Students work featured at April's Auburn Art Walk

The mission of the Auburn Art Walk is to "cultivate partnership between businesses and the art community, which promotes established and emerging artists, local commerce, and public access to the arts."

On the evening of Thursday, April 8, 2010, dozens of those emerging artists - forty to be exact - were students of Live Oak Waldorf School. Partnered with Keith Sutter Photography, Auburn business owner and Live Oak parent,  their work adorned the walls and countertops of the spacious downtown studio.

The mixed media exhibit, appropriately titled"Imagination at Play," included a showcase of wet-method paintings.  On display were some soft and flowing images created by Kindergartners, as well as boldly saturated paintings from the skilled hands of eighth graders. The grades between offered a variety of renderings made from colored pencil, charcoal and graphite.  To the average eye, one would have thought M.C. Escher was a featured artist; several eighth graders displayed stunning replicas of his work.

In addition to two-dimensional artwork, the exhibit featured a small herd of hand sewn stuffed animals. Live Oak sixth graders produced their own patterns then used second-hand felted wool sweaters to create their three-dimensional fuzzy friends.  

The Auburn Art Walk, which meandered through several blocks of Downtown and Old Town Auburn, included over thirty venues as well as live entertainment.  A small fifth grade strings ensemble performed some pieces from the front steps of the Auburn Promenade Building.  Class of 2008 alumnus, Kaden Hurst, entertained pedestrians at Central Square with "Object Manipulation."

The first Art Walk of 2010 was a great way to acknowledge many established and emerging artists.  For forty youth, it was also an opportunity to proudly walk through the streets of Auburn while wearing a special badge reserved just for artists.

Featured Artists:
Kindergarten - Alexander Smith, Emily Okunami; First Grade - Elizabeth DeWitt, Benjamin Hughes; Second Grade - Mason Summers, Ari Peterson-Wall; Fourth Grade -Ariana Capel; Fifth Grade - Maddie King, Lauren Kier, Emma Cunningham, Liv Wax, Laura Riccardelli, Clemens Angleton, Crystal Prima Lang, Lauren Hamilton-Kaminsky, Sierra Hickman; Sixth Grade - Landon Wetterstrom, Jacob Locke, Claire Rowland, Katie Sykes, Ace Grunwald, Kalina Fudge, Will Smith, Talia Davies, Waylen Cozad, Izzy Suehead, Zach Casperite, Sebastian Johnson ; Seventh Grade - Abby Richards, Mackenzie Rummel, Hannah Dawber, Hannah Donnelly; Eighth Grade - Emily Richards, Tierra Rain Auchmoody, Malia Krupin, Bryan Sykes, Attar Hunter, Kellen Giuliani, Cassio Mariscotti, Luc Mariscotti