New Art Curriculum

Thanks to the threat of even deeper budget cuts for the coming school year, teachers of enrichment classes like art and music are nervously awaiting word on whether their programs and jobs will be cut for next year. 

A proposal to add a temporary 1-cent sales tax to see us through this budgetary crisis will go before the voters on May 13th.  If it passes and everything else goes better than hoped, our best case scenario still involves cutting well more than a million dollars from the budget of our small school district.

Meanwhile, we've been asked to suggest ways we can trim the budget and preserve as many programs and jobs as possible.  Jackie Johnson, the art teacher at the junior high, passed along the following proposal to save on art supplies while still fostering creativity in our youth.

Fly Art:

1. Kill a few flies.
2. Put them in the sun to dry for one hour.

3. Once they are dry, pick up a pencil and paper... Let your imagination flow.

Here are a few examples ...

Sunbathers

Horse, Fly

At the Public Pool

Mutt and Jeff

Finish Line

Higher, Daddy, higher!

The Amazing Flyzinskys!

I warned them not to eat that green meat!

Desperate times call for desperate measures...