Skippack Elementary Art Show Draws Inspiration from Pennsylvania

The halls of Skippack Elementary were transformed into a museum at the annual art show, Friday. Students' family members and friends wandered the building and viewed about 1,500 pieces of art adorning the walls and ceilings. Art teachers Jessica Geftic and Jill Seitz were on hand to discuss the children's work. Other faculty members attended to also help and costumed student volunteers handed out brochures for museums in the region.

This year's theme was Pennsylvania artists and museums, so the pieces took cues from famous works from commonwealth natives or that can be seen in galleries throughout the area. Students interpreted works from artists such as Andy Warhol, Claude Monet, Henry Chapman Mercer, Andrew Wyeth, Keith Haring, Maxfield Parrish, Isaiah Zagar and Paul Cezanne.

This past October, Geftic and Seitz started working with the students to prepare for the show. Each grade was assigned a particular work, including Cezanne's apples, Warhol's self-portrait and Campbell's soup can, Renoir's flowers and Civil and Revolutionary War photographs.

Parent volunteers helped hang the art, which will stay up for about two weeks.