The standard wooden art tables, once used for traditional art design, are now adorned with computers that use specialized software to create technology-driven art. Feeney strives to show students the connection between visual arts and other academic subjects. In one third-grade project, students create a stencil print of an insect, which they later use to increase their knowledge of the insect's body sections. This project enables students to identify intermediate colors and make textured plaids. In addition, students dissect the appendages of the insect by creating stencils of the body parts.
Students embellish their own traditional art print with outlines and contrasting colors.
According to Feeney, empowering students with success is the true reward of teaching. Or which will draw with the skills of Albrech Duerer or print like Escher. I am in the business of hope. Return to Directory of 1999 Recipients Helen Filipow Teaching geography to elementary school students is a dirty job - but someone has to do it. At Prairie Trace Elementary School that someone is teacher Helen Filipow.