Art Express is a parent volunteer art program. Our goal is to teach children about artists, art techniques and mediums, and to encourage them to develop their unique creative talents. This unique opportunity gives parents a chance to participate with their own child in a classroom learning environment.

All you need is an interest in art, a desire to work with the students and some volunteer time. It really is a fun and creative way to interact with your child and their classmates.

Volunteer for the Art Express Program Here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSem5xmHV3YLHHmJVE4wTU0_BE8uUUG7T0JX5X90HUvl9s0Raw/viewform

 

Contact: Shannon Richman vailshannon@hotmail.com with any questions on Art Express Volunteers

 

Ways To Help:

-Lead a Class: Plan and teach art lessons for your child’s class from September to May.

  • Art Leads work together in each class to set up, present the lessons and clean up afterward. Classes are an hour long and scheduled to meet twice a month. Each class will have one or two people assigned as Art Leads. Art Leads act as a liaison between the team of volunteers and the classroom teacher.
  • Art Show: Friday May 16 – Sunday May 18, 2025. Setup Wednesday May 14- Friday May 16th. 
  • Art Leads select artwork from each student throughout the year to hang at the Art Show. 

-Help with a Class: In addition to an Art Lead, each class will need a team of parent volunteers to assist with the class projects. Sign up on the Homeroom Teacher’s website to help with an art class. You can sign up for as many classes as you’d like.

-Help with the Art Show: Join the Art Show Committee, help the week of the Art Show, or cleanup afterward. 

Contact: Melissa O’Boyle melissa.rossi718@gmail.com with questions about the Art Show.

-Join the Art Express Committee: The Art Express Committee meets several times throughout the year to make decisions regarding the program, keep the art room organized, order supplies, and plan for the Art Show. 

Contact: Jessica Lagreca jessica.c.lagreca@gmail.com with questions about joining the Art Express Committee. 

Follow Along:

Facebook Group for Volunteers:

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/h2rtgi92c9MYgQmv/

Instagram Page for Student Work and Project Ideas:

https://www.instagram.com/shsartexpress/

 

Some past lessons have included:

Kindergarten

K-1 element of line

K-2 element of shape

K-3 Cool Curves & Warm Angles

K-Owl Collage

K-Wild flowers pointillism

K-Paper Mask

K-Printmaking

K-Picasso Flowers

 

1st Grade

1-Symmetrical Owls (Word)

1-Symmetrical Owls (PDF)

1-Frankenstein (PPT)

1-2 Watercolor Birds (PPT)

1-Pizza Collage (PPT)

1-Sailboats at Sunset (PPT)

1 – Impressionist Christmas Trees (PPT)

1-Shiny Valentine (Jim Dine) (PPT)

1-Textured Landscape (PPT)

1-Clay Fish (PPT)

1-Pointillism Butterfly

2nd Grade

2-Warm Fall Leaves (PDF)

2-Warm Fall Leaves (Word)

2-The Longest Line (PPT)

2-pinch pot jacks (PDF)

2-pinch pot jacks (Word)

 

3rd Grade

3-element of line (PPT)

3-Pumpkin batik (Word)

3-Pumpkin batik (PDF)

 

4th Grade

4-Abstract Jacks (PPT)

4-Heart Patterns (Word)

4-memory_blind contour_observation drawing (Word)

4-picasso portrait (PPT)

4-SYMMETRICAL FACES (PPT)

4-textured tangles (PPT)

 

5th Grade

5-1 skulls

5-2 tree line drawing

5-3 Value-shape into form

5-4 Texture and color

5-5 cut paper collage

5-Aztec Metal Tooling (PPT)

5-7 perspective (PPT)

 

6th Grade

6-Positive_Negative Halloween Symmetry

6-block printing

6-clay gargoyles

6-Foil tooling

6-Rhythm and Movement

7th Grade

7_1-charcoal value (PPT)

7_2-halloween silhouette (Word)

7_2-halloween silhouette (PDF)

7_3-picasso portrait value study (PPT)

7_4-cool layered trees (Word)

7_4-cool layered trees (PDF)

7-Cool Snow Flakes

 

8th Grade

8-Graffiti Tag revised2

8-radial symmetry

8-op art ’11

8-Pumpkins in moonlight

8-Tattooed Plaster Cast