This year SCHS’s Art Society again participated in the Fly Art’s annual Festival of Trees. This year’s theme was “All I want for Christmas…”, which we interpreted as “All I want for Christmas is You.” We hearkened back to the WWII era, thinking of all the soldiers overseas missing their sweethearts back home, and all the loyal girls over here missing their fellas. I think this is such a romantic era; I think of all the letters my grandmother has from my grandfather who was a merchant marine during the war. This is what really inspired this theme.
I pictured a tree covered with nostalgia: tea stain and silver, black and white photos of couples, old letters, some glitz. I told one of our talented students about the famous photo taken in Times Square, and she replicated it in clay, beautifully. What a lovely tree our students created. And the judges thought so too. . . we took away FOUR awards this year!! This tree meant so much to me, thank you to everyone who worked so hard.
