For the sixth consecutive year, Pea Ridge Elementary School artists are being honored by as they are featured in a special month long exhibition at the Gilcrease Museum of American Art in Tulsa, Okla. The show opened June 23 and will run through July 20.
The only out-of-state school to ever put on an exhibition in the world-renowned museum that was founded by oil magnate and philanthropist Thomas Gilcrease, Pea Ridge is the only school to display in six successive years. Twelve schools are chosen each year to have their art shown at the institution located in northwest Tulsa.
In years past, art teacher John McGee selected examples of art from among the student work completed throughout the year to be included into the show. This year, local elementary students worked on making art especially for the museum, with art subjects dealing with the Western experience.
"We have never previously made art just for inclusion into what has become our annual show in Tulsa," McGee said, "and museum curator Deborah Burke was very pleased with the results as I have emailed her works as I accumulated them for the exhibit."
Fifty students from kindergarten through fifth grade rendered the work now on display with the artists to be honored at a special artists reception at 2 p.m. July 19 at the Gilcrease.
The students whose work is included in the gallery are:
Brooke White, Bradley Ewald, Zaylee Warden and Jeremaha Gilbert, kindergarten;
Macy Trammel, Ayden Canada, Kailynda Hackler, Shylo Whitmore, Peyton Carney, Emily Scott and Lleyton Coberly, first grade;
Colby Beauregard, Eduardo Torres, Katherine Reeves, Nic Hiett, Troy Ferguson, Hailey Burgess, Seth Foster, Cade Keith, Croix Lecause and Serenity Potter, second grade;
Trinity Alley, Brooke McCool, Hunter Sims, Jessica Gibson, Paul Fryar, Chloe Jennings and Treyzon Milne-Jones, third grade;
Ava Little, Ryan Law, Vanessa Ollivier, Leah Gibby, Caydra Pruitt, Abby Marie Ryals, Braidon McCarley, Noah Olson, Caleb Neil, Mikayla Humphrey and Alyssa Rickman, fourth grade;
Hailey Morris, Cheyanne Navarre, Heather Cato, Laura Hansen, Bianca DeShields, Jake Ingram, Marcus Nobles, Tierra Bates and Iain Mulliki, fifth grade; and Stephanie Harris, sixth grade.
Community on 06/25/2014