The Big Cheese Jon's Picture Kelsey's Portrait Trevor's Berries Monkey T-Rex Whales Welcome to the Libby Art Gallery. These images were created as part of a new project to bring technology into the art curriculum. Libby Center assembled a lab of computers that could travel to different elementary schools in the district with the art specialists. This lab allows students to work on graphic tablets, drawing the images that you see with the aid of a stylus and a graphics tablet. The stylus looks and feels like a pen, and when used with the tablet students easy access to the computer.
Students learn basic computer skills so that they can save and open their own files in the lab.
Once able to do this, it is possible to explore creation of original artwork. This program gives students a chance to do more than cut and paste clip art, they create work of their own in a new media. Any student interested in commerial art or photography will need to be skilled in the use of computers as an art media, as well as the traditional materials. The ablity to create new and interesting work using technology will be an assest to those future artists. During the 1996-1997 school year four elementary schools participated in the pilot year of this program.