerque in September. This is quite a selection of art work that represents the best of the best of our district’s elementary art work.
If you have any questions about the Elementary Fine Arts Program you can e-mail ledgerwoodt@hobbsschools.net.
Thank you for your interest in the arts.
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Tyson Ledgerwood
Elementary Fine Arts Coordinator
Hobbs Municipal Schools
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