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NEWS photos Mike Wakatield

ARTIST GORDON Smith (above) recently worked with students at Sutherland Secondary schoo! on
art projects. Teacher Wes Anderson and Westover Elementary schooi student Nicole Reaume
(right) remove her work from the press as fellow classmates look on. North Vancouver students are
learning about the fine art of art as part of the school district’s Artists For Kids program.

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Sunday, June 2, 1991~ North Shore News -— 47

ARTISTS, teavhers and students
have combined their efforts to br-
ing the world of art to North
Vancouver and area schools.

The North Vancouver District
44 Schoo! Board (NVSB) has been
involved in a pilot project called
the Artists For Kids Trust) in
which the school district, will pur-

chase original paintings from
well-known B.C. artists such as
Robert Beteman, Gardon Smith

and Bill Reid.

Schools sel] the paintings to the
general public and the profit will
then go back to the NVSB, al-
though the trust keeps the interest
from the profits to be used to de-
velop fine arts prograras in North
Vancouver schools.

Pact of the program inchides
the Art Enrichment: program, in
which artists came into focal

pleated shades

ids program a hit

schools to work with both teach-
ers and students.

Recently, two students from
each school in the district attended
three art sessions, which ran for
three days, working with artist
Gordon Smith.

That program had teachers and
students doing mono-print mak-
ing, an art form Smith is currendy
exploring. The art the students
produced is currently on display at
North Vancouver District hall and
the North Vancouver provincial
court house.

The program wraps up with an
art exhibition on June 12.

“The
amazed us,’
NVSB visual art
“We're really pleased
program.”

quality. of work has
says Bill MacDonald.
consultant.
with the

Sole ends June 28/91

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