Troy Students Display Artwork at Oakland Schools Center

Artwork by students from the will be on display at Oakland Schools Educational Service and Conference Center in Waterford through the end of this week.

For the display, students throughout the district explored a variety of influences and mediums in their colorful and diverse art exhibit.

"Some of the things I thought were really interesting is that one group of students were doing studies of looking at an object and looking at it from a very close vantage point," said Julie Ferguson, a Communications, Design and Editing psecialist for Oakland Schools.

"There was one where there was a kiwi fruit, and so you would look at it, but you would look at it from this vantage point where it’s super magnified.”

The mediums and techniques used in the district's display include watercolor, marker resist, newsprint collage, pen and ink, op-art notched line drawing, among others.

“They had done these line drawings that were on scratch board, and there were some dancing skeletons that younger kids had done," Ferguson said. "And then there were some oil pastel drawings that inspired by Mexican folk art.”

The Troy students' art display is part of a rotating monthly student art exhibit at Oakland Schools (2111 Pontiac Lake Rd. in Waterford). The exhibit will be on display through Friday. The students’ work can be viewed 8 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday through Friday