A.R.T.S. Student Exhibition 2021
This work was created as part of the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art’s Art Rewards The Student (A.R.T.S.) program, which brings SVMA’s Teaching Artists to fourth- and fifth-grade classrooms in Sonoma Valley. This year, the program explored how art can connect people, build communities, and help create a kinder, more tolerant world.
Our exhibition this year is a mix of online and in-person at SVMA, The Arts Guild of Sonoma, and El Verano Elementary Schools.
To find your student or your classroom’s work, please locate your Teaching Artist below.
La información de la exhibición en español se encuentra aquí
The A.R.T.S. Program is funded by Sonoma Plein Air Foundation, The Manitou Fund, and Community Foundation Sonoma County
SVMA Teaching Artist Laura Leipzig
The Many Colors of Us: Exploring Identity and Culture Through the Art of Maria de Los Angeles
(on view at Arts Guild of Sonoma)
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Sassarini and El Verano Elementary Schools
Classroom Teachers:
David Kohnhorst, 4th Grade, El Verano Elementary
Jack Gray, 5th Grade, El Verano Elementary
Elizabeth Heffernan, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade, Sassarini Elementary
SVMA Teaching Artist Diane Egger-Bovet
Mailed: An Ode to the Postcard Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat
(on view at SVMA)
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Culture, Color, and Collage: Celebrating Diversity in Art & Artists
View virtual exhibition
Sassarini Elementary School
Classroom Teachers: Maggie Pat and Thien Ly Maria Phan
4th Grade
SVMA Teaching Artist Cindy Imhoff-Bruininks
Soundsuits: Inspired by Nick Cave
(on view online and at SVMA)
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Saint Francis Solano School
Classroom Teacher: Robin Perkins, 4th Grade
Classroom Teachers: Michelle Momsen, 5th Grade
SVMA Teaching Artist Suzanne Stroebe
Flowery Freestyle
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Flowery Elementary
Classroom Teachers: Lydia Calderon and Liliana Zepeda, 4th Grade
Classroom Teachers: Greg Campbell and Lara Shumer, 5th Grade
SVMA Teaching Artist Alice Pennes
Layered Depths
(on view online and at SVMA)
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Sassarini Elementary
Classroom Teacher: Ronette Wesson, 5th Grade
Classroom Teachers: Janeen Lima, 5th Grade
SVMA Teaching Artist Nicole Rose Gelormino
OurFutures/Ourselves
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Dunbar Elementary
Classroom Teacher: Brandy Melendy, 4th Grade
Classroom Teachers: Juliana Flynn & Alejandra Solis-Perez, 5th Grade
Sonoma Charter School
Classroom Teacher: Tamara Lemesh, 4th Grade
Classroom Teacher: Becky Perkins, 5th Grade
SVMA Teaching Artist Gary Griffith
We Make Our Road By Walking: A History of Protest
(on view at SVMA)
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Prestwood Elementary
Classroom Teachers: Renea Magnani, Sharai Moreno-Hernandez, Molly Beglin, and Katie Grimes, 4th and 5th Grades
SVMA Teaching Artist Rosemary McNeely
Creative Voices
(on view at SVMA)
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The Presentation School
Classroom Teachers: Mary Galas, 4th Grade;
Jamie Mitchell, 5th Grade
SVMA Teaching Artist Sarah Parker
Worthy: An Explanation of Color (on view at El Verano)
Face to Face (on view at SVMA)
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El Verano Elementary
Classroom Teachers: Morgan Momsen & Nora Albright, 5th Grade
Seeing Colors, Seeing Ourselves
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Dunbar Elementary
Classroom Teachers: Mekiele Perkins, 3rd, 4th & 5th Grade
To learn more about the artists that inspired these projects, Click Here to view our Master List of Artists.
