Art Aware at Ferry Avenue Library for One Year

It has been too, too long since my last blog. A dry spell on the blog, but not in Art Aware activity.

During the whole of 2012 over 1,500 pieces of artwork by current and past Camden City elementary school students was displayed. Art teachers Ms. Sassano and Ms. Savarese contributed current work while Ms. Watkins contributed murals from 2011 to the computer room at the library.

I have been bringing reproductions of famous art into Camden elementary school classrooms since I moved to Camden in 1986 and have put most of the student work I initiated into large murals for display. I love kids’ art so much I can’t throw any of it away. I like opportunities to display it which is a way of celebrating the children and educating the adults who see it.

So the Ferry Avenue Library exhibit was an Art Aware retrospective as well as a showcase for current work intiated by Camden art teachers. Every year Art Aware makes up a poster of Camden Students at Peace Doing Art. The 2012 poster included work from twenty-five schools.

Soon Art Aware will bring reproductions of African American artist, Romare Bearden, to the Ferry Avenue library. It will be a chance for library patrons to see in the Conference Room the lesson plans on this great artist which are detailed in our website: http://www.artaware.org

Please stay tuned for the upcoming 2013 poster of Camden Students at Peace Doing Art!