St. Robert is filled to the brim with colors.  Colors of people, colors of materials and clothes and rooms, and colors of art.  Art has always filled the halls of St. Robert, and it definitely brightens up the school.  Art is also created in many different places throughout the school.  Although lots of art is created in art classes, various projects and donations have brought a variety of pieces, permanent and temporary, to the school as well.

Many students throughout the school look forward to their art class during the day, where they can express themselves in a relaxed environment.  Art at St. Robert is a creative class where students enjoy working with many different materials to create beautiful art projects. Also, certain classic art projects that certain grades do every year are fun to compare, and older students can remember when they did projects that are now recreated by St. Robert’s younger students.  This year will certainly provide more art to help decorate the halls.  Several pieces I know have been done by lots of grades have already been hung in the halls this year.  Some examples of these are the realistic cave art pieces the 6th grade completed, based on their study of the Caves of Lascaux.  Also, the patterned pieces done on large construction paper by the 2nd grade have already been hung outside of the art room.  These pieces are bursting with the extremely familiar crayola marker colors that have always appeared on the school supply list.  The stripes, swirls, and color combinations serve as wallpaper outside the art room.  The fourth grade has completed their 3D art that hangs in the hallway on the lower level, and the eighth graders think about what to paint on the pole in the art room that is becoming a tradition, but a new one.  Art is blossoming from the art room, even though the trees are shedding their leaves this season.

Art doesn’t just come from the art room though.  Through various projects done by single grades or that bring the whole student body together, St. Robert is also filled with a mixed bag of different art pieces that students have done or that have been donated.  An example of these pieces are the ash crosses hanging in the stairwells by the office, where we all stamped crosses in the shape of a big cross and wrote our name in red.  Another example of art around the school are the signs created by younger Spanish students.  These signs label all of the rooms around St. Robert, with the exception of the regular classrooms.  But all the specials rooms, bathrooms, and large rooms like Reilly Hall sport colorful signs announcing the room in Spanish!  And of course, the jewel of our art pieces in the halls, the large mosaic of student-made tiles.  In 2010, a potter who came to our school helped us create a masterpiece of the top of the steeple of the church, including the beautiful and symbolic cross.  Each student made a tile with words or drawings of something about St. Robert, and these tiles fill in the space around the larger main tiles.  This large work hangs in the southeast stairwell, and it is a beautiful representation of hard work and beauty at St. Robert.

This school is filled with eye catching art that brightens the halls constantly throughout the year.  We value arts, visual and musical, and this section will be talking about those types of arts, as well as other events that come up such as the school musical.  Arts are a valuable way for many to express themselves, and we should bring important ideas and works involving art to this section of the paper.  St. Robert will always be a place flourishing in arts.