Students from Moira Dempsey’s art class at South Boston Elementary School have been busy getting ready for the opening of Halifax County Public Schools Student Art Month.
Halifax County Public Schools art students will be featured in the month-long exhibit at the Prizery beginning Sunday. The exhibit is sponsored by Parsons-Bruce Art Association.
When asked what they enjoy most about art class, fifth grader Miles Robinson replied, “Art is a thing to help your imagination to get stress off your chest.”
Robinson will exhibit a watercolor and salt painting of fall leaves.
“Art is fun,” Aja Faulkner, also a fifth grader, said. “My dream is to be an artist because you can invent new stuff while drawing and painting. At first, I thought art was boring until I tried it. Art is actually fun.”
Faulkner’s exhibit is a tempera painting of a dragon eating a taco.
Fourth grader Ella Plitt likes art because it is something relaxing to do.
“It is also something fun to fill your free time instead of just sitting there,” Plitt said.
Plitt’s cardinals in the snow using tempera paint will be on display.
Not only will the exhibit feature artwork from students in all Halifax County Public Schools, this year for the first time the opening reception will also feature creative and artfully displayed reception food prepared by Halifax County High School Culinary Arts Program students.
Parsons-Bruce Art Association invites the public to attend the opening reception from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Bob Cage Art Gallery on the lower level of The Prizery, 700 Bruce St., South Boston.
The art exhibit will also be available for viewing during The Prizery’s normal operating hours throughout the month of March.
